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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 203 185
Rank change year-on-year +29 -18 -35
Contract jobs citing Data Science 500 609 1,120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.36% 1.28% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.43% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 388 737
10th Percentile £342 £413 £412
25th Percentile £425 £492 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% -3.36% +8.18%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.16% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 28
10th Percentile £21.25 £19.00 £28.95
25th Percentile £21.73 £20.47 £34.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -19.54% +56.87%
75th Percentile £48.75 £52.99 £59.97
90th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £22.25 £28.58 £42.00
% change year-on-year -22.15% -31.95% +53.59%

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 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +44 327 £550 -8.33% 437
North of England +23 46 £500 -16.67% 67
South East -9 39 £475 -9.52% 78
Midlands +15 26 £450 -18.18% 31
North West +27 25 £488 -12.95% 44
East of England +18 23 £538 +19.44% 27
West Midlands +9 20 £488 -10.55% 16
Yorkshire +4 20 £550 -12.00% 19
South West 0 15 £525 -12.50% 41
East Midlands +14 6 £375 -37.50% 15
North East +8 1 - - 5
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 32 (6.40%) Apache Spark
2 24 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.00%) Apache
4 9 (1.80%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.80%) Confluence
5 4 (0.80%) SAS
6 3 (0.60%) CMS
7 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.20%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.40%) Simulink
6 1 (0.20%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.20%) SPSS
6 1 (0.20%) Stata
Business Applications
1 7 (1.40%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 124 (24.80%) Azure
2 83 (16.60%) GCP
3 81 (16.20%) AWS
4 64 (12.80%) Power Platform
5 22 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (4.40%) Vertex AI
6 21 (4.20%) Serverless
6 21 (4.20%) Snowflake
7 19 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (3.20%) Amazon S3
9 14 (2.80%) Azure Machine Learning
9 14 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
9 14 (2.80%) GitHub
10 10 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.00%) Google Compute Engine
11 8 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.60%) dbt
12 7 (1.40%) Azure Functions
12 7 (1.40%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.20%) Internet
1 6 (1.20%) LAN
1 6 (1.20%) WAN
2 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (14.20%) Data Warehouse
2 65 (13.00%) Big Data
3 64 (12.80%) Power BI
4 56 (11.20%) Tableau
5 41 (8.20%) Data Lake
6 35 (7.00%) BigQuery
7 27 (5.40%) Hadoop
8 19 (3.80%) Data Mining
9 16 (3.20%) Relational Database
10 15 (3.00%) Metadata
11 14 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (2.40%) SQL Server
13 10 (2.00%) Qlik Sense
14 9 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.80%) MySQL
14 9 (1.80%) NoSQL
15 7 (1.40%) Presto
16 6 (1.20%) Looker
16 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (8.20%) Git
2 20 (4.00%) JIRA
3 11 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.40%) GitLab
5 6 (1.20%) MLflow
6 5 (1.00%) RStudio
7 3 (0.60%) ERwin
7 3 (0.60%) Selenium
8 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.40%) kappa
8 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.20%) CMake
9 1 (0.20%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.20%) Xcode
General
1 144 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 106 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (17.40%) Finance
4 34 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.40%) Marketing
6 23 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (4.20%) Banking
7 21 (4.20%) Retail
8 17 (3.40%) Pharmaceutical
9 12 (2.40%) Legal
9 12 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.40%) Advertising
13 6 (1.20%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.00%) Wearables
15 4 (0.80%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 113 (22.60%) Data Scientist
2 54 (10.80%) Data Engineer
3 53 (10.60%) Analyst
3 53 (10.60%) Senior
4 46 (9.20%) Developer
5 45 (9.00%) Architect
6 40 (8.00%) Data Analyst
7 30 (6.00%) Lead
8 20 (4.00%) Senior Data Scientist
9 17 (3.40%) Data Manager
9 17 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (3.20%) GCP Engineer
