Data Science Contracts in Surrey

Data Science
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 64 61
Rank change year-on-year +31 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Science 6 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 2.14% 0.31% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 0.38% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £288 - -
25th Percentile £325 £650 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -47.86% +33.33% +2.44%
75th Percentile £376 £750 -
90th Percentile £503 - £540
South East median daily rate £513 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +7.89% -13.64% +4.27%

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 258 525 651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 92.14% 82.55% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 385 513
10th Percentile £200 £213 £205
25th Percentile £313 £350 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -11.90% +2.44%
75th Percentile £546 £588 £638
90th Percentile £597 £688 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 64 30
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.71 £18.23
25th Percentile £24.00 £15.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £61.90
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.88
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.78 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.77% -4.44% +122.22%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Surrey

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in Surrey

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Surrey over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Surrey

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 3 July 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
Staines - 3 £365 - 1
Guildford +3 2 £463 -33.93% 21
Reigate - 1 - - 3
Data Science
South East

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow