Senior Data Scientist Contracts in London

Senior Data Scientist
England > London

The median Senior Data Scientist daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 477 587
Rank change year-on-year +111 +110 -150
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 16 6 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.090% 0.023% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.024% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 16
10th Percentile £485 £503 £513
25th Percentile £525 £506 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £571
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.10% -6.35%
75th Percentile £680 £556 £614
90th Percentile £775 £568 £638
England median daily rate £625 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -3.23%

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 16,506 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,947 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in London

Senior Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Scientist in London

Senior Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Scientist in London

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Data Science
2 14 (87.50%) Python
3 11 (68.75%) Machine Learning
4 10 (62.50%) Algorithms
5 8 (50.00%) SQL
6 7 (43.75%) Data Modelling
7 6 (37.50%) Data Analysis
7 6 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (37.50%) Analytics
8 5 (31.25%) Jupyter
8 5 (31.25%) E-Commerce
8 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
8 5 (31.25%) Natural Language Processing
8 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
9 4 (25.00%) Git
9 4 (25.00%) Retail
9 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (25.00%) Deep Learning
9 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
10 3 (18.75%) Pandas
10 3 (18.75%) scikit-learn
10 3 (18.75%) Statistical Modelling
10 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
10 3 (18.75%) Azure
10 3 (18.75%) Matplotlib
10 3 (18.75%) Logistic Regression
10 3 (18.75%) Mathematics

Senior 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 5 (31.25%) Jupyter
2 2 (12.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) dbt
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.25%) Looker
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Retail
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Law
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
3 2 (12.50%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Matplotlib
1 3 (18.75%) Pandas
1 3 (18.75%) scikit-learn
1 3 (18.75%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.25%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Data Science
2 11 (68.75%) Machine Learning
3 7 (43.75%) Data Modelling
4 6 (37.50%) Analytics
4 6 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (37.50%) Data Analysis
5 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
5 5 (31.25%) E-Commerce
5 5 (31.25%) Natural Language Processing
6 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (25.00%) Deep Learning
7 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (18.75%) Logistic Regression
7 3 (18.75%) LSTM
7 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
7 3 (18.75%) Random Forest
7 3 (18.75%) Software Architecture
7 3 (18.75%) Statistical Modelling
7 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (18.75%) Transfer Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 2 (12.50%) PhD
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Databricks