Data Science Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Science
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 245 223
Rank change year-on-year +14 -22 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Science 176 192 358
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.83% 0.85% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.95% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 132 245
10th Percentile £325 £413 £400
25th Percentile £390 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -1.79% +9.54%
75th Percentile £585 £650 £650
90th Percentile £749 £750 £736
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% +8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 7
10th Percentile £15.75 - £19.91
25th Percentile £20.12 £19.00 £30.96
Median hourly rate £21.10 £22.16 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -47.24% +68.00%
75th Percentile £27.63 £43.99 -
90th Percentile £58.30 £57.06 £47.70
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £29.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -24.14% -30.95% +31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +24 54 £513 -17.96% 84
South East +1 42 £475 -9.52% 67
Yorkshire +12 29 £538 -14.00% 26
Midlands +10 26 £450 -18.18% 34
North West +23 24 £419 -27.17% 48
East of England +15 22 £550 +22.22% 23
West Midlands +14 20 £488 -9.30% 23
South West -7 16 £525 +0.72% 35
Wales +28 11 £396 -31.13% 15
Scotland +39 8 £488 -7.14% 14
East Midlands +4 6 £375 -37.50% 11
North East +6 1 - - 12
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 5
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 12 (6.82%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.11%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.98%) Apache
4 3 (1.70%) SAS
5 2 (1.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.70%) SPSS
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.57%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (23.30%) Azure
2 35 (19.89%) Power Platform
3 23 (13.07%) AWS
4 19 (10.80%) GCP
5 11 (6.25%) Serverless
6 9 (5.11%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.98%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.41%) Snowflake
10 5 (2.84%) GitHub
11 4 (2.27%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.27%) dbt
11 4 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.70%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 3 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (1.14%) Amazon Neptune
13 2 (1.14%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (1.14%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.98%) LAN
1 7 (3.98%) WAN
2 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.89%) Power BI
2 19 (10.80%) Big Data
2 19 (10.80%) Data Lake
2 19 (10.80%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (9.66%) Relational Database
4 16 (9.09%) Qlik Sense
5 13 (7.39%) MySQL
6 10 (5.68%) Data Mining
6 10 (5.68%) Tableau
7 8 (4.55%) Hadoop
7 8 (4.55%) Metadata
8 7 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (3.98%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.84%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.27%) Apache Hive
10 4 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (1.70%) JIRA
3 2 (1.14%) ERwin
3 2 (1.14%) kappa
4 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.57%) CMake
4 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.57%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.57%) MLflow
4 1 (0.57%) RStudio
4 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 46 (26.14%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (17.61%) Finance
4 17 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.39%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (6.25%) Banking
7 10 (5.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (5.11%) Marketing
8 9 (5.11%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (4.55%) Retail
10 6 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.70%) Legal
11 3 (1.70%) Publishing
12 2 (1.14%) Law
12 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.57%) Automotive
13 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 45 (25.57%) Data Scientist
2 27 (15.34%) Analyst
3 19 (10.80%) Architect
4 18 (10.23%) Data Analyst
5 17 (9.66%) Data Engineer
6 12 (6.82%) Data Manager
6 12 (6.82%) Senior
7 9 (5.11%) Developer
8 8 (4.55%) Technical Architect
9 7 (3.98%) Azure Architect
9 7 (3.98%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (3.41%) Data Modeller
10 6 (3.41%) User Researcher
11 5 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.84%) SQL Analyst
12 4 (2.27%) Analytics Manager
12 4 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (2.27%) Data Science Manager
12 4 (2.27%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.95%) AngularJS
1 14 (7.95%) PySpark
2 13 (7.39%) CSS
2 13 (7.39%) HTML
3 7 (3.98%) Middleware
3 7 (3.98%) PyTorch
4 6 (3.41%) Kafka
4 6 (3.41%) TensorFlow
5 5 (2.84%) NumPy
5 5 (2.84%) Pandas
5 5 (2.84%) scikit-learn
5 5 (2.84%) XML
6 3 (1.70%) Google JAX
6 3 (1.70%) Snowpark
7 2 (1.14%) .NET
7 2 (1.14%) Node.js
7 2 (1.14%) React
8 1 (0.57%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.57%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.52%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.98%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.41%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.84%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.84%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.27%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.27%) NHS
7 4 (2.27%) Smart Meter
8 3 (1.70%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.70%) FMCG
8 3 (1.70%) Life Science
8 3 (1.70%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.14%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.66%) Linux
2 15 (8.52%) Windows
3 4 (2.27%) Unix
4 1 (0.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (35.80%) Analytics
2 57 (32.39%) Data Modelling
3 49 (27.84%) Computer Science
3 49 (27.84%) Machine Learning
4 43 (24.43%) Agile
5 40 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (21.02%) Visualisation
7 36 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
7 36 (20.45%) Data Analysis
8 28 (15.91%) Artificial Intelligence
9 25 (14.20%) DevOps
10 24 (13.64%) Decision-Making
11 22 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
11 22 (12.50%) Data Engineering
11 22 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
12 21 (11.93%) ITIL
12 21 (11.93%) Problem Management
13 20 (11.36%) ETL
14 19 (10.80%) Service Management
14 19 (10.80%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 72 (40.91%) Python
2 68 (38.64%) SQL
3 21 (11.93%) R
4 19 (10.80%) Java
5 15 (8.52%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.55%) Scala
7 5 (2.84%) C++
8 4 (2.27%) C#
9 3 (1.70%) C
9 3 (1.70%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.57%) Bash
11 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.57%) Ruby
11 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (34.09%) Degree
2 37 (21.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (13.64%) Master's Degree
4 17 (9.66%) Security Cleared
5 13 (7.39%) PMI Certification
5 13 (7.39%) PMP
6 9 (5.11%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.41%) PhD
8 3 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.57%) CBAP
10 1 (0.57%) IIBA
10 1 (0.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.23%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.82%) GDPR
3 9 (5.11%) QA
4 6 (3.41%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.70%) NIST
6 2 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.57%) GxP
7 1 (0.57%) PMO
7 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (5.68%) Docker
2 4 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.41%) Terraform
3 3 (1.70%) SysTrack
4 1 (0.57%) Kibana
4 1 (0.57%) logstash
4 1 (0.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 20 (11.36%) ServiceNow
2 18 (10.23%) Databricks
3 15 (8.52%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.68%) Google
5 4 (2.27%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.27%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.70%) Citrix
6 3 (1.70%) New Relic
6 3 (1.70%) SAP
7 2 (1.14%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.14%) Splunk
7 2 (1.14%) Teradata
8 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.57%) Foundry
8 1 (0.57%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.57%) Informatica
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle
8 1 (0.57%) Palantir
8 1 (0.57%) Salesforce