Data Scientist Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Scientist
England > Yorkshire

The median Data Scientist daily rate in Yorkshire is £507, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 81 -
Rank change year-on-year -57 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.23% 0.22% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £504 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% - -
75th Percentile £511 - -
90th Percentile £513 - -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,001 854 1,658
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.45% 92.52% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 539 1,026
10th Percentile £301 £219 £213
25th Percentile £400 £347 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.08% +2.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £568
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 29 54
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.04 £11.13
25th Percentile £16.57 £17.08 £12.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.14 £13.98
Median % change year-on-year +24.21% +58.37% -36.45%
75th Percentile £56.63 £28.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £52.53 £53.75
England median hourly rate £35.71 £36.00 £32.90
% change year-on-year -0.81% +9.44% -20.73%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Scientist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Data Scientist job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Scientist job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Scientist job vacancies in Yorkshire

Data Scientist
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Scientist within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire -57 5 £507 +1.40%
Data Scientist
England

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 7 March 2026, Data Scientist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
2 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (60.00%) AI
3 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (60.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) Apache Hive
4 2 (40.00%) Apache Pig
4 2 (40.00%) Data Collection
4 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
4 2 (40.00%) Data Munging
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (40.00%) Java
4 2 (40.00%) Linear Algebra
4 2 (40.00%) LLM
4 2 (40.00%) Naive Bayes
4 2 (40.00%) Ontologies
4 2 (40.00%) Power BI
4 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (40.00%) RDF
4 2 (40.00%) Scala
4 2 (40.00%) Splunk
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Statistics
4 2 (40.00%) Support Vector Machines
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Azure

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Spanner
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (20.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (20.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
2 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (60.00%) AI
3 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Data Collection
4 2 (40.00%) Data Munging
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (40.00%) Linear Algebra
4 2 (40.00%) LLM
4 2 (40.00%) Naive Bayes
4 2 (40.00%) Ontologies
4 2 (40.00%) RDF
4 2 (40.00%) Statistics
4 2 (40.00%) Support Vector Machines
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
5 1 (20.00%) KYC
5 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Google