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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 72 112
Rank change year-on-year +10 +40 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Science 65 57 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.62% 2.67% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 2.91% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 39 20
10th Percentile £369 £450 £348
25th Percentile £484 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £613 £589
Median % change year-on-year - +4.08% +2.35%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £691
90th Percentile £738 £730 £705
Central London median daily rate £588 £606 £589
% change year-on-year -3.09% +3.02% +2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £29.75 - -
25th Percentile £35.00 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +104.55% - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £60.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +104.55% - -

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 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 3 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (41.54%) Azure
2 19 (29.23%) Power Platform
3 17 (26.15%) AWS
4 12 (18.46%) GCP
5 8 (12.31%) Azure Machine Learning
6 6 (9.23%) Amazon SageMaker
6 6 (9.23%) Snowflake
7 4 (6.15%) Azure AI
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (4.62%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (4.62%) GitHub
8 3 (4.62%) Google Gemini
8 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (4.62%) Power Automate
8 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.08%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 2 (3.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (3.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.54%) Power BI
2 9 (13.85%) Tableau
3 4 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.08%) Big Data
5 2 (3.08%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.08%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (3.08%) Metadata
5 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.08%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.54%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.54%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.54%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.54%) Kdb+
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.54%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.54%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.62%) MLflow
4 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 27 (41.54%) Social Skills
2 22 (33.85%) Finance
3 18 (27.69%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (20.00%) Banking
5 11 (16.92%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.15%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.62%) Law
8 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.08%) Legal
8 2 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.08%) Retail
9 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.54%) Front Office
9 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (32.31%) Data Scientist
2 13 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 8 (12.31%) Senior
4 7 (10.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Lead
6 5 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (4.62%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (3.08%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Technical Leader
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Data Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) Lead Data Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 10 (15.38%) NumPy
2 10 (15.38%) Pandas
3 8 (12.31%) TensorFlow
4 7 (10.77%) PyTorch
5 5 (7.69%) PySpark
6 4 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (6.15%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (4.62%) LangChain
7 3 (4.62%) LangGraph
7 3 (4.62%) Matplotlib
7 3 (4.62%) Seaborn
8 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.08%) D3.js
8 2 (3.08%) FastAPI
8 2 (3.08%) Kafka
8 2 (3.08%) React
8 2 (3.08%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (3.08%) Vue
9 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.92%) Algorithms
2 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.15%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.62%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.08%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.08%) Hedge funds
6 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.08%) Replication
7 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.54%) Clustering
7 1 (1.54%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.54%) NHS
7 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.54%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 35 (53.85%) AI
3 27 (41.54%) Analytics
4 23 (35.38%) Visualisation
5 20 (30.77%) Generative AI
6 19 (29.23%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (24.62%) LLM
7 16 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (21.54%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (21.54%) Data Visualisation
9 13 (20.00%) Agile
9 13 (20.00%) Computer Science
10 12 (18.46%) CI/CD
11 11 (16.92%) Actionable Insight
11 11 (16.92%) Data Engineering
11 11 (16.92%) ETL
12 10 (15.38%) DevOps
12 10 (15.38%) Observability
12 10 (15.38%) Statistics
13 9 (13.85%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 44 (67.69%) Python
2 22 (33.85%) SQL
3 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.62%) R
5 2 (3.08%) C#
5 2 (3.08%) C++
5 2 (3.08%) Go
5 2 (3.08%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.54%) F#
6 1 (1.54%) Fortran
6 1 (1.54%) Java
6 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (24.62%) Degree
2 13 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (13.85%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.23%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.08%) CISSP
5 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.08%) PhD
6 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.54%) MBA
6 1 (1.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.08%) NIST
3 2 (3.08%) WCAG
4 1 (1.54%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.54%) EMIR
System Software
1 5 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (6.15%) Kibana
2 4 (6.15%) logstash
3 2 (3.08%) Argo
3 2 (3.08%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) Databricks
3 6 (9.23%) Google
4 5 (7.69%) Foundry
5 4 (6.15%) Solace
6 2 (3.08%) Cognos
6 2 (3.08%) IBM
6 2 (3.08%) Sage
7 1 (1.54%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.54%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.54%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle
7 1 (1.54%) Palantir
7 1 (1.54%) SAP
7 1 (1.54%) Workday