Data Science Contracts in the City of London

Data Science
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 87 121
Rank change year-on-year +20 +34 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Science 53 39 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.02% 1.78% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 1.96% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 28 27
10th Percentile £448 £448 £413
25th Percentile £538 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £700 £678 £675
90th Percentile £775 £720 £756
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £51.50
75th Percentile - - £52.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.00 - £51.50
% change year-on-year - - -14.88%

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 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the City of London

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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend 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 15 (28.30%) Apache Spark
2 6 (11.32%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (9.43%) Apache
4 1 (1.89%) Confluence
4 1 (1.89%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.89%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) Azure
2 10 (18.87%) AWS
2 10 (18.87%) Power Platform
3 7 (13.21%) GCP
4 4 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (5.66%) GitHub
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.77%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.77%) Serverless
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.89%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.89%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) Hadoop
2 8 (15.09%) Big Data
2 8 (15.09%) Power BI
3 6 (11.32%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (11.32%) NoSQL
3 6 (11.32%) Tableau
4 5 (9.43%) Apache Hive
4 5 (9.43%) Data Mining
4 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
5 4 (7.55%) MongoDB
5 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.66%) DB2
6 3 (5.66%) Metadata
6 3 (5.66%) MySQL
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.89%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.89%) Looker
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Git
1 4 (7.55%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.89%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (41.51%) Finance
2 21 (39.62%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Public Sector
5 7 (13.21%) Banking
6 6 (11.32%) Police
6 6 (11.32%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (9.43%) Financial Institution
7 5 (9.43%) Retail
8 3 (5.66%) Marketing
9 2 (3.77%) Military
10 1 (1.89%) Advertising
10 1 (1.89%) Back Office
10 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.89%) Legal
10 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (35.85%) Data Scientist
2 9 (16.98%) Data Engineer
3 5 (9.43%) Analyst
3 5 (9.43%) Developer
3 5 (9.43%) Senior
4 4 (7.55%) Architect
4 4 (7.55%) Lead
4 4 (7.55%) Senior Data Scientist
4 4 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Gen AI Specialist
5 3 (5.66%) Python Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Data Science Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Lead Data Scientist
6 2 (3.77%) Senior User Experience Researcher
6 2 (3.77%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.87%) TensorFlow
2 7 (13.21%) PySpark
3 6 (11.32%) Kafka
4 5 (9.43%) Pandas
4 5 (9.43%) RESTful
5 4 (7.55%) Hugging Face
5 4 (7.55%) LangChain
5 4 (7.55%) React
5 4 (7.55%) scikit-learn
6 3 (5.66%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.66%) Spring
6 3 (5.66%) Web Services
7 2 (3.77%) Middleware
7 2 (3.77%) NumPy
8 1 (1.89%) Bootstrap
8 1 (1.89%) Node.js
8 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.89%) OpenCV
8 1 (1.89%) OpenID
8 1 (1.89%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.32%) Credit Risk
3 3 (5.66%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.77%) Multi-touch
4 2 (3.77%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
2 3 (5.66%) Unix
3 1 (1.89%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Machine Learning
2 22 (41.51%) Analytics
3 20 (37.74%) Artificial Intelligence
4 19 (35.85%) Agile
5 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (26.42%) Visualisation
7 13 (24.53%) Actionable Insight
7 13 (24.53%) Data Engineering
7 13 (24.53%) Decision-Making
7 13 (24.53%) LLM
8 12 (22.64%) Data Visualisation
8 12 (22.64%) Generative AI
9 11 (20.75%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (20.75%) DevOps
10 10 (18.87%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (18.87%) Statistics
11 9 (16.98%) Data Analysis
11 9 (16.98%) Data Management
11 9 (16.98%) Mathematics
11 9 (16.98%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (67.92%) Python
2 25 (47.17%) SQL
3 5 (9.43%) Java
4 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.55%) Scala
4 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.66%) Perl
5 3 (5.66%) R
5 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.77%) C++
7 1 (1.89%) Ada
7 1 (1.89%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) Degree
2 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) Master's Degree
4 5 (9.43%) PhD
4 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
2 2 (3.77%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.55%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Databricks
2 4 (7.55%) Oracle
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.66%) Sybase
4 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.89%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.89%) Confluent
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) MicroStrategy