Data Science Contracts in Cambridge

Data Science
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 28 29
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Science 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.63% 2.06% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 2.26% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £379 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.91% +22.22% +8.43%
75th Percentile £436 £613 £469
90th Percentile - £635 £480
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £408 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -25.91% +22.22% +8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.67 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £27.67 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 177 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 88.60% 91.24% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 99 177
10th Percentile £296 £235 £185
25th Percentile £411 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 28 16
10th Percentile £16.28 £20.40 £17.12
25th Percentile £17.46 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.19% +156.10% -64.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Cambridge

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in Cambridge

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in Cambridge

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (66.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
1 2 (66.67%) Text Mining
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Information Scientist
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Benchmarking
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Economics
2 2 (66.67%) Health Informatics
2 2 (66.67%) Informatics
2 2 (66.67%) Ontologies
2 2 (66.67%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) MATLAB
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP