Data Scientist Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Scientist
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Scientist daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £483, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 278 403
Rank change year-on-year +40 +125 +53
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 66 67 74
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.67% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.47% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 42 52
10th Percentile £413 £320 £213
25th Percentile £438 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £552 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +5.14% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £625
90th Percentile £650 £717 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £546 £533
% change year-on-year -4.72% +2.49% -7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £21.25 - £18.19
25th Percentile £21.63 £20.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £21.00 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.75% -2.11%
75th Percentile £25.75 £21.50 £19.98
90th Percentile £26.05 - £20.18
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £31.75 £19.50
% change year-on-year -30.71% +62.86% -48.01%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Scientist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Scientist trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Scientist.

Data Scientist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Scientist over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Scientist daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Scientist
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Scientist.

Data Scientist hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 66 (100.00%) Data Science
2 52 (78.79%) Python
3 39 (59.09%) Machine Learning
4 30 (45.45%) SQL
5 26 (39.39%) Visualisation
6 23 (34.85%) Analytics
6 23 (34.85%) Data Analysis
7 21 (31.82%) Statistics
7 21 (31.82%) AWS
8 19 (28.79%) Security Cleared
8 19 (28.79%) Artificial Intelligence
9 18 (27.27%) Azure
9 18 (27.27%) SC Cleared
10 17 (25.76%) Data Visualisation
11 16 (24.24%) Mathematics
12 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (22.73%) Public Sector
13 14 (21.21%) Apache Spark
13 14 (21.21%) Actionable Insight
13 14 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (21.21%) Statistical Modelling
13 14 (21.21%) Algorithms
14 13 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
15 12 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
15 12 (18.18%) Databricks
15 12 (18.18%) Decision-Making
15 12 (18.18%) Social Skills
16 11 (16.67%) Degree
17 10 (15.15%) Marketing
17 10 (15.15%) Data Mining

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (21.21%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) Apache
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) IBM Domino
2 1 (1.52%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.52%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 21 (31.82%) AWS
2 18 (27.27%) Azure
3 10 (15.15%) Power Platform
4 8 (12.12%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (7.58%) Amazon SageMaker
5 5 (7.58%) GCP
5 5 (7.58%) Serverless
6 3 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.55%) AWS CodeCommit
6 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.55%) Cloud9 IDE
6 3 (4.55%) Textract
7 2 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.03%) GitHub
7 2 (3.03%) SaaS
7 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.52%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) Data Mining
1 10 (15.15%) Power BI
2 7 (10.61%) Big Data
3 6 (9.09%) Hadoop
4 4 (6.06%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.55%) Tableau
6 2 (3.03%) Neo4j
6 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Git
2 3 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (1.52%) MLflow
General
1 15 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 13 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 10 (15.15%) Marketing
5 6 (9.09%) Finance
6 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.55%) Retail
8 2 (3.03%) Banking
8 2 (3.03%) French Language
8 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.52%) Dutch Language
9 1 (1.52%) Games
9 1 (1.52%) German Language
9 1 (1.52%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) Pandas
2 7 (10.61%) scikit-learn
3 6 (9.09%) NumPy
3 6 (9.09%) Plotly
4 5 (7.58%) TensorFlow
5 4 (6.06%) PySpark
5 4 (6.06%) PyTorch
5 4 (6.06%) Regular Expression
5 4 (6.06%) XML
6 3 (4.55%) Matplotlib
6 3 (4.55%) OpenCV
6 3 (4.55%) pydantic
6 3 (4.55%) React
6 3 (4.55%) SciPy
7 1 (1.52%) Django
7 1 (1.52%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.52%) JSON
7 1 (1.52%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.21%) Algorithms
2 6 (9.09%) Multi-touch
3 4 (6.06%) NHS
4 3 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.03%) FMCG
6 1 (1.52%) Acoustics
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.52%) IoT
6 1 (1.52%) Mobile Games
6 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) Data Science
2 39 (59.09%) Machine Learning
3 26 (39.39%) Visualisation
4 23 (34.85%) Analytics
4 23 (34.85%) Data Analysis
5 21 (31.82%) Statistics
6 19 (28.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 17 (25.76%) Data Visualisation
8 16 (24.24%) Mathematics
9 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (21.21%) Actionable Insight
10 14 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (21.21%) Statistical Modelling
11 12 (18.18%) Decision-Making
11 12 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
12 10 (15.15%) LLM
13 9 (13.64%) Data Engineering
14 8 (12.12%) Predictive Modelling
15 7 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (10.61%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 52 (78.79%) Python
2 30 (45.45%) SQL
3 8 (12.12%) R
4 6 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.03%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 18 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.67%) Degree
4 3 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.55%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.03%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) Databricks
2 5 (7.58%) Google
3 3 (4.55%) Oracle
4 2 (3.03%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.52%) OutSystems
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