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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 53 69
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Science 5 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.33% 0.65% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.75% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile - £610 -
25th Percentile - £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +33.33% -
75th Percentile - £750 £606
90th Percentile - - £638
South East median daily rate £475 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +11.76% -29.17% +9.09%

All Process and 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 349 402 659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 93.07% 87.01% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 280 522
10th Percentile £204 £203 £200
25th Percentile £229 £267 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £600
90th Percentile £673 £600 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 17 36
10th Percentile £23.45 £17.48 £24.75
25th Percentile £26.91 £30.00 £44.90
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.64% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £71.90 £76.53
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +40.00%

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
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 7 November 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
Weybridge - 3 £688 - 3
Reigate - 1 - - 5
Staines - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing
1 3 (60.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Bayesian Methods
3 3 (60.00%) Data Collection
3 3 (60.00%) Marketing Mix
4 2 (40.00%) AI
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Database Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) Personalization
5 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Regression Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) R
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform