Data Science Contracts in Merseyside

Data Science
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 30 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Science 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 2.38% 1.32% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 1.68% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% - -
75th Percentile £641 £494 -
90th Percentile £646 - -
North West median daily rate £475 £488 £650
% change year-on-year -2.56% -25.00% +36.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

Data Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 179 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.17% 78.51% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 229
10th Percentile £143 £145 £313
25th Percentile £203 £242 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £550
90th Percentile £649 £603 £689
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 8
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £25.63
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Merseyside

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in Merseyside

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Liverpool +9 4 £625 +28.21% 19
Data Science
North West

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Google Ads
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (75.00%) Tableau
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Data Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Conceptual Models
1 3 (75.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Data Strategy
1 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (75.00%) Database Optimisation
1 3 (75.00%) Logical Data Model
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Monetization
2 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Criteo
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Google