Data Science Contracts in Central London

Data Science
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 75 92 118
Rank change year-on-year +17 +26 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Science 54 41 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.70% 1.68% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 1.85% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 29 29
10th Percentile £448 £453 £412
25th Percentile £513 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £743 £755
London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £51.50
75th Percentile - - £52.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £37.25 £42.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -12.35% -17.48% +37.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in Central London

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +20 51 £600 +6.67% 42
West End of London - 2 £520 - 12
City of Westminster - 2 £520 - 1
Data Science
London

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 15 (27.78%) Apache Spark
2 5 (9.26%) Apache
2 5 (9.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.85%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.85%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.63%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) AWS
3 10 (18.52%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.96%) GCP
5 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (7.41%) Serverless
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (5.56%) AWS CodeCommit
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud9 IDE
6 3 (5.56%) GitHub
6 3 (5.56%) Textract
7 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) Hadoop
2 8 (14.81%) Big Data
2 8 (14.81%) Power BI
3 5 (9.26%) Apache Hive
3 5 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.26%) NoSQL
3 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.26%) Tableau
4 4 (7.41%) Data Mining
4 4 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.56%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.56%) DB2
5 3 (5.56%) MySQL
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.70%) Metadata
7 1 (1.85%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Git
1 4 (7.41%) JIRA
2 2 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 23 (42.59%) Finance
2 20 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (25.93%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.96%) Banking
4 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.26%) Financial Institution
5 5 (9.26%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Retail
6 4 (7.41%) Marketing
6 4 (7.41%) Police
7 2 (3.70%) Military
8 1 (1.85%) Advertising
8 1 (1.85%) Back Office
8 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.85%) Legal
8 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (37.04%) Data Scientist
2 8 (14.81%) Data Engineer
3 5 (9.26%) Analyst
3 5 (9.26%) Developer
3 5 (9.26%) Senior
4 4 (7.41%) Architect
4 4 (7.41%) Lead
4 4 (7.41%) Senior Data Scientist
4 4 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Gen AI Specialist
5 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Data Science Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.70%) Lead Data Scientist
6 2 (3.70%) Senior User Experience Researcher
6 2 (3.70%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.37%) TensorFlow
2 7 (12.96%) PySpark
3 6 (11.11%) Pandas
4 5 (9.26%) Kafka
4 5 (9.26%) RESTful
4 5 (9.26%) scikit-learn
5 4 (7.41%) Hugging Face
5 4 (7.41%) LangChain
5 4 (7.41%) NumPy
5 4 (7.41%) React
6 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.56%) OpenCV
6 3 (5.56%) pydantic
6 3 (5.56%) PyTorch
6 3 (5.56%) SciPy
6 3 (5.56%) Spring
6 3 (5.56%) Web Services
7 2 (3.70%) Middleware
8 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.11%) Credit Risk
3 3 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.70%) Multi-touch
4 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.70%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (1.85%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (42.59%) Machine Learning
2 22 (40.74%) Artificial Intelligence
3 21 (38.89%) Analytics
4 19 (35.19%) Agile
5 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (27.78%) Visualisation
6 13 (24.07%) Data Engineering
6 13 (24.07%) Data Visualisation
6 13 (24.07%) Decision-Making
6 13 (24.07%) LLM
7 12 (22.22%) Generative AI
8 11 (20.37%) Actionable Insight
8 11 (20.37%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (20.37%) DevOps
9 10 (18.52%) Statistics
10 9 (16.67%) Data Analysis
10 9 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (16.67%) Mathematics
10 9 (16.67%) Risk Management
11 8 (14.81%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (68.52%) Python
2 26 (48.15%) SQL
3 5 (9.26%) Java
4 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.41%) Scala
4 4 (7.41%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.56%) Perl
5 3 (5.56%) R
5 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.70%) C++
7 1 (1.85%) Ada
7 1 (1.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 6 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.26%) PhD
5 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.70%) GDPR
2 2 (3.70%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.85%) Ansible
3 1 (1.85%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Databricks
2 6 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.56%) Sybase
4 2 (3.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.85%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.85%) Confluent
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow