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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 75 124
Rank change year-on-year +11 +49 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Science 57 56 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.23% 2.67% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 2.90% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 38 22
10th Percentile £476 £443 £353
25th Percentile £525 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £606 £589
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +3.02% -1.92%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £673
90th Percentile £688 £741 £773
Central London median daily rate £550 £606 £589
% change year-on-year -9.28% +3.02% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £29.75 - -
25th Percentile £35.00 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £60.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 - -

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 1,661 1,932 2,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.21% 92.09% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,224 1,857
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Science in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 9 (15.79%) Apache Spark
2 7 (12.28%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.51%) Apache
4 1 (1.75%) Confluence
4 1 (1.75%) Luigi
4 1 (1.75%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) SPSS
2 1 (1.75%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 22 (38.60%) Azure
2 14 (24.56%) AWS
3 10 (17.54%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.28%) GCP
5 4 (7.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (3.51%) GitHub
7 2 (3.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.51%) SaaS
8 1 (1.75%) Alation
8 1 (1.75%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.75%) Dagster
8 1 (1.75%) dbt
8 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) Power BI
2 8 (14.04%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (12.28%) Tableau
4 6 (10.53%) Hadoop
5 5 (8.77%) Big Data
5 5 (8.77%) Data Mining
5 5 (8.77%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (7.02%) Apache Hive
6 4 (7.02%) Data Lake
6 4 (7.02%) Metadata
6 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.51%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.51%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.51%) Spark SQL
7 2 (3.51%) Spatial Data
7 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.75%) DB2
8 1 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.26%) MLflow
3 2 (3.51%) Git
4 1 (1.75%) JIRA
4 1 (1.75%) Terragrunt
General
1 24 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 23 (40.35%) Finance
3 22 (38.60%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.79%) Banking
5 8 (14.04%) Police
6 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
7 5 (8.77%) Investment Banking
8 4 (7.02%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (3.51%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.75%) Back Office
10 1 (1.75%) Games
10 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.75%) Legal
10 1 (1.75%) Marketing
10 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 17 (29.82%) Data Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Developer
4 4 (7.02%) Senior Data Scientist
5 3 (5.26%) Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Lead
5 3 (5.26%) Lead Data Scientist
6 2 (3.51%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (3.51%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (3.51%) Data Science Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Python Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Senior
6 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.79%) Pandas
1 9 (15.79%) TensorFlow
2 8 (14.04%) scikit-learn
3 6 (10.53%) Kafka
3 6 (10.53%) PySpark
4 5 (8.77%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (8.77%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (5.26%) CSS
5 3 (5.26%) HTML
5 3 (5.26%) NumPy
6 2 (3.51%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.75%) Flask
7 1 (1.75%) LangChain
7 1 (1.75%) LangGraph
7 1 (1.75%) React
7 1 (1.75%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (1.75%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 1 (1.75%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (1.75%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Algorithms
2 6 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.77%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.77%) Fixed Income
3 5 (8.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
4 4 (7.02%) Credit Risk
5 2 (3.51%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.51%) Replication
5 2 (3.51%) Taxonomies
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.75%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.75%) Multi-touch
6 1 (1.75%) NHS
6 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (57.89%) Machine Learning
2 28 (49.12%) Analytics
3 19 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 19 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 18 (31.58%) Artificial Intelligence
5 17 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (28.07%) Actionable Insight
6 16 (28.07%) Decision-Making
7 14 (24.56%) Data Modelling
8 12 (21.05%) Computer Science
8 12 (21.05%) Data Engineering
9 11 (19.30%) Agile
9 11 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (19.30%) Data Visualisation
9 11 (19.30%) DevOps
9 11 (19.30%) Statistics
10 9 (15.79%) Data Analytics
11 8 (14.04%) Data Analysis
11 8 (14.04%) Data Governance
11 8 (14.04%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 39 (68.42%) Python
2 31 (54.39%) SQL
3 8 (14.04%) R
4 5 (8.77%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.02%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.51%) Go
6 2 (3.51%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.75%) C#
7 1 (1.75%) C++
7 1 (1.75%) F#
7 1 (1.75%) Fortran
7 1 (1.75%) Java
7 1 (1.75%) Perl
7 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.75%) Scala
7 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Degree
2 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
3 6 (10.53%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.26%) PhD
5 2 (3.51%) CISSP
5 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.75%) MBA
6 1 (1.75%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.51%) NIST
3 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.77%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (8.77%) Kibana
2 5 (8.77%) logstash
3 3 (5.26%) Terraform
4 2 (3.51%) Argo
4 2 (3.51%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Databricks
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.77%) Solace
4 4 (7.02%) Foundry
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle
5 3 (5.26%) Palantir
6 2 (3.51%) Alteryx
6 2 (3.51%) Google
7 1 (1.75%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.75%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.75%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.75%) Sybase