Data Science Engineer Contracts in England

Data Science Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Science Engineer daily rate in England is £578, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 - 647
Rank change year-on-year - - +105
Contract jobs requiring a Data Science Engineer 5 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% - 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £332 - £478
25th Percentile £413 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.29%
75th Percentile £625 - £606
90th Percentile - - £610
UK median daily rate £578 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -35.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Science Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Science Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science Engineer in England

Data Science Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science Engineer in England

Data Science Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Science Engineer in England

Data Science Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science Engineer within the 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
London - 4 £589 - 7
South West - 1 £425 - 4
Data Science Engineer
UK

Data Science Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Science Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Science Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (60.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (60.00%) Big Data
3 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (20.00%) Luigi
5 1 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (20.00%) Dagster
5 1 (20.00%) Prefect
5 1 (20.00%) Metaflow
5 1 (20.00%) QA
5 1 (20.00%) Django
5 1 (20.00%) Azure
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) NumPy
5 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) GCP

Data Science Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (20.00%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Dagster
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Prefect
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
1 3 (60.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Django
1 1 (20.00%) Metaflow
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft