Data Science Contracts in the City of London

Data Science
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 119 109
Rank change year-on-year +24 -10 -26
Contract jobs citing Data Science 35 53 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.61% 1.49% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.63% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 29 56
10th Percentile £463 £412 £437
25th Percentile £505 £463 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £738
90th Percentile £728 £761 £813
Central London median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £42.85
25th Percentile - £50.25 £48.25
Median hourly rate - £51.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.74% -6.14%
75th Percentile - £52.75 £62.13
90th Percentile - - £63.80
Central London median hourly rate - £51.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year - -3.74% -6.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,972 3,247 3,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.46% 91.57% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,394 2,187 2,938
10th Percentile £352 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £684
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 43
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the City of London

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 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the City of London

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) Power Platform
2 6 (17.14%) Azure
3 3 (8.57%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (8.57%) WhatsApp
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) Vertex AI
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.86%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.86%) dbt
5 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.86%) Figma
5 1 (2.86%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (2.86%) Miro
5 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) Power BI
2 6 (17.14%) Tableau
3 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (8.57%) Big Data
4 3 (8.57%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.71%) Presto
6 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.86%) Metadata
6 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.86%) Power Query
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
2 2 (5.71%) Selenium
3 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Analyst
1 7 (20.00%) Data Analyst
1 7 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Asset Management Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Programme Manager
4 3 (8.57%) SQL Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) SQL Data Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Business Change Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Business Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Change Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) PySpark
2 2 (5.71%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.86%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Hedge funds
3 2 (5.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) Life Science
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Analytics
2 13 (37.14%) Machine Learning
3 12 (34.29%) Agile
4 11 (31.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 11 (31.43%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (25.71%) Visualisation
6 8 (22.86%) Data Modelling
7 7 (20.00%) Change Management
7 7 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (17.14%) Data Analysis
8 6 (17.14%) Decision-Making
8 6 (17.14%) ETL
8 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
9 5 (14.29%) Data Analytics
9 5 (14.29%) Data Management
9 5 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (14.29%) Digital Strategy
9 5 (14.29%) Scrum
10 4 (11.43%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) SQL
2 14 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.71%) R
4 2 (5.71%) Scala
5 1 (2.86%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
1 4 (11.43%) PMI Certification
1 4 (11.43%) PMP
2 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) PMO
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Alteryx
2 4 (11.43%) Databricks
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) Foundry
4 2 (5.71%) Palantir
4 2 (5.71%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) SnapLogic