Data Science Contracts in the City of London

Data Science
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 80 121
Rank change year-on-year +17 +41 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Science 53 45 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.95% 2.11% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 2.31% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 30 24
10th Percentile £470 £424 £387
25th Percentile £522 £500 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £620 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.28% +1.22% +2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £751
90th Percentile £764 £763 £770
Central London median daily rate £556 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -11.00% +2.04% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £50.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £51.50
75th Percentile £63.75 - £52.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 - £51.50
% change year-on-year - - +1.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,687 1,944 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.88% 91.05% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,349 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
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 17 (32.08%) Apache Spark
2 7 (13.21%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (9.43%) Apache
4 1 (1.89%) Luigi
4 1 (1.89%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.89%) SPSS
2 1 (1.89%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 24 (45.28%) Azure
2 13 (24.53%) AWS
3 11 (20.75%) Power Platform
4 5 (9.43%) GCP
5 4 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.66%) GitHub
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.53%) Hadoop
2 9 (16.98%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (16.98%) Power BI
3 8 (15.09%) Apache Hive
3 8 (15.09%) Big Data
4 6 (11.32%) Tableau
5 5 (9.43%) Data Lake
5 5 (9.43%) Data Mining
5 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
5 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
5 5 (9.43%) SQL Server
6 4 (7.55%) Metadata
6 4 (7.55%) MongoDB
7 3 (5.66%) DB2
7 3 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (5.66%) MySQL
8 2 (3.77%) Spark SQL
9 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.89%) Looker
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.77%) MLflow
3 1 (1.89%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (52.83%) Finance
2 25 (47.17%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (41.51%) Social Skills
4 11 (20.75%) Banking
5 8 (15.09%) Police
6 6 (11.32%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (9.43%) Financial Institution
7 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
8 4 (7.55%) Retail
9 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
10 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.89%) Advertising
11 1 (1.89%) Back Office
11 1 (1.89%) Games
11 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) Data Engineer
1 15 (28.30%) Data Scientist
2 5 (9.43%) Developer
2 5 (9.43%) Senior
2 5 (9.43%) Senior Data Scientist
3 4 (7.55%) Analyst
3 4 (7.55%) Architect
3 4 (7.55%) Gen AI Specialist
3 4 (7.55%) Lead
3 4 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.66%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) Lead Data Scientist
4 3 (5.66%) Python Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) User Experience Researcher
5 2 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 2 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (3.77%) Data Analyst
5 2 (3.77%) Data Science Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Senior User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) TensorFlow
2 10 (18.87%) PySpark
3 7 (13.21%) Kafka
4 6 (11.32%) Pandas
5 5 (9.43%) scikit-learn
6 4 (7.55%) RESTful
7 3 (5.66%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (5.66%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (5.66%) React
7 3 (5.66%) Spring
7 3 (5.66%) Web Services
8 2 (3.77%) CSS
8 2 (3.77%) HTML
8 2 (3.77%) Middleware
8 2 (3.77%) NumPy
9 1 (1.89%) OAuth
9 1 (1.89%) OpenID
9 1 (1.89%) REST
9 1 (1.89%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Algorithms
2 7 (13.21%) Credit Risk
3 6 (11.32%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.66%) Fixed Income
5 3 (5.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.77%) Reinsurance
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.89%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.89%) Multi-touch
7 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.89%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Linux
2 3 (5.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.94%) Machine Learning
2 24 (45.28%) Analytics
3 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (30.19%) Agile
4 16 (30.19%) Artificial Intelligence
4 16 (30.19%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (28.30%) Actionable Insight
6 14 (26.42%) Computer Science
6 14 (26.42%) Data Engineering
6 14 (26.42%) Decision-Making
7 13 (24.53%) Visualisation
8 12 (22.64%) Mathematics
9 11 (20.75%) Data Visualisation
9 11 (20.75%) DevOps
9 11 (20.75%) Statistics
10 10 (18.87%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (18.87%) Data Analytics
10 10 (18.87%) Data Management
10 10 (18.87%) Data Modelling
10 10 (18.87%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (71.70%) Python
2 31 (58.49%) SQL
3 7 (13.21%) R
4 5 (9.43%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.55%) Java
5 4 (7.55%) Scala
6 3 (5.66%) Perl
6 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.66%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.89%) Ada
7 1 (1.89%) C++
7 1 (1.89%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 16 (30.19%) Degree
2 8 (15.09%) Master's Degree
3 7 (13.21%) PhD
4 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
5 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.89%) PMP
6 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.66%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.77%) NIST
4 1 (1.89%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.66%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (5.66%) Kibana
2 3 (5.66%) logstash
2 3 (5.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Databricks
2 4 (7.55%) Oracle
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.66%) Solace
3 3 (5.66%) Sybase
4 2 (3.77%) Foundry
4 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.77%) Palantir
5 1 (1.89%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.89%) Confluent
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) MicroStrategy