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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 70 72
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Science 58 56 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.66% 3.22% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 3.41% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 41 36
10th Percentile £425 £475 £438
25th Percentile £470 £525 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £606
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -9.28% +8.74%
75th Percentile £750 £668 £713
90th Percentile £788 £688 £744
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £606
% change year-on-year - -9.28% +7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £45.00 -

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 1,967 1,644 1,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.11% 94.48% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,362 1,104 1,217
10th Percentile £368 £325 £366
25th Percentile £455 £422 £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 £763 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 19
10th Percentile - £17.02 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.54 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.83 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% -27.73% +40.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £47.00 £102.25
90th Percentile £61.50 £66.25 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.83 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.15% -20.50% +30.84%

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 October 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 3 (5.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.45%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.69%) Azure
2 5 (8.62%) AWS
2 5 (8.62%) Snowflake
3 4 (6.90%) GCP
3 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon SageMaker
4 3 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (5.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (5.17%) Datadog
5 2 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (3.45%) Azure AI
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (3.45%) dbt
5 2 (3.45%) Figma
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.72%) Matillion
6 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) Tableau
2 5 (8.62%) BigQuery
3 4 (6.90%) Power BI
4 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.45%) Metadata
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.72%) GIS
6 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.72%) Looker
6 1 (1.72%) Mixpanel
6 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.72%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.72%) Redis
6 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.72%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.72%) Vite
General
1 11 (18.97%) Finance
2 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.45%) Banking
5 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Retail
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
6 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Architect
2 12 (20.69%) Data Scientist
3 9 (15.52%) Data Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 5 (8.62%) Technical Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.90%) GCP Data Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Lead
7 3 (5.17%) Principal Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Senior
7 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Business Data Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Data Manager
8 2 (3.45%) Designer
8 2 (3.45%) Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Head of Business Intelligence
8 2 (3.45%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) Terraform
2 5 (8.62%) PySpark
3 4 (6.90%) React
4 3 (5.17%) Model Context Protocol
4 3 (5.17%) PyTorch
4 3 (5.17%) scikit-learn
5 2 (3.45%) CSS
5 2 (3.45%) HTML
5 2 (3.45%) Kafka
5 2 (3.45%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.72%) gRPC
6 1 (1.72%) JAX
6 1 (1.72%) NumPy
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.72%) Pandas
6 1 (1.72%) pytest
6 1 (1.72%) REST
6 1 (1.72%) RESTful
6 1 (1.72%) Vitest
6 1 (1.72%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.17%) CMDB
3 3 (5.17%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.72%) Life Science
5 1 (1.72%) NHS
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (58.62%) AI
2 29 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 28 (48.28%) Analytics
4 17 (29.31%) Generative AI
5 15 (25.86%) CI/CD
5 15 (25.86%) LLM
6 13 (22.41%) Decision-Making
7 12 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (17.24%) Data Engineering
8 10 (17.24%) MLOps
9 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (15.52%) Visualisation
10 8 (13.79%) Data Analytics
10 8 (13.79%) Roadmaps
11 7 (12.07%) Anomaly Detection
11 7 (12.07%) Validation
12 6 (10.34%) Observability
12 6 (10.34%) Software Engineering
12 6 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.10%) Python
2 12 (20.69%) SQL
3 6 (10.34%) R
4 5 (8.62%) Java
5 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.17%) Scala
7 1 (1.72%) Cypher
7 1 (1.72%) Go
7 1 (1.72%) Gremlin
7 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.17%) QA
3 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.45%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Grafana
2 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) Istio
3 1 (1.72%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Databricks
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Dynatrace
3 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.17%) Splunk
4 2 (3.45%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.72%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.72%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.72%) Foundry
5 1 (1.72%) Google
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) Palantir
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) SAP