Data Science Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Science
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 91 105 142
Rank change year-on-year +14 +37 -21
Contract jobs citing Data Science 20 24 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.98% 1.08% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.24% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 29
10th Percentile £358 £464 £490
25th Percentile £388 £484 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £713 £638 £775
90th Percentile £750 £649 £1,100
England median daily rate £550 £575 £596
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.56% +8.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,667 1,939 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.64% 87.62% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,316 2,338
10th Percentile £265 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £586
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +22 16 £488 -9.30% 12
Coventry +8 1 £550 - 6
Warwickshire -7 1 £650 +20.93%
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (15.00%) Serverless
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Power BI
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (15.00%) Tableau
3 2 (10.00%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (10.00%) GIS
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data
4 1 (5.00%) Flink
4 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Power Query
4 1 (5.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Retail
4 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) German Language
6 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Multimedia
6 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (10.00%) GIS Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.00%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
1 2 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.00%) Dask
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Keras
2 1 (5.00%) NumPy
2 1 (5.00%) Pandas
2 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) FMCG
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Analytics
2 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (15.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (15.00%) Database Security
6 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (15.00%) ITIL
6 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
6 3 (15.00%) Runbook
6 3 (15.00%) Statistics
6 3 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Virtual Environments
6 3 (15.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) SysTrack
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Citrix
2 3 (15.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) New Relic
2 3 (15.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.00%) Alteryx
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) Teradata