Data Science Contracts in the North of England

Data Science
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 124 148 172
Rank change year-on-year +24 +24 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Science 42 37 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.27% 0.78% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 0.90% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 25
10th Percentile £358 - £455
25th Percentile £433 £325 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -22.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £638 £552 £713
90th Percentile £688 £577 £725
England median daily rate £550 £542 £550
% change year-on-year +1.57% -1.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £22.59 - £37.23
25th Percentile £22.72 - £40.58
Median hourly rate £25.43 - £49.57
75th Percentile £28.75 - £54.69
90th Percentile £29.50 - £55.72
England median hourly rate £25.50 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +21.43% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +18 24 £475 -2.56% 128
Yorkshire +9 14 £550 +12.24% 70
North East +3 4 £379 - 18
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (33.33%) GCP
2 13 (30.95%) Azure
3 9 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 7 (16.67%) AWS
5 5 (11.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (9.52%) Google Compute Engine
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (7.14%) PaaS
7 3 (7.14%) Serverless
7 3 (7.14%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.38%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (2.38%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.38%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (35.71%) Tableau
2 9 (21.43%) Power BI
3 6 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 6 (14.29%) Data Mining
4 5 (11.90%) Metadata
5 3 (7.14%) Big Data
5 3 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 3 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.76%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.76%) MySQL
6 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.76%) Parquet
6 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.38%) Data Hub
7 1 (2.38%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.38%) Flink
7 1 (2.38%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (11.90%) Banking
5 3 (7.14%) Finance
6 1 (2.38%) Advertising
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Data Scientist
2 8 (19.05%) Architect
3 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Data Architect
4 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Administrator
5 3 (7.14%) Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) GCP Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Data Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Data Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Change Manager
7 1 (2.38%) Data Consultant
7 1 (2.38%) Designer
7 1 (2.38%) HR Data Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Senior Data Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) PySpark
2 3 (7.14%) D3.js
2 3 (7.14%) TensorFlow
3 2 (4.76%) Kafka
3 2 (4.76%) LangChain
3 2 (4.76%) PyTorch
3 2 (4.76%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.38%) JSON
4 1 (2.38%) Matplotlib
4 1 (2.38%) Pandas
4 1 (2.38%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.38%) Shiny
4 1 (2.38%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Management Information System
2 7 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) Data Engineering
1 18 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 17 (40.48%) Visualisation
3 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (35.71%) Analytics
5 14 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 14 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (30.95%) Data Pipeline
6 13 (30.95%) Decision-Making
7 11 (26.19%) Data Visualisation
8 10 (23.81%) Data Modelling
8 10 (23.81%) ETL
9 8 (19.05%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
10 7 (16.67%) Data Analytics
10 7 (16.67%) Mathematics
11 6 (14.29%) Data Management
11 6 (14.29%) Data Transformation
11 6 (14.29%) Statistical Modelling
11 6 (14.29%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) SQL
2 19 (45.24%) Python
3 5 (11.90%) Scala
4 4 (9.52%) R
5 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Terraform
2 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (33.33%) Databricks
2 8 (19.05%) Google
3 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle
5 2 (4.76%) Brio
5 2 (4.76%) SAP
6 1 (2.38%) Apple
6 1 (2.38%) Criteo
6 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.38%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.38%) Workday