Data Science Contracts in the South East

Data Science
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 159 165
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 -25
Contract jobs citing Data Science 42 56 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.73% 0.99% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.11% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 44 64
10th Percentile £297 £337 £404
25th Percentile £413 £460 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £546
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -3.89% +8.71%
75th Percentile £673 £613 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
England median daily rate £550 £575 £596
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.56% +8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.49 -
Median % change year-on-year +182.20% - -
England median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +11.43% -16.67% +31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +6 22 £425 -20.93% 36
Berkshire -17 14 £453 -15.81% 13
Hampshire -8 12 £475 +222.03% 5
Buckinghamshire +30 7 £425 -17.87% 7
Surrey +8 2 £700 +33.33% 8
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 16
Kent - 1 £550 - 2
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) Serverless
3 7 (16.67%) AWS
4 6 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 5 (11.90%) Snowflake
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Functions
6 4 (9.52%) dbt
6 4 (9.52%) GCP
6 4 (9.52%) GitHub
6 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon Neptune
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) LAN
1 2 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (21.43%) Data Lake
3 7 (16.67%) Big Data
4 6 (14.29%) Power BI
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (9.52%) Metadata
5 4 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (7.14%) BigQuery
6 3 (7.14%) Tableau
7 2 (4.76%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
7 2 (4.76%) Impala
8 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.38%) PowerCenter
8 1 (2.38%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) ERwin
2 2 (4.76%) kappa
3 1 (2.38%) CMake
3 1 (2.38%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) LabVIEW
3 1 (2.38%) MLflow
General
1 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.14%) Finance
4 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
5 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Retail
6 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
6 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Data Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Analyst
2 7 (16.67%) Architect
3 5 (11.90%) Data Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) SQL Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Data Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Data Modeller
4 4 (9.52%) SQL Data Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Customer Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Data Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Data Scientist
5 3 (7.14%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (7.14%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Data Science Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Senior
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) PyTorch
1 5 (11.90%) TensorFlow
1 5 (11.90%) XML
2 4 (9.52%) PySpark
2 4 (9.52%) scikit-learn
3 3 (7.14%) Google JAX
3 3 (7.14%) Snowpark
4 2 (4.76%) Middleware
4 2 (4.76%) NumPy
4 2 (4.76%) Pandas
5 1 (2.38%) .NET
5 1 (2.38%) CNTK
5 1 (2.38%) Node.js
5 1 (2.38%) OpenVINO
5 1 (2.38%) Prisma
5 1 (2.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.52%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.52%) Smart Meter
3 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Life Science
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Linux
1 7 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (9.52%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) Analytics
2 15 (35.71%) Data Modelling
3 12 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (23.81%) Data Engineering
5 10 (23.81%) ETL
6 9 (21.43%) Agile
6 9 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (19.05%) CI/CD
8 7 (16.67%) Data Analysis
8 7 (16.67%) Data Strategy
9 6 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (14.29%) Data Protection
9 6 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 6 (14.29%) DevOps
9 6 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
10 5 (11.90%) Data Munging
10 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (59.52%) SQL
2 23 (54.76%) Python
3 4 (9.52%) C++
3 4 (9.52%) Java
4 3 (7.14%) C
4 3 (7.14%) R
5 1 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) Scala
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) GDPR
2 5 (11.90%) Data Quality
3 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (7.14%) NIST
4 2 (4.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Ab Initio
1 4 (9.52%) Databricks
2 2 (4.76%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.38%) Informatica
3 1 (2.38%) Salesforce