Data Science Contracts in the South East

Data Science
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 161 164
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -31
Contract jobs citing Data Science 34 57 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.62% 1.00% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.12% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 41 61
10th Percentile £332 £146 £380
25th Percentile £413 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £686 £613 £650
90th Percentile £750 £725 £738
England median daily rate £550 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.16% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 1
Median hourly rate £55.00 £20.47 £24.79
Median % change year-on-year +168.69% -17.43% -10.60%
England median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +21.43% -16.67% +51.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,658 5,075 6,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.40% 89.18% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,720 3,524 4,648
10th Percentile £255 £248 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 223 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.37 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.76
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +127.91% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the South East

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley -5 16 £425 -22.73% 35
Hampshire -6 11 £538 +19.44% 10
Berkshire -23 9 £453 -17.73% 17
Buckinghamshire +28 6 £425 -17.87% 9
Surrey +8 1 £698 +32.86% 12
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 9
Kent - 1 £550 -
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 5 (14.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
1 8 (23.53%) Serverless
2 6 (17.65%) AWS
2 6 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (14.71%) Power Platform
3 5 (14.71%) Snowflake
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Functions
4 4 (11.76%) GitHub
4 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (8.82%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon Neptune
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (5.88%) dbt
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (23.53%) Data Lake
3 6 (17.65%) Big Data
4 5 (14.71%) Power BI
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (11.76%) Metadata
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (8.82%) BigQuery
6 3 (8.82%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (5.88%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (5.88%) Data Mining
7 2 (5.88%) Impala
7 2 (5.88%) Tableau
8 1 (2.94%) Data Hub
8 1 (2.94%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.94%) PowerCenter
8 1 (2.94%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) ERwin
2 2 (5.88%) kappa
3 1 (2.94%) CMake
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
3 1 (2.94%) LabVIEW
3 1 (2.94%) MLflow
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Telecoms
4 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Legal
5 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.94%) Finance
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Data Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) SQL Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Data Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) SQL Data Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Customer Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Data Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Data Modeller
5 3 (8.82%) Data Scientist
5 3 (8.82%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (8.82%) Senior
6 2 (5.88%) Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Data Science Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Junior
7 1 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) XML
2 4 (11.76%) PySpark
3 2 (5.88%) NumPy
3 2 (5.88%) Pandas
3 2 (5.88%) PyTorch
3 2 (5.88%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.94%) .NET
4 1 (2.94%) CNTK
4 1 (2.94%) LightGBM
4 1 (2.94%) Node.js
4 1 (2.94%) OpenVINO
4 1 (2.94%) Prisma
4 1 (2.94%) React
4 1 (2.94%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.94%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.76%) Smart Meter
3 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Life Science
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Analytics
2 13 (38.24%) Data Modelling
3 9 (26.47%) Data Engineering
4 8 (23.53%) ETL
5 7 (20.59%) Agile
5 7 (20.59%) Machine Learning
6 6 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (17.65%) Data Analysis
7 5 (14.71%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
7 5 (14.71%) Data Munging
7 5 (14.71%) Dimensional Modelling
7 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (11.76%) Customer Experience
8 4 (11.76%) Data Strategy
8 4 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 4 (11.76%) ETL Development
8 4 (11.76%) Impact Assessments
8 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) SQL
2 17 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) C#
3 1 (2.94%) C++
3 1 (2.94%) Java
3 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.94%) Scala
3 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) Master's Degree
2 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) GDPR
2 4 (11.76%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Ab Initio
2 2 (5.88%) Cloudera
2 2 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (2.94%) Informatica