Data Scientist Contracts in England

Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Data Scientist daily rate in England is £542 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 520 527
Rank change year-on-year +109 +7 -146
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 125 140 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.28% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.29% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 93 190
10th Percentile £388 £274 £412
25th Percentile £456 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £625
90th Percentile £680 £690 £664
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.86% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 9
10th Percentile £30.88 - £30.96
25th Percentile £41.25 £19.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.75 £19.99 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.91% -55.59% +1.93%
75th Percentile £47.50 £52.86 £59.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.51 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £19.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +118.00% -48.01% -15.06%

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 34,509 48,061 68,243
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.57% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,973 34,073 48,458
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,449 1,922
10th Percentile £12.91 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 97 £550 +4.76% 109
East of England +13 5 £538 +10.26% 12
Midlands +31 3 £590 -1.67% 6
North of England +29 3 £520 -21.51% 20
West Midlands +29 3 £590 +18.00% 3
South West +9 3 £538 -1.60% 8
South East +3 3 £549 +272.03% 10
North West +16 2 £520 +9.47% 12
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 24 April 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.

1 124 (99.20%) Data Science
2 112 (89.60%) Python
3 68 (54.40%) Machine Learning
4 59 (47.20%) Visualisation
5 57 (45.60%) Algorithms
6 54 (43.20%) SQL
7 49 (39.20%) Data Analysis
7 49 (39.20%) Analytical Skills
8 38 (30.40%) R
9 36 (28.80%) Data Visualisation
9 36 (28.80%) Statistics
10 35 (28.00%) Tableau
10 35 (28.00%) Mathematics
11 34 (27.20%) Business Intelligence
12 32 (25.60%) Degree
13 31 (24.80%) Data Modelling
13 31 (24.80%) Analytics
14 30 (24.00%) Social Skills
15 28 (22.40%) Power Platform
15 28 (22.40%) Power BI
15 28 (22.40%) Predictive Modelling
16 25 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
17 22 (17.60%) Security Cleared
17 22 (17.60%) Data Pipeline
18 21 (16.80%) Computer Science
18 21 (16.80%) Big Data
19 20 (16.00%) Finance
20 18 (14.40%) Azure
20 18 (14.40%) Actionable Insight
20 18 (14.40%) scikit-learn

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 5 (4.00%) Jupyter
2 4 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.60%) Apache
4 2 (1.60%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.40%) Power Platform
2 18 (14.40%) Azure
3 12 (9.60%) GCP
4 7 (5.60%) AWS
5 5 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.40%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (1.60%) Dagster
8 2 (1.60%) Serverless
8 2 (1.60%) Vertex AI
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.80%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.80%) dbt
9 1 (0.80%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.80%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (28.00%) Tableau
2 28 (22.40%) Power BI
3 21 (16.80%) Big Data
4 17 (13.60%) Hadoop
5 12 (9.60%) BusinessObjects
6 9 (7.20%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.80%) Looker
8 5 (4.00%) Data Mining
9 3 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.80%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (10.40%) Git
2 2 (1.60%) JIRA
2 2 (1.60%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.80%) MLflow
General
1 49 (39.20%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (16.00%) Finance
4 9 (7.20%) Marketing
4 9 (7.20%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.60%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Police
7 4 (3.20%) Retail
8 2 (1.60%) Law
8 2 (1.60%) Legal
8 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.80%) Banking
9 1 (0.80%) Games
9 1 (0.80%) Hungarian Language
9 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.40%) scikit-learn
2 12 (9.60%) Pandas
2 12 (9.60%) TensorFlow
3 8 (6.40%) PySpark
4 6 (4.80%) Plotly
4 6 (4.80%) PyTorch
5 5 (4.00%) Matplotlib
6 4 (3.20%) NumPy
7 3 (2.40%) Flask
7 3 (2.40%) ggplot2
7 3 (2.40%) Shiny
7 3 (2.40%) XGBoost
8 2 (1.60%) JSON
8 2 (1.60%) REST
8 2 (1.60%) Swagger
8 2 (1.60%) YAML
9 1 (0.80%) LightGBM
9 1 (0.80%) SciPy
9 1 (0.80%) Seaborn
9 1 (0.80%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 57 (45.60%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.40%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (5.60%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.40%) Social Media
6 2 (1.60%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.80%) FMCG
7 1 (0.80%) Life Science
7 1 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.80%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (99.20%) Data Science
2 68 (54.40%) Machine Learning
3 59 (47.20%) Visualisation
4 49 (39.20%) Data Analysis
5 36 (28.80%) Data Visualisation
5 36 (28.80%) Statistics
6 35 (28.00%) Mathematics
7 34 (27.20%) Business Intelligence
8 31 (24.80%) Analytics
8 31 (24.80%) Data Modelling
9 28 (22.40%) Predictive Modelling
10 25 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
11 22 (17.60%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (16.80%) Computer Science
13 18 (14.40%) Actionable Insight
14 17 (13.60%) Prototyping
15 16 (12.80%) Decision-Making
16 15 (12.00%) Agile
16 15 (12.00%) Customer Service
17 13 (10.40%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 112 (89.60%) Python
2 54 (43.20%) SQL
3 38 (30.40%) R
4 4 (3.20%) MATLAB
5 2 (1.60%) Bash
5 2 (1.60%) C#
5 2 (1.60%) C++
6 1 (0.80%) Scala
6 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (25.60%) Degree
2 22 (17.60%) Security Cleared
3 17 (13.60%) SC Cleared
4 14 (11.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (7.20%) PhD
6 8 (6.40%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.40%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (5.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (6.40%) Databricks
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.60%) Google
3 6 (4.80%) Alteryx
4 3 (2.40%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle
5 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.80%) Cloudera