Data Science Contracts in Central London

Data Science
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 126 121
Rank change year-on-year +35 -5 -33
Contract jobs citing Data Science 46 51 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.90% 1.39% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.52% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 49
10th Percentile £463 £396 £521
25th Percentile £505 £456 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £706 £725 £775
90th Percentile £763 £764 £813
London median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £40.05
25th Percentile - £50.25 £48.25
Median hourly rate - £51.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - +1.98% +20.24%
75th Percentile - £52.75 £58.50
90th Percentile - - £62.05
London median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £46.75
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.60% +0.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,195 3,349 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.74% 91.28% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 2,258 3,100
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +6.05%
75th Percentile £680 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 47
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.33 £25.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.19 £54.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Central London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 13 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
City of London +34 44 £625 - 15
Data Science
London

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (8.70%) Jupyter
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.17%) CMS
3 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) AWS
2 9 (19.57%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) Power Platform
4 6 (13.04%) GCP
5 5 (10.87%) Snowflake
5 5 (10.87%) WhatsApp
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (6.52%) Vertex AI
7 2 (4.35%) dbt
7 2 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.17%) Figma
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub
8 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) Power BI
2 6 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (13.04%) Tableau
3 5 (10.87%) Big Data
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.52%) Data Mining
4 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.35%) Presto
6 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.17%) Metadata
6 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.17%) Power Query
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.26%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Marketing
6 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.17%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Data Scientist
2 7 (15.22%) Senior
3 6 (13.04%) Analyst
3 6 (13.04%) Data Analyst
3 6 (13.04%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Asset Management Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Senior Data Scientist
5 3 (6.52%) Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Programme Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Angular Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) PyTorch
1 5 (10.87%) scikit-learn
2 4 (8.70%) Matplotlib
2 4 (8.70%) Pandas
2 4 (8.70%) Plotly
2 4 (8.70%) pytest
3 3 (6.52%) Kafka
3 3 (6.52%) PySpark
4 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.35%) CSS
4 2 (4.35%) HTML
4 2 (4.35%) React
5 1 (2.17%) .NET
5 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.17%) NgRx
5 1 (2.17%) RESTful
5 1 (2.17%) RxJS
5 1 (2.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.35%) Life Science
3 2 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.17%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.17%) CBDC
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.17%) IoT
4 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Machine Learning
2 17 (36.96%) Analytics
3 12 (26.09%) Artificial Intelligence
4 11 (23.91%) Agile
4 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
5 10 (21.74%) Computer Science
5 10 (21.74%) Visualisation
6 9 (19.57%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (19.57%) Data Visualisation
6 9 (19.57%) ETL
6 9 (19.57%) Mathematics
7 8 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
7 8 (17.39%) Data Engineering
7 8 (17.39%) Data Modelling
7 8 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (15.22%) Change Management
8 7 (15.22%) Decision-Making
9 6 (13.04%) DevOps
9 6 (13.04%) Predictive Modelling
9 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) SQL
2 21 (45.65%) Python
3 5 (10.87%) Bash
3 5 (10.87%) Java
4 3 (6.52%) R
4 3 (6.52%) Scala
5 2 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) Degree
2 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (8.70%) PMI Certification
2 4 (8.70%) PMP
2 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.52%) PMO
2 3 (6.52%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Databricks
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Alteryx
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle
5 2 (4.35%) Foundry
5 2 (4.35%) Palantir
5 2 (4.35%) SAP
5 2 (4.35%) SnapLogic