Data Science Contracts in the North East

Data Science
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 37 46
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Science 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.30% 0.32% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 0.40% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £456 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.32%
75th Percentile £588 - £600
90th Percentile £618 - -
England median daily rate £533 £544 £575
% change year-on-year -1.98% -5.43% -3.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 251 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.48% 80.19% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 113 241
10th Percentile £213 £263 £231
25th Percentile £353 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £553 £590 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 50 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.74
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 £34.98
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £39.34
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -50.43% +138.42%
75th Percentile £33.40 £48.75 £43.07
90th Percentile £50.70 £51.88 £44.94
England median hourly rate £28.30 £37.50 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.55% +0.48% +49.28%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the North East

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the North East

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the North East over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the North East

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Tyne and Wear - 4 £525 - 112
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Google Tag Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Flink
1 1 (25.00%) Looker
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) MLOps
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Google