Data Science Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Science
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 127 128
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -15
Contract jobs citing Data Science 15 25 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.56% 0.86% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.94% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 29
10th Percentile £392 £460 £417
25th Percentile £413 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -1.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £750 £613 £600
90th Percentile £790 £695 £743
South East median daily rate £475 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -13.64% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £20.47 £24.79
% change year-on-year +168.69% -17.43% -10.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,313 2,661 3,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.02% 91.82% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,850 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £576
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 64 87
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.15
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.51%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire -17 9 £453 -17.73% 22
Buckinghamshire +27 5 £425 -17.87% 9
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 12
Data Science
South East

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (33.33%) Serverless
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Functions
3 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (13.33%) AWS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.67%) dbt
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (26.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (26.67%) Power BI
2 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) Impala
2 2 (13.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) ERwin
3 1 (6.67%) CMake
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) LabVIEW
3 1 (6.67%) MLflow
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Data Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Modeller
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Compliance Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Science Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Scientist
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Junior
4 1 (6.67%) Junior Data Scientist
4 1 (6.67%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (13.33%) NumPy
2 2 (13.33%) Pandas
2 2 (13.33%) PySpark
3 1 (6.67%) CNTK
3 1 (6.67%) OpenVINO
3 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (26.67%) Smart Meter
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Analytics
1 8 (53.33%) Data Modelling
2 6 (40.00%) ETL
3 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (26.67%) Dimensional Modelling
4 4 (26.67%) ETL Development
4 4 (26.67%) Impact Assessments
4 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 4 (26.67%) User Stories
5 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) C++
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) GDPR
2 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Ab Initio
2 2 (13.33%) Cloudera
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica