Data Scientist Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Scientist role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Scientist in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Scientist
Rank 369 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 8 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.037% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 19937 24898 29250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.14% 92.45% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13430 16056 18793
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 620 684
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Data Scientist
England

Data Scientist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Scientist across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Data Scientist Jobs Demand Trend

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Scientist across the London region.

London Data Scientist Daily Rate Trend

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Scientist across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Data Scientist Daily Rate Histogram

Data Scientist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Scientist within the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London - 3 £550 -
Data Scientist
England

Data Scientist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Data Scientist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Data Scientist in their job title.

1 13 (72.22%) Mathematics
1 13 (72.22%) Hadoop
1 13 (72.22%) Big Data
2 12 (66.67%) Apache Pig
2 12 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 12 (66.67%) Python
3 11 (61.11%) SQL
3 11 (61.11%) Java
3 11 (61.11%) Degree
3 11 (61.11%) Mahout
3 11 (61.11%) Apache Hive
3 11 (61.11%) R
4 10 (55.56%) MapReduce
4 10 (55.56%) Scala
4 10 (55.56%) Visualisation
4 10 (55.56%) Statistics
4 10 (55.56%) Data Mining
4 10 (55.56%) SAS
4 10 (55.56%) SPSS
5 9 (50.00%) C++
5 9 (50.00%) PhD
5 9 (50.00%) Data Analysis
5 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 9 (50.00%) Apache
5 9 (50.00%) Physics
5 9 (50.00%) HBase
5 9 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (38.89%) Predictive Modelling
6 7 (38.89%) Social Network
6 7 (38.89%) Neural Network

Data Scientist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Data Scientist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Data Scientist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (55.56%) MapReduce
2 2 (11.11%) ASP
3 1 (5.556%) Django
Application Platforms
1 12 (66.67%) Apache Pig
2 10 (55.56%) SAS
3 9 (50.00%) Apache
4 1 (5.556%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (5.556%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 10 (55.56%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (5.556%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (72.22%) Hadoop
1 13 (72.22%) Big Data
2 11 (61.11%) Mahout
2 11 (61.11%) Apache Hive
3 10 (55.56%) Data Mining
4 9 (50.00%) HBase
4 9 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.556%) MySQL
6 1 (5.556%) OLAP
6 1 (5.556%) RDBMS
6 1 (5.556%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) GitHub
General
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
1 1 (5.556%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Mathematics
2 12 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 10 (55.56%) Visualisation
3 10 (55.56%) Statistics
4 9 (50.00%) Physics
5 7 (38.89%) Social Network
5 7 (38.89%) Neural Network
6 6 (33.33%) Grid Computing
7 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
8 1 (5.556%) Economics
8 1 (5.556%) Open Source
8 1 (5.556%) Blog
8 1 (5.556%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) Predictive Modelling
2 7 (38.89%) Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 2 (11.11%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) Business Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) Scrum
4 1 (5.556%) TDD
4 1 (5.556%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.556%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 11 (61.11%) Java
2 11 (61.11%) R
3 10 (55.56%) Scala
4 9 (50.00%) C++
5 2 (11.11%) MATLAB
6 1 (5.556%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Degree
2 9 (50.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle
Data Scientist
London
Experience with some of the following; Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, HBase, Pig, Cassandra, NoSQL. Machine Learning exposure a big plus, especially Apache Mahout. BSc/MSc in Maths, Statistics, Computer...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £600.00 - £700.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Data Analytics - Data Scientist
London
Data Analytics - Data Scientist - Our client based in the centre of London are looking for a Business Intelligence resource to review their data domain and shape their product...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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