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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 273 373
Rank change year-on-year +21 +100 +132
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 58 62 65
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.47% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.50% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 41 44
10th Percentile £408 £150 £213
25th Percentile £463 £341 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £545
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.09% -5.22%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £717
90th Percentile £650 £680 £764
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - £20.73 £17.99
25th Percentile - £21.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate - £21.68 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year - +11.24% -70.02%
75th Percentile - £21.90 £19.98
90th Percentile - £21.96 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £21.50 £19.49
% change year-on-year +167.44% +10.31% -52.75%

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 9,575 12,320 21,234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.57% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,354 8,296 14,964
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.41% -0.93%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 385 512
10th Percentile £12.85 £16.64 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.50 £27.84 £24.74
Median hourly rate £34.48 £45.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.60 £75.00 £78.10
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 58 (100.00%) Data Science
2 48 (82.76%) Python
3 43 (74.14%) Machine Learning
4 34 (58.62%) SQL
5 27 (46.55%) R
6 26 (44.83%) Azure
7 22 (37.93%) Statistical Modelling
8 19 (32.76%) AWS
8 19 (32.76%) Analytics
8 19 (32.76%) Degree
9 18 (31.03%) Statistics
10 17 (29.31%) Data Analysis
10 17 (29.31%) Artificial Intelligence
10 17 (29.31%) Mathematics
10 17 (29.31%) Validation
10 17 (29.31%) Apache Spark
10 17 (29.31%) Pandas
10 17 (29.31%) Visualisation
11 16 (27.59%) Computer Science
11 16 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
12 15 (25.86%) Marketing
13 12 (20.69%) Marketing Mix
13 12 (20.69%) Bayesian Methods
14 11 (18.97%) PhD
14 11 (18.97%) Data Collection
14 11 (18.97%) Model Validation
15 10 (17.24%) SC Cleared
15 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
16 9 (15.52%) Big Data

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 17 (29.31%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.72%) IBM Domino
3 1 (1.72%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.83%) Azure
2 19 (32.76%) AWS
3 9 (15.52%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.07%) GCP
5 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (6.90%) Serverless
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (5.17%) GitHub
6 3 (5.17%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.72%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.72%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.72%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) Big Data
1 9 (15.52%) Power BI
2 6 (10.34%) Hadoop
3 3 (5.17%) Metadata
3 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.45%) QGIS
4 2 (3.45%) Spatial Data
4 2 (3.45%) Tableau
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.72%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.86%) Marketing
3 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.07%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (8.62%) Finance
6 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.45%) French Language
8 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Retail
9 1 (1.72%) Automotive
9 1 (1.72%) Banking
9 1 (1.72%) Dutch Language
9 1 (1.72%) German Language
9 1 (1.72%) Italian Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (29.31%) Pandas
2 8 (13.79%) scikit-learn
3 6 (10.34%) NumPy
4 4 (6.90%) PyTorch
4 4 (6.90%) TensorFlow
5 3 (5.17%) Plotly
5 3 (5.17%) Streamlit
6 2 (3.45%) Dask
6 2 (3.45%) GeoJSON
6 2 (3.45%) GeoPandas
6 2 (3.45%) Matplotlib
6 2 (3.45%) PostGIS
6 2 (3.45%) PySpark
7 1 (1.72%) Apache Beam
7 1 (1.72%) CSS
7 1 (1.72%) Django
7 1 (1.72%) HTML
7 1 (1.72%) Kafka
7 1 (1.72%) Regular Expression
7 1 (1.72%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Multi-touch
2 4 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.45%) FMCG
4 1 (1.72%) Acoustics
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Data Science
2 43 (74.14%) Machine Learning
3 22 (37.93%) Statistical Modelling
4 19 (32.76%) Analytics
5 18 (31.03%) Statistics
6 17 (29.31%) Artificial Intelligence
6 17 (29.31%) Data Analysis
6 17 (29.31%) Mathematics
6 17 (29.31%) Validation
6 17 (29.31%) Visualisation
7 16 (27.59%) Computer Science
7 16 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (20.69%) Bayesian Methods
8 12 (20.69%) Marketing Mix
9 11 (18.97%) Data Collection
9 11 (18.97%) Model Validation
10 9 (15.52%) Actionable Insight
10 9 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (15.52%) Decision-Making
11 8 (13.79%) Applied Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 48 (82.76%) Python
2 34 (58.62%) SQL
3 27 (46.55%) R
4 2 (3.45%) Bash
4 2 (3.45%) C++
4 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) Degree
2 11 (18.97%) PhD
3 10 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.45%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.62%) Google
2 4 (6.90%) Databricks
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
3 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.72%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.72%) OutSystems
4 1 (1.72%) Sage
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