Data Science Contracts in Yorkshire

Data Science
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 97 104
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Science 13 30 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.77% 1.30% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.43% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 31
10th Percentile £385 £520 £300
25th Percentile £400 £581 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +18.18% +76.00%
75th Percentile £560 £709 £625
90th Percentile £576 £720 £650
England median daily rate £542 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -1.55% -6.78% +7.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,459 2,094 2,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.38% 90.85% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 1,388 1,763
10th Percentile £265 £296 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 61 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.19 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £56.00 £27.50
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Yorkshire

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in Yorkshire

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Yorkshire

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in Yorkshire

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
West Yorkshire +13 7 £450 -33.33% 6
South Yorkshire +6 6 £557 -3.13% 6
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Data Mining
2 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Hive
3 2 (15.38%) Big Data
3 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
3 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
3 2 (15.38%) Spark SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Data Scientist
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Governance Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior User Researcher
3 1 (7.69%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (15.38%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Data Analysis
1 8 (61.54%) Data Modelling
2 7 (53.85%) Data Privacy
2 7 (53.85%) Machine Learning
3 6 (46.15%) Data Governance
3 6 (46.15%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (46.15%) Mentoring
3 6 (46.15%) Visualisation
4 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
4 5 (38.46%) ITIL
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (38.46%) Predictive Modelling
4 5 (38.46%) Problem Management
4 5 (38.46%) Service Delivery
4 5 (38.46%) Service Management
4 5 (38.46%) Statistical Analysis
4 5 (38.46%) Strategic Planning
5 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
1 2 (15.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft