Data Science Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Science
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 75 83
Rank change year-on-year +17 +8 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Science 77 49 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.21% 2.86% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 3.05% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 36 30
10th Percentile £425 £450 £459
25th Percentile £466 £522 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% -
75th Percentile £611 £678 £694
90th Percentile £719 £769 £740
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £52.49 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% - -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -16.02% - -

All Process & 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 2,055 1,605 1,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.77% 93.70% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,385 1,021 1,375
10th Percentile £360 £355 £356
25th Percentile £450 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -2.30% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 16 13
10th Percentile £17.45 £19.25 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.75 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.38% +13.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £61.83 £76.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £28.79 £27.81
% change year-on-year -5.33% +3.51% -20.54%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Science relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Science job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Science

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 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Science.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Science

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.60%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (29.87%) Azure
2 18 (23.38%) AWS
3 16 (20.78%) Power Platform
4 15 (19.48%) GCP
5 9 (11.69%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.19%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (5.19%) GitHub
7 3 (3.90%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (3.90%) Prefect
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.60%) dbt
8 2 (2.60%) Fivetran
9 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.30%) IBM Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (24.68%) Tableau
2 14 (18.18%) Power BI
3 8 (10.39%) BigQuery
4 6 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.79%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.19%) Looker
5 4 (5.19%) Mixpanel
5 4 (5.19%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.19%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (3.90%) Db2
6 3 (3.90%) Metadata
6 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.60%) Big Data
7 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.60%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.30%) Redis
8 1 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Git
2 1 (1.30%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.30%) ERwin
2 1 (1.30%) MLflow
General
1 19 (24.68%) Finance
2 16 (20.78%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.49%) Banking
5 5 (6.49%) Marketing
6 3 (3.90%) Legal
6 3 (3.90%) Retail
7 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Aviation
8 1 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Military
8 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 20 (25.97%) Data Scientist
3 10 (12.99%) GCP Data Engineer
3 10 (12.99%) GCP Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Architect
5 6 (7.79%) Lead
6 5 (6.49%) Analyst
6 5 (6.49%) Technical Leader
7 4 (5.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Snowflake Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Product Manager
9 2 (2.60%) Business Data Analyst
9 2 (2.60%) Marketing Manager
9 2 (2.60%) Operations Manager
9 2 (2.60%) Principal Architect
9 2 (2.60%) Technical Architect
9 2 (2.60%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.69%) PyTorch
2 7 (9.09%) TensorFlow
3 6 (7.79%) PySpark
3 6 (7.79%) scikit-learn
4 5 (6.49%) LangChain
4 5 (6.49%) LangGraph
5 4 (5.19%) Hugging Face
6 3 (3.90%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.90%) Backbone.js
6 3 (3.90%) Bootstrap
6 3 (3.90%) Ember.js
6 3 (3.90%) jQuery
6 3 (3.90%) Keras
6 3 (3.90%) Pandas
6 3 (3.90%) React
7 2 (2.60%) Kafka
7 2 (2.60%) NumPy
8 1 (1.30%) GraphX
8 1 (1.30%) Seaborn
8 1 (1.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.79%) AI Agents
3 5 (6.49%) Algorithms
3 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.90%) Clustering
4 3 (3.90%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) LIMS
6 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.30%) NHS
6 1 (1.30%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Android
1 3 (3.90%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.90%) Linux
1 3 (3.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (59.74%) AI
1 46 (59.74%) Analytics
2 34 (44.16%) Machine Learning
3 29 (37.66%) Generative AI
4 23 (29.87%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (24.68%) LLM
6 16 (20.78%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
7 15 (19.48%) Data Engineering
8 14 (18.18%) Data Analytics
8 14 (18.18%) Data Modelling
9 13 (16.88%) Decision-Making
10 12 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (15.58%) Visualisation
11 11 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 11 (14.29%) Validation
12 10 (12.99%) MLOps
13 9 (11.69%) Data Governance
13 9 (11.69%) Fintech
14 8 (10.39%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (45.45%) Python
2 27 (35.06%) SQL
3 7 (9.09%) R
4 4 (5.19%) Java
5 2 (2.60%) Bicep
5 2 (2.60%) C#
5 2 (2.60%) Scala
6 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.79%) Degree
4 3 (3.90%) PhD
5 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.60%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.48%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.30%) GDPR
2 1 (1.30%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (6.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.60%) Terraform
3 1 (1.30%) Istio
3 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Google
3 4 (5.19%) Amplitude
3 4 (5.19%) Databricks
4 2 (2.60%) IBM
4 2 (2.60%) Informatica
4 2 (2.60%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle
5 1 (1.30%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.30%) Apple
5 1 (1.30%) Cognos
5 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.30%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.30%) Palantir
5 1 (1.30%) Sage
5 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.30%) SAP