11 15 (3.00%) Consultant
11 15 (3.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 14 (2.80%) Data Architect
13 13 (2.60%) Senior Data Engineer
14 12 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (2.40%) Data Modeller
15 10 (2.00%) Cloud Architect
15 10 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.40%) PySpark
2 31 (6.20%) scikit-learn
3 29 (5.80%) TensorFlow
4 23 (4.60%) Pandas
5 22 (4.40%) PyTorch
6 19 (3.80%) HTML
7 18 (3.60%) CSS
8 16 (3.20%) Kafka
9 15 (3.00%) React
10 14 (2.80%) AngularJS
11 13 (2.60%) NumPy
12 7 (1.40%) Django
12 7 (1.40%) Matplotlib
13 6 (1.20%) Middleware
14 5 (1.00%) REST
14 5 (1.00%) RxJS
14 5 (1.00%) XGBoost
14 5 (1.00%) XML
15 4 (0.80%) .NET
15 4 (0.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 72 (14.40%) Algorithms
2 23 (4.60%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.40%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.60%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 10 (2.00%) Reference Data
7 9 (1.80%) IoT
8 8 (1.60%) Blockchain
8 8 (1.60%) FMCG
8 8 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.20%) NHS
10 6 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.00%) Life Science
11 5 (1.00%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.80%) Linux
1 14 (2.80%) Windows
2 4 (0.80%) Unix
3 2 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (40.60%) Machine Learning
2 185 (37.00%) Analytics
3 124 (24.80%) Computer Science
4 116 (23.20%) Data Modelling
5 113 (22.60%) Artificial Intelligence
6 108 (21.60%) Agile
7 99 (19.80%) Data Analysis
8 90 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
9 87 (17.40%) Business Intelligence
9 87 (17.40%) Visualisation
10 81 (16.20%) ETL
11 79 (15.80%) Data Pipeline
12 74 (14.80%) DevOps
13 68 (13.60%) Data Visualisation
14 64 (12.80%) Data Engineering
15 63 (12.60%) Decision-Making
16 60 (12.00%) Statistics
17 58 (11.60%) Mathematics
18 57 (11.40%) CI/CD
18 57 (11.40%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 263 (52.60%) Python
2 202 (40.40%) SQL
3 42 (8.40%) R
4 32 (6.40%) Java
5 21 (4.20%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.00%) Bash
7 16 (3.20%) Scala
8 8 (1.60%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.40%) C++
10 6 (1.20%) C#
10 6 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.00%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.80%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.40%) C
13 2 (0.40%) Ruby
13 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.40%) VBA
14 1 (0.20%) Bicep
14 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 150 (30.00%) Degree
2 73 (14.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (10.20%) Master's Degree
4 47 (9.40%) Security Cleared
5 37 (7.40%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.80%) PhD
7 13 (2.60%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.60%) PMP
8 11 (2.20%) Numerate Degree
9 10 (2.00%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.00%) CISSP
12 4 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.60%) Postgraduate
14 2 (0.40%) CFA
14 2 (0.40%) MBA
15 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.20%) CSSLP
15 1 (0.20%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (9.40%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.40%) QA
3 15 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (2.20%) GDPR
5 5 (1.00%) WCAG
6 4 (0.80%) PMO
7 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.40%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) GxP
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (4.80%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) HDFS
2 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (6.40%) Terraform
2 28 (5.60%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.00%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.60%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.20%) Kibana
5 1 (0.20%) logstash
5 1 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 67 (13.40%) Databricks
2 37 (7.40%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.40%) Google
4 12 (2.40%) Alteryx
4 12 (2.40%) Oracle
4 12 (2.40%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.00%) Foundry
5 10 (2.00%) Palantir
5 10 (2.00%) SAP
6 9 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.00%) Ab Initio
7 5 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.60%) Citrix
8 3 (0.60%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.60%) Informatica
8 3 (0.60%) New Relic
8 3 (0.60%) Splunk
8 3 (0.60%) Teradata
9 2 (0.40%) CA
9 2 (0.40%) IBM