Data Scientist Contracts in England

Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Data Scientist daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 524 530
Rank change year-on-year +110 +6 -157
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 128 127 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.27% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 83 182
10th Percentile £377 £221 £413
25th Percentile £472 £453 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £625
90th Percentile £699 £698 £674
UK median daily rate £550 £545 £575
% change year-on-year +0.92% -5.22% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 11
10th Percentile £28.80 - £32.50
25th Percentile £41.25 £19.00 £39.38
Median hourly rate £42.50 £19.99 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.66% -62.64% +21.18%
75th Percentile £47.50 £52.86 £63.25
90th Percentile £50.50 £56.51 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £31.75 £19.50 £46.75
% change year-on-year +62.86% -58.30% +5.89%

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 34,086 46,552 67,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,604 33,063 47,842
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,372 1,853
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.76
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 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
London +129 94 £550 +3.29% 97
North of England +21 11 £554 -16.38% 28
Yorkshire +20 8 £557 -17.48% 15
East of England +6 5 £538 +10.26% 8
South East +9 3 £549 +272.03% 16
South West +2 3 £538 -1.60% 15
Midlands +23 2 £590 -1.67% 11
North West +19 2 £520 +9.47% 10
West Midlands +14 2 £590 +18.00% 5
North East - 1 - - 3
Data Scientist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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.

1 127 (99.22%) Data Science
2 108 (84.38%) Python
3 71 (55.47%) Machine Learning
4 58 (45.31%) Visualisation
5 57 (44.53%) SQL
6 53 (41.41%) Data Analysis
7 50 (39.06%) Algorithms
8 47 (36.72%) Analytical Skills
9 37 (28.91%) Data Visualisation
10 35 (27.34%) Data Modelling
10 35 (27.34%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (26.56%) Statistics
12 33 (25.78%) R
13 31 (24.22%) Tableau
14 30 (23.44%) Predictive Modelling
14 30 (23.44%) Degree
14 30 (23.44%) Analytics
14 30 (23.44%) Power Platform
14 30 (23.44%) Power BI
15 29 (22.66%) Social Skills
16 28 (21.88%) Mathematics
17 25 (19.53%) Artificial Intelligence
18 22 (17.19%) Computer Science
18 22 (17.19%) Finance
19 21 (16.41%) Data Pipeline
20 19 (14.84%) Security Cleared
21 18 (14.06%) Big Data
21 18 (14.06%) Decision-Making
22 17 (13.28%) scikit-learn
22 17 (13.28%) Azure

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 6 (4.69%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.56%) SAS
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 30 (23.44%) Power Platform
2 17 (13.28%) Azure
3 10 (7.81%) GCP
4 5 (3.91%) AWS
5 4 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (1.56%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (1.56%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 2 (1.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.56%) Dagster
6 2 (1.56%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.56%) Vertex AI
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.78%) dbt
7 1 (0.78%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.78%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (24.22%) Tableau
2 30 (23.44%) Power BI
3 18 (14.06%) Big Data
4 15 (11.72%) Hadoop
5 12 (9.38%) BusinessObjects
6 9 (7.03%) Data Mining
7 7 (5.47%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.13%) Looker
9 3 (2.34%) MySQL
9 3 (2.34%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (2.34%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.56%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (8.59%) Git
2 2 (1.56%) JIRA
2 2 (1.56%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (36.72%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (22.66%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.19%) Finance
4 10 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.25%) Marketing
6 7 (5.47%) Retail
7 6 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.13%) Police
9 2 (1.56%) Banking
9 2 (1.56%) Czech Language
9 2 (1.56%) Law
9 2 (1.56%) Legal
9 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.78%) Advertising
10 1 (0.78%) Games
10 1 (0.78%) Hungarian Language
10 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.28%) scikit-learn
2 12 (9.38%) TensorFlow
3 10 (7.81%) Pandas
3 10 (7.81%) PySpark
4 6 (4.69%) PyTorch
5 4 (3.13%) Matplotlib
5 4 (3.13%) Plotly
5 4 (3.13%) XGBoost
6 3 (2.34%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.34%) CSS
6 3 (2.34%) Flask
6 3 (2.34%) ggplot2
6 3 (2.34%) HTML
6 3 (2.34%) NumPy
6 3 (2.34%) Shiny
7 2 (1.56%) JSON
7 2 (1.56%) REST
7 2 (1.56%) Swagger
7 2 (1.56%) YAML
8 1 (0.78%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 50 (39.06%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (5.47%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.34%) Social Media
6 2 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.78%) FMCG
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (99.22%) Data Science
2 71 (55.47%) Machine Learning
3 58 (45.31%) Visualisation
4 53 (41.41%) Data Analysis
5 37 (28.91%) Data Visualisation
6 35 (27.34%) Business Intelligence
6 35 (27.34%) Data Modelling
7 34 (26.56%) Statistics
8 30 (23.44%) Analytics
8 30 (23.44%) Predictive Modelling
9 28 (21.88%) Mathematics
10 25 (19.53%) Artificial Intelligence
11 22 (17.19%) Computer Science
12 21 (16.41%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (14.06%) Decision-Making
14 15 (11.72%) Actionable Insight
15 14 (10.94%) Agile
15 14 (10.94%) Natural Language Processing
15 14 (10.94%) Prototyping
16 13 (10.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 108 (84.38%) Python
2 57 (44.53%) SQL
3 33 (25.78%) R
4 3 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.56%) Bash
5 2 (1.56%) C#
6 1 (0.78%) C++
6 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.78%) Scala
6 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (23.44%) Degree
2 19 (14.84%) Security Cleared
3 14 (10.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.59%) Master's Degree
5 9 (7.03%) PhD
6 3 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.34%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.34%) PMP
7 2 (1.56%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.78%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (5.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (7.03%) Databricks
2 8 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.47%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.69%) Alteryx
5 5 (3.91%) Google
6 3 (2.34%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.78%) Adobe
7 1 (0.78%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle