Data Science Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Data Science
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Data Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Science 13 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 5.02% 3.73% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.46% 4.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £390 £319 -
25th Percentile £406 £344 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.73% - -
75th Percentile £450 £502 -
90th Percentile £475 £625 -
East Midlands median daily rate £426 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +0.29% +13.33% -34.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 238 150 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.89% 93.17% 95.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 117 112
10th Percentile £323 £307 £224
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £403 £481
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -16.23% +7.98%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £534
90th Percentile £550 £615 £586
East Midlands median daily rate £424 £436 £461
% change year-on-year -2.70% -5.62% -2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 14
10th Percentile - - £13.16
25th Percentile - £23.10 £18.01
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.55% +177.55%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.19 £22.05 £21.90
% change year-on-year -12.97% +0.69% +30.10%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Data Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Data Science

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Northamptonshire

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Northampton -13 12 £426 +19.73% 4
Data Science
East Midlands

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) Apache Spark
2 3 (23.08%) Apache
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) GCP
3 7 (53.85%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Neptune
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (7.69%) Google Gemini
5 1 (7.69%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Big Data
2 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (38.46%) Metadata
3 3 (23.08%) Apache Hive
3 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
3 3 (23.08%) HBase
3 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Data Scientist
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Hadoop Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Scala Developer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) Pandas
2 3 (23.08%) scikit-learn
2 3 (23.08%) TensorFlow
3 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.69%) CrewAI
4 1 (7.69%) LangGraph
4 1 (7.69%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (23.08%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Data Engineering
1 9 (69.23%) Data Pipeline
1 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Machine Learning
3 5 (38.46%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (38.46%) Metadata Management
3 5 (38.46%) Statistical Modelling
3 5 (38.46%) Visualisation
4 4 (30.77%) Data Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Data Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Data Governance
4 4 (30.77%) ETL
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) Fintech
5 3 (23.08%) MapReduce
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) R
3 3 (23.08%) Scala
4 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (23.08%) Oozie
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Informatica
2 2 (15.38%) Talend
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft