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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 27 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Science 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.64% 1.26% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 1.36% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £421 £556 -
25th Percentile £453 £583 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £648 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.85% +17.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £578 £693 £600
90th Percentile £614 £709 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £513 £648 £550
% change year-on-year -20.85% +17.73% -15.38%

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 199 147 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 87.67% 92.45% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 69 93
10th Percentile £240 £323 £350
25th Percentile £406 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +3.77%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £625
90th Percentile £618 £684 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £475 £510
% change year-on-year - -6.86% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 6
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +19.70%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +22.06%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Google Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) Data Hub
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Flink
2 1 (16.67%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Lead
1 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) DataOps
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) MLOps
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Sage