Information Scientist Contract Job Trends in England

Information Scientist
UK > England

The median Information Scientist daily rate in England is £298, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 490 -
Rank change year-on-year -116 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Information Scientist 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.005% 0.008% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.008% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £284 £379 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 £408 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.99% - -
75th Percentile £311 £436 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £298 £408 -
% change year-on-year -26.99% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 40,742 24,429 34,636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.16% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,924 15,931 22,680
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £748 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,147 2,542
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.94 £12.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.98 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -8.57%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.37 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.45 £38.50
% change year-on-year +62.57% -31.30% -10.47%

Information Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Information Scientist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Information Scientist job vacancy trend in England

Information Scientist
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Information Scientist job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Information Scientist job vacancies in England

Information Scientist
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Information Scientist job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Information Scientist job vacancies in England

Information Scientist
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 Information Scientist within the England region over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. 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
South East - 2 £298 - 2
Information Scientist
UK

Information Scientist Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 July 2026, Information Scientist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Information Scientist in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Biomedicine
1 1 (50.00%) Content Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Text Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation

Information Scientist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Biomedicine
1 1 (50.00%) Content Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Text Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python