Data Science Contracts in Cumbria

Data Science
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 38 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Science 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 2.56% 0.77% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 0.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £520 -
North West median daily rate £475 £488 £650
% change year-on-year -2.56% -25.00% +36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.59 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 - -
Median hourly rate £25.43 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile £29.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £25.43 - £49.57
% change year-on-year - - -5.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 167 248 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 85.64% 95.75% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 146 29
10th Percentile £368 £430 £350
25th Percentile £425 £489 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £522 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +12.86% -2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £500
90th Percentile £638 £725 £710
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 64 8
10th Percentile £22.72 - £22.61
25th Percentile £25.26 £10.95 £44.81
Median hourly rate £31.76 £13.00 £55.38
Median % change year-on-year +144.31% -76.52% +11.80%
75th Percentile £59.24 £44.74 £66.16
90th Percentile £81.15 £51.91 £83.40
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Cumbria

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in Cumbria.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in Cumbria

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in Cumbria.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in Cumbria

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barrow-in-Furness - 5 - -
Data Science
North West

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Metadata
1 5 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Data Management
1 5 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 5 (100.00%) Information Retrieval
1 5 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 5 (100.00%) Pattern Recognition
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) Statistics
1 5 (100.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree