Data Scientist Contracts in Guildford

Data Scientist
Surrey > Guildford

The median Data Scientist daily rate in Guildford is £463, 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 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Guildford 4.76% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £349 - -
25th Percentile £384 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £566 - -
Surrey median daily rate £366 £698 -
% change year-on-year -47.49% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Guildford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Guildford. 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 Guildford with a recognized job title 42 75 52
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 90.36% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 67 40
10th Percentile £250 £310 £263
25th Percentile £273 £390 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.38% +31.25%
75th Percentile £581 £647 £602
90th Percentile £588 £768 £738
Surrey median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £23.00 - -
25th Percentile £26.50 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% - -
75th Percentile - £18.75 -
90th Percentile £30.30 - -
Surrey median hourly rate £25.15 £28.37 £45.00
% change year-on-year -11.33% -36.97% +109.64%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in Guildford

Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

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

Daily rate trend for Data Scientist in Guildford

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in Guildford

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Scientist in Guildford

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Guildford region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford 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
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks