Data Scientist Contracts in England

Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Data Scientist daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 522 543
Rank change year-on-year +95 +21 -170
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 115 117 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.25% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.26% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 77 176
10th Percentile £363 £312 £408
25th Percentile £459 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +5.50%
75th Percentile £616 £650 £625
90th Percentile £706 £731 £681
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 10
10th Percentile £21.03 - £35.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.00 £43.69
Median hourly rate £32.25 £19.98 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +61.41% -63.59% +80.54%
75th Percentile £44.69 £53.84 £64.00
90th Percentile £47.88 £56.73 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £19.49 £48.50
% change year-on-year +10.31% -59.81% +59.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Scientist in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Scientist in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Scientist within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +121 78 £525 -4.55% 98
North of England +30 15 £554 -16.38% 14
Yorkshire +24 12 £554 -17.93% 7
East of England +6 3 £550 +12.82% 7
South East +2 3 £500 +238.98% 23
North West +13 2 £520 +9.47% 6
South West +3 2 £538 -17.31% 11
Midlands +14 1 - - 5
West Midlands +11 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - - 1
Data Scientist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 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 England region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 113 (98.26%) Data Science
2 91 (79.13%) Python
3 65 (56.52%) Machine Learning
4 59 (51.30%) SQL
5 42 (36.52%) Algorithms
6 41 (35.65%) Data Analysis
7 40 (34.78%) Visualisation
8 39 (33.91%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (30.43%) Data Modelling
10 33 (28.70%) Statistics
10 33 (28.70%) Degree
11 32 (27.83%) Data Visualisation
12 30 (26.09%) Mathematics
12 30 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (25.22%) Computer Science
14 28 (24.35%) Predictive Modelling
15 27 (23.48%) Analytics
16 25 (21.74%) Tableau
17 21 (18.26%) R
17 21 (18.26%) Artificial Intelligence
17 21 (18.26%) Data Pipeline
18 19 (16.52%) Power BI
18 19 (16.52%) scikit-learn
18 19 (16.52%) Social Skills
18 19 (16.52%) Power Platform
18 19 (16.52%) Finance
19 18 (15.65%) Decision-Making
20 17 (14.78%) Computer Science Degree
20 17 (14.78%) Azure
21 15 (13.04%) Git

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (6.96%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.87%) Apache
3 1 (0.87%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.52%) Power Platform
2 17 (14.78%) Azure
3 9 (7.83%) GCP
4 6 (5.22%) AWS
5 4 (3.48%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (3.48%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (1.74%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 2 (1.74%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.74%) Dagster
6 2 (1.74%) Vertex AI
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.87%) dbt
7 1 (0.87%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.74%) Tableau
2 19 (16.52%) Power BI
3 14 (12.17%) Big Data
4 10 (8.70%) Hadoop
5 7 (6.09%) BigQuery
5 7 (6.09%) Data Mining
5 7 (6.09%) MySQL
5 7 (6.09%) Qlik Sense
5 7 (6.09%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.61%) Looker
7 1 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (13.04%) Git
2 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.87%) JIRA
General
1 39 (33.91%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (16.52%) Finance
2 19 (16.52%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.70%) Marketing
4 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.09%) Retail
5 5 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Police
6 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.74%) Banking
7 2 (1.74%) Czech Language
7 2 (1.74%) Legal
8 1 (0.87%) Advertising
8 1 (0.87%) Games
8 1 (0.87%) Hungarian Language
8 1 (0.87%) Law
8 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.52%) scikit-learn
2 13 (11.30%) Pandas
3 11 (9.57%) TensorFlow
4 9 (7.83%) PySpark
5 8 (6.96%) PyTorch
6 7 (6.09%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.09%) CSS
6 7 (6.09%) HTML
7 6 (5.22%) Matplotlib
8 4 (3.48%) XGBoost
9 3 (2.61%) NumPy
9 3 (2.61%) Plotly
10 2 (1.74%) Flask
10 2 (1.74%) JSON
10 2 (1.74%) pytest
10 2 (1.74%) REST
10 2 (1.74%) Swagger
10 2 (1.74%) YAML
11 1 (0.87%) SciPy
11 1 (0.87%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 42 (36.52%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (6.09%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.48%) Social Media
5 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.87%) FMCG
6 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.87%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (98.26%) Data Science
2 65 (56.52%) Machine Learning
3 41 (35.65%) Data Analysis
4 40 (34.78%) Visualisation
5 35 (30.43%) Data Modelling
6 33 (28.70%) Statistics
7 32 (27.83%) Data Visualisation
8 30 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (26.09%) Mathematics
9 29 (25.22%) Computer Science
10 28 (24.35%) Predictive Modelling
11 27 (23.48%) Analytics
12 21 (18.26%) Artificial Intelligence
12 21 (18.26%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (15.65%) Decision-Making
14 15 (13.04%) Actionable Insight
14 15 (13.04%) Agile
15 14 (12.17%) Statistical Modelling
16 12 (10.43%) Data Management
16 12 (10.43%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 91 (79.13%) Python
2 59 (51.30%) SQL
3 21 (18.26%) R
4 7 (6.09%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.48%) Bash
6 2 (1.74%) C#
7 1 (0.87%) Scala
7 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (28.70%) Degree
2 17 (14.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (13.04%) Master's Degree
4 14 (12.17%) Security Cleared
5 12 (10.43%) SC Cleared
6 10 (8.70%) PhD
7 7 (6.09%) PMI Certification
7 7 (6.09%) PMP
8 3 (2.61%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.87%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (7.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) ServiceNow
2 11 (9.57%) Databricks
3 6 (5.22%) Alteryx
4 5 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.48%) Google
6 2 (1.74%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.87%) Adobe
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle