The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Scientist role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Scientist in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Scientist
Rank 196 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £550 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5876 7201 9157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.51% 91.48% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4326 5182 6677
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 179 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Data Scientist
London

Data Scientist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Scientist across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Data Scientist Jobs Demand Trend

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Scientist across the City of London region.

City of London Data Scientist Daily Rate Trend

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Scientist across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Data Scientist Daily Rate Histogram

Data Scientist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Data Scientist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Data Scientist in their job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 9 (90.00%) Apache Hive
2 9 (90.00%) Mahout
2 9 (90.00%) Big Data
2 9 (90.00%) Apache Pig
3 8 (80.00%) R
3 8 (80.00%) MapReduce
3 8 (80.00%) Mathematics
3 8 (80.00%) Data Analysis
3 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 8 (80.00%) Java
3 8 (80.00%) SQL
3 8 (80.00%) Data Mining
4 7 (70.00%) SAS
4 7 (70.00%) SPSS
4 7 (70.00%) Apache
4 7 (70.00%) Python
4 7 (70.00%) PhD
4 7 (70.00%) Statistics
4 7 (70.00%) Degree
4 7 (70.00%) Physics
4 7 (70.00%) Computer Science
4 7 (70.00%) Social Network
4 7 (70.00%) HBase
4 7 (70.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (70.00%) Scala
4 7 (70.00%) Analytics
5 6 (60.00%) Predictive Modelling
5 6 (60.00%) Visualisation
5 6 (60.00%) Neural Network

Data Scientist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Data Scientist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Data Scientist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (80.00%) MapReduce
2 2 (20.00%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 9 (90.00%) Apache Pig
2 7 (70.00%) SAS
2 7 (70.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
Applications
1 7 (70.00%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 9 (90.00%) Apache Hive
2 9 (90.00%) Mahout
2 9 (90.00%) Big Data
3 8 (80.00%) Data Mining
4 7 (70.00%) HBase
4 7 (70.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (10.00%) OLAP
5 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Mathematics
2 7 (70.00%) Statistics
2 7 (70.00%) Physics
2 7 (70.00%) Computer Science
2 7 (70.00%) Social Network
3 6 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 6 (60.00%) Neural Network
3 6 (60.00%) Grid Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Data Analysis
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Analytics
3 6 (60.00%) Predictive Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) R
1 8 (80.00%) Java
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) Scala
3 6 (60.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) PhD
1 7 (70.00%) Degree