Data Science Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Data Science
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Data Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Science 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 0.84% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £566 - -
25th Percentile £572 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £597 - -
90th Percentile £599 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £650 £400 £620
% change year-on-year +62.50% -35.48% +16.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

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 Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 114 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 80.06% 87.69% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 99 169
10th Percentile £500 £411 £406
25th Percentile £513 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +13.58%
75th Percentile £725 £621 £700
90th Percentile £738 £655 £825
Hampshire median daily rate £535 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -2.73% -3.93% +9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 15
10th Percentile £12.18 - £18.53
25th Percentile - £27.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% -41.05% +150.00%
75th Percentile - £28.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £17.37 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £21.36 £57.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -63.02% +21.58% +5.56%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Science relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Data Science job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Data Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Data Science

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Strategy
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) MLOps
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) UiPath