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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 66 90
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Science 86 48 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.88% 2.74% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 2.96% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 31 32
10th Percentile £397 £500 £463
25th Percentile £469 £550 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £701
90th Percentile £740 £775 £735
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £52.49 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +138.59% - -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +138.59% - -

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 1,916 1,619 2,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.38% 92.57% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,032 1,428
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 14
10th Percentile - £22.00 £17.58
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.07 £32.83 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +36.77% -36.42%
75th Percentile £52.16 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £67.38 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -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 16 April 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 (8.14%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.86%) Azure
2 28 (32.56%) Power Platform
3 26 (30.23%) AWS
4 21 (24.42%) GCP
5 9 (10.47%) Snowflake
6 7 (8.14%) Amazon SageMaker
6 7 (8.14%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (6.98%) GitHub
8 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (4.65%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (4.65%) Google Gemini
8 4 (4.65%) Prefect
9 3 (3.49%) Azure AI
9 3 (3.49%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (3.49%) dbt
9 3 (3.49%) Fivetran
9 3 (3.49%) IBM Watson
9 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.42%) Power BI
2 19 (22.09%) Tableau
3 8 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.98%) BigQuery
5 5 (5.81%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.65%) Metadata
6 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (3.49%) DB2
7 3 (3.49%) Looker
7 3 (3.49%) Mixpanel
7 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.33%) Big Data
8 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.33%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.16%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.16%) MySQL
9 1 (1.16%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Git
2 1 (1.16%) ERwin
2 1 (1.16%) GitLab
2 1 (1.16%) MLflow
2 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (29.07%) Finance
1 25 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.12%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.63%) Banking
5 5 (5.81%) Marketing
6 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.49%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.49%) Legal
6 3 (3.49%) Retail
7 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Aviation
8 1 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.16%) Front Office
8 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.16%) Military
8 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (29.07%) Data Scientist
2 21 (24.42%) Data Engineer
3 9 (10.47%) Lead
4 8 (9.30%) GCP Data Engineer
4 8 (9.30%) GCP Engineer
4 8 (9.30%) Senior
5 7 (8.14%) Technical Leader
6 6 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Architect
7 4 (4.65%) Developer
7 4 (4.65%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (4.65%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Snowflake Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Technical Manager
9 2 (2.33%) Data Architect
9 2 (2.33%) Marketing Manager
9 2 (2.33%) Operations Manager
9 2 (2.33%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.28%) PyTorch
1 14 (16.28%) scikit-learn
2 12 (13.95%) TensorFlow
3 8 (9.30%) NumPy
3 8 (9.30%) Pandas
4 7 (8.14%) LangChain
5 6 (6.98%) LangGraph
6 5 (5.81%) PySpark
7 4 (4.65%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.65%) Hugging Face
7 4 (4.65%) Matplotlib
7 4 (4.65%) React
7 4 (4.65%) Seaborn
8 3 (3.49%) Backbone.js
8 3 (3.49%) Bootstrap
8 3 (3.49%) Ember.js
8 3 (3.49%) jQuery
8 3 (3.49%) Keras
9 2 (2.33%) Kafka
9 2 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) AI Agents
2 9 (10.47%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.65%) Clustering
5 3 (3.49%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Blog
7 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.16%) LIMS
7 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.16%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) Android
1 3 (3.49%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.49%) Linux
1 3 (3.49%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (60.47%) AI
2 47 (54.65%) Analytics
3 43 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 32 (37.21%) Generative AI
5 24 (27.91%) Data Pipeline
6 23 (26.74%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (22.09%) CI/CD
7 19 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (20.93%) Data Engineering
8 18 (20.93%) LLM
8 18 (20.93%) Visualisation
9 15 (17.44%) Data Modelling
9 15 (17.44%) Software Engineering
10 14 (16.28%) Agile
10 14 (16.28%) Data Governance
10 14 (16.28%) Data Visualisation
11 13 (15.12%) Observability
12 12 (13.95%) Validation
13 11 (12.79%) Decision-Making
13 11 (12.79%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 46 (53.49%) Python
2 32 (37.21%) SQL
3 6 (6.98%) Java
4 5 (5.81%) R
5 4 (4.65%) C#
6 3 (3.49%) C++
7 2 (2.33%) Bicep
7 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.33%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.16%) Scala
8 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (22.09%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.28%) Degree
4 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.49%) PhD
6 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.33%) SnowPro
7 1 (1.16%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.60%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.16%) Istio
3 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.63%) Google
3 5 (5.81%) Databricks
4 4 (4.65%) IBM
5 3 (3.49%) Amplitude
5 3 (3.49%) Cognos
5 3 (3.49%) Foundry
5 3 (3.49%) Sage
6 2 (2.33%) Informatica
7 1 (1.16%) Apple
7 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.16%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle