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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 66 123
Rank change year-on-year -5 +57 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Science 54 58 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.14% 2.76% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 3.01% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 40 19
10th Percentile £425 £448 £346
25th Percentile £517 £509 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £606 £612
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -0.94% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £684
90th Percentile £726 £739 £706
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £619
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.99% +5.28%
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 1,618 1,926 2,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.02% 91.67% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 1,177 1,739
10th Percentile £327 £374 £363
25th Percentile £420 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £581
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.03% +1.04%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £760 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -24.26%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.05%

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 5 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 5 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 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) Azure
2 17 (31.48%) AWS
3 9 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 8 (14.81%) GCP
5 5 (9.26%) Snowflake
6 4 (7.41%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (5.56%) GitHub
8 2 (3.70%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 2 (3.70%) Azure AI
8 2 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.70%) SaaS
9 1 (1.85%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (1.85%) Dagster
9 1 (1.85%) dbt
9 1 (1.85%) Fivetran
9 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.85%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) Power BI
2 6 (11.11%) Tableau
3 5 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.26%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.56%) Apache Hive
4 3 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.56%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.70%) Big Data
5 2 (3.70%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.70%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.70%) Spark SQL
5 2 (3.70%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.85%) KDB
6 1 (1.85%) Kdb+
6 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.41%) Git
3 3 (5.56%) MLflow
4 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 24 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 19 (35.19%) Finance
3 17 (31.48%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (20.37%) Banking
5 8 (14.81%) Public Sector
6 5 (9.26%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.70%) Law
7 2 (3.70%) Legal
7 2 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.70%) Police
7 2 (3.70%) Retail
8 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.85%) Front Office
8 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.85%) Marketing
8 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Data Engineer
1 14 (25.93%) Data Scientist
2 5 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (9.26%) Developer
3 4 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Lead
3 4 (7.41%) Senior
4 3 (5.56%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (3.70%) Architect
5 2 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Python Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Security Engineer
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (1.85%) Gen AI Specialist
6 1 (1.85%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (1.85%) Lead Data Scientist
6 1 (1.85%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) Pandas
2 7 (12.96%) scikit-learn
3 6 (11.11%) PySpark
3 6 (11.11%) TensorFlow
4 5 (9.26%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (9.26%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (9.26%) NumPy
5 4 (7.41%) PyTorch
6 3 (5.56%) CSS
6 3 (5.56%) HTML
6 3 (5.56%) Kafka
7 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.70%) D3.js
7 2 (3.70%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.70%) LangChain
7 2 (3.70%) LangGraph
7 2 (3.70%) React
7 2 (3.70%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (3.70%) Vue
8 1 (1.85%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Algorithms
2 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
3 6 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (9.26%) Fixed Income
4 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
5 4 (7.41%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.70%) Replication
6 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.85%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.85%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.85%) Multi-touch
7 1 (1.85%) NHS
7 1 (1.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) Machine Learning
2 21 (38.89%) AI
3 20 (37.04%) Analytics
4 18 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 17 (31.48%) Visualisation
6 14 (25.93%) Computer Science
6 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (20.37%) Generative AI
7 11 (20.37%) LLM
8 10 (18.52%) Data Modelling
8 10 (18.52%) Data Visualisation
8 10 (18.52%) DevOps
9 9 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
9 9 (16.67%) Agile
9 9 (16.67%) Data Engineering
9 9 (16.67%) Statistics
10 8 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (14.81%) Decision-Making
10 8 (14.81%) ETL
10 8 (14.81%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 36 (66.67%) Python
2 23 (42.59%) SQL
3 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
3 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.41%) R
5 2 (3.70%) Go
5 2 (3.70%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.85%) C#
6 1 (1.85%) C++
6 1 (1.85%) F#
6 1 (1.85%) Fortran
6 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (27.78%) Degree
2 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
3 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared
4 6 (11.11%) Master's Degree
5 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.56%) PhD
6 2 (3.70%) CISSP
7 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.85%) MBA
7 1 (1.85%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.70%) NIST
3 2 (3.70%) WCAG
4 1 (1.85%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.85%) EMIR
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.26%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (9.26%) Kibana
2 5 (9.26%) logstash
3 2 (3.70%) Argo
3 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) Databricks
3 5 (9.26%) Foundry
3 5 (9.26%) Solace
4 3 (5.56%) Palantir
5 2 (3.70%) Google
5 2 (3.70%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.85%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.85%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.85%) SAP
6 1 (1.85%) Workday