Data Science Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Data Science
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Data Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Data Science 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.44% - 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% - 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.46%
75th Percentile £474 - £600
90th Percentile £488 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -16.67% +23.08% -9.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 241 78 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 87.00% 86.67% 92.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 56 120
10th Percentile £290 £207 £363
25th Percentile £333 £377 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £530 £503 £600
90th Percentile £625 £616 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.00 - -
Median hourly rate £15.00 - -
75th Percentile £18.99 - -
90th Percentile £23.92 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £18.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +38.39% -19.71% +26.98%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Science relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Data Science job vacancy trend in Coventry

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Data Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Data Science

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) CRISP-DM
1 4 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Experimental Design
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 4 (100.00%) MLOps
1 4 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Statistics
1 4 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 4 (100.00%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 4 (100.00%) PhD
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Databricks