Data Science Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Data Science
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 75 76
Rank change year-on-year +34 +1 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Science 7 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.44% 0.46% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 0.49% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% -1.43% -0.94%
75th Percentile £438 £584 £588
90th Percentile £625 £601 £600
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £555
% change year-on-year -9.52% -5.41% +10.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 397 810 863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 81.69% 93.53% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 642 653
10th Percentile £271 £313 £250
25th Percentile £400 £411 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.63% +3.26%
75th Percentile £560 £584 £575
90th Percentile £645 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 3 42
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.31 -
25th Percentile £18.00 £11.54 £10.77
Median hourly rate £25.00 £13.57 £12.18
Median % change year-on-year +84.23% +11.41% -6.31%
75th Percentile £30.00 £16.16 £14.32
90th Percentile £48.75 £17.71 £52.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Buckinghamshire

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in Buckinghamshire

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Buckinghamshire

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Science within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Milton Keynes +31 7 £425 -17.87% 3
Data Science
South East

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) dbt
1 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (57.14%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (42.86%) Big Data
2 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
3 2 (28.57%) Impala
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI
4 1 (14.29%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) ERwin
2 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modeller
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Snowpark
2 1 (14.29%) NumPy
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Conceptual Models
3 3 (42.86%) Data Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Logical Data Model
3 3 (42.86%) Physical Data Model
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cloudera
2 1 (14.29%) Ab Initio
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica