Senior Data Scientist Contracts in London

Senior Data Scientist
England > London

The median Senior Data Scientist daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 371 468
Rank change year-on-year +39 +97 +113
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 19 18 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.10% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.11% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 2
10th Percentile £463 £466 £503
25th Percentile £535 £516 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £593 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% +12.86% -9.48%
75th Percentile £744 £680 £556
90th Percentile £825 £775 £568
England median daily rate £570 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +23.08% -20.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,318 16,336 24,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 93.61% 95.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,659 11,779 17,611
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 325 275
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £17.69
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £22.57
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.81 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% -22.75% +2.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.86 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.10 £67.60 £81.35
England median hourly rate £29.17 £37.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.73% -16.11% +88.21%

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 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Scientist in London

Senior 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 Senior Data Scientist within the London region over the 6 months to 5 June 2025. 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 +7 4 £775 -
Senior Data Scientist
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 2025, 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 19 (100.00%) Python
1 19 (100.00%) Data Science
2 17 (89.47%) Machine Learning
3 16 (84.21%) SQL
4 12 (63.16%) Statistical Modelling
5 11 (57.89%) R
6 10 (52.63%) Apache Spark
7 9 (47.37%) Analytics
7 9 (47.37%) Azure
8 8 (42.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (36.84%) Mathematics
9 7 (36.84%) Algorithms
9 7 (36.84%) Pandas
10 6 (31.58%) Degree
10 6 (31.58%) Data Analysis
10 6 (31.58%) Finance
10 6 (31.58%) AWS
11 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
11 5 (26.32%) scikit-learn
12 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (21.05%) Marketing Mix
12 4 (21.05%) Data Collection
12 4 (21.05%) Model Validation
12 4 (21.05%) Statistics
12 4 (21.05%) Marketing
12 4 (21.05%) Validation
12 4 (21.05%) PhD
12 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
12 4 (21.05%) Data Extraction
12 4 (21.05%) Bayesian Methods

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 10 (52.63%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 3 (15.79%) Matillion
3 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
4 2 (10.53%) GitHub
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (5.26%) Canva
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Hadoop
2 2 (10.53%) Big Data
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) Tableau
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.26%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) Looker
3 1 (5.26%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
1 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Marketing
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Retail
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.26%) Games
5 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Social Science
5 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) Pandas
2 5 (26.32%) scikit-learn
3 3 (15.79%) TensorFlow
4 2 (10.53%) PySpark
5 1 (5.26%) D3.js
5 1 (5.26%) NumPy
5 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
5 1 (5.26%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Algorithms
2 3 (15.79%) FMCG
2 3 (15.79%) Multi-touch
3 2 (10.53%) Credit Risk
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.26%) IoT
4 1 (5.26%) Mobile Games
4 1 (5.26%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Data Science
2 17 (89.47%) Machine Learning
3 12 (63.16%) Statistical Modelling
4 9 (47.37%) Analytics
5 8 (42.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (36.84%) Mathematics
7 6 (31.58%) Data Analysis
8 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
9 4 (21.05%) Bayesian Methods
9 4 (21.05%) Data Collection
9 4 (21.05%) Data Extraction
9 4 (21.05%) Marketing Mix
9 4 (21.05%) Model Validation
9 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (21.05%) Statistics
9 4 (21.05%) Validation
9 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
10 3 (15.79%) Applied Mathematics
10 3 (15.79%) ETL
10 3 (15.79%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Python
2 16 (84.21%) SQL
3 11 (57.89%) R
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) Scala
4 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.26%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) PhD
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Talend
2 2 (10.53%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Amplitude
3 1 (5.26%) Sage