Senior Data Scientist Contracts in England

Senior Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Senior Data Scientist daily rate in England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 649 750
Rank change year-on-year +120 +101 -193
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 19 7 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.051% 0.014% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.015% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 28
10th Percentile £495 £505 £525
25th Percentile £534 £513 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £701 £613 £656
90th Percentile £775 £635 £763
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -3.23%

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 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £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 £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in England

Senior Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Scientist in England

Senior Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Scientist in England

Senior 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 Senior Data Scientist within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +122 16 £600 +14.29% 38
South West +23 1 £625 -3.85% 3
South East - 1 £698 - 11
Senior Data Scientist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Data Science
2 17 (89.47%) Python
3 13 (68.42%) Machine Learning
4 12 (63.16%) Algorithms
5 10 (52.63%) SQL
6 8 (42.11%) Analytics
7 7 (36.84%) Data Modelling
8 6 (31.58%) Data Analysis
8 6 (31.58%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (26.32%) Deep Learning
9 5 (26.32%) Natural Language Processing
9 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
9 5 (26.32%) E-Commerce
9 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
9 5 (26.32%) Jupyter
9 5 (26.32%) Actionable Insight
10 4 (21.05%) Git
10 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
10 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (21.05%) Retail
11 3 (15.79%) Pandas
11 3 (15.79%) Statistical Modelling
11 3 (15.79%) Anomaly Detection
11 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
11 3 (15.79%) scikit-learn
11 3 (15.79%) Software Architecture
11 3 (15.79%) Logistic Regression
11 3 (15.79%) Mathematics
11 3 (15.79%) R

Senior 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 (26.32%) Jupyter
2 2 (10.53%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
1 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (5.26%) dbt
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.26%) Looker
2 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Retail
4 3 (15.79%) Finance
5 2 (10.53%) Law
5 2 (10.53%) Legal
5 2 (10.53%) Marketing
5 2 (10.53%) Police
6 1 (5.26%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Matplotlib
1 3 (15.79%) Pandas
1 3 (15.79%) scikit-learn
1 3 (15.79%) XGBoost
2 1 (5.26%) LightGBM
2 1 (5.26%) PySpark
2 1 (5.26%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Algorithms
2 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (5.26%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Data Science
2 13 (68.42%) Machine Learning
3 8 (42.11%) Analytics
4 7 (36.84%) Data Modelling
5 6 (31.58%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (31.58%) Data Analysis
6 5 (26.32%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
6 5 (26.32%) Deep Learning
6 5 (26.32%) E-Commerce
6 5 (26.32%) Natural Language Processing
7 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
8 3 (15.79%) Anomaly Detection
8 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (15.79%) Logistic Regression
8 3 (15.79%) Mathematics
8 3 (15.79%) Software Architecture
8 3 (15.79%) Statistical Modelling
8 3 (15.79%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Master's Degree
2 2 (10.53%) PhD
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Databricks