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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 59 62
Rank change year-on-year +16 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Science 2 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.58% 0.37% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.43% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £650 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £550
90th Percentile - - £638
South East median daily rate £463 £455 £550
% change year-on-year +1.65% -17.27% +10.00%

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 322 468 664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 93.88% 85.56% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 342 540
10th Percentile £204 £203 £205
25th Percentile £255 £301 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £550 £556 £650
90th Percentile £600 £663 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 37 23
10th Percentile £21.41 £12.64 £17.85
25th Percentile £28.00 £30.00 £35.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £61.63
90th Percentile - £76.86 £75.50
South East median hourly rate £22.29 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -61.14% +9.24% +61.54%

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
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 9 September 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
Guildford -4 1 £575 -17.86% 2
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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks