Data Science Contracts in London

Data Science
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 164 149
Rank change year-on-year +34 -15 -30
Contract jobs citing Data Science 329 422 776
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.88% 1.62% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.78% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 261 494
10th Percentile £388 £413 £413
25th Percentile £472 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £682 £738 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.16% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 24
10th Percentile £31.85 £39.50 £29.78
25th Percentile £39.50 £46.25 £34.25
Median hourly rate £43.75 £51.50 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.05% +10.16% -2.70%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £63.06
90th Percentile £68.75 - £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year +21.43% -21.35% +60.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,484 23,644 35,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 90.88% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 17,068 26,253
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 267 420
10th Percentile £15.81 £18.30 £17.24
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.45 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.88 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.83 £82.50 £67.56
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in London

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Science in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Science in London

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Central London +24 38 £625 +2.04% 29
West London +19 3 £525 +31.25% 9
East London - 2 £460 - 81
South London - 2 - -
North London - 1 - - 1
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 18 (5.47%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.13%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.22%) Apache
5 3 (0.91%) CMS
6 2 (0.61%) Confluence
6 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.61%) Simulink
5 1 (0.30%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (2.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (22.80%) Azure
2 63 (19.15%) GCP
3 52 (15.81%) AWS
4 51 (15.50%) Power Platform
5 22 (6.69%) Vertex AI
6 15 (4.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (3.34%) Snowflake
9 10 (3.04%) Azure Machine Learning
9 10 (3.04%) Google Compute Engine
10 9 (2.74%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.74%) Serverless
11 7 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.82%) dbt
12 6 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (1.52%) Figma
13 5 (1.52%) GitHub
14 4 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.82%) Internet
2 1 (0.30%) LAN
2 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (15.50%) Power BI
2 47 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (13.68%) Tableau
4 40 (12.16%) Big Data
5 26 (7.90%) BigQuery
6 17 (5.17%) Data Lake
7 16 (4.86%) Hadoop
8 13 (3.95%) BusinessObjects
9 9 (2.74%) Data Mining
10 8 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.43%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.52%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.52%) Presto
12 4 (1.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.22%) Looker
12 4 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.91%) Metadata
13 3 (0.91%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (8.21%) Git
2 17 (5.17%) JIRA
3 9 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.13%) GitLab
5 6 (1.82%) MLflow
6 3 (0.91%) RStudio
6 3 (0.91%) Selenium
7 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.30%) Poetry
8 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.30%) Xcode
General
1 96 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.54%) Finance
3 57 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.69%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.95%) Marketing
6 11 (3.34%) Retail
7 9 (2.74%) Banking
7 9 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.13%) Advertising
8 7 (2.13%) Legal
9 5 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.22%) Czech Language
10 4 (1.22%) Games
10 4 (1.22%) Local Government
10 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.91%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.91%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 90 (27.36%) Data Scientist
2 40 (12.16%) Senior
3 31 (9.42%) Architect
3 31 (9.42%) Developer
4 30 (9.12%) Analyst
5 29 (8.81%) Data Engineer
6 26 (7.90%) Data Analyst
7 20 (6.08%) Lead
8 18 (5.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 16 (4.86%) GCP Engineer
10 15 (4.56%) Senior Data Scientist
11 12 (3.65%) Data Architect
11 12 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.04%) Consultant
13 9 (2.74%) Senior Data Engineer
14 8 (2.43%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.43%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.43%) Python Developer
15 7 (2.13%) Product Manager
15 7 (2.13%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.12%) scikit-learn
2 24 (7.29%) TensorFlow
3 23 (6.99%) Pandas
4 19 (5.78%) PySpark
5 15 (4.56%) PyTorch
6 13 (3.95%) NumPy
7 12 (3.65%) HTML
7 12 (3.65%) React
8 10 (3.04%) CSS
9 9 (2.74%) Kafka
10 7 (2.13%) Django
10 7 (2.13%) Matplotlib
11 6 (1.82%) Plotly
12 5 (1.52%) XGBoost
13 4 (1.22%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.22%) Shiny
14 3 (0.91%) ggplot2
14 3 (0.91%) NgRx
14 3 (0.91%) RxJS
15 2 (0.61%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.72%) Algorithms
2 15 (4.56%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.95%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 10 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.74%) IoT
7 7 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.13%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.52%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.22%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.91%) CBDC
10 3 (0.91%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.91%) FMCG
10 3 (0.91%) Genomics
10 3 (0.91%) Grid Computing
10 3 (0.91%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.91%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Android
2 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (45.90%) Machine Learning
2 113 (34.35%) Analytics
3 85 (25.84%) Artificial Intelligence
4 75 (22.80%) Computer Science
5 73 (22.19%) Data Analysis
6 67 (20.36%) Visualisation
7 65 (19.76%) Agile
7 65 (19.76%) Data Modelling
8 59 (17.93%) Business Intelligence
8 59 (17.93%) ETL
9 54 (16.41%) Data Pipeline
10 48 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
12 43 (13.07%) DevOps
13 41 (12.46%) Mathematics
14 39 (11.85%) CI/CD
15 33 (10.03%) Data Management
15 33 (10.03%) Statistics
16 32 (9.73%) Data Engineering
16 32 (9.73%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 199 (60.49%) Python
2 128 (38.91%) SQL
3 33 (10.03%) R
4 18 (5.47%) Bash
5 14 (4.26%) Java
6 13 (3.95%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.74%) Scala
8 5 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.52%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.91%) C++
9 3 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.61%) VBA
11 1 (0.30%) C
11 1 (0.30%) C#
11 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.30%) Ruby
11 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) Swift
11 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (25.23%) Degree
2 41 (12.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (10.94%) Security Cleared
4 31 (9.42%) SC Cleared
5 24 (7.29%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.74%) PhD
7 7 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.82%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.82%) PMP
9 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.52%) CISSP
10 4 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.91%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.61%) CFA
12 2 (0.61%) MBA
13 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.90%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.04%) QA
4 5 (1.52%) WCAG
5 3 (0.91%) PMO
6 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.61%) GDPR
7 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (4.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (7.60%) Terraform
2 17 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.82%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 44 (13.37%) Databricks
2 24 (7.29%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.34%) Google
4 10 (3.04%) Foundry
4 10 (3.04%) Oracle
4 10 (3.04%) Palantir
5 8 (2.43%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.13%) SAP
7 2 (0.61%) Adobe
7 2 (0.61%) CA
7 2 (0.61%) ESRI
7 2 (0.61%) Informatica
7 2 (0.61%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.30%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.30%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.30%) IBM
8 1 (0.30%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.30%) Splunk
8 1 (0.30%) Teradata