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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 66 78
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Science 73 64 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.06% 3.42% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 3.63% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 48 36
10th Percentile £425 £479 £438
25th Percentile £516 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £577 £593
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% -2.70% -5.20%
75th Percentile £647 £669 £713
90th Percentile £775 £763 £763
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £52.49 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.64% - -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.64% - -

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 2,080 1,763 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.28% 94.13% 91.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 1,157 1,281
10th Percentile £377 £331 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £768 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £41.69 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.31 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.08 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -23.16% +11.24% -22.86%

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 4 August 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 4 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.74%) Apache
2 2 (2.74%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.66%) Azure
2 16 (21.92%) AWS
3 14 (19.18%) GCP
4 13 (17.81%) Power Platform
5 8 (10.96%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.48%) GitHub
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (4.11%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (4.11%) Prefect
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.74%) dbt
8 2 (2.74%) Fivetran
9 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.92%) Tableau
2 11 (15.07%) Power BI
3 8 (10.96%) BigQuery
4 7 (9.59%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (5.48%) Looker
6 4 (5.48%) Mixpanel
6 4 (5.48%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.48%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (4.11%) Db2
7 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.74%) Metadata
8 2 (2.74%) Neo4j
8 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.74%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.37%) Redis
9 1 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Git
2 1 (1.37%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.37%) Vite
General
1 18 (24.66%) Finance
2 14 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.11%) Banking
5 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Retail
6 1 (1.37%) Aviation
6 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Legal
6 1 (1.37%) Marketing
6 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (27.40%) Data Engineer
2 17 (23.29%) Data Scientist
3 11 (15.07%) Architect
4 10 (13.70%) GCP Data Engineer
4 10 (13.70%) GCP Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 5 (6.85%) Lead
5 5 (6.85%) Technical Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Analyst
6 4 (5.48%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Snowflake Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Principal Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Product Manager
8 2 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Business Data Analyst
8 2 (2.74%) Head of Business Intelligence
8 2 (2.74%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) PyTorch
2 7 (9.59%) PySpark
2 7 (9.59%) TensorFlow
3 5 (6.85%) scikit-learn
4 4 (5.48%) Hugging Face
4 4 (5.48%) React
5 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.11%) Backbone.js
5 3 (4.11%) Bootstrap
5 3 (4.11%) Ember.js
5 3 (4.11%) jQuery
5 3 (4.11%) Keras
6 2 (2.74%) Kafka
6 2 (2.74%) Pandas
6 2 (2.74%) REST
7 1 (1.37%) GraphX
7 1 (1.37%) gRPC
7 1 (1.37%) NumPy
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.48%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.11%) Clustering
3 2 (2.74%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.37%) LIMS
4 1 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.37%) NHS
4 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.37%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
2 3 (4.11%) Android
2 3 (4.11%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (61.64%) Analytics
2 42 (57.53%) AI
3 36 (49.32%) Machine Learning
4 22 (30.14%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (26.03%) Generative AI
5 19 (26.03%) LLM
6 16 (21.92%) CI/CD
7 15 (20.55%) Data Engineering
8 14 (19.18%) Data Analytics
9 13 (17.81%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (17.81%) Decision-Making
10 12 (16.44%) Data Modelling
11 11 (15.07%) Visualisation
12 10 (13.70%) MLOps
12 10 (13.70%) Validation
13 9 (12.33%) Fintech
14 8 (10.96%) Data Governance
14 8 (10.96%) DevOps
14 8 (10.96%) Predictive Modelling
14 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (49.32%) Python
2 26 (35.62%) SQL
3 8 (10.96%) R
4 4 (5.48%) Java
5 2 (2.74%) Bicep
5 2 (2.74%) C#
6 1 (1.37%) Cypher
6 1 (1.37%) Go
6 1 (1.37%) Gremlin
6 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.37%) Scala
6 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Degree
4 3 (4.11%) PhD
5 2 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.74%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.74%) GDPR
2 2 (2.74%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (6.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.11%) Terraform
3 1 (1.37%) Istio
3 1 (1.37%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.48%) Amplitude
2 4 (5.48%) Databricks
2 4 (5.48%) Google
3 2 (2.74%) Informatica
3 2 (2.74%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.37%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.37%) Apple
4 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.37%) IBM
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle
4 1 (1.37%) Palantir
4 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.37%) SAP