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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 69 120
Rank change year-on-year +1 +51 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Science 62 55 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.49% 2.62% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 2.86% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 38 19
10th Percentile £385 £443 £346
25th Percentile £475 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £606 £612
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% -0.94% +6.43%
75th Percentile £675 £709 £694
90th Percentile £738 £733 £706
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £612
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.96% +6.43%
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 1,659 1,925 2,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.31% 91.71% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,180 1,706
10th Percentile £330 £375 £363
25th Percentile £418 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £759 £780 £805
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 14
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +52.67% -30.13%
75th Percentile £44.72 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -36.22%

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 19 November 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 19 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Science in the City of London

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 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.32%) Azure
2 18 (29.03%) AWS
3 13 (20.97%) Power Platform
4 12 (19.35%) GCP
5 6 (9.68%) Snowflake
6 5 (8.06%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (8.06%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (4.84%) GitHub
7 3 (4.84%) Google Gemini
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 2 (3.23%) Azure AI
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.23%) SaaS
9 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.61%) dbt
9 1 (1.61%) Fivetran
9 1 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) Power BI
2 8 (12.90%) Tableau
3 5 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.84%) Apache Hive
5 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.84%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.23%) Big Data
6 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.23%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.23%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.61%) KDB
7 1 (1.61%) Kdb+
7 1 (1.61%) Metadata
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Git
2 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.84%) MLflow
4 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 28 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 22 (35.48%) Finance
3 19 (30.65%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (19.35%) Banking
5 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.45%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.84%) Law
8 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.23%) Legal
8 2 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.23%) Retail
9 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.61%) Front Office
9 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (32.26%) Data Scientist
2 14 (22.58%) Data Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) Developer
4 5 (8.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Lead
4 5 (8.06%) Senior
5 4 (6.45%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (4.84%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (3.23%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Technical Leader
8 1 (1.61%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Lead Data Scientist
8 1 (1.61%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) scikit-learn
2 9 (14.52%) Pandas
3 8 (12.90%) NumPy
3 8 (12.90%) TensorFlow
4 7 (11.29%) PyTorch
5 6 (9.68%) PySpark
6 4 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (6.45%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (4.84%) CSS
7 3 (4.84%) HTML
7 3 (4.84%) LangChain
7 3 (4.84%) LangGraph
8 2 (3.23%) D3.js
8 2 (3.23%) FastAPI
8 2 (3.23%) Kafka
8 2 (3.23%) Matplotlib
8 2 (3.23%) React
8 2 (3.23%) Seaborn
8 2 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Algorithms
2 6 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (8.06%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.45%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.45%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.23%) Replication
5 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.61%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.61%) Clustering
6 1 (1.61%) Multi-touch
6 1 (1.61%) NHS
6 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.61%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Linux
2 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (58.06%) Machine Learning
2 30 (48.39%) AI
3 25 (40.32%) Analytics
4 20 (32.26%) Data Pipeline
4 20 (32.26%) Visualisation
5 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (25.81%) Computer Science
6 16 (25.81%) Generative AI
7 14 (22.58%) Agile
8 13 (20.97%) LLM
9 12 (19.35%) Data Visualisation
10 11 (17.74%) CI/CD
11 10 (16.13%) Actionable Insight
11 10 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (16.13%) Data Engineering
11 10 (16.13%) Data Modelling
11 10 (16.13%) ETL
11 10 (16.13%) Statistics
12 9 (14.52%) Data Analysis
12 9 (14.52%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 44 (70.97%) Python
2 23 (37.10%) SQL
3 5 (8.06%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.45%) R
5 2 (3.23%) C#
5 2 (3.23%) C++
5 2 (3.23%) Go
5 2 (3.23%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.61%) F#
6 1 (1.61%) Fortran
6 1 (1.61%) Java
6 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (30.65%) Degree
2 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.68%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.84%) PhD
6 2 (3.23%) CISSP
6 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.61%) MBA
7 1 (1.61%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.23%) NIST
3 2 (3.23%) WCAG
4 1 (1.61%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.61%) EMIR
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.45%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (6.45%) Kibana
2 4 (6.45%) logstash
3 2 (3.23%) Argo
3 2 (3.23%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.29%) Databricks
3 5 (8.06%) Foundry
3 5 (8.06%) Google
4 4 (6.45%) Solace
5 3 (4.84%) Palantir
6 1 (1.61%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.61%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.61%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.61%) Cognos
6 1 (1.61%) IBM
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle
6 1 (1.61%) Sage
6 1 (1.61%) SAP
6 1 (1.61%) Workday