Data Scientist Contracts in London

Data Scientist
England > London

The median Data Scientist daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 434 439
Rank change year-on-year +135 +5 -144
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 95 67 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 0.25% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.26% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 49 110
10th Percentile £388 £415 £411
25th Percentile £479 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £629 £625 £625
90th Percentile £717 £692 £653
England median daily rate £550 £533 £575
% change year-on-year +3.29% -7.39% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile - - £35.13
25th Percentile £41.25 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.75 - £46.75
75th Percentile £48.75 - £59.97
90th Percentile £51.00 - £62.65
England median hourly rate £42.50 £19.99 £45.00
% change year-on-year +112.66% -55.59% +1.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,505 25,769 37,084
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,930 18,667 27,033
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in London

Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Scientist in London

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Scientist in London

Data Scientist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Scientist in London

Data Scientist
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 Scientist within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +38 9 £650 +36.84% 4
South London - 2 - -
West London - 2 £525 - 2
Data Scientist
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 London region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 94 (98.95%) Data Science
2 84 (88.42%) Python
3 49 (51.58%) Machine Learning
4 47 (49.47%) SQL
5 45 (47.37%) Visualisation
6 40 (42.11%) Algorithms
7 37 (38.95%) Data Analysis
8 33 (34.74%) Analytical Skills
9 27 (28.42%) R
9 27 (28.42%) Data Visualisation
9 27 (28.42%) Mathematics
9 27 (28.42%) Power Platform
9 27 (28.42%) Power BI
10 25 (26.32%) Data Modelling
10 25 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (25.26%) Statistics
11 24 (25.26%) Tableau
11 24 (25.26%) Social Skills
12 23 (24.21%) Analytics
12 23 (24.21%) Degree
13 21 (22.11%) Artificial Intelligence
14 19 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (18.95%) Finance
15 18 (18.95%) scikit-learn
16 16 (16.84%) Predictive Modelling
17 15 (15.79%) Big Data
17 15 (15.79%) Computer Science
18 13 (13.68%) Actionable Insight
18 13 (13.68%) Git
19 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared

Data Scientist Skill Set
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 6 (6.32%) Jupyter
2 4 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 27 (28.42%) Power Platform
2 12 (12.63%) GCP
3 11 (11.58%) Azure
4 5 (5.26%) AWS
5 2 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (2.11%) Dagster
5 2 (2.11%) Google Analytics
5 2 (2.11%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.11%) Vertex AI
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.05%) dbt
6 1 (1.05%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.05%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.42%) Power BI
2 24 (25.26%) Tableau
3 15 (15.79%) Big Data
4 12 (12.63%) BusinessObjects
5 10 (10.53%) Hadoop
6 9 (9.47%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.21%) Data Mining
8 3 (3.16%) Looker
9 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (13.68%) Git
2 2 (2.11%) JIRA
3 1 (1.05%) MLflow
General
1 33 (34.74%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (25.26%) Social Skills
3 18 (18.95%) Finance
4 8 (8.42%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.32%) Marketing
6 4 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Retail
8 2 (2.11%) Law
8 2 (2.11%) Legal
8 2 (2.11%) Police
9 1 (1.05%) Games
9 1 (1.05%) Hungarian Language
9 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.95%) scikit-learn
2 12 (12.63%) Pandas
3 10 (10.53%) TensorFlow
4 6 (6.32%) Plotly
5 5 (5.26%) Matplotlib
5 5 (5.26%) PyTorch
6 4 (4.21%) NumPy
7 3 (3.16%) ggplot2
7 3 (3.16%) PySpark
7 3 (3.16%) Shiny
7 3 (3.16%) XGBoost
8 2 (2.11%) Flask
9 1 (1.05%) ADO
9 1 (1.05%) SciPy
9 1 (1.05%) Seaborn
9 1 (1.05%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 40 (42.11%) Algorithms
2 8 (8.42%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.21%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.16%) Social Media
5 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.05%) FMCG
6 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.05%) Life Science
6 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (98.95%) Data Science
2 49 (51.58%) Machine Learning
3 45 (47.37%) Visualisation
4 37 (38.95%) Data Analysis
5 27 (28.42%) Data Visualisation
5 27 (28.42%) Mathematics
6 25 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (26.32%) Data Modelling
7 24 (25.26%) Statistics
8 23 (24.21%) Analytics
9 21 (22.11%) Artificial Intelligence
10 19 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (16.84%) Predictive Modelling
12 15 (15.79%) Computer Science
13 13 (13.68%) Actionable Insight
14 12 (12.63%) Decision-Making
15 11 (11.58%) Exploratory Data Analysis
15 11 (11.58%) Natural Language Processing
15 11 (11.58%) Statistical Modelling
16 9 (9.47%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 84 (88.42%) Python
2 47 (49.47%) SQL
3 27 (28.42%) R
4 2 (2.11%) Bash
4 2 (2.11%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (24.21%) Degree
2 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.37%) PhD
6 6 (6.32%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (6.32%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (6.32%) Alteryx
1 6 (6.32%) Google
2 5 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.21%) Databricks
4 2 (2.11%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.11%) Oracle
4 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.05%) Cloudera