Data Science Contracts in Central London

Data Science
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 121 119
Rank change year-on-year +27 -2 -30
Contract jobs citing Data Science 37 53 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.52% 1.38% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.51% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 29 55
10th Percentile £463 £403 £433
25th Percentile £505 £456 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £738
90th Percentile £753 £761 £813
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £41.75
25th Percentile - £50.25 £48.38
Median hourly rate - £51.50 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.65% -
75th Percentile - £52.75 £62.31
90th Percentile - - £64.13
London median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £44.75
% change year-on-year -17.48% +15.08% -9.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,207 3,501 4,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.64% 91.34% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,572 2,371 3,191
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 43
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £29.11 £57.50 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -26.28% +6.12% +12.47%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 +28 35 £625 +4.17% 32
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 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) Power Platform
2 5 (13.51%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 3 (8.11%) AWS
4 3 (8.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (8.11%) Vertex AI
4 3 (8.11%) WhatsApp
5 2 (5.41%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.70%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.70%) dbt
6 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.70%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) Power BI
2 8 (21.62%) Tableau
3 4 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (8.11%) Big Data
4 3 (8.11%) BigQuery
4 3 (8.11%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.41%) Looker
5 2 (5.41%) Presto
6 1 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.70%) Metadata
6 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
2 2 (5.41%) Selenium
3 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 11 (29.73%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Marketing
4 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Data Scientist
2 7 (18.92%) Analyst
2 7 (18.92%) Data Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Asset Management Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Programme Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) SQL Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) SQL Data Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Business Change Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Business Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Change Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Power BI Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) PySpark
2 2 (5.41%) Kafka
3 1 (2.70%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.70%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.41%) Hedge funds
3 2 (5.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.70%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.70%) CBDC
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) IoT
4 1 (2.70%) Life Science
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Analytics
2 14 (37.84%) Machine Learning
3 12 (32.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 10 (27.03%) Agile
4 10 (27.03%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (24.32%) Data Modelling
5 9 (24.32%) Visualisation
6 8 (21.62%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (18.92%) Change Management
7 7 (18.92%) Decision-Making
7 7 (18.92%) Mathematics
8 6 (16.22%) Computer Science
8 6 (16.22%) Data Analysis
8 6 (16.22%) ETL
9 5 (13.51%) Business Case
9 5 (13.51%) Data Management
9 5 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (13.51%) Digital Strategy
9 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) Python
1 16 (43.24%) SQL
2 4 (10.81%) R
3 3 (8.11%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.41%) MATLAB
4 2 (5.41%) Scala
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) C++
5 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Degree
2 4 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (10.81%) PMI Certification
2 4 (10.81%) PMP
2 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) PMO
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Alteryx
1 4 (10.81%) Databricks
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Foundry
2 2 (5.41%) Google
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle
2 2 (5.41%) Palantir
2 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.41%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) SnapLogic