Data Science Contracts in London

Data Science
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 170 153
Rank change year-on-year +36 -17 -38
Contract jobs citing Data Science 327 406 741
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.87% 1.60% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.76% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 250 479
10th Percentile £371 £412 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £688
90th Percentile £763 £813 £800
England median daily rate £544 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -5.43% -3.36% +8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 21
10th Percentile £31.85 £38.38 £29.25
25th Percentile £39.50 £43.44 £34.25
Median hourly rate £43.75 £49.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% +2.06% +4.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £68.75 £61.33 £72.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year +1.43% -19.54% +45.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,465 23,124 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.32% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,089 16,746 26,132
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 264 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in London

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Science in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Science in London

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +26 41 £626 +2.24% 21
West London +22 3 £525 +31.25% 12
East London - 2 £460 - 4
North London - 1 - - 1
South London - 1 - -
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (6.73%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.45%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.53%) Apache
5 3 (0.92%) CMS
5 3 (0.92%) SAS
6 2 (0.61%) Confluence
6 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.61%) Simulink
5 1 (0.31%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.31%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (2.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 87 (26.61%) Azure
2 64 (19.57%) GCP
3 61 (18.65%) AWS
4 40 (12.23%) Power Platform
5 21 (6.42%) Vertex AI
6 16 (4.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (4.59%) Snowflake
8 11 (3.36%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.06%) Azure Machine Learning
9 10 (3.06%) Google Compute Engine
10 9 (2.75%) Serverless
11 8 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.83%) GitHub
12 6 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (1.53%) dbt
13 5 (1.53%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.83%) Internet
2 1 (0.31%) LAN
2 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (15.29%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (13.15%) Big Data
2 43 (13.15%) Tableau
3 40 (12.23%) Power BI
4 26 (7.95%) BigQuery
5 21 (6.42%) Data Lake
6 19 (5.81%) Hadoop
7 11 (3.36%) Data Mining
8 9 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (2.45%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.53%) Presto
10 5 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.22%) Looker
11 4 (1.22%) Metadata
11 4 (1.22%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (0.92%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (8.87%) Git
2 17 (5.20%) JIRA
3 9 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.14%) GitLab
5 5 (1.53%) MLflow
6 3 (0.92%) RStudio
6 3 (0.92%) Selenium
7 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.31%) Xcode
General
1 97 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 60 (18.35%) Finance
3 57 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.89%) Marketing
4 16 (4.89%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.98%) Retail
6 12 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.06%) Banking
8 9 (2.75%) Legal
9 7 (2.14%) Advertising
10 6 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.53%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.53%) Wearables
12 4 (1.22%) Czech Language
12 4 (1.22%) Games
12 4 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.22%) Local Government
12 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.92%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (23.24%) Data Scientist
2 41 (12.54%) Senior
3 35 (10.70%) Developer
4 33 (10.09%) Data Engineer
5 29 (8.87%) Architect
6 28 (8.56%) Analyst
7 24 (7.34%) Data Analyst
7 24 (7.34%) Lead
8 18 (5.50%) Senior Data Scientist
9 15 (4.59%) GCP Engineer
9 15 (4.59%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 13 (3.98%) Consultant
11 12 (3.67%) Data Architect
12 11 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.06%) Senior Data Engineer
14 8 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.45%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.45%) Python Developer
15 7 (2.14%) Designer
15 7 (2.14%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.56%) scikit-learn
2 25 (7.65%) TensorFlow
3 20 (6.12%) Pandas
4 19 (5.81%) PySpark
5 17 (5.20%) PyTorch
6 12 (3.67%) React
7 11 (3.36%) HTML
7 11 (3.36%) Kafka
8 10 (3.06%) CSS
8 10 (3.06%) NumPy
9 7 (2.14%) Django
9 7 (2.14%) Matplotlib
10 6 (1.83%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.53%) RxJS
11 5 (1.53%) XGBoost
12 3 (0.92%) ADO
12 3 (0.92%) NgRx
12 3 (0.92%) Plotly
12 3 (0.92%) pytest
13 2 (0.61%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.21%) Algorithms
2 15 (4.59%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.67%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 10 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.75%) IoT
6 7 (2.14%) Blockchain
6 7 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.53%) FMCG
7 5 (1.53%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.22%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.92%) CBDC
9 3 (0.92%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.92%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.92%) Grid Computing
9 3 (0.92%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.92%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.31%) Android
1 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.31%) Linux
1 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (46.79%) Machine Learning
2 124 (37.92%) Analytics
3 86 (26.30%) Artificial Intelligence
4 80 (24.46%) Computer Science
5 67 (20.49%) Data Modelling
6 65 (19.88%) Agile
7 61 (18.65%) Data Pipeline
8 60 (18.35%) Data Analysis
9 59 (18.04%) ETL
10 56 (17.13%) Business Intelligence
11 53 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (16.21%) Visualisation
12 47 (14.37%) DevOps
13 46 (14.07%) Data Visualisation
14 43 (13.15%) Mathematics
15 41 (12.54%) CI/CD
15 41 (12.54%) Decision-Making
16 39 (11.93%) Data Engineering
17 36 (11.01%) Statistics
18 35 (10.70%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 191 (58.41%) Python
2 139 (42.51%) SQL
3 23 (7.03%) R
4 19 (5.81%) Bash
5 14 (4.28%) Java
6 11 (3.36%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.06%) Scala
8 5 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.53%) MATLAB
8 5 (1.53%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.22%) C++
10 2 (0.61%) VBA
11 1 (0.31%) C
11 1 (0.31%) C#
11 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.31%) Ruby
11 1 (0.31%) Swift
11 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (29.05%) Degree
2 43 (13.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (10.40%) Master's Degree
4 31 (9.48%) Security Cleared
5 29 (8.87%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.75%) PhD
7 8 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.45%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.83%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.83%) PMP
9 5 (1.53%) CISSP
10 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.92%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.61%) CFA
12 2 (0.61%) MBA
13 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.56%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.28%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.75%) QA
4 5 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.53%) WCAG
5 3 (0.92%) PMO
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (5.20%) Docker
2 2 (0.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (7.34%) Terraform
2 21 (6.42%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.53%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 49 (14.98%) Databricks
2 23 (7.03%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.67%) Google
4 11 (3.36%) Alteryx
5 10 (3.06%) Foundry
5 10 (3.06%) Oracle
5 10 (3.06%) Palantir
6 8 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.14%) SAP
8 2 (0.61%) Adobe
8 2 (0.61%) CA
8 2 (0.61%) Informatica
8 2 (0.61%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.31%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.31%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.31%) ESRI
9 1 (0.31%) IBM
9 1 (0.31%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.31%) Splunk
9 1 (0.31%) Teradata