Data Scientist Contracts in London

Data Scientist
England > London

The median Data Scientist daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 430 455
Rank change year-on-year +129 +25 -139
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 94 58 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.22% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.23% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 42 108
10th Percentile £373 £380 £413
25th Percentile £477 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -7.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £629 £644 £625
90th Percentile £723 £699 £658
England median daily rate £550 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile - - £35.88
25th Percentile £41.25 - £43.69
Median hourly rate £43.75 - £54.88
75th Percentile £48.75 - £64.00
90th Percentile £51.00 - £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £19.99 £53.50
% change year-on-year +112.66% -62.64% +21.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,469 25,124 36,818
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.22% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,901 18,241 26,939
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 285 443
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.30
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in London

Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Scientist in London

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Scientist in London

Data Scientist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Scientist in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Scientist in London

Data Scientist
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +39 7 £650 +36.84% 4
South London - 2 - -
West London - 2 £525 - 4
Data Scientist
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 London region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 93 (98.94%) Data Science
2 84 (89.36%) Python
3 51 (54.26%) Machine Learning
4 47 (50.00%) SQL
5 42 (44.68%) Visualisation
6 38 (40.43%) Algorithms
6 38 (40.43%) Data Analysis
7 34 (36.17%) Analytical Skills
8 26 (27.66%) R
8 26 (27.66%) Data Visualisation
9 25 (26.60%) Statistics
9 25 (26.60%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (26.60%) Power Platform
9 25 (26.60%) Power BI
10 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
10 24 (25.53%) Data Modelling
10 24 (25.53%) Mathematics
11 23 (24.47%) Tableau
12 22 (23.40%) Analytics
12 22 (23.40%) Degree
13 21 (22.34%) Artificial Intelligence
14 19 (20.21%) Finance
15 18 (19.15%) Data Pipeline
16 17 (18.09%) scikit-learn
17 16 (17.02%) Predictive Modelling
17 16 (17.02%) Computer Science
18 15 (15.96%) Big Data
19 12 (12.77%) BusinessObjects
19 12 (12.77%) Natural Language Processing
20 11 (11.70%) Hadoop

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (6.38%) Jupyter
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.13%) SAS
4 1 (1.06%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 25 (26.60%) Power Platform
2 11 (11.70%) Azure
3 10 (10.64%) GCP
4 3 (3.19%) AWS
5 2 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (2.13%) Dagster
5 2 (2.13%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.13%) Vertex AI
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.06%) dbt
6 1 (1.06%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (26.60%) Power BI
2 23 (24.47%) Tableau
3 15 (15.96%) Big Data
4 12 (12.77%) BusinessObjects
5 11 (11.70%) Hadoop
6 7 (7.45%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.19%) Data Mining
7 3 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.06%) Looker
8 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Git
2 2 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 34 (36.17%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 19 (20.21%) Finance
4 7 (7.45%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.38%) Retail
6 5 (5.32%) Marketing
7 3 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Czech Language
8 2 (2.13%) Law
8 2 (2.13%) Legal
8 2 (2.13%) Police
9 1 (1.06%) Advertising
9 1 (1.06%) Games
9 1 (1.06%) Hungarian Language
9 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.09%) scikit-learn
2 10 (10.64%) Pandas
2 10 (10.64%) TensorFlow
3 5 (5.32%) PySpark
3 5 (5.32%) PyTorch
4 4 (4.26%) Matplotlib
4 4 (4.26%) Plotly
4 4 (4.26%) XGBoost
5 3 (3.19%) ggplot2
5 3 (3.19%) NumPy
5 3 (3.19%) Shiny
6 2 (2.13%) Flask
7 1 (1.06%) ADO
7 1 (1.06%) SciPy
7 1 (1.06%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 38 (40.43%) Algorithms
2 8 (8.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.19%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.19%) Social Media
5 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.06%) FMCG
6 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (98.94%) Data Science
2 51 (54.26%) Machine Learning
3 42 (44.68%) Visualisation
4 38 (40.43%) Data Analysis
5 26 (27.66%) Data Visualisation
6 25 (26.60%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (26.60%) Statistics
7 24 (25.53%) Data Modelling
7 24 (25.53%) Mathematics
8 22 (23.40%) Analytics
9 21 (22.34%) Artificial Intelligence
10 18 (19.15%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (17.02%) Computer Science
11 16 (17.02%) Predictive Modelling
12 12 (12.77%) Natural Language Processing
13 11 (11.70%) Exploratory Data Analysis
14 10 (10.64%) Actionable Insight
14 10 (10.64%) Deep Learning
14 10 (10.64%) Statistical Modelling
15 9 (9.57%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 84 (89.36%) Python
2 47 (50.00%) SQL
3 26 (27.66%) R
4 2 (2.13%) Bash
5 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (23.40%) Degree
2 11 (11.70%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (8.51%) PhD
5 7 (7.45%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.38%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.13%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.06%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (6.38%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (6.38%) Alteryx
1 6 (6.38%) Databricks
2 4 (4.26%) Google
2 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.13%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.06%) Adobe
4 1 (1.06%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle