Data Science Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Science
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Data Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 32 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Science 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.32% 2.08% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 2.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 £358 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £467 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% - -
75th Percentile £450 £639 -
90th Percentile - £688 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £400 £467 -
% change year-on-year -14.26% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 180 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 90.19% 93.75% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 92 99
10th Percentile £175 £278 £245
25th Percentile £364 £353 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £528 £588 £600
90th Percentile £583 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £442 £452 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% -4.84% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.59 £14.83 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% - -28.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.25 £16.50
90th Percentile £54.50 £19.93 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Science relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Data Science job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Data Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Data Science

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform