Data Science Contracts in South Yorkshire

Data Science
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 53 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Science 2 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.53% 1.99% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 2.26% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £504 £522 £508
25th Percentile £509 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £554 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% +3.07% +7.50%
75th Percentile £584 £560 £556
90th Percentile £601 £572 £568
Yorkshire median daily rate £563 £525 £613
% change year-on-year +7.14% -14.29% +11.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 399 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 93.93% 88.08% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 240 310
10th Percentile £224 £360 £300
25th Percentile £381 £412 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £647 £638 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.51 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +5.08% +65.71% -38.77%
75th Percentile £18.87 £23.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -40.94%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in South Yorkshire

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in South Yorkshire

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Sheffield +5 2 £538 -2.98% 6
Data Science
Yorkshire

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Compute Engine
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Google