Data Scientist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Scientist
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Scientist daily rate in Work from Home is £552 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 406 451
Rank change year-on-year +114 +45 -113
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 67 74 178
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.28% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.30% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 51 122
10th Percentile £320 £213 £450
25th Percentile £434 £425 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £625
90th Percentile £717 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £542 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +3.14% -8.70% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £18.19 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £19.00 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £19.49 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% -2.11% -71.56%
75th Percentile £21.50 £19.98 -
90th Percentile - £20.18 -
UK median hourly rate £31.75 £19.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +62.86% -48.01% -15.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,386 24,802 42,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.34% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,612 17,511 30,752
10th Percentile £325 £358 £355
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 576 607
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £12.85
25th Percentile £22.68 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Data Scientist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Scientist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Data Scientist over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 26 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 67 (100.00%) Data Science
2 60 (89.55%) Python
3 36 (53.73%) Visualisation
4 34 (50.75%) Machine Learning
5 32 (47.76%) Data Analysis
6 30 (44.78%) SQL
7 22 (32.84%) Data Visualisation
7 22 (32.84%) Algorithms
7 22 (32.84%) Power Platform
7 22 (32.84%) Power BI
8 20 (29.85%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (28.36%) R
10 18 (26.87%) Mathematics
11 16 (23.88%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (23.88%) Tableau
11 16 (23.88%) Analytics
12 15 (22.39%) Azure
12 15 (22.39%) Statistics
13 13 (19.40%) Social Skills
14 12 (17.91%) Finance
14 12 (17.91%) Predictive Modelling
14 12 (17.91%) Security Cleared
15 11 (16.42%) Statistical Modelling
16 10 (14.93%) Pandas
16 10 (14.93%) Data Modelling
16 10 (14.93%) Artificial Intelligence
16 10 (14.93%) Computer Science
16 10 (14.93%) Decision-Making
17 9 (13.43%) SC Cleared
17 9 (13.43%) Marketing

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 5 (7.46%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.48%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (32.84%) Power Platform
2 15 (22.39%) Azure
3 8 (11.94%) GCP
4 6 (8.96%) AWS
5 3 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (4.48%) Google Analytics
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.49%) dbt
7 1 (1.49%) GitHub
7 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.49%) Serverless
7 1 (1.49%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.49%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (32.84%) Power BI
2 16 (23.88%) Tableau
3 6 (8.96%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (5.97%) Big Data
4 4 (5.97%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.97%) Looker
5 3 (4.48%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.99%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Git
2 1 (1.49%) JIRA
2 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (29.85%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (19.40%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.91%) Finance
4 9 (13.43%) Marketing
5 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Retail
7 1 (1.49%) Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Games
7 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) Pandas
2 7 (10.45%) PySpark
3 6 (8.96%) scikit-learn
4 5 (7.46%) NumPy
5 3 (4.48%) Plotly
5 3 (4.48%) Shiny
5 3 (4.48%) XGBoost
6 2 (2.99%) ggplot2
6 2 (2.99%) Matplotlib
6 2 (2.99%) SciPy
7 1 (1.49%) D3.js
7 1 (1.49%) JSON
7 1 (1.49%) LightGBM
7 1 (1.49%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.49%) REST
7 1 (1.49%) Statsmodels
7 1 (1.49%) Swagger
7 1 (1.49%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (32.84%) Algorithms
2 4 (5.97%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.97%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.97%) Multi-touch
3 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.99%) Social Media
4 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.49%) FMCG
4 1 (1.49%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.49%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) Data Science
2 36 (53.73%) Visualisation
3 34 (50.75%) Machine Learning
4 32 (47.76%) Data Analysis
5 22 (32.84%) Data Visualisation
6 18 (26.87%) Mathematics
7 16 (23.88%) Analytics
7 16 (23.88%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (22.39%) Statistics
9 12 (17.91%) Predictive Modelling
10 11 (16.42%) Statistical Modelling
11 10 (14.93%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (14.93%) Computer Science
11 10 (14.93%) Data Modelling
11 10 (14.93%) Decision-Making
12 9 (13.43%) Bayesian Methods
13 8 (11.94%) Agile
13 8 (11.94%) Data Management
14 7 (10.45%) Actionable Insight
14 7 (10.45%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 60 (89.55%) Python
2 30 (44.78%) SQL
3 19 (28.36%) R
4 2 (2.99%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.49%) C#
5 1 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.43%) Degree
2 9 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.48%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.48%) PhD
4 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (10.45%) Google
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) Alteryx
3 2 (2.99%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.49%) Databricks
4 1 (1.49%) SAP