Data Science Contracts in Leeds

Data Science
West Yorkshire > Leeds

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 78 74
Rank change year-on-year +21 -4 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Science 6 20 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.76% 1.52% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.67% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 27
10th Percentile £348 £538 £300
25th Percentile £381 £603 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +18.18% +76.00%
75th Percentile £461 £709 £625
90th Percentile £482 £750 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -33.33% +22.73% +76.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 685 1,196 1,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.49% 90.88% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 864 1,060
10th Percentile £300 £388 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 19
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.38 £17.95
25th Percentile £12.15 £16.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £12.30 £58.25 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -78.88% +158.37% +3.70%
75th Percentile £12.53 £70.00 £28.00
90th Percentile £14.82 - £28.85
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.53 £25.25 £18.00
% change year-on-year -50.38% +40.28% -22.40%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Leeds

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in Leeds

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in Leeds

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Hive
2 2 (33.33%) Big Data
2 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 2 (33.33%) Spark SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Data Extraction
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft