Senior Data Scientist Contracts in England

Senior Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Senior Data Scientist daily rate in England is £583, 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 456 524 646
Rank change year-on-year +68 +122 +92
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 29 18 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.048% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.052% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 3
10th Percentile £463 £490 £505
25th Percentile £513 £529 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +11.36% -9.28%
75th Percentile £669 £680 £613
90th Percentile £769 £759 £635
UK median daily rate £590 £593 £550
% change year-on-year -0.42% +7.73% -8.33%

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%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in England

Senior Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Scientist in England

Senior Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Scientist in England

Senior 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 Senior Data Scientist 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 +43 20 £650 +9.70% 143
South East +48 3 £583 -16.49% 28
North of England - 1 £475 - 19
North West - 1 £475 - 15
Senior Data Scientist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Data Science
2 27 (93.10%) Python
3 25 (86.21%) Machine Learning
4 23 (79.31%) SQL
5 16 (55.17%) Statistical Modelling
5 16 (55.17%) Azure
5 16 (55.17%) Apache Spark
6 14 (48.28%) R
7 12 (41.38%) Mathematics
8 11 (37.93%) Degree
8 11 (37.93%) Data Analysis
8 11 (37.93%) Analytics
9 9 (31.03%) Statistics
9 9 (31.03%) Marketing
9 9 (31.03%) Computer Science
9 9 (31.03%) Data Extraction
9 9 (31.03%) Data Collection
10 8 (27.59%) Marketing Mix
10 8 (27.59%) Multi-touch
10 8 (27.59%) Applied Mathematics
10 8 (27.59%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (27.59%) Validation
10 8 (27.59%) PhD
10 8 (27.59%) Bayesian Methods
10 8 (27.59%) Pandas
11 7 (24.14%) Algorithms
11 7 (24.14%) Finance
11 7 (24.14%) AWS
12 6 (20.69%) Visualisation
12 6 (20.69%) scikit-learn

Senior 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 16 (55.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) GCP
3 3 (10.34%) Matillion
3 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.34%) Snowflake
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.45%) Canva
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Tableau
2 3 (10.34%) Big Data
2 3 (10.34%) Hadoop
2 3 (10.34%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) Looker
3 1 (3.45%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (31.03%) Marketing
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Retail
6 1 (3.45%) Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.45%) Games
6 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Social Science
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Pandas
2 6 (20.69%) scikit-learn
3 4 (13.79%) TensorFlow
4 3 (10.34%) PySpark
5 2 (6.90%) NumPy
5 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
6 1 (3.45%) D3.js
6 1 (3.45%) Kafka
6 1 (3.45%) Matplotlib
6 1 (3.45%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Multi-touch
2 7 (24.14%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Credit Risk
3 2 (6.90%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (6.90%) FMCG
3 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) CUDA
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (3.45%) Mobile Games
4 1 (3.45%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Data Science
2 25 (86.21%) Machine Learning
3 16 (55.17%) Statistical Modelling
4 12 (41.38%) Mathematics
5 11 (37.93%) Analytics
5 11 (37.93%) Data Analysis
6 9 (31.03%) Computer Science
6 9 (31.03%) Data Collection
6 9 (31.03%) Data Extraction
6 9 (31.03%) Statistics
7 8 (27.59%) Applied Mathematics
7 8 (27.59%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (27.59%) Bayesian Methods
7 8 (27.59%) Marketing Mix
7 8 (27.59%) Validation
8 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (20.69%) Visualisation
9 4 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (13.79%) Predictive Modelling
10 3 (10.34%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 27 (93.10%) Python
2 23 (79.31%) SQL
3 14 (48.28%) R
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.34%) Scala
4 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.45%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Degree
2 8 (27.59%) PhD
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Talend
2 3 (10.34%) Virgin Media
3 1 (3.45%) Amplitude