Senior Data Scientist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Scientist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, 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 398 426 481
Rank change year-on-year +28 +55 -69
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 3 4 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.018% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.019% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 16
10th Percentile £465 £424 £581
25th Percentile £469 £441 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -26.92% +6.12%
75th Percentile £581 £538 £734
90th Percentile £615 £605 £769
UK median daily rate £563 £488 £625
% change year-on-year +15.38% -22.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
Scotland - 2 £488 - 1
South West +2 1 £625 -3.85% 2
Senior Data Scientist
UK

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) NumPy
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Pandas
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL