Data Science Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Science
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 121 133
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Science 22 26 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.82% 0.90% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.00% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 31
10th Percentile £367 £413 £413
25th Percentile £413 £453 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £560
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% -4.02% +14.87%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £750 £613 £738
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -9.52% -3.89% +8.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £19.49 -
% change year-on-year +182.20% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 2,607 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.42% 90.62% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,771 2,166
10th Percentile £224 £313 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 67 89
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.23 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.39
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the Thames Valley

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 June 2024. 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
Berkshire -17 14 £453 -15.81% 14
Buckinghamshire +30 7 £425 -17.87% 6
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 17
Data Science
South East

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
2 5 (22.73%) Serverless
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Functions
4 3 (13.64%) dbt
4 3 (13.64%) Snowflake
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.09%) AWS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Power BI
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (18.18%) Data Lake
2 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (18.18%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (13.64%) Big Data
4 2 (9.09%) Impala
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.55%) PowerCenter
5 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) ERwin
3 1 (4.55%) CMake
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) LabVIEW
3 1 (4.55%) MLflow
General
1 10 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.09%) Legal
4 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.55%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Data Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Data Modeller
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Security Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Junior
5 1 (4.55%) Junior Data Scientist
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) XML
2 4 (18.18%) PyTorch
2 4 (18.18%) TensorFlow
3 3 (13.64%) Google JAX
3 3 (13.64%) scikit-learn
3 3 (13.64%) Snowpark
4 2 (9.09%) NumPy
4 2 (9.09%) Pandas
4 2 (9.09%) PySpark
5 1 (4.55%) CNTK
5 1 (4.55%) OpenVINO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Product Ownership
2 4 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 4 (18.18%) Smart Meter
3 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (4.55%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (36.36%) Analytics
3 8 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (36.36%) ETL
4 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
5 6 (27.27%) Data Protection
5 6 (27.27%) Dimensional Modelling
6 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
6 5 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (18.18%) ETL Development
7 4 (18.18%) Impact Assessments
7 4 (18.18%) Performance Improvement
7 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (18.18%) Scrum
7 4 (18.18%) User Stories
8 3 (13.64%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 10 (45.45%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) C++
3 4 (18.18%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) C
4 3 (13.64%) R
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) GDPR
2 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.64%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Ab Initio
2 2 (9.09%) Cloudera
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce