Data Science Contracts in England

Data Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 207 175
Rank change year-on-year +38 -32 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Science 502 674 1,187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.36% 1.33% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.48% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 428 787
10th Percentile £359 £414 £408
25th Percentile £450 £492 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £556 £590
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.72% +7.27%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £665
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.90% +7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 29
10th Percentile £23.53 £19.00 £27.73
25th Percentile £27.08 £19.25 £34.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -16.67% +54.90%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £28.58 £37.50
% change year-on-year +24.21% -23.79% +40.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in England

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Science in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Science in England

Data Science
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +40 339 £550 -8.33% 365
North of England +23 38 £488 -22.00% 57
South East +3 32 £475 -13.64% 58
East of England +28 28 £550 +22.22% 29
Midlands -3 28 £456 -15.51% 23
North West +23 23 £488 -25.00% 39
West Midlands +3 22 £488 -9.72% 13
South West +8 16 £600 +15.11% 24
Yorkshire +4 14 £518 -20.38% 14
East Midlands +19 6 £375 -37.50% 10
North East +19 1 - - 4
Data Science
UK

Data Science
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 31 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (5.98%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.19%) Apache
4 7 (1.39%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.40%) Confluence
5 2 (0.40%) SAS
5 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.20%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.00%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.40%) Simulink
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.20%) Blender
5 1 (0.20%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.20%) Houdini
5 1 (0.20%) Maya
5 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.39%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.60%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 97 (19.32%) Azure
2 80 (15.94%) GCP
3 76 (15.14%) AWS
4 68 (13.55%) Power Platform
5 26 (5.18%) Serverless
6 23 (4.58%) Vertex AI
7 18 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (3.39%) Amazon S3
9 15 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.79%) Snowflake
11 13 (2.59%) GitHub
12 12 (2.39%) Azure Machine Learning
13 10 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (1.99%) dbt
13 10 (1.99%) Google Compute Engine
14 9 (1.79%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (1.59%) Figma
16 7 (1.39%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.20%) Internet
2 3 (0.60%) LAN
2 3 (0.60%) WAN
3 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (13.55%) Power BI
2 65 (12.95%) Big Data
3 64 (12.75%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (10.56%) Tableau
5 35 (6.97%) BigQuery
6 34 (6.77%) Data Lake
7 28 (5.58%) Hadoop
8 18 (3.59%) Data Mining
9 17 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (2.99%) Metadata
11 13 (2.59%) BusinessObjects
11 13 (2.59%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (1.59%) Looker
13 8 (1.59%) SQL Server
14 7 (1.39%) Presto
14 7 (1.39%) Relational Database
15 6 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (1.20%) Flink
16 5 (1.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (6.37%) Git
2 15 (2.99%) JIRA
3 10 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.59%) MLflow
5 7 (1.39%) GitLab
6 3 (0.60%) ERwin
6 3 (0.60%) Poetry
6 3 (0.60%) RStudio
6 3 (0.60%) Selenium
7 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.40%) kappa
7 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.20%) CMake
8 1 (0.20%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.20%) Xcode
General
1 138 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 100 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (16.14%) Finance
4 37 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.38%) Marketing
6 19 (3.78%) Banking
7 16 (3.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 16 (3.19%) Retail
8 15 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.79%) Legal
10 12 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.20%) Advertising
12 6 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.20%) Police
13 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.80%) Games
