Data Science Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Science
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 238 229
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Science 152 230 334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.98% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.09% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 143 216
10th Percentile £325 £403 £390
25th Percentile £385 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £545 £549
Median % change year-on-year -10.32% -0.75% +9.83%
75th Percentile £596 £634 £643
90th Percentile £744 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £563 £590
% change year-on-year -4.44% -4.66% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 10
10th Percentile £15.69 £18.95 £19.91
25th Percentile £20.47 £19.00 £24.84
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.16 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% -47.24% +71.43%
75th Percentile £33.25 £44.25 -
90th Percentile £61.60 £56.62 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -5.71% -16.67% +55.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding 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
North of England +15 40 £488 -20.41% 74
South East -4 34 £475 -13.64% 67
Midlands +11 27 £488 -9.72% 35
East of England +16 26 £538 +19.44% 32
North West +31 25 £488 -25.00% 40
West Midlands -4 20 £519 -3.58% 21
Yorkshire +5 14 £520 -20.00% 27
South West -6 14 £525 - 47
Wales +25 9 £412 -28.35% 8
Scotland +29 7 £488 -2.50% 18
East Midlands +24 7 £375 -37.50% 14
North East +13 1 - - 7
Data Science
UK

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 10 (6.58%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.95%) Apache
4 3 (1.97%) SAS
5 1 (0.66%) Confluence
5 1 (0.66%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.97%) SPSS
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) SAP BPC
1 2 (1.32%) SAP MDG
1 2 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (19.08%) Azure
2 23 (15.13%) Power Platform
3 15 (9.87%) AWS
3 15 (9.87%) GCP
4 11 (7.24%) Serverless
5 8 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (4.61%) Azure Functions
7 5 (3.29%) GitHub
7 5 (3.29%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.32%) Amazon Neptune
10 2 (1.32%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (1.32%) dbt
10 2 (1.32%) Figma
10 2 (1.32%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.63%) LAN
1 4 (2.63%) WAN
2 1 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.13%) Power BI
2 19 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (11.84%) Data Lake
4 16 (10.53%) Big Data
5 10 (6.58%) Data Mining
5 10 (6.58%) Tableau
6 8 (5.26%) Metadata
7 6 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.95%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.95%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.95%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.29%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.63%) MySQL
9 4 (2.63%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.97%) Looker
10 3 (1.97%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (3.95%) Git
2 2 (1.32%) ERwin
2 2 (1.32%) kappa
2 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.66%) CMake
3 1 (0.66%) JIRA
3 1 (0.66%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.66%) MLflow
General
1 44 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 42 (27.63%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (17.11%) Finance
4 17 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.24%) Pharmaceutical
6 10 (6.58%) Banking
6 10 (6.58%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (6.58%) Marketing
7 9 (5.92%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (5.26%) Retail
9 7 (4.61%) Telecoms
10 5 (3.29%) Legal
11 4 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.97%) Publishing
13 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.66%) Automotive
13 1 (0.66%) Back Office
13 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.66%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 34 (22.37%) Data Scientist
2 25 (16.45%) Analyst
3 18 (11.84%) Data Engineer
4 16 (10.53%) Data Analyst
5 15 (9.87%) Senior
6 13 (8.55%) Architect
6 13 (8.55%) Data Manager
7 9 (5.92%) Developer
8 7 (4.61%) User Researcher
9 6 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.29%) Data Modeller
10 5 (3.29%) SQL Analyst
10 5 (3.29%) Technical Architect
11 4 (2.63%) Analytics Manager
11 4 (2.63%) Azure Architect
11 4 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (2.63%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (2.63%) Data Science Manager
11 4 (2.63%) Senior Data Scientist
11 4 (2.63%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.87%) PySpark
2 5 (3.29%) NumPy
2 5 (3.29%) Pandas
2 5 (3.29%) XML
3 4 (2.63%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.63%) CSS
3 4 (2.63%) HTML
3 4 (2.63%) Kafka
3 4 (2.63%) Middleware
3 4 (2.63%) PyTorch
3 4 (2.63%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.97%) REST
5 2 (1.32%) .NET
5 2 (1.32%) Flask
5 2 (1.32%) JSON
5 2 (1.32%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.32%) Swagger
5 2 (1.32%) YAML
6 1 (0.66%) React
6 1 (0.66%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.21%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.92%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.95%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.29%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.63%) Life Science
7 4 (2.63%) NHS
7 4 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.63%) Smart Meter
8 3 (1.97%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.97%) FMCG
9 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.32%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.89%) Windows
2 9 (5.92%) Linux
3 4 (2.63%) Unix
4 1 (0.66%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (40.13%) Analytics
2 43 (28.29%) Data Modelling
3 40 (26.32%) Agile
4 38 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 37 (24.34%) Computer Science
6 35 (23.03%) Visualisation
7 33 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (21.05%) Data Analysis
9 24 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
9 24 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (15.13%) Data Engineering
11 21 (13.82%) Data Visualisation
12 20 (13.16%) Actionable Insight
12 20 (13.16%) Decision-Making
13 19 (12.50%) Roadmaps
13 19 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (11.84%) ETL
14 18 (11.84%) Mentoring
15 17 (11.18%) DevOps
15 17 (11.18%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 65 (42.76%) Python
2 53 (34.87%) SQL
3 15 (9.87%) Java
4 13 (8.55%) R
5 7 (4.61%) Scala
6 5 (3.29%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.63%) C#
8 3 (1.97%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.32%) C++
10 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.66%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (32.89%) Degree
2 27 (17.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 13 (8.55%) Master's Degree
5 9 (5.92%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.63%) PhD
7 3 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.97%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.97%) PMP
8 1 (0.66%) CBAP
8 1 (0.66%) HND
8 1 (0.66%) IIBA
8 1 (0.66%) ISEB
8 1 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.84%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.92%) GDPR
3 7 (4.61%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (3.95%) QA
5 2 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.32%) GxP
5 2 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.66%) PMO
6 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (1.97%) Docker
3 2 (1.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (3.95%) Terraform
2 4 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.97%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 14 (9.21%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.89%) Databricks
3 9 (5.92%) Google
4 8 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.63%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.63%) SAP
6 3 (1.97%) Citrix
6 3 (1.97%) New Relic
6 3 (1.97%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.32%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.32%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.32%) Splunk
7 2 (1.32%) Teradata
8 1 (0.66%) Informatica
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle