Data Scientist Contract Job Trends in Heathrow

Data Scientist
Hillingdon > Heathrow

The median Data Scientist daily rate in Heathrow is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Heathrow 9.09% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 11.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
Hillingdon median daily rate £650 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Heathrow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Heathrow. 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 Heathrow with a recognized job title 9 30 36
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 81.82% 100.00% 97.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 26 31
10th Percentile £338 £172 £214
25th Percentile £381 £240 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £440 £350
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +25.71% -39.13%
75th Percentile £448 £475 £450
90th Percentile £463 £575 £525
Hillingdon median daily rate £548 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +21.67% +12.50% -30.43%

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Heathrow

For the 6 months to 15 February 2026, Data Scientist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Heathrow region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Dagster
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Heathrow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Dagster
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Research
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft