Senior Data Scientist Contracts

Senior Data Scientist
UK

The median Senior Data Scientist daily rate in the UK is £593 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 711 775
Rank change year-on-year +134 +64 -180
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 21 8 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.013% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.014% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 50
10th Percentile £469 £505 £524
25th Percentile £513 £513 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -8.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £680 £613 £638
90th Percentile £748 £635 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -13.46% +1.96% -1.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK

Senior Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Scientist.

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK

Senior Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Scientist in the UK

Senior Data Scientist
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Scientist within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +139 18 £613 +11.36% 62
London +110 15 £593 +12.86% 42
Work from Home +139 12 £653 +24.29% 50
UK excluding London +68 4 £563 -13.46% 23
Scotland - 2 £488 - 1
South West +22 1 £625 -3.85% 1
South East - 1 £698 - 8

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Data Science
2 19 (90.48%) Python
3 13 (61.90%) Machine Learning
4 12 (57.14%) Algorithms
5 10 (47.62%) SQL
6 8 (38.10%) Analytics
7 7 (33.33%) Visualisation
7 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
8 6 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (28.57%) Data Modelling
8 6 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
9 5 (23.81%) Computer Science
9 5 (23.81%) Azure
9 5 (23.81%) Power BI
9 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
10 4 (19.05%) Pandas
10 4 (19.05%) Jupyter
10 4 (19.05%) Git
10 4 (19.05%) R
10 4 (19.05%) Statistical Modelling
10 4 (19.05%) Deep Learning
10 4 (19.05%) Natural Language Processing
10 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (19.05%) Statistics
10 4 (19.05%) Degree
10 4 (19.05%) Mathematics
10 4 (19.05%) E-Commerce

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (19.05%) Jupyter
2 2 (9.52%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
1 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.76%) dbt
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.76%) Looker
2 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Retail
4 2 (9.52%) Law
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 2 (9.52%) Marketing
4 2 (9.52%) Police
4 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Pandas
2 3 (14.29%) PySpark
3 2 (9.52%) Matplotlib
3 2 (9.52%) NumPy
3 2 (9.52%) scikit-learn
3 2 (9.52%) XGBoost
4 1 (4.76%) D3.js
4 1 (4.76%) LightGBM
4 1 (4.76%) Shiny
4 1 (4.76%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (4.76%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Data Science
2 13 (61.90%) Machine Learning
3 8 (38.10%) Analytics
4 7 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 6 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 6 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (23.81%) Computer Science
6 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
7 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (19.05%) Deep Learning
7 4 (19.05%) E-Commerce
7 4 (19.05%) Mathematics
7 4 (19.05%) Natural Language Processing
7 4 (19.05%) Statistical Modelling
7 4 (19.05%) Statistics
8 3 (14.29%) Anomaly Detection
8 3 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (90.48%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 2 (9.52%) PhD
4 1 (4.76%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Databricks