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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 64 95
Rank change year-on-year +2 +31 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Science 79 54 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.44% 3.07% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 3.29% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 38 25
10th Percentile £433 £460 £463
25th Percentile £475 £531 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £589 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -5.76% +4.17%
75th Percentile £647 £700 £688
90th Percentile £825 £775 £728
Central London median daily rate £585 £564 £625
% change year-on-year +3.68% -9.76% +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 1,947 1,642 1,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.73% 93.45% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,039 1,394
10th Percentile £363 £350 £352
25th Percentile £450 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.55% -5.63%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +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 11 May 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 5 (6.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.53%) Apache
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (36.71%) Azure
2 23 (29.11%) Power Platform
3 21 (26.58%) AWS
4 16 (20.25%) GCP
5 7 (8.86%) Snowflake
6 6 (7.59%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (6.33%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (6.33%) GitHub
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (5.06%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.80%) Prefect
10 2 (2.53%) Azure AI
10 2 (2.53%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (2.53%) dbt
10 2 (2.53%) Fivetran
10 2 (2.53%) IBM Watson
10 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.53%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (24.05%) Power BI
1 19 (24.05%) Tableau
2 8 (10.13%) BigQuery
3 7 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.06%) Metadata
5 4 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.06%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (3.80%) DB2
6 3 (3.80%) Looker
6 3 (3.80%) Mixpanel
6 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.53%) Big Data
7 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.53%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.27%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.27%) MySQL
8 1 (1.27%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) ERwin
2 1 (1.27%) GitLab
2 1 (1.27%) MLflow
2 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (27.85%) Finance
2 20 (25.32%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.66%) Public Sector
5 9 (11.39%) Banking
6 5 (6.33%) Marketing
7 3 (3.80%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.80%) Legal
8 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.53%) Retail
9 1 (1.27%) Aviation
9 1 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.27%) Law
9 1 (1.27%) Military
9 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (26.58%) Data Engineer
1 21 (26.58%) Data Scientist
2 10 (12.66%) GCP Data Engineer
2 10 (12.66%) GCP Engineer
3 8 (10.13%) Lead
4 6 (7.59%) Senior
4 6 (7.59%) Technical Leader
5 4 (5.06%) Architect
5 4 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Software Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Analyst
6 3 (3.80%) Senior Data Scientist
7 2 (2.53%) Data Architect
7 2 (2.53%) Developer
7 2 (2.53%) Marketing Manager
7 2 (2.53%) Operations Manager
7 2 (2.53%) Product Manager
7 2 (2.53%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.72%) PyTorch
2 12 (15.19%) scikit-learn
2 12 (15.19%) TensorFlow
3 7 (8.86%) LangChain
4 6 (7.59%) LangGraph
4 6 (7.59%) NumPy
4 6 (7.59%) Pandas
5 4 (5.06%) Hugging Face
5 4 (5.06%) PySpark
6 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.80%) Backbone.js
6 3 (3.80%) Bootstrap
6 3 (3.80%) Ember.js
6 3 (3.80%) jQuery
6 3 (3.80%) Keras
6 3 (3.80%) Matplotlib
6 3 (3.80%) React
6 3 (3.80%) Seaborn
7 2 (2.53%) Kafka
7 2 (2.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) AI Agents
2 7 (8.86%) Algorithms
2 7 (8.86%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.06%) Clustering
5 3 (3.80%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.27%) Blog
7 1 (1.27%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.27%) LIMS
7 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.27%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.27%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.80%) Android
1 3 (3.80%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.80%) Linux
1 3 (3.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (60.76%) Analytics
2 47 (59.49%) AI
3 40 (50.63%) Machine Learning
4 27 (34.18%) Generative AI
5 21 (26.58%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (26.58%) Data Pipeline
6 19 (24.05%) CI/CD
7 17 (21.52%) Data Engineering
7 17 (21.52%) LLM
8 14 (17.72%) Data Modelling
8 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (17.72%) Visualisation
9 12 (15.19%) Data Governance
9 12 (15.19%) Software Engineering
9 12 (15.19%) Validation
10 11 (13.92%) Data Analytics
10 11 (13.92%) Decision-Making
10 11 (13.92%) MLOps
10 11 (13.92%) Observability
10 11 (13.92%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 39 (49.37%) Python
2 29 (36.71%) SQL
3 6 (7.59%) Java
4 4 (5.06%) C#
4 4 (5.06%) R
5 3 (3.80%) C++
6 2 (2.53%) Bicep
6 2 (2.53%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.27%) Scala
7 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.19%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.13%) Degree
4 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.80%) PhD
5 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.53%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.53%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) Istio
3 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) Google
3 4 (5.06%) Databricks
4 3 (3.80%) Amplitude
4 3 (3.80%) IBM
5 2 (2.53%) Cognos
5 2 (2.53%) Foundry
5 2 (2.53%) Informatica
5 2 (2.53%) Sage
6 1 (1.27%) Apple
6 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.27%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle