Data Science Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Data Science
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Data Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Science 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 3.19% 1.00% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 1.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £424 - -
25th Percentile £442 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 - -
75th Percentile £507 - -
90th Percentile £521 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 156 91 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 82.98% 91.00% 78.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 61 61
10th Percentile £305 £235 £200
25th Percentile £383 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +11.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £603 £569 £550
90th Percentile £778 £603 £600
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £563 £538
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.55% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £21.20 - -
25th Percentile £30.36 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile £49.13 - £30.25
90th Percentile £49.75 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £27.83 £23.79 £14.54
% change year-on-year +16.97% +63.60% -78.93%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in Swindon

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

Data Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon Bedrock
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
3 1 (16.67%) Trainee
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) AI
1 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) DataOps
2 4 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 4 (66.67%) Use Case
3 3 (50.00%) Business Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform