Data Science Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Data Science Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Data Science Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £432, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - 177
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Science Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% - 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £306 - -
25th Percentile £348 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 - £563
75th Percentile £521 - £606
90th Percentile £567 - -
Central London median daily rate £432 - £563

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Data Science Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Data Science Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science Engineer in the City of London

Data Science Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Science Engineer in the City of London

Data Science Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Science Engineer in the City of London

Data Science Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Science Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Data Science Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Dagster
2 1 (50.00%) Luigi
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) GCP

Data Science Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Dagster
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft