Data Science Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Science
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 91 146
Rank change year-on-year +4 +55 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Science 22 49 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.14% 2.06% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 2.32% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 23
10th Percentile £331 £449 £488
25th Percentile £372 £494 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £540 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% -13.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £694 £548 £781
90th Percentile £750 £613 £1,100
England median daily rate £542 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -1.55% -6.78% +7.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,114 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.67% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,452 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Birmingham +17 16 £488 -11.36% 9
Warwickshire 0 3 £525 -2.33% 1
Coventry +8 1 £550 +0.92% 2
Worcestershire - 1 £590 -
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Functions
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) LAN
1 2 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (9.09%) Big Data
3 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Tableau
4 1 (4.55%) Flink
4 1 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (4.55%) GIS
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Power Query
4 1 (4.55%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Retail
4 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) German Language
6 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (4.55%) Multimedia
6 1 (4.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (4.55%) GIS Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Machine Learning Scientist
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) SCADA Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Kafka
1 2 (9.09%) Middleware
1 2 (9.09%) PySpark
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) Dask
2 1 (4.55%) Keras
2 1 (4.55%) NumPy
2 1 (4.55%) Pandas
2 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
2 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) FMCG
2 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) SCADA
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Analytics
2 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (31.82%) Computer Science
3 5 (22.73%) Agile
3 5 (22.73%) DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 4 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Data Reconciliation
5 3 (13.64%) Database Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Database Security
5 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
5 3 (13.64%) ITIL
5 3 (13.64%) Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Problem Management
5 3 (13.64%) RBAC
5 3 (13.64%) Runbook
5 3 (13.64%) Statistics
5 3 (13.64%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) Scala
4 1 (4.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) C++
4 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.55%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 6 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) PhD
4 1 (4.55%) HND
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) SysTrack
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Citrix
2 3 (13.64%) New Relic
2 3 (13.64%) OpenAI
3 2 (9.09%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) Teradata