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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 161 178
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 -40
Contract jobs citing Data Science 31 59 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.55% 1.00% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.11% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 40 57
10th Percentile £320 £146 £380
25th Percentile £413 £467 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £531 £543
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -2.07% +8.50%
75th Percentile £669 £578 £650
90th Percentile £747 £669 £743
England median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +7.27%
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% +54.90%

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 4,789 5,300 7,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.41% 89.48% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,794 3,670 4,753
10th Percentile £231 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +2.02% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £617 £588
90th Percentile £699 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 217 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.23 £16.08
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +113.69% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.47 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £73.10 £62.15
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -3 12 £425 -22.73% 23
Hampshire -1 11 £538 +8.86% 9
Berkshire -21 6 £425 -22.73% 12
Buckinghamshire +29 5 £425 -17.87% 4
East Sussex +6 1 £650 +13.04%
Surrey +6 1 £698 +32.86% 5
Kent - 1 £550 -
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 7
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 4 (12.90%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Azure
1 8 (25.81%) Serverless
2 6 (19.35%) AWS
3 5 (16.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (16.13%) Power Platform
3 5 (16.13%) Snowflake
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Functions
5 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (9.68%) GCP
5 3 (9.68%) GitHub
5 3 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Neptune
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.23%) Azure API Management
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (16.13%) Data Lake
2 5 (16.13%) Power BI
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (12.90%) Big Data
3 4 (12.90%) Metadata
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (9.68%) BigQuery
5 2 (6.45%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (6.45%) Data Mining
5 2 (6.45%) Impala
5 2 (6.45%) Tableau
6 1 (3.23%) Data Hub
6 1 (3.23%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.23%) PowerCenter
6 1 (3.23%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) ERwin
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) kappa
2 1 (3.23%) CMake
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) LabVIEW
2 1 (3.23%) MLflow
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Telecoms
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Data Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) SQL Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Data Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Data Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) SQL Data Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Customer Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Data Manager
5 3 (9.68%) Data Scientist
5 3 (9.68%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Data Science Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
7 1 (3.23%) Administrator
7 1 (3.23%) Junior
7 1 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) XML
2 3 (9.68%) PySpark
3 2 (6.45%) PyTorch
3 2 (6.45%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.23%) .NET
4 1 (3.23%) CNTK
4 1 (3.23%) LightGBM
4 1 (3.23%) Node.js
4 1 (3.23%) NumPy
4 1 (3.23%) OpenVINO
4 1 (3.23%) Pandas
4 1 (3.23%) Prisma
4 1 (3.23%) React
4 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.23%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.90%) Smart Meter
3 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Life Science
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
2 4 (12.90%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Analytics
2 11 (35.48%) Data Modelling
3 10 (32.26%) Data Engineering
4 7 (22.58%) Agile
4 7 (22.58%) Data Analysis
5 6 (19.35%) ETL
5 6 (19.35%) Machine Learning
6 5 (16.13%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (16.13%) Data Governance
6 5 (16.13%) Data Munging
6 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.90%) Customer Experience
7 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
7 4 (12.90%) ETL Development
7 4 (12.90%) Impact Assessments
7 4 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) SQL
2 14 (45.16%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) C#
3 1 (3.23%) C++
3 1 (3.23%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.23%) Scala
3 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Master's Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
2 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.23%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Ab Initio
2 2 (6.45%) Cloudera
3 1 (3.23%) Alteryx
3 1 (3.23%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) Dataiku
3 1 (3.23%) Informatica
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft