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Junior Data Scientist - NLP/text mining

Hays • Slough, Berkshire

Salary

£46k – £72k

Posted

11 July 2026

Sponsor match

high

Skilled WorkerWorker (A rating)

Role overview

Hays is hiring a Junior Data Scientist - NLP/text mining in Slough, a scientific & qa role advertised as contract. The advertised salary is £46k – £72k. Hays holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.

Your new company You'll be joining a global biopharmaceutical organisation supporting scientific information, intelligence, and data-driven decision-making across research and development as part of a highly experienced team with plenty of learning and training opportunities. The company has a highly collaborative environment where data science, AI, and scientific expertise are combined to generate insights from biomedical information sources. Your new role You'll be part of the company's R&D d…

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Visa sponsorship snapshot

Employer: Hays — confirmed licensed sponsor
Visa route: Skilled Worker
Advertised salary: £46k – £72k
How this salary compares: about 74% above the £41,185 median across 546 scientific & qa roles with published salaries on FindSponsorJobs
Location: Slough, Berkshire
Similar roles nearby: 2 other live scientific & qa roles in Slough — browse them
Posted: 11 July 2026
How we verify sponsors: employers are matched against the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors — read our methodology.

About this sector

Scientific and quality assurance roles span pharmaceutical, biotech, clinical research, and laboratory sectors. The UK life sciences industry actively recruits internationally for research scientists, QA managers, regulatory affairs specialists, and clinical trial coordinators, with many employers maintaining well-established sponsor licence operations.