Data Science Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Data Science
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Data Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 35 41
Rank change year-on-year -39 +6 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Science 5 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.56% 1.94% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 2.09% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £365 £408 -
25th Percentile £444 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% - -17.87%
75th Percentile £625 £438 £438
90th Percentile - - £625
South East median daily rate £600 £464 £475
% change year-on-year +29.38% -2.37% -13.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 713 287 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 79.49% 92.88% 82.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 165 244
10th Percentile £314 £286 £252
25th Percentile £431 £363 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £456
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -1.37% -8.75%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.39% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 45 17
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile £15.05 £14.20 £22.50
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -44.55% +83.52%
75th Percentile £18.32 £25.15 £30.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £42.31 £36.30
South East median hourly rate £57.25 £22.07 £55.04
% change year-on-year +159.40% -59.90% +10.08%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Buckinghamshire

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 26 July 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -34 4 £600 +41.18% 4
Data Science
South East

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 2 (40.00%) Figma
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Automotive
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) PySpark
3 1 (20.00%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Life Science
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) LLM
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Text Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Economics
4 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Time Management
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Go
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAI