Data Science Contracts in London

Data Science
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 167 140
Rank change year-on-year +40 -27 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Science 339 436 805
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.91% 1.61% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 1.77% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 273 524
10th Percentile £395 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £508 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £680 £713 £682
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
England median daily rate £542 £556 £590
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.72% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 20
10th Percentile £32.65 £39.50 £30.83
25th Percentile £41.10 £46.25 £34.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +25.61% -21.60%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £61.94
90th Percentile £68.75 - £67.05
England median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +21.43% -16.67% +54.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in London

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Science in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Science in London

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the London 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
Central London +25 41 £575 -4.17% 37
West London +18 3 £525 +31.25% 5
South London - 2 - - 2
East London - 2 £460 - 8
North London - 1 - - 1
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 19 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (5.01%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.65%) Apache
4 6 (1.77%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.59%) SAS
5 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.18%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.59%) Simulink
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.29%) Blender
5 1 (0.29%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.29%) Houdini
5 1 (0.29%) Maya
5 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (2.06%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 65 (19.17%) Azure
2 61 (17.99%) GCP
3 55 (16.22%) AWS
4 48 (14.16%) Power Platform
5 22 (6.49%) Vertex AI
6 14 (4.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (3.83%) Serverless
8 12 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (3.24%) Amazon S3
10 10 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.95%) Google Compute Engine
11 9 (2.65%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (2.65%) dbt
12 7 (2.06%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (2.06%) Snowflake
13 6 (1.77%) Figma
13 6 (1.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (1.77%) SaaS
14 5 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.47%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.77%) Internet
2 1 (0.29%) LAN
2 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (14.16%) Power BI
2 43 (12.68%) Big Data
3 42 (12.39%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (11.21%) Tableau
5 26 (7.67%) BigQuery
6 17 (5.01%) Data Lake
7 16 (4.72%) Hadoop
8 13 (3.83%) BusinessObjects
9 10 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.65%) Data Mining
11 6 (1.77%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.77%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.47%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.47%) Looker
12 5 (1.47%) Presto
13 4 (1.18%) Flink
13 4 (1.18%) Metadata
13 4 (1.18%) Relational Database
14 3 (0.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 26 (7.67%) Git
2 14 (4.13%) JIRA
3 9 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.06%) GitLab
4 7 (2.06%) MLflow
5 3 (0.88%) Poetry
5 3 (0.88%) Selenium
6 2 (0.59%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.59%) RStudio
7 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.29%) Xcode
General
1 98 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.40%) Finance
3 57 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.08%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.72%) Marketing
6 9 (2.65%) Banking
6 9 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.36%) Legal
7 8 (2.36%) Retail
8 6 (1.77%) Advertising
9 5 (1.47%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.18%) Games
10 4 (1.18%) Local Government
10 4 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.88%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.88%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.59%) Czech Language
12 2 (0.59%) Law
12 2 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 94 (27.73%) Data Scientist
2 41 (12.09%) Senior
3 31 (9.14%) Architect
4 30 (8.85%) Data Engineer
5 28 (8.26%) Developer
6 23 (6.78%) Analyst
7 22 (6.49%) Lead
8 20 (5.90%) Data Analyst
9 19 (5.60%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 16 (4.72%) GCP Engineer
11 15 (4.42%) Senior Data Scientist
12 13 (3.83%) Data Architect
13 12 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.95%) Consultant
15 8 (2.36%) Cloud Engineer
15 8 (2.36%) Designer
15 8 (2.36%) Product Manager
15 8 (2.36%) Python Developer
15 8 (2.36%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (2.36%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.73%) scikit-learn
2 30 (8.85%) Pandas
3 25 (7.37%) TensorFlow
4 20 (5.90%) PySpark
5 17 (5.01%) NumPy
6 13 (3.83%) PyTorch
7 11 (3.24%) React
8 10 (2.95%) HTML
8 10 (2.95%) Kafka
9 9 (2.65%) Plotly
10 8 (2.36%) CSS
10 8 (2.36%) Django
11 7 (2.06%) Matplotlib
12 6 (1.77%) Lambda Expressions
13 4 (1.18%) Keras
13 4 (1.18%) Node.js
13 4 (1.18%) SciPy
13 4 (1.18%) Seaborn
13 4 (1.18%) Shiny
13 4 (1.18%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 60 (17.70%) Algorithms
2 13 (3.83%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.24%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 10 (2.95%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.65%) IoT
6 8 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.06%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.47%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.18%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.18%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.18%) Social Media
10 3 (0.88%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.88%) FMCG
10 3 (0.88%) Genomics
10 3 (0.88%) Grid Computing
10 3 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.18%) Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (44.54%) Machine Learning
2 110 (32.45%) Analytics
3 87 (25.66%) Artificial Intelligence
4 72 (21.24%) Computer Science
5 70 (20.65%) Data Analysis
6 68 (20.06%) Data Modelling
7 64 (18.88%) Visualisation
8 60 (17.70%) Agile
9 59 (17.40%) Data Pipeline
10 57 (16.81%) ETL
11 55 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
12 50 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (13.27%) Data Visualisation
14 44 (12.98%) Mathematics
15 41 (12.09%) DevOps
16 39 (11.50%) Decision-Making
17 36 (10.62%) Statistics
18 35 (10.32%) CI/CD
19 32 (9.44%) Data Engineering
19 32 (9.44%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 205 (60.47%) Python
2 127 (37.46%) SQL
3 36 (10.62%) R
4 15 (4.42%) Bash
5 14 (4.13%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.54%) Java
7 9 (2.65%) Scala
8 7 (2.06%) MATLAB
9 5 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.88%) C++
10 3 (0.88%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.59%) C#
11 2 (0.59%) VBA
12 1 (0.29%) Bicep
12 1 (0.29%) C
12 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.29%) Ruby
12 1 (0.29%) Swift
12 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 83 (24.48%) Degree
2 38 (11.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (10.91%) Security Cleared
4 32 (9.44%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.37%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.65%) PhD
7 8 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.77%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.77%) PMP
9 5 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.18%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.18%) CISSP
10 4 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.59%) CFA
12 2 (0.59%) MBA
12 2 (0.59%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.29%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.26%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.24%) QA
3 8 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.88%) PMO
4 3 (0.88%) WCAG
5 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (4.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (8.55%) Terraform
2 16 (4.72%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.77%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 36 (10.62%) Databricks
2 21 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.54%) Google
4 10 (2.95%) Foundry
4 10 (2.95%) Oracle
4 10 (2.95%) Palantir
5 7 (2.06%) SAP
6 6 (1.77%) Alteryx
7 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.59%) Adobe
8 2 (0.59%) CA
8 2 (0.59%) ESRI
8 2 (0.59%) Informatica
9 1 (0.29%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.29%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.29%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.29%) Splunk
9 1 (0.29%) Teradata