Data Scientist Contracts in Bristol

Data Scientist
South West > Bristol

The median Data Scientist daily rate in Bristol is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 92 93
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.28% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.27% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £466 - £438
25th Percentile £491 £625 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +15.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £591 £675 £600
90th Percentile £619 - £623
South West median daily rate £538 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -1.60% -0.68% -17.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 1,007 1,093 1,311
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 90.18% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 786 901
10th Percentile £250 £293 £256
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £610 £631 £575
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 136 116
10th Percentile £36.25 £29.50 -
25th Percentile £45.00 £57.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.50 £42.29
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% +54.90% +5.71%
75th Percentile £72.81 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £67.63
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £64.57 £47.25
% change year-on-year -14.82% +36.66% +11.18%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in Bristol

Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Scientist in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Data Scientist in Bristol

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in Bristol over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Scientist in Bristol

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Data Scientist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) SQL

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL