Senior Data Scientist Contracts in London

Senior Data Scientist
England > London

The median Senior Data Scientist daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 476 580
Rank change year-on-year +100 +104 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 24 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.024% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.025% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 17
10th Percentile £470 £503 £498
25th Percentile £500 £506 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £580
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -9.48% -6.45%
75th Percentile £680 £556 £606
90th Percentile £775 £568 £638
England median daily rate £580 £488 £625
% change year-on-year +18.97% -22.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +47.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in London

Senior Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Scientist in London

Senior Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Scientist in London

Senior Data Scientist
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 Senior Data Scientist within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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 - 4 - -
Senior Data Scientist
England

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior Data Scientist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Data Science
2 20 (83.33%) Python
3 19 (79.17%) Machine Learning
4 14 (58.33%) SQL
5 11 (45.83%) Computer Science
5 11 (45.83%) Analytics
5 11 (45.83%) Algorithms
6 9 (37.50%) Mathematics
6 9 (37.50%) Jupyter
6 9 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
7 8 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (33.33%) Git
7 8 (33.33%) Propensity Modelling
8 7 (29.17%) Matplotlib
8 7 (29.17%) scikit-learn
8 7 (29.17%) Pandas
8 7 (29.17%) Marketing
8 7 (29.17%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (29.17%) Databricks
9 6 (25.00%) Customer Experience
9 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
9 6 (25.00%) Statistics
9 6 (25.00%) AWS
10 5 (20.83%) Azure
10 5 (20.83%) Data Cleansing
10 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
10 5 (20.83%) Retail
10 5 (20.83%) Data Analysis
10 5 (20.83%) Finance
10 5 (20.83%) Snowflake

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
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 9 (37.50%) Jupyter
2 1 (4.17%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Snowflake
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) dbt
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.17%) Looker
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) MLflow
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 7 (29.17%) Marketing
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Retail
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Police
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) Matplotlib
1 7 (29.17%) Pandas
1 7 (29.17%) scikit-learn
2 4 (16.67%) Plotly
2 4 (16.67%) pytest
2 4 (16.67%) PyTorch
3 3 (12.50%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Data Science
2 19 (79.17%) Machine Learning
3 11 (45.83%) Analytics
3 11 (45.83%) Computer Science
4 9 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
4 9 (37.50%) Mathematics
5 8 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (33.33%) Propensity Modelling
6 7 (29.17%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (25.00%) Customer Experience
7 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 6 (25.00%) Statistics
8 5 (20.83%) Data Analysis
8 5 (20.83%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
9 4 (16.67%) Deep Learning
9 4 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
9 4 (16.67%) Physics
9 4 (16.67%) Predictive Analysis
9 4 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) Python
2 14 (58.33%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Bash
3 4 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
1 4 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (8.33%) PhD
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Databricks
2 3 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft