Data Science Contracts in the East Midlands

Data Science
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 79 94
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 -24
Contract jobs citing Data Science 7 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.90% 0.48% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.55% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £356 £570 £398
25th Percentile £360 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £600 £463
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +29.73% -22.92%
75th Percentile £393 - £509
90th Percentile £403 - £549
England median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £22.33 - -
25th Percentile £23.24 - -
Median hourly rate £26.12 - -
75th Percentile £30.37 - -
90th Percentile £32.10 - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +21.43% -16.67% +54.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 608 914 1,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.25% 88.05% 83.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 691 878
10th Percentile £197 £213 £209
25th Percentile £269 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% +2.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £606
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 73 82
10th Percentile £11.33 £11.98 £9.50
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.28
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.37 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% +2.03% +21.58%
75th Percentile £26.15 £30.00 £27.15
90th Percentile £38.75 £54.30 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the East Midlands

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the East Midlands

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the East Midlands

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Leicestershire +10 2 £375 -31.82% 8
Lincolnshire - 2 - - 4
Northamptonshire - 2 £385 -
Nottinghamshire +1 1 - - 6
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
2 2 (28.57%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
3 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) QlikView
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Back Office
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Data Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Marketing Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Marketing Data Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Big Data Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Anaconda
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Beam
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) A/B Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Logistic Regression
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Propensity Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Web Design
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Six Sigma
4 1 (14.29%) UML
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) Scala
4 2 (28.57%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) CBAP
3 1 (14.29%) IIBA
3 1 (14.29%) ISEB
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft