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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 83 108
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Science 23 18 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.87% 1.03% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.22% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 10
10th Percentile £289 £322 £336
25th Percentile £379 £497 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £658 £600
90th Percentile - £675 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £32.57 -
25th Percentile - £41.81 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £57.84 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -7.46% +13.64%
75th Percentile - £73.23 £63.75
90th Percentile - £82.09 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.49% +1.43% -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 1,085 1,471 1,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.14% 83.96% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 583 1,005
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £375 £306 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £702
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 547 358
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%
75th Percentile £66.88 £60.00 £64.88
90th Percentile £82.46 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +27 16 £600 - 15
Cambridgeshire +10 6 £329 -37.38% 45
Essex +1 1 £315 -50.39% 44
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 11 (47.83%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.70%) OpenStack
2 2 (8.70%) SAS
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.35%) IBM Domino
3 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) AWS
2 13 (56.52%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) iSCSI
2 2 (8.70%) SAN
3 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (65.22%) Tableau
2 13 (56.52%) Hadoop
3 12 (52.17%) Big Data
4 2 (8.70%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (8.70%) Text Mining
5 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.35%) Looker
5 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) GitLab
2 3 (13.04%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 11 (47.83%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Developer
2 12 (52.17%) Data Science Developer
3 8 (34.78%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 6 (26.09%) Senior
5 4 (17.39%) Administrator
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) Gen AI Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Information Scientist
6 2 (8.70%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 1 (4.35%) GCP Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead
7 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (60.87%) Matplotlib
1 14 (60.87%) NumPy
1 14 (60.87%) Pandas
1 14 (60.87%) PyTorch
1 14 (60.87%) scikit-learn
1 14 (60.87%) Seaborn
1 14 (60.87%) TensorFlow
2 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.70%) React
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (8.70%) Life Science
2 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) CentOS
2 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Visualisation
2 15 (65.22%) Analytics
2 15 (65.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 14 (60.87%) Data Analysis
3 14 (60.87%) Data Munging
3 14 (60.87%) Generative AI
3 14 (60.87%) Machine Learning
4 13 (56.52%) LLM
5 12 (52.17%) Decision-Making
5 12 (52.17%) Statistical Modelling
6 11 (47.83%) Computer Science
6 11 (47.83%) Data Analytics
6 11 (47.83%) Predictive Analytics
6 11 (47.83%) Reinforcement Learning
6 11 (47.83%) Time Series Forecasting
7 10 (43.48%) Feature Engineering
8 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
8 5 (21.74%) ITSM
9 4 (17.39%) Data Visualisation
10 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Python
2 15 (65.22%) R
3 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) MATLAB
6 1 (4.35%) Java
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) Degree
2 11 (47.83%) PhD
3 9 (39.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (56.52%) Data Quality
2 4 (17.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.70%) Puppet
3 2 (8.70%) Salt
4 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) ServiceNow
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) SAP
3 2 (8.70%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) OpenAI