Lead Data Scientist Contracts in England

Lead Data Scientist
UK > England

As of 28 April 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Lead Data Scientist daily rate in England.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 654 776
Rank change year-on-year +119 +122 -152
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Scientist 3 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.002% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.002% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £550
25th Percentile - - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile - - £681
90th Percentile - - £775
UK median daily rate - £500 £625
% change year-on-year - -20.00% -7.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,279 47,758 67,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,753 33,910 48,235
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,409 1,903
10th Percentile £12.94 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Lead Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Scientist in England

Lead Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Scientist in England

Lead Data 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 Lead Data Scientist within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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 +108 2 - - 11
Lead Data Scientist
UK

Lead Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Lead Data Scientist 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 Lead Data Scientist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) R
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) OSINT
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Police
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Discovery
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) SAS
2 2 (66.67%) Law
2 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing

Lead Data Scientist 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 2 (66.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Law
2 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 2 (66.67%) Police
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Discovery
2 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) OSINT
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Sentiment Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) R
1 3 (100.00%) SQL