Data Science Contracts in West London

Data Science
London > West London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 59 39
Rank change year-on-year +16 -20 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Science 3 4 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 0.84% 0.70% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.75% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 22
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile £513 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -33.33% -3.77%
75th Percentile £563 - £628
90th Percentile £578 - £671
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
London median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £44.75
% change year-on-year -17.48% +15.08% -9.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 314 533 562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 87.71% 93.51% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 389 402
10th Percentile £225 £350 £238
25th Percentile £325 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £510
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +10.29% -0.97%
75th Percentile £585 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 51 27
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.00 £15.65
25th Percentile £17.18 £47.88 £17.27
Median hourly rate £30.16 £65.00 £21.93
Median % change year-on-year -53.60% +196.40% -25.03%
75th Percentile £56.88 £75.00 £41.51
90th Percentile £65.00 £90.00 £43.61
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in West London

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in West London

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in West London

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Looker
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL