Data Science Contracts in the Midlands

Data Science
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 122 163
Rank change year-on-year +11 +41 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Science 27 46 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.99% 1.37% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.55% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 34 26
10th Percentile £354 £449 £456
25th Percentile £363 £491 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £540 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% -13.60% +19.05%
75th Percentile £659 £575 £763
90th Percentile £750 £626 £1,100
England median daily rate £550 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.16% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £22.33 - -
25th Percentile £23.24 - -
Median hourly rate £26.12 - -
75th Percentile £30.37 - -
90th Percentile £32.10 - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +21.43% -16.67% +51.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,231 2,965 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.14% 88.30% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,491 2,075 3,214
10th Percentile £235 £249 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £573
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 107 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.92 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £14.76 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +14.29% +13.09%
75th Percentile £35.00 £31.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £56.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the Midlands

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the Midlands

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the Midlands

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the Midlands

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands -4 20 £519 -3.58% 21
East Midlands +24 7 £375 -37.50% 14
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (18.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) Power Platform
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) LAN
1 2 (7.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Power BI
2 3 (11.11%) Big Data
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (11.11%) Tableau
3 2 (7.41%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.70%) Flink
4 1 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (3.70%) GIS
4 1 (3.70%) MySQL
4 1 (3.70%) Presto
4 1 (3.70%) QlikView
4 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Retail
3 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Marketing
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Back Office
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) German Language
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Multimedia
5 1 (3.70%) Police
5 1 (3.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Analyst
1 6 (22.22%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Data Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) SQL Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Data Scientist
5 2 (7.41%) Marketing Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Marketing Data Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Big Data Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.70%) GIS Specialist
6 1 (3.70%) Hadoop Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Machine Learning Scientist
6 1 (3.70%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Kafka
1 2 (7.41%) Middleware
1 2 (7.41%) PySpark
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.70%) Anaconda
2 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Beam
2 1 (3.70%) Dask
2 1 (3.70%) Keras
2 1 (3.70%) NumPy
2 1 (3.70%) Pandas
2 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.70%) scikit-learn
2 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 3 (11.11%) FMCG
2 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) SCADA
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Analytics
2 10 (37.04%) Computer Science
3 6 (22.22%) Agile
3 6 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (18.52%) Data Analysis
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
4 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) Statistics
6 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
6 3 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 3 (11.11%) ITIL
6 3 (11.11%) Migration
6 3 (11.11%) Problem Management
6 3 (11.11%) Process Improvement
6 3 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Visualisation
6 3 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Python
2 12 (44.44%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) Scala
4 3 (11.11%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.41%) R
6 1 (3.70%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) C++
6 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.70%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Degree
2 8 (29.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) PhD
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) CBAP
4 1 (3.70%) HND
4 1 (3.70%) IIBA
4 1 (3.70%) ISEB
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) SysTrack
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Databricks
3 3 (11.11%) Citrix
3 3 (11.11%) New Relic
3 3 (11.11%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) Teradata