Data Science Contracts in the East of England

Data Science
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 52 84 106
Rank change year-on-year +32 +22 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Science 30 28 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.20% 1.47% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 1.70% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 11
10th Percentile £339 £303 £338
25th Percentile £447 £400 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £531
90th Percentile - £675 £538
England median daily rate £550 £542 £550
% change year-on-year +1.57% -1.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £32.57 -
25th Percentile £78.75 £41.81 £18.75
Median hourly rate £80.50 £57.84 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.19% +196.59% -
75th Percentile £82.25 £73.23 £20.25
90th Percentile - £82.09 -
England median hourly rate £25.50 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +21.43% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the East of England

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the East of England

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the East of England

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the East of England

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire +46 24 £650 +73.33% 26
Cambridgeshire +8 3 £408 -25.91% 25
Essex +5 3 £315 -50.39% 13
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 14 (46.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.00%) Apache
2 3 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.67%) SAS
4 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (13.33%) GitHub
5 3 (10.00%) dbt
5 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.00%) Vertex AI
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (63.33%) Tableau
2 16 (53.33%) Hadoop
3 14 (46.67%) Big Data
4 5 (16.67%) Metadata
5 4 (13.33%) Data Mining
6 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
6 3 (10.00%) Looker
6 3 (10.00%) Power BI
7 2 (6.67%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (6.67%) Text Mining
8 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (63.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.33%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (66.67%) Developer
2 14 (46.67%) Data Science Developer
3 12 (40.00%) Senior
4 10 (33.33%) Senior Developer
5 7 (23.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Architect
6 4 (13.33%) Data Architect
7 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Gen AI Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Information Scientist
9 1 (3.33%) DBA
9 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 1 (3.33%) Python Developer
9 1 (3.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (63.33%) NumPy
1 19 (63.33%) Pandas
2 16 (53.33%) Matplotlib
2 16 (53.33%) PyTorch
2 16 (53.33%) scikit-learn
2 16 (53.33%) Seaborn
2 16 (53.33%) TensorFlow
3 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 4 (13.33%) React
4 3 (10.00%) Kafka
4 3 (10.00%) PySpark
5 2 (6.67%) .NET
6 1 (3.33%) CSS
6 1 (3.33%) HTML
6 1 (3.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (63.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.33%) Reference Data
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) Visualisation
2 21 (70.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 20 (66.67%) Analytics
3 20 (66.67%) Machine Learning
4 19 (63.33%) Generative AI
4 19 (63.33%) LLM
5 17 (56.67%) Reinforcement Learning
6 16 (53.33%) Computer Science
6 16 (53.33%) Data Analysis
6 16 (53.33%) Data Analytics
6 16 (53.33%) Data Munging
6 16 (53.33%) Decision-Making
7 15 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
8 14 (46.67%) Predictive Analytics
8 14 (46.67%) Statistical Modelling
8 14 (46.67%) Time Series Forecasting
9 10 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (13.33%) Conceptual Models
11 4 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) Python
2 16 (53.33%) R
3 10 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (10.00%) Java
5 2 (6.67%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (60.00%) Degree
2 14 (46.67%) PhD
3 12 (40.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (73.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Google
1 2 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (3.33%) Checkmarx
2 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) OpenAI