Senior Data Scientist Contract Job Trends in Chester

Senior Data Scientist
Cheshire > Chester

The median Senior Data Scientist daily rate in Chester is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Chester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Chester. 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 Chester with a recognized job title 159 72 68
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 79.90% 90.00% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 26 21
10th Percentile £163 £190 £284
25th Percentile £405 £325 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £577
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.35% +9.90%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £738
90th Percentile £638 £788 -
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £430 £470
% change year-on-year +10.47% -8.51% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 11
10th Percentile £29.99 £22.67 £16.00
25th Percentile £30.47 £30.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.99 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.17% -11.46% -
75th Percentile £43.00 - £41.25
90th Percentile £68.73 £37.19 £47.50
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.82 £29.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.40% -15.00% +14.60%

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester

For the 6 months to 12 September 2026, Senior Data Scientist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Chester region featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LightGBM
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) XGBoost

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LightGBM
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
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