Data Scientist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Scientist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £515 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 402 429
Rank change year-on-year +35 +27 -94
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 28 63 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.27% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 36 65
10th Percentile £364 £146 £400
25th Percentile £416 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -3.23% +4.83%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £625
90th Percentile £616 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £539 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +0.23% -6.52% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 3
10th Percentile £15.32 - -
25th Percentile £15.51 £19.00 -
Median hourly rate £15.81 £19.49 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.88% -2.11% -54.04%
75th Percentile £18.14 £52.74 £22.35
90th Percentile £19.54 £56.40 £23.81
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £19.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +118.00% -48.01% -15.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,271 22,924 30,056
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 94.05% 95.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,866 16,072 21,068
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £594 £573
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,189 1,202 1,498
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.01
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.10 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £41.94
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Data Scientist
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 Scientist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Wales +22 7 £396 - 4
East of England +15 6 £525 +7.69% 8
Scotland +40 3 £488 +34.48% 2
North of England +27 3 £520 -21.51% 17
Midlands +26 3 £590 -1.67% 6
West Midlands +23 3 £590 +9.77% 4
South West +16 3 £538 -1.60% 7
South East +4 3 £549 +272.03% 6
North West +20 2 £520 +9.47% 9
North East - 1 - - 1
Data Scientist
UK

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Data Scientist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Data Science
2 26 (92.86%) Python
3 13 (46.43%) Visualisation
4 11 (39.29%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (35.71%) Analytics
5 10 (35.71%) Data Analysis
5 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
6 9 (32.14%) Agile
6 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
6 9 (32.14%) Machine Learning
7 8 (28.57%) PySpark
7 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
7 8 (28.57%) SQL
8 7 (25.00%) Statistics
8 7 (25.00%) Degree
8 7 (25.00%) Algorithms
9 6 (21.43%) Tableau
9 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
9 6 (21.43%) Predictive Modelling
9 6 (21.43%) R
9 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (17.86%) Data Visualisation
10 5 (17.86%) Azure
10 5 (17.86%) Power BI
10 5 (17.86%) Data Quality
10 5 (17.86%) Data Analytics
10 5 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
11 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
11 4 (14.29%) Statistical Modelling

Data Scientist Skill Set
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 4 (14.29%) SAS
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Azure
1 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.57%) GCP
3 1 (3.57%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Tableau
2 5 (17.86%) Power BI
3 3 (10.71%) Data Mining
3 3 (10.71%) Looker
4 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.57%) Big Data
5 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (39.29%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Finance
4 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) PySpark
2 2 (7.14%) JSON
2 2 (7.14%) NumPy
2 2 (7.14%) Pandas
2 2 (7.14%) REST
2 2 (7.14%) Swagger
2 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
2 2 (7.14%) YAML
3 1 (3.57%) Flask
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) LightGBM
3 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.57%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (10.71%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Data Science
2 13 (46.43%) Visualisation
3 10 (35.71%) Analytics
3 10 (35.71%) Data Analysis
4 9 (32.14%) Agile
4 9 (32.14%) Machine Learning
5 7 (25.00%) Statistics
6 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
6 6 (21.43%) Predictive Modelling
6 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (17.86%) Data Analytics
7 5 (17.86%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (14.29%) Mathematics
8 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.29%) Statistical Modelling
9 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
9 3 (10.71%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) R
4 2 (7.14%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) C++
4 2 (7.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 7 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 2 (7.14%) PhD
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Hortonworks
3 1 (3.57%) Informatica
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Teradata