Data Science Contracts in West London

Data Science
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 42 65
Rank change year-on-year +1 +23 -25
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Science 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.10% 0.34% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.37% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £402
25th Percentile £513 £513 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £451
Median % change year-on-year - +16.34% -20.62%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £478
90th Percentile - - £491
London median daily rate £550 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% +2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West London

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 West London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 239 271 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 87.87% 91.55% 93.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 195 463
10th Percentile £225 £270 £250
25th Percentile £350 £369 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £485 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% -13.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £650
90th Percentile £558 £650 £702
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 29
10th Percentile £20.45 £19.96 £29.00
25th Percentile - £23.80 £56.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% -34.64% +268.42%
75th Percentile £33.95 £65.00 £87.50
90th Percentile £50.20 £70.10 £90.00
London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +6.67%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in West London

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Science

Data Science
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Science.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Science

Data Science
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 26 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hounslow - 3 £525 - 3
Data Science
London

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Pandas
1 3 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google