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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 74 85
Rank change year-on-year +21 +11 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Science 80 47 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.73% 2.70% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 2.93% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 29 33
10th Percentile £406 £425 £463
25th Percentile £469 £550 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £730 £700 £700
90th Percentile £771 £779 £733
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £22.00 -

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 1,878 1,605 2,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.55% 92.19% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,292 1,035 1,465
10th Percentile £363 £364 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.46 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £45.08 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £58.53 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

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 30 March 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 7 (8.75%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (45.00%) Azure
2 29 (36.25%) Power Platform
3 25 (31.25%) AWS
4 19 (23.75%) GCP
5 10 (12.50%) Snowflake
6 7 (8.75%) Azure Machine Learning
6 7 (8.75%) GitHub
7 5 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (5.00%) Prefect
9 3 (3.75%) Azure AI
9 3 (3.75%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (3.75%) dbt
9 3 (3.75%) Fivetran
9 3 (3.75%) Google Gemini
9 3 (3.75%) IBM Watson
9 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (3.75%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.50%) Power BI
2 17 (21.25%) Tableau
3 8 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.00%) Metadata
4 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (3.75%) DB2
5 3 (3.75%) Looker
5 3 (3.75%) Mixpanel
5 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.50%) Big Data
6 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.50%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.25%) MySQL
7 1 (1.25%) OLAP
7 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Git
2 1 (1.25%) ERwin
2 1 (1.25%) GitLab
2 1 (1.25%) MLflow
2 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 25 (31.25%) Finance
3 19 (23.75%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.00%) Banking
4 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.25%) Marketing
6 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.75%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.75%) Retail
7 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Law
7 2 (2.50%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.25%) Front Office
8 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.25%) Military
8 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) Data Scientist
2 18 (22.50%) Data Engineer
3 10 (12.50%) Lead
4 8 (10.00%) Senior
5 7 (8.75%) Technical Leader
6 6 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Developer
7 5 (6.25%) GCP Data Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Architect
10 2 (2.50%) Evangelist
10 2 (2.50%) Gen AI Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Gen AI Software Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.25%) scikit-learn
2 12 (15.00%) PyTorch
3 11 (13.75%) TensorFlow
4 8 (10.00%) NumPy
4 8 (10.00%) Pandas
5 7 (8.75%) LangChain
6 6 (7.50%) LangGraph
7 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 5 (6.25%) React
8 4 (5.00%) Matplotlib
8 4 (5.00%) PySpark
8 4 (5.00%) Seaborn
9 3 (3.75%) Backbone.js
9 3 (3.75%) Bootstrap
9 3 (3.75%) Ember.js
9 3 (3.75%) Hugging Face
9 3 (3.75%) jQuery
9 3 (3.75%) Keras
10 2 (2.50%) FastAPI
10 2 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) AI Agents
2 9 (11.25%) Algorithms
3 5 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.00%) Clustering
5 3 (3.75%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Blog
7 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.25%) LIMS
7 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.25%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Android
1 3 (3.75%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.75%) Linux
1 3 (3.75%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (60.00%) AI
2 40 (50.00%) Analytics
3 38 (47.50%) Machine Learning
4 30 (37.50%) Generative AI
5 24 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 20 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (21.25%) Data Engineering
9 16 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 16 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
10 15 (18.75%) LLM
11 14 (17.50%) Agile
11 14 (17.50%) Data Modelling
11 14 (17.50%) Software Engineering
12 12 (15.00%) Data Governance
12 12 (15.00%) Decision-Making
12 12 (15.00%) Validation
13 11 (13.75%) ETL
13 11 (13.75%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 45 (56.25%) Python
2 34 (42.50%) SQL
3 5 (6.25%) Java
4 4 (5.00%) C#
4 4 (5.00%) R
5 3 (3.75%) C++
5 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.50%) Bicep
6 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.25%) Scala
7 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.75%) Degree
2 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.75%) PhD
5 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.50%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) WCAG
4 1 (1.25%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.25%) EMIR
System Software
1 4 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) Google
3 5 (6.25%) Databricks
4 4 (5.00%) IBM
5 3 (3.75%) Amplitude
5 3 (3.75%) Cognos
5 3 (3.75%) Foundry
5 3 (3.75%) Sage
6 2 (2.50%) Informatica
7 1 (1.25%) Apple
7 1 (1.25%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle