Senior Data Scientist Contracts in England

Senior Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Senior Data Scientist daily rate in England is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 656 736
Rank change year-on-year +139 +80 -178
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 18 7 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.014% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.015% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 31
10th Percentile £490 £505 £525
25th Percentile £529 £513 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -10.20% -1.21%
75th Percentile £680 £613 £650
90th Percentile £759 £635 £763
UK median daily rate £593 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +7.73% -8.33% -3.23%

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 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £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 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

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 27 April 2024.

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 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 +110 15 £593 +12.86% 40
South West +22 1 £625 -3.85% 1
South East - 1 £698 - 8
Senior Data Scientist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 18 (100.00%) Data Science
2 16 (88.89%) Python
3 12 (66.67%) Machine Learning
4 11 (61.11%) Algorithms
5 9 (50.00%) SQL
6 8 (44.44%) Analytics
7 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
8 5 (27.78%) Data Analysis
8 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
8 5 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (22.22%) Jupyter
9 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (22.22%) Git
9 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
9 4 (22.22%) E-Commerce
9 4 (22.22%) Deep Learning
9 4 (22.22%) Natural Language Processing
9 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
10 3 (16.67%) Retail
10 3 (16.67%) R
10 3 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
10 3 (16.67%) Statistical Modelling
10 3 (16.67%) Anomaly Detection
10 3 (16.67%) Finance
10 3 (16.67%) Azure
10 3 (16.67%) Statistics
10 3 (16.67%) Degree
10 3 (16.67%) Power BI

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 4 (22.22%) Jupyter
2 2 (11.11%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (5.56%) dbt
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.56%) Looker
2 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Retail
4 2 (11.11%) Law
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
4 2 (11.11%) Marketing
4 2 (11.11%) Police
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Matplotlib
1 2 (11.11%) Pandas
1 2 (11.11%) scikit-learn
1 2 (11.11%) XGBoost
2 1 (5.56%) LightGBM
2 1 (5.56%) PySpark
2 1 (5.56%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Data Science
2 12 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 8 (44.44%) Analytics
4 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 5 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (27.78%) Data Analysis
6 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 4 (22.22%) Deep Learning
6 4 (22.22%) E-Commerce
6 4 (22.22%) Natural Language Processing
6 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
7 3 (16.67%) Anomaly Detection
7 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
7 3 (16.67%) Statistical Modelling
7 3 (16.67%) Statistics
7 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (11.11%) PhD
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks