Data Science Contracts in the City of London

Data Science
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 125 128
Rank change year-on-year +55 +3 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Science 58 25 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.73% 0.90% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 1.00% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 17 49
10th Percentile £448 £343 £458
25th Percentile £509 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £565 £588
Median % change year-on-year +8.63% -3.83% -4.08%
75th Percentile £713 £674 £688
90th Percentile £739 £708 £815
Central London median daily rate £613 £565 £588
% change year-on-year +8.41% -3.83% -4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £35.25
25th Percentile - - £44.25
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £61.50
% change year-on-year - - +67.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,941 2,497 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.43% 89.92% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,754 2,734
10th Percentile £375 £363 £363
25th Percentile £470 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 51
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% -35.15% +49.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £52.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.25 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £43.24
% change year-on-year +6.87% -24.26% +26.25%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.90%) Jupyter
2 3 (5.17%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.45%) SAS
4 1 (1.72%) Apache
4 1 (1.72%) CMS
4 1 (1.72%) Confluence
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.86%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) GCP
3 9 (15.52%) AWS
4 7 (12.07%) Snowflake
5 4 (6.90%) Azure AI
6 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon Neptune
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.45%) dbt
7 2 (3.45%) GitHub
7 2 (3.45%) SaaS
7 2 (3.45%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.72%) Serverless
8 1 (1.72%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (1.72%) Firewall
1 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) Data Mining
1 6 (10.34%) Tableau
2 5 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.90%) Data Lake
3 4 (6.90%) Neo4j
4 3 (5.17%) BigQuery
4 3 (5.17%) Power BI
5 2 (3.45%) ArangoDB
5 2 (3.45%) Big Data
5 2 (3.45%) Metadata
5 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.72%) KDB
6 1 (1.72%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.72%) ObjectStore
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.72%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.72%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.72%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.72%) GitLab
3 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) MLflow
General
1 19 (32.76%) Finance
2 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 7 (12.07%) Banking
6 6 (10.34%) Marketing
7 4 (6.90%) Retail Banking
8 3 (5.17%) Retail
8 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
9 2 (3.45%) Legal
9 2 (3.45%) Local Government
9 2 (3.45%) Military
9 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.72%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.72%) Police
10 1 (1.72%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Data Scientist
2 10 (17.24%) Analyst
3 9 (15.52%) Senior Data Scientist
4 7 (12.07%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Data Analyst
4 7 (12.07%) Lead
5 6 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Senior
6 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Lead Data Scientist
7 2 (3.45%) Angular Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Business Data Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Business Development Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Business Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Development Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Product Manager
8 1 (1.72%) ETL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) PyTorch
2 6 (10.34%) scikit-learn
3 4 (6.90%) Matplotlib
3 4 (6.90%) Pandas
3 4 (6.90%) Plotly
3 4 (6.90%) pytest
4 3 (5.17%) TensorFlow
5 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.45%) CSS
5 2 (3.45%) HTML
5 2 (3.45%) React
6 1 (1.72%) .NET
6 1 (1.72%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.72%) JSON
6 1 (1.72%) Kafka
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.72%) RESTful
6 1 (1.72%) RxJS
6 1 (1.72%) XGBoost
6 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.90%) Tandem
3 2 (3.45%) Clustering
3 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Genomics
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Life Science
4 1 (1.72%) Multi-touch
4 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.83%) Machine Learning
2 24 (41.38%) Analytics
3 17 (29.31%) Artificial Intelligence
4 14 (24.14%) CI/CD
5 12 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (18.97%) DevOps
7 10 (17.24%) Actionable Insight
7 10 (17.24%) Decision-Making
7 10 (17.24%) Natural Language Processing
7 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.52%) Agile
8 9 (15.52%) Computer Science
8 9 (15.52%) Data Analysis
8 9 (15.52%) Data Modelling
8 9 (15.52%) ETL
8 9 (15.52%) LLM
9 8 (13.79%) Customer Experience
9 8 (13.79%) Generative AI
9 8 (13.79%) MLOps
10 7 (12.07%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 28 (48.28%) Python
2 23 (39.66%) SQL
3 5 (8.62%) Bash
4 4 (6.90%) Java
4 4 (6.90%) Scala
5 3 (5.17%) R
6 2 (3.45%) C++
6 2 (3.45%) Cypher
6 2 (3.45%) Gremlin
6 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) Bicep
7 1 (1.72%) C#
7 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Degree
2 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.45%) PhD
5 1 (1.72%) ISEB
5 1 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) GRC
3 1 (1.72%) GxP
3 1 (1.72%) IFRS
3 1 (1.72%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.72%) SNOMED CT
3 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Databricks
2 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.45%) Google
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
3 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.72%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.72%) Cisco
4 1 (1.72%) Foundry
4 1 (1.72%) Palantir
4 1 (1.72%) Planview
4 1 (1.72%) Remedy
4 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.72%) SnapLogic
4 1 (1.72%) Sybase