Data Scientist Contracts in Glasgow

Data Scientist
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Data Scientist daily rate in Glasgow is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 86 84
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.24% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.24% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £464 £351 £357
25th Percentile £466 £353 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £363 £366
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -0.82% -
75th Percentile £516 £378 £376
90th Percentile £521 £384 £377
Scotland median daily rate £488 £375 £510
% change year-on-year +30.00% -26.47% -11.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 808 840 937
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 95.24% 96.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 618 716
10th Percentile £253 £325 £210
25th Percentile £363 £410 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £650 £700 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 11
10th Percentile £12.03 £12.45 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.71 £23.10
Median hourly rate £31.50 £18.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +70.27% -50.57% +113.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.24 £41.46
90th Percentile £67.50 £61.75 £43.50
Scotland median hourly rate £27.90 £22.13 £26.85
% change year-on-year +26.08% -17.60% -30.71%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in Glasgow

Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Data Scientist in Glasgow

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 Glasgow region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
3 Data Scientist jobs in Scotland