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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 81 93
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Science 65 39 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.47% 2.09% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 2.27% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 21 28
10th Percentile £388 £413 £463
25th Percentile £452 £550 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £698 £700 £691
90th Percentile £776 £725 £713
Central London median daily rate £550 £606 £625
% change year-on-year -9.28% -3.00% +13.64%
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 1,665 1,719 2,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.99% 91.93% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,036 1,567
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +1.05% -4.37%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 14
10th Percentile £19.98 £19.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £35.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% +12.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £42.65 £60.81 £45.06
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 1 February 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 4 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (44.62%) Azure
2 21 (32.31%) Power Platform
3 18 (27.69%) AWS
4 8 (12.31%) GCP
5 7 (10.77%) Amazon SageMaker
6 6 (9.23%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (7.69%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.15%) Azure AI
8 4 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (4.62%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (4.62%) GitHub
9 3 (4.62%) Google Gemini
9 3 (4.62%) IBM Watson
9 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (4.62%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
10 2 (3.08%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (24.62%) Power BI
2 11 (16.92%) Tableau
3 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.62%) Metadata
5 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.54%) Big Data
6 1 (1.54%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.54%) KDB
6 1 (1.54%) Kdb+
6 1 (1.54%) MySQL
6 1 (1.54%) OLAP
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.54%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.54%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.54%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) MLflow
3 1 (1.54%) ERwin
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) JIRA
3 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 18 (27.69%) Finance
3 15 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (20.00%) Banking
5 12 (18.46%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.62%) Law
6 3 (4.62%) Legal
6 3 (4.62%) Marketing
6 3 (4.62%) Retail
7 2 (3.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.54%) Front Office
8 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Data Scientist
2 9 (13.85%) Data Engineer
2 9 (13.85%) Lead
3 8 (12.31%) Senior
4 7 (10.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Developer
5 6 (9.23%) Technical Leader
6 3 (4.62%) Gen AI Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Senior Data Scientist
7 2 (3.08%) Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Evangelist
7 2 (3.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (3.08%) Gen AI Software Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.54%) Analyst
8 1 (1.54%) Business Analyst
8 1 (1.54%) Programme Manager
8 1 (1.54%) Project Manager
8 1 (1.54%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.54%) scikit-learn
2 11 (16.92%) NumPy
2 11 (16.92%) PyTorch
3 10 (15.38%) Pandas
3 10 (15.38%) TensorFlow
4 8 (12.31%) LangChain
5 7 (10.77%) LangGraph
6 4 (6.15%) Matplotlib
6 4 (6.15%) PySpark
6 4 (6.15%) Seaborn
7 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.08%) D3.js
7 2 (3.08%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.08%) React
7 2 (3.08%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (3.08%) Vue
8 1 (1.54%) Altair
8 1 (1.54%) Faiss
8 1 (1.54%) LlamaIndex
8 1 (1.54%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.92%) Algorithms
2 9 (13.85%) AI Agents
3 6 (9.23%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.08%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.08%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.54%) Blog
6 1 (1.54%) Clustering
6 1 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.54%) NHS
6 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.54%) Replication
6 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.54%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.54%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (63.08%) AI
2 32 (49.23%) Machine Learning
3 31 (47.69%) Generative AI
4 24 (36.92%) Analytics
5 21 (32.31%) Visualisation
6 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (24.62%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (23.08%) Agile
8 15 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
9 14 (21.54%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (21.54%) LLM
9 14 (21.54%) Software Engineering
10 12 (18.46%) Data Engineering
11 11 (16.92%) CI/CD
11 11 (16.92%) Computer Science
12 10 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
12 10 (15.38%) ETL
12 10 (15.38%) Natural Language Processing
13 9 (13.85%) Data Governance
13 9 (13.85%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 34 (52.31%) Python
2 19 (29.23%) SQL
3 4 (6.15%) Java
4 3 (4.62%) C#
4 3 (4.62%) C++
4 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.54%) F#
5 1 (1.54%) Go
5 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.54%) R
5 1 (1.54%) Scala
5 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 14 (21.54%) Degree
4 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.15%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.54%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.54%) MBA
6 1 (1.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.31%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.08%) WCAG
4 1 (1.54%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.54%) EMIR
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Argo
1 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) Databricks
3 6 (9.23%) Google
4 4 (6.15%) Foundry
5 3 (4.62%) Cognos
5 3 (4.62%) IBM
5 3 (4.62%) Sage
6 2 (3.08%) Oracle
7 1 (1.54%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.54%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.54%) SAP
7 1 (1.54%) Workday