13 4 (0.80%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 126 (25.10%) Data Scientist
2 56 (11.16%) Senior
3 55 (10.96%) Data Engineer
4 45 (8.96%) Analyst
5 43 (8.57%) Architect
6 41 (8.17%) Developer
7 33 (6.57%) Data Analyst
8 29 (5.78%) Lead
9 19 (3.78%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 18 (3.59%) Senior Data Scientist
10 18 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (3.39%) Data Manager
11 17 (3.39%) GCP Engineer
12 15 (2.99%) Data Architect
13 13 (2.59%) Consultant
14 12 (2.39%) Senior Data Engineer
15 10 (1.99%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (1.99%) Data Modeller
15 10 (1.99%) Designer
15 10 (1.99%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.97%) scikit-learn
2 34 (6.77%) Pandas
3 32 (6.37%) PySpark
4 29 (5.78%) TensorFlow
5 21 (4.18%) NumPy
6 17 (3.39%) PyTorch
7 16 (3.19%) Kafka
8 12 (2.39%) React
9 11 (2.19%) HTML
10 9 (1.79%) CSS
10 9 (1.79%) Plotly
11 8 (1.59%) Django
12 7 (1.39%) Matplotlib
13 6 (1.20%) Lambda Expressions
13 6 (1.20%) REST
14 5 (1.00%) Flask
14 5 (1.00%) Keras
14 5 (1.00%) Node.js
14 5 (1.00%) XML
15 4 (0.80%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 82 (16.33%) Algorithms
2 21 (4.18%) Data Structures
2 21 (4.18%) Management Information System
3 19 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 9 (1.79%) IoT
6 8 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.59%) Life Science
6 8 (1.59%) Reference Data
7 7 (1.39%) Blockchain
7 7 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.20%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.20%) FMCG
8 6 (1.20%) NHS
9 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.19%) Linux
1 11 (2.19%) Windows
2 4 (0.80%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (39.04%) Machine Learning
2 169 (33.67%) Analytics
3 114 (22.71%) Artificial Intelligence
4 110 (21.91%) Data Modelling
5 108 (21.51%) Computer Science
6 104 (20.72%) Data Analysis
7 97 (19.32%) Visualisation
8 94 (18.73%) Agile
9 83 (16.53%) Business Intelligence
9 83 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
10 79 (15.74%) Data Pipeline
11 78 (15.54%) ETL
12 67 (13.35%) Data Visualisation
13 62 (12.35%) DevOps
14 61 (12.15%) Decision-Making
15 60 (11.95%) Data Engineering
16 57 (11.35%) Statistics
17 56 (11.16%) Mathematics
18 51 (10.16%) Data Management
19 48 (9.56%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 276 (54.98%) Python
2 184 (36.65%) SQL
3 52 (10.36%) R
4 30 (5.98%) Java
5 17 (3.39%) Scala
6 16 (3.19%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.99%) Bash
8 10 (1.99%) MATLAB
9 8 (1.59%) C++
10 6 (1.20%) C#
10 6 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.80%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.40%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.40%) VBA
13 1 (0.20%) Bicep
13 1 (0.20%) C
13 1 (0.20%) Ruby
13 1 (0.20%) Swift
13 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 130 (25.90%) Degree
2 62 (12.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 56 (11.16%) Security Cleared
4 44 (8.76%) SC Cleared
5 35 (6.97%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.59%) PhD
7 10 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
9 6 (1.20%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.20%) PMP
10 4 (0.80%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.80%) CISSP
11 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.40%) CFA
12 2 (0.40%) MBA
12 2 (0.40%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.20%) HND
13 1 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.76%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.99%) QA
3 9 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (1.59%) GDPR
5 4 (0.80%) PMO
6 3 (0.60%) GxP
6 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.60%) WCAG
7 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 19 (3.78%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (7.17%) Terraform
2 22 (4.38%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.20%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.60%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 51 (10.16%) Databricks
2 34 (6.77%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.18%) Google
4 12 (2.39%) SAP
5 11 (2.19%) Oracle
6 10 (1.99%) Foundry
6 10 (1.99%) Palantir
7 7 (1.39%) Alteryx
7 7 (1.39%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.20%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.00%) Ab Initio
10 3 (0.60%) Citrix
10 3 (0.60%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.60%) Hyperion
10 3 (0.60%) Informatica
10 3 (0.60%) New Relic
10 3 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.60%) Splunk
10 3 (0.60%) Teradata
11 2 (0.40%) CA