Information Scientist Contract Job Trends in Slough

Information Scientist
Berkshire > Slough

The median Information Scientist daily rate in Slough is £298, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Information Scientist 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Slough 3.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £284 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 - -
75th Percentile £311 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £298 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Slough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Slough. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Slough with a recognized job title 56 67 71
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 94.37% 95.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 45 59
10th Percentile £162 £185 £280
25th Percentile £356 £220 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £523 £538 £550
90th Percentile £658 £665 £640
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.74% +0.75% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £18.01 - -
25th Percentile £19.83 - £24.34
Median hourly rate £20.79 £24.66 £25.12
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% -1.81% +9.20%
75th Percentile - - £25.89
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.00 £61.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +31.72% +5.48% -9.86%

Information Scientist Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Slough

For the 6 months to 19 February 2026, Information Scientist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Slough region featuring Information Scientist in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Biomedicine
1 1 (50.00%) Content Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Text Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation

Information Scientist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Slough 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Biomedicine
1 1 (50.00%) Content Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Text Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python