Data Science Contracts in East London

Data Science
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East London 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 33 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Science 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 4.63% 0.97% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 1.05% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £415 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.71% - -
75th Percentile £585 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £550 £557 £600
% change year-on-year -1.17% -7.25% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 106 191 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 98.15% 92.72% 92.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 164 146
10th Percentile £297 £304 £203
25th Percentile £415 £418 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £534
Median % change year-on-year - +1.12% -4.22%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £723
90th Percentile £639 £746 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 9
10th Percentile £16.33 - £20.78
25th Percentile £25.65 £11.95 £21.24
Median hourly rate £30.30 £23.32 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +29.93% +3.71% -10.36%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.66 £23.73
90th Percentile £38.50 £37.92 £26.18
London median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £39.92
% change year-on-year +14.04% -28.60% +9.49%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in East London

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in East London

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in East London over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in East London

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in East London

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 East London region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Tower Hamlets +6 2 £585 +27.17% 1
Data Science
London

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (40.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Ant
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
1 2 (40.00%) SoapUI
1 2 (40.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Technologist
2 1 (20.00%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) EDI
1 2 (40.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
1 2 (40.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) AIX
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Management
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Change Control
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) Key Management
3 2 (40.00%) OWASP
3 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (40.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (20.00%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Korn
1 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
1 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) SEPA
1 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Perforce