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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 168 144
Rank change year-on-year +34 -24 -25
Contract jobs citing Data Science 334 420 787
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.89% 1.60% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.76% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 258 508
10th Percentile £388 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £507 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 22
10th Percentile £32.65 £39.50 £29.43
25th Percentile £41.10 £46.25 £34.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +15.08% -9.76%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £62.31
90th Percentile £68.75 - £71.83
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 15,685 23,887 35,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.71% 90.96% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,243 17,198 25,835
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
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 £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 269 419
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.40 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £80.45 £68.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +26 36 £625 +4.17% 30
West London +21 3 £525 +31.25% 13
East London - 2 £460 - 5
South London - 2 - - 2
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 17 (5.09%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.80%) Apache
3 6 (1.80%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.60%) SAS
4 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.60%) Simulink
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.30%) Blender
5 1 (0.30%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.30%) Houdini
5 1 (0.30%) Maya
5 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (2.10%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 71 (21.26%) Azure
2 61 (18.26%) GCP
3 51 (15.27%) Power Platform
4 50 (14.97%) AWS
5 22 (6.59%) Vertex AI
6 14 (4.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (3.29%) Serverless
9 10 (2.99%) Google Compute Engine
10 8 (2.40%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.40%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (2.40%) Snowflake
11 7 (2.10%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (2.10%) dbt
12 6 (1.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.50%) Figma
13 5 (1.50%) SaaS
14 4 (1.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.80%) Internet
2 1 (0.30%) LAN
2 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (15.27%) Power BI
2 44 (13.17%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (12.57%) Big Data
3 42 (12.57%) Tableau
4 27 (8.08%) BigQuery
5 17 (5.09%) Data Lake
6 16 (4.79%) Hadoop
7 13 (3.89%) BusinessObjects
8 10 (2.99%) Data Mining
9 9 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.10%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.80%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (1.50%) Looker
12 5 (1.50%) Presto
13 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.20%) Relational Database
14 3 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
14 3 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (6.89%) Git
2 14 (4.19%) JIRA
3 9 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.10%) GitLab
5 6 (1.80%) MLflow
6 3 (0.90%) Selenium
7 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.60%) Poetry
7 2 (0.60%) RStudio
8 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.30%) Xcode
General
1 99 (29.64%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.96%) Finance
3 59 (17.66%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.49%) Marketing
6 10 (2.99%) Retail
7 9 (2.69%) Banking
7 9 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (2.69%) Legal
8 7 (2.10%) Advertising
9 5 (1.50%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.20%) Czech Language
10 4 (1.20%) Games
10 4 (1.20%) Local Government
11 3 (0.90%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 93 (27.84%) Data Scientist
2 41 (12.28%) Senior
3 33 (9.88%) Architect
4 30 (8.98%) Analyst
5 29 (8.68%) Data Engineer
6 27 (8.08%) Developer
7 26 (7.78%) Data Analyst
8 22 (6.59%) Lead
9 19 (5.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 16 (4.79%) GCP Engineer
10 16 (4.79%) Senior Data Scientist
11 14 (4.19%) Data Architect
12 13 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.99%) Consultant
14 8 (2.40%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.40%) Product Manager
14 8 (2.40%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.40%) Senior Data Engineer
15 7 (2.10%) Azure Engineer
15 7 (2.10%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.98%) scikit-learn
2 26 (7.78%) Pandas
3 24 (7.19%) TensorFlow
4 22 (6.59%) PySpark
5 15 (4.49%) NumPy
6 14 (4.19%) PyTorch
7 10 (2.99%) HTML
7 10 (2.99%) React
8 9 (2.69%) Kafka
9 8 (2.40%) CSS
10 7 (2.10%) Django
11 6 (1.80%) Matplotlib
11 6 (1.80%) Plotly
12 5 (1.50%) XGBoost
13 4 (1.20%) Lambda Expressions
13 4 (1.20%) Shiny
14 3 (0.90%) Flask
14 3 (0.90%) ggplot2
14 3 (0.90%) REST
14 3 (0.90%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 59 (17.66%) Algorithms
2 15 (4.49%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.89%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 10 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.69%) IoT
7 8 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.10%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.50%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.20%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.20%) Social Media
11 3 (0.90%) CBDC
11 3 (0.90%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.90%) FMCG
11 3 (0.90%) Genomics
11 3 (0.90%) Grid Computing
11 3 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.90%) Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (44.61%) Machine Learning
2 113 (33.83%) Analytics
3 90 (26.95%) Artificial Intelligence
4 74 (22.16%) Computer Science
5 73 (21.86%) Data Analysis
6 66 (19.76%) Data Modelling
7 64 (19.16%) Visualisation
8 61 (18.26%) Agile
9 58 (17.37%) Business Intelligence
9 58 (17.37%) Data Pipeline
10 56 (16.77%) ETL
11 48 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (13.47%) Data Visualisation
13 41 (12.28%) DevOps
13 41 (12.28%) Mathematics
14 36 (10.78%) Decision-Making
15 35 (10.48%) CI/CD
15 35 (10.48%) Statistics
16 33 (9.88%) Data Engineering
16 33 (9.88%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 201 (60.18%) Python
2 130 (38.92%) SQL
3 35 (10.48%) R
4 16 (4.79%) Bash
5 13 (3.89%) Java
5 13 (3.89%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.69%) Scala
7 6 (1.80%) MATLAB
8 5 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.90%) C++
10 2 (0.60%) C#
10 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.60%) VBA
11 1 (0.30%) C
11 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.30%) Ruby
11 1 (0.30%) Swift
11 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 83 (24.85%) Degree
2 40 (11.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (10.78%) Security Cleared
4 31 (9.28%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.49%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.99%) PhD
7 8 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.80%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.80%) PMP
9 5 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.50%) CISSP
9 5 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.90%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.60%) CFA
11 2 (0.60%) MBA
12 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.08%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.99%) QA
3 9 (2.69%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.90%) PMO
4 3 (0.90%) WCAG
5 2 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (4.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (8.08%) Terraform
2 16 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.80%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 39 (11.68%) Databricks
2 21 (6.29%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.59%) Google
4 10 (2.99%) Foundry
4 10 (2.99%) Palantir
5 9 (2.69%) Oracle
6 8 (2.40%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.80%) SAP
8 3 (0.90%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.60%) Adobe
9 2 (0.60%) CA
9 2 (0.60%) ESRI
9 2 (0.60%) Informatica
9 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.30%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.30%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.30%) IBM
10 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.30%) Splunk
10 1 (0.30%) Teradata