Data Science Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Science
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 260 220
Rank change year-on-year +24 -40 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Science 163 201 347
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.88% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.98% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 135 232
10th Percentile £325 £413 £400
25th Percentile £367 £479 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% - +8.91%
75th Percentile £585 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% +8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 8
10th Percentile £15.75 - £19.91
25th Percentile £20.12 £19.00 £36.48
Median hourly rate £21.10 £22.16 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -47.24% +68.00%
75th Percentile £27.63 £39.50 £45.56
90th Percentile £58.30 £56.95 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £22.25 £28.58 £42.00
% change year-on-year -22.15% -31.95% +40.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Science in the UK excluding London

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +27 46 £500 -16.67% 65
South East -10 39 £475 -9.52% 80
Midlands +14 26 £450 -18.18% 33
North West +24 25 £488 -12.95% 44
East of England +18 23 £538 +19.44% 27
Yorkshire +10 20 £550 -12.00% 17
West Midlands +7 20 £488 -10.96% 19
South West +1 15 £525 -12.50% 42
Wales +24 10 £396 -31.13% 12
Scotland +31 8 £488 -7.14% 22
East Midlands +7 6 £375 -37.50% 14
North East +9 1 - - 5
Data Science
UK

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (5.52%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.07%) Apache
4 3 (1.84%) SAS
5 2 (1.23%) Confluence
6 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.84%) SPSS
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.61%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.09%) Azure
2 27 (16.56%) Power Platform
3 17 (10.43%) AWS
4 16 (9.82%) GCP
5 11 (6.75%) Serverless
6 8 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (4.91%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (4.29%) Azure Functions
8 5 (3.07%) GitHub
8 5 (3.07%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.45%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.84%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.84%) dbt
11 2 (1.23%) Amazon Neptune
11 2 (1.23%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 2 (1.23%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.23%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.29%) LAN
1 7 (4.29%) WAN
2 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.56%) Power BI
2 18 (11.04%) Data Lake
2 18 (11.04%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (10.43%) Big Data
4 10 (6.13%) Relational Database
4 10 (6.13%) Tableau
5 9 (5.52%) Data Mining
6 8 (4.91%) Metadata
6 8 (4.91%) Qlik Sense
7 7 (4.29%) MySQL
8 6 (3.68%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.07%) Hadoop
9 5 (3.07%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.45%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.75%) Git
2 3 (1.84%) JIRA
3 2 (1.23%) ERwin
3 2 (1.23%) kappa
3 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.61%) CMake
4 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.61%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.61%) MLflow
4 1 (0.61%) RStudio
4 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.77%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (19.02%) Finance
4 18 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.98%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (6.75%) Banking
7 10 (6.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (5.52%) Marketing
9 8 (4.91%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (4.91%) Retail
9 8 (4.91%) Telecoms
10 6 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.84%) Legal
11 3 (1.84%) Publishing
12 2 (1.23%) Law
12 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.61%) Automotive
13 1 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (22.09%) Data Scientist
2 27 (16.56%) Analyst
3 18 (11.04%) Data Analyst
4 17 (10.43%) Architect
5 16 (9.82%) Data Engineer
6 12 (7.36%) Data Manager
6 12 (7.36%) Senior
7 10 (6.13%) Developer
8 8 (4.91%) Technical Architect
9 7 (4.29%) Azure Architect
9 7 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (3.68%) Data Modeller
10 6 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.68%) User Researcher
11 5 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (3.07%) SQL Analyst
12 4 (2.45%) Analytics Manager
12 4 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (2.45%) Data Science Manager
12 4 (2.45%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.59%) PySpark
2 8 (4.91%) AngularJS
2 8 (4.91%) CSS
2 8 (4.91%) HTML
3 7 (4.29%) Middleware
4 5 (3.07%) NumPy
4 5 (3.07%) Pandas
4 5 (3.07%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.07%) XML
5 4 (2.45%) Kafka
5 4 (2.45%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.84%) REST
6 3 (1.84%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.84%) Snowpark
7 2 (1.23%) .NET
7 2 (1.23%) JSON
7 2 (1.23%) Node.js
7 2 (1.23%) React
7 2 (1.23%) Swagger
7 2 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.98%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.91%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 7 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.68%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.07%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.07%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.45%) NHS
7 4 (2.45%) Smart Meter
8 3 (1.84%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.84%) FMCG
8 3 (1.84%) Life Science
9 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.23%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.23%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.20%) Linux
1 15 (9.20%) Windows
2 4 (2.45%) Unix
3 1 (0.61%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (38.65%) Analytics
2 48 (29.45%) Data Modelling
3 44 (26.99%) Agile
4 42 (25.77%) Machine Learning
5 41 (25.15%) Computer Science
6 36 (22.09%) Visualisation
7 35 (21.47%) Data Analysis
8 33 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (17.18%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (15.34%) Artificial Intelligence
11 23 (14.11%) Decision-Making
12 22 (13.50%) Actionable Insight
12 22 (13.50%) DevOps
13 21 (12.88%) Data Visualisation
14 20 (12.27%) Data Engineering
15 19 (11.66%) ETL
15 19 (11.66%) Roadmaps
16 18 (11.04%) Statistics
17 17 (10.43%) Data Strategy
17 17 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (41.10%) Python
2 58 (35.58%) SQL
3 17 (10.43%) R
4 16 (9.82%) Java
5 10 (6.13%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.68%) Scala
7 4 (2.45%) C#
8 3 (1.84%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.23%) C++
9 2 (1.23%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.61%) Bash
10 1 (0.61%) C
10 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.61%) Ruby
10 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (31.90%) Degree
2 30 (18.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (10.43%) Master's Degree
3 17 (10.43%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.52%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.29%) PMI Certification
5 7 (4.29%) PMP
6 5 (3.07%) PhD
7 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.61%) CBAP
8 1 (0.61%) IIBA
8 1 (0.61%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.43%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.13%) GDPR
3 9 (5.52%) QA
4 6 (3.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.61%) GxP
6 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) NIST
6 1 (0.61%) PMO
6 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.68%) Docker
2 4 (2.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.68%) Terraform
3 3 (1.84%) SysTrack
4 1 (0.61%) Kibana
4 1 (0.61%) logstash
4 1 (0.61%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (10.43%) Databricks
2 15 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.36%) ServiceNow
4 10 (6.13%) Google
5 4 (2.45%) Ab Initio
6 3 (1.84%) Citrix
6 3 (1.84%) New Relic
6 3 (1.84%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.84%) SAP
7 2 (1.23%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.23%) Splunk
7 2 (1.23%) Teradata
8 1 (0.61%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.61%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.61%) Informatica
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle
8 1 (0.61%) Salesforce