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 £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 384 411
Rank change year-on-year +24 +27 -72
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 34 62 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.28% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 35 58
10th Percentile £401 £146 £400
25th Percentile £453 £389 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -1.64% +4.40%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £622
90th Percentile £609 £713 £681
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 2
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 -
90th Percentile £19.54 £56.40 -
UK median hourly rate £31.75 £19.49 £48.50
% change year-on-year +62.90% -59.81% +9.85%

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 18,742 21,812 29,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,203 20,621
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,269 1,109 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 11 £554 -16.38% 18
Yorkshire +18 8 £557 -17.48% 7
Wales +25 7 £396 - 3
South East +12 4 £600 +306.78% 39
East of England +9 4 £538 +10.26% 5
Scotland +40 3 £488 +30.00% 3
South West -3 3 £538 -1.60% 20
West Midlands +18 2 £590 +18.00% 4
North West +13 2 £520 +9.47% 8
Midlands +11 2 £590 -1.67% 8
North East - 1 - - 3
Data Scientist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 34 (100.00%) Data Science
2 25 (73.53%) Python
3 18 (52.94%) Visualisation
4 15 (44.12%) Data Analysis
5 13 (38.24%) Machine Learning
6 11 (32.35%) Decision-Making
6 11 (32.35%) Predictive Modelling
7 10 (29.41%) Data Modelling
7 10 (29.41%) Analytics
7 10 (29.41%) Data Visualisation
8 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (26.47%) Agile
8 9 (26.47%) SQL
9 8 (23.53%) ITIL
9 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
9 8 (23.53%) Statistical Analysis
9 8 (23.53%) ServiceNow
9 8 (23.53%) Power Platform
9 8 (23.53%) Power BI
9 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
10 7 (20.59%) PySpark
10 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
10 7 (20.59%) Degree
10 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
10 7 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (20.59%) Data Mining
11 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (17.65%) Algorithms
11 6 (17.65%) R
11 6 (17.65%) Public Sector

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 3 (8.82%) SAS
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Power Platform
2 5 (14.71%) Azure
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Power BI
2 7 (20.59%) Data Mining
3 5 (14.71%) Tableau
4 3 (8.82%) Looker
4 3 (8.82%) MySQL
4 3 (8.82%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.76%) Finance
4 4 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Marketing
5 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) PySpark
2 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
2 3 (8.82%) CSS
2 3 (8.82%) HTML
3 2 (5.88%) JSON
3 2 (5.88%) NumPy
3 2 (5.88%) Pandas
3 2 (5.88%) REST
3 2 (5.88%) Swagger
3 2 (5.88%) TensorFlow
3 2 (5.88%) YAML
4 1 (2.94%) LightGBM
4 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.94%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.82%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Data Science
2 18 (52.94%) Visualisation
3 15 (44.12%) Data Analysis
4 13 (38.24%) Machine Learning
5 11 (32.35%) Decision-Making
5 11 (32.35%) Predictive Modelling
6 10 (29.41%) Analytics
6 10 (29.41%) Data Modelling
6 10 (29.41%) Data Visualisation
7 9 (26.47%) Agile
8 8 (23.53%) ITIL
8 8 (23.53%) Statistical Analysis
9 7 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
10 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
11 5 (14.71%) Problem Management
11 5 (14.71%) Service Delivery
11 5 (14.71%) Service Management
11 5 (14.71%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 25 (73.53%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) SQL
3 6 (17.65%) R
4 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (2.94%) C++
6 1 (2.94%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) Degree
2 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (11.76%) Master's Degree
5 3 (8.82%) PMI Certification
5 3 (8.82%) PMP
6 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks