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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 518 518
Rank change year-on-year +103 0 -150
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 127 127 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.27% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 84 182
10th Percentile £364 £225 £413
25th Percentile £463 £455 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £625
90th Percentile £702 £697 £674
UK median daily rate £542 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 10
10th Percentile £28.80 - £31.73
25th Percentile £41.25 £19.00 £37.81
Median hourly rate £42.50 £19.99 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +112.66% -60.81% +15.52%
75th Percentile £47.50 £52.86 £61.16
90th Percentile £50.50 £56.51 £65.53
UK median hourly rate £31.75 £19.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +62.86% -56.68% +1.93%

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 33,916 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,507 32,994 47,972
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 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,425 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +126 96 £550 +3.29% 97
North of England +19 8 £554 -16.38% 23
Yorkshire +22 5 £560 -17.04% 11
East of England +2 5 £538 +10.26% 10
South East +10 3 £549 +272.03% 13
South West +6 3 £538 -1.60% 11
Midlands +26 2 £590 -1.67% 13
West Midlands +22 2 £590 +18.00% 4
North West +20 2 £520 +9.47% 10
North East - 1 - - 2
Data Scientist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 126 (99.21%) Data Science
2 109 (85.83%) Python
3 70 (55.12%) Machine Learning
4 60 (47.24%) Visualisation
5 56 (44.09%) SQL
6 53 (41.73%) Data Analysis
7 50 (39.37%) Algorithms
8 47 (37.01%) Analytical Skills
9 39 (30.71%) Data Visualisation
10 35 (27.56%) R
11 34 (26.77%) Statistics
11 34 (26.77%) Data Modelling
12 33 (25.98%) Tableau
13 32 (25.20%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (25.20%) Analytics
14 30 (23.62%) Predictive Modelling
14 30 (23.62%) Mathematics
15 29 (22.83%) Power BI
15 29 (22.83%) Power Platform
15 29 (22.83%) Social Skills
16 27 (21.26%) Degree
17 26 (20.47%) Artificial Intelligence
18 21 (16.54%) Finance
18 21 (16.54%) Data Pipeline
19 20 (15.75%) Decision-Making
20 19 (14.96%) Computer Science
20 19 (14.96%) Security Cleared
21 18 (14.17%) Big Data
22 17 (13.39%) scikit-learn
22 17 (13.39%) Actionable Insight

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 7 (5.51%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.57%) SAS
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.83%) Power Platform
2 17 (13.39%) Azure
3 12 (9.45%) GCP
4 5 (3.94%) AWS
5 4 (3.15%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (2.36%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.57%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.57%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 2 (1.57%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.57%) Dagster
7 2 (1.57%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.57%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.79%) dbt
8 1 (0.79%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.98%) Tableau
2 29 (22.83%) Power BI
3 18 (14.17%) Big Data
4 14 (11.02%) Hadoop
5 12 (9.45%) BusinessObjects
6 9 (7.09%) BigQuery
6 9 (7.09%) Data Mining
7 6 (4.72%) Looker
8 4 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (8.66%) Git
2 2 (1.57%) JIRA
2 2 (1.57%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (37.01%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (22.83%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.54%) Finance
4 10 (7.87%) Marketing
5 9 (7.09%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.51%) Retail
7 6 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.15%) Police
9 2 (1.57%) Banking
9 2 (1.57%) Czech Language
9 2 (1.57%) Law
9 2 (1.57%) Legal
9 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.79%) Games
10 1 (0.79%) Hungarian Language
10 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.39%) scikit-learn
2 12 (9.45%) TensorFlow
3 10 (7.87%) Pandas
3 10 (7.87%) PySpark
4 6 (4.72%) PyTorch
5 4 (3.15%) Matplotlib
5 4 (3.15%) Plotly
5 4 (3.15%) XGBoost
6 3 (2.36%) Flask
6 3 (2.36%) ggplot2
6 3 (2.36%) NumPy
6 3 (2.36%) Shiny
7 2 (1.57%) JSON
7 2 (1.57%) REST
7 2 (1.57%) Swagger
7 2 (1.57%) YAML
8 1 (0.79%) ADO
8 1 (0.79%) LightGBM
8 1 (0.79%) SciPy
8 1 (0.79%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 50 (39.37%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.30%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (5.51%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.15%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.36%) Social Media
6 2 (1.57%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.79%) FMCG
7 1 (0.79%) Life Science
7 1 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (99.21%) Data Science
2 70 (55.12%) Machine Learning
3 60 (47.24%) Visualisation
4 53 (41.73%) Data Analysis
5 39 (30.71%) Data Visualisation
6 34 (26.77%) Data Modelling
6 34 (26.77%) Statistics
7 32 (25.20%) Analytics
7 32 (25.20%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (23.62%) Mathematics
8 30 (23.62%) Predictive Modelling
9 26 (20.47%) Artificial Intelligence
10 21 (16.54%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (15.75%) Decision-Making
12 19 (14.96%) Computer Science
13 17 (13.39%) Actionable Insight
14 14 (11.02%) Agile
14 14 (11.02%) Natural Language Processing
14 14 (11.02%) Prototyping
15 13 (10.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 109 (85.83%) Python
2 56 (44.09%) SQL
3 35 (27.56%) R
4 3 (2.36%) MATLAB
5 2 (1.57%) Bash
5 2 (1.57%) C#
6 1 (0.79%) C++
6 1 (0.79%) Scala
6 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (21.26%) Degree
2 19 (14.96%) Security Cleared
3 14 (11.02%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (7.09%) PhD
6 8 (6.30%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.57%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.79%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (5.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (7.09%) Databricks
2 7 (5.51%) Google
2 7 (5.51%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.72%) Alteryx
4 5 (3.94%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.36%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.79%) Adobe
7 1 (0.79%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle