Senior Data Scientist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Data Scientist
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Data Scientist daily rate in Work from Home is £653 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 466 585
Rank change year-on-year +126 +119 -147
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 12 4 49
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.078% 0.015% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.016% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 30
10th Percentile £453 £503 £524
25th Percentile £506 £506 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £653 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -12.50% -3.50%
75th Percentile £711 £556 £638
90th Percentile £775 £568 £763
UK median daily rate £593 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +7.73% -8.33% -3.23%

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 14,380 24,650 42,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 17,416 30,864
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +2.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 564 610
10th Percentile £14.30 £18.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £23.25 £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 £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Senior Data Scientist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Data Scientist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Data Scientist.

Senior Data Scientist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Data Scientist over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Senior Data Scientist daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Data Science
2 11 (91.67%) Python
3 8 (66.67%) Machine Learning
4 7 (58.33%) Algorithms
5 6 (50.00%) SQL
6 4 (33.33%) Pandas
7 3 (25.00%) Deep Learning
7 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (25.00%) PySpark
7 3 (25.00%) Jupyter
7 3 (25.00%) Power BI
7 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
7 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (25.00%) Mathematics
7 3 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 3 (25.00%) Azure
7 3 (25.00%) AWS
7 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
8 2 (16.67%) Logistic Regression
8 2 (16.67%) Git
8 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (16.67%) Software Architecture
8 2 (16.67%) NumPy
8 2 (16.67%) R
8 2 (16.67%) Matplotlib
8 2 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
8 2 (16.67%) Degree
8 2 (16.67%) Statistics
8 2 (16.67%) Econometrics

Senior 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 3 (25.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) dbt
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (8.33%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Pandas
2 3 (25.00%) PySpark
3 2 (16.67%) Matplotlib
3 2 (16.67%) NumPy
3 2 (16.67%) scikit-learn
3 2 (16.67%) XGBoost
4 1 (8.33%) D3.js
4 1 (8.33%) LightGBM
4 1 (8.33%) Shiny
4 1 (8.33%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (8.33%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Data Science
2 8 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (25.00%) Deep Learning
3 3 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (16.67%) Bayesian Methods
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 2 (16.67%) Econometrics
4 2 (16.67%) Logistic Regression
4 2 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (16.67%) Random Forest
4 2 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Statistics
4 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared