Data Science Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Data Science
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Data Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 37 59
Rank change year-on-year -4 +22 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Science 9 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.07% 2.35% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 2.59% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £514 £310 -
25th Percentile £635 £358 £674
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £396 £698
Median % change year-on-year +73.63% -43.19% +32.86%
75th Percentile - £559 £721
90th Percentile - £675 -
South East median daily rate £581 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +36.76% -22.73% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 352 309 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 80.92% 90.62% 82.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 198 374
10th Percentile £204 £186 £200
25th Percentile £381 £250 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £582 £538 £575
90th Percentile £688 £657 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 39
10th Percentile £20.70 £18.65 £13.25
25th Percentile £27.13 £22.72 £16.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £24.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +148.14% -51.64% +11.11%
75th Percentile £71.99 £28.63 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.67 £76.90
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £46.87
% change year-on-year -44.11% -3.99% +4.16%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in Surrey

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Surrey over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Surrey

Data Science
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Science.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Science

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Weybridge - 5 £688 -
Staines -4 2 £425 +16.44%
Redhill - 2 £588 -
Data Science
South East

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Pinecone
1 2 (22.22%) Weaviate
General
1 5 (55.56%) Marketing
1 5 (55.56%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Faiss
1 2 (22.22%) Hugging Face
1 2 (22.22%) Keras
1 2 (22.22%) LangChain
1 2 (22.22%) PyTorch
1 2 (22.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
2 6 (66.67%) Validation
3 5 (55.56%) Bayesian Methods
3 5 (55.56%) Data Collection
3 5 (55.56%) Marketing Mix
4 4 (44.44%) AI
5 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) LLM
5 3 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
5 3 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 2 (22.22%) Computer Vision
6 2 (22.22%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (22.22%) Deep Learning
6 2 (22.22%) Fraud Detection
6 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
6 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (22.22%) Reinforcement Learning
6 2 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) R
3 2 (22.22%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) EU AI Act
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) OpenAI