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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 66 77
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Science 68 62 53
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.86% 3.30% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 3.50% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 46 36
10th Percentile £425 £478 £456
25th Percentile £494 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -5.21% -4.00%
75th Percentile £669 £666 £713
90th Percentile £775 £744 £756
Central London median daily rate £555 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -1.33% -6.25% -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 2,081 1,772 1,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.47% 94.21% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,418 1,161 1,284
10th Percentile £375 £329 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
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 £765 £791
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £37.17 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.83 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +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 10 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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.94%) Apache
2 2 (2.94%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.06%) Azure
2 13 (19.12%) AWS
3 12 (17.65%) GCP
4 10 (14.71%) Power Platform
5 7 (10.29%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (4.41%) Prefect
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.94%) dbt
8 2 (2.94%) Fivetran
8 2 (2.94%) GitHub
9 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.59%) Tableau
2 9 (13.24%) Power BI
3 8 (11.76%) BigQuery
4 5 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.94%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.94%) Looker
7 2 (2.94%) Metadata
7 2 (2.94%) Mixpanel
7 2 (2.94%) Neo4j
7 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.94%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.47%) GIS
8 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.47%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Git
2 1 (1.47%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.47%) Vite
General
1 14 (20.59%) Finance
2 13 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (16.18%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.41%) Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Retail
6 2 (2.94%) Marketing
6 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (27.94%) Data Engineer
2 13 (19.12%) Data Scientist
3 11 (16.18%) Architect
4 10 (14.71%) GCP Data Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) GCP Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 5 (7.35%) Lead
5 5 (7.35%) Technical Architect
6 4 (5.88%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Snowflake Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) Principal Architect
8 2 (2.94%) Business Data Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Data Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Head of Business Intelligence
8 2 (2.94%) Product Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Python Software Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.29%) PySpark
2 5 (7.35%) PyTorch
2 5 (7.35%) scikit-learn
3 4 (5.88%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.94%) Kafka
4 2 (2.94%) Pandas
4 2 (2.94%) React
4 2 (2.94%) REST
5 1 (1.47%) GraphX
5 1 (1.47%) gRPC
5 1 (1.47%) JSON
5 1 (1.47%) NetworkX
5 1 (1.47%) NumPy
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (1.47%) pytest
5 1 (1.47%) RESTful
5 1 (1.47%) Spring
5 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.47%) XML
5 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.41%) Clustering
4 2 (2.94%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Life Science
5 1 (1.47%) LIMS
5 1 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.47%) NHS
5 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (57.35%) Analytics
2 38 (55.88%) AI
3 33 (48.53%) Machine Learning
4 22 (32.35%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (26.47%) Generative AI
6 17 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 17 (25.00%) LLM
7 15 (22.06%) Data Engineering
8 13 (19.12%) Decision-Making
9 12 (17.65%) Data Analytics
10 10 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (14.71%) MLOps
11 9 (13.24%) Data Modelling
11 9 (13.24%) DevOps
11 9 (13.24%) Validation
12 8 (11.76%) Data Governance
12 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (11.76%) Software Engineering
12 8 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (47.06%) Python
2 20 (29.41%) SQL
3 6 (8.82%) R
4 4 (5.88%) Java
5 2 (2.94%) Bicep
5 2 (2.94%) C#
6 1 (1.47%) Cypher
6 1 (1.47%) Go
6 1 (1.47%) Gremlin
6 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.47%) Scala
6 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) Degree
4 2 (2.94%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.18%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.94%) GDPR
2 2 (2.94%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (1.47%) Istio
2 1 (1.47%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.35%) Google
3 3 (4.41%) Databricks
4 2 (2.94%) Amplitude
4 2 (2.94%) Informatica
4 2 (2.94%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.47%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.47%) Apple
5 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle
5 1 (1.47%) Palantir
5 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.47%) SAP