Data Science Contracts in the North of England

Data Science
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 131 155 183
Rank change year-on-year +24 +28 -22
Contract jobs citing Data Science 54 47 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.11% 0.86% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.96% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 29 51
10th Percentile £325 £470 £408
25th Percentile £362 £543 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £573
Median % change year-on-year -17.96% +9.17% +20.53%
75th Percentile £555 £713 £631
90th Percentile £585 £735 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £596
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.56% +8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £37.23 -
25th Percentile - £40.58 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £49.57 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -5.58% +98.11%
75th Percentile - £54.69 £56.25
90th Percentile - £55.72 -
England median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +11.43% -16.67% +31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
Yorkshire +12 29 £538 -14.00% 25
North West +23 24 £419 -27.17% 48
North East +6 1 - - 12
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.56%) Apache
2 3 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.63%) Power Platform
2 7 (12.96%) AWS
2 7 (12.96%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) GCP
3 3 (5.56%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 3 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.70%) Figma
5 1 (1.85%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.63%) Power BI
1 16 (29.63%) Relational Database
2 15 (27.78%) Qlik Sense
3 13 (24.07%) MySQL
4 10 (18.52%) Data Lake
5 7 (12.96%) Big Data
6 5 (9.26%) Data Mining
6 5 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (9.26%) Hadoop
7 4 (7.41%) BigQuery
7 4 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (5.56%) Apache Hive
8 3 (5.56%) Metadata
8 3 (5.56%) Spark SQL
8 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
9 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) RStudio
2 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (9.26%) Finance
4 5 (9.26%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.70%) Banking
7 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.70%) Law
7 2 (3.70%) Marketing
7 2 (3.70%) Publishing
8 1 (1.85%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (40.74%) Data Scientist
2 6 (11.11%) User Researcher
3 5 (9.26%) Data Manager
4 4 (7.41%) Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Product Manager
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Developer
6 2 (3.70%) Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Content Designer
6 2 (3.70%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Data Governance Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Data Governance Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Data Modeller
6 2 (3.70%) Designer
6 2 (3.70%) Governance Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Programme Manager
6 2 (3.70%) SAP Data Manager
6 2 (3.70%) SAP Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Scala Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Data Science Developer
7 1 (1.85%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.93%) AngularJS
2 13 (24.07%) CSS
2 13 (24.07%) HTML
3 4 (7.41%) Kafka
4 1 (1.85%) .NET
4 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.85%) JSON
4 1 (1.85%) JWT
4 1 (1.85%) OpenID
4 1 (1.85%) PySpark
4 1 (1.85%) REST
4 1 (1.85%) Swagger
4 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Reference Data
2 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.70%) NHS
3 2 (3.70%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.85%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.85%) Life Science
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (62.96%) Data Modelling
2 18 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 18 (33.33%) ITIL
3 17 (31.48%) Problem Management
3 17 (31.48%) Service Management
4 16 (29.63%) Visualisation
5 15 (27.78%) Machine Learning
6 14 (25.93%) Data Visualisation
7 13 (24.07%) Data Security
7 13 (24.07%) ITSM
7 13 (24.07%) Mentoring
7 13 (24.07%) Scrum
8 12 (22.22%) Data Analysis
8 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (20.37%) Agile
10 10 (18.52%) Analytics
10 10 (18.52%) Decision-Making
10 10 (18.52%) Proactive Management
11 9 (16.67%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (48.15%) SQL
2 13 (24.07%) JavaScript
3 9 (16.67%) Python
4 3 (5.56%) Scala
5 2 (3.70%) R
6 1 (1.85%) C#
6 1 (1.85%) Java
6 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (40.74%) Degree
2 17 (31.48%) Master's Degree
3 14 (25.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (24.07%) PMI Certification
4 13 (24.07%) PMP
5 2 (3.70%) PhD
5 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (9.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (37.04%) ServiceNow
2 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.56%) Databricks
4 2 (3.70%) Google
4 2 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (1.85%) Foundry
5 1 (1.85%) Palantir
5 1 (1.85%) Splunk
5 1 (1.85%) Teradata