Data Science Contracts in England

Data Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 199 176
Rank change year-on-year +31 -23 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Science 494 653 1,151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.36% 1.36% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.50% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 412 746
10th Percentile £357 £413 £411
25th Percentile £450 £498 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £596
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.56% +8.41%
75th Percentile £654 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £766
UK median daily rate £540 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -6.09% -2.54% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 33
10th Percentile £21.44 £19.00 £26.65
25th Percentile £26.33 £20.10 £34.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -16.67% +51.46%
75th Percentile £51.88 £53.84 £59.38
90th Percentile £68.75 £63.88 £71.15
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -12.86% -16.67% +55.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in England

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Science in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Science in England

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +40 332 £550 -8.33% 459
North of England +22 40 £490 -18.33% 61
South East +11 35 £475 -13.64% 127
Midlands +5 27 £488 -9.72% 39
North West +28 25 £488 -15.22% 32
East of England +12 25 £538 +19.44% 29
West Midlands +4 20 £519 -3.58% 24
Yorkshire -3 14 £525 -14.29% 23
South West -13 13 £525 - 61
East Midlands +15 7 £375 -37.50% 15
North East +9 1 - - 6
Data Science
UK

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (5.87%) Apache Spark
2 25 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.02%) Apache
4 8 (1.62%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.61%) CMS
5 3 (0.61%) Confluence
6 2 (0.40%) SAS
6 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.21%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.40%) Simulink
6 1 (0.20%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.20%) Stata
Business Applications
1 7 (1.42%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.61%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 106 (21.46%) Azure
2 82 (16.60%) GCP
3 75 (15.18%) Power Platform
4 71 (14.37%) AWS
5 23 (4.66%) Vertex AI
6 21 (4.25%) Serverless
7 20 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (3.44%) Snowflake
10 14 (2.83%) Amazon S3
11 13 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
11 13 (2.63%) GitHub
12 12 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.02%) Google Compute Engine
14 8 (1.62%) dbt
15 7 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.42%) Azure Functions
15 7 (1.42%) Figma
15 7 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.21%) Internet
2 3 (0.61%) LAN
2 3 (0.61%) WAN
3 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (15.18%) Power BI
2 69 (13.97%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (12.55%) Big Data
4 59 (11.94%) Tableau
5 37 (7.49%) Data Lake
6 36 (7.29%) BigQuery
7 25 (5.06%) Hadoop
8 17 (3.44%) Data Mining
9 14 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (2.83%) Metadata
10 13 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
11 12 (2.43%) SQL Server
12 10 (2.02%) NoSQL
12 10 (2.02%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.42%) Looker
14 7 (1.42%) Presto
15 6 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (1.21%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (6.68%) Git
2 19 (3.85%) JIRA
3 11 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.42%) GitLab
4 7 (1.42%) MLflow
5 4 (0.81%) RStudio
6 3 (0.61%) ERwin
6 3 (0.61%) Selenium
7 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.40%) kappa
7 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.20%) CMake
8 1 (0.20%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.20%) Poetry
8 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.20%) Xcode
General
1 136 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 101 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (17.21%) Finance
4 36 (7.29%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.06%) Marketing
6 19 (3.85%) Banking
6 19 (3.85%) Retail
7 18 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.23%) Legal
10 10 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.02%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.42%) Advertising
11 7 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.21%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.81%) Games
14 4 (0.81%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.81%) Local Government
14 4 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 125 (25.30%) Data Scientist
2 55 (11.13%) Senior
3 54 (10.93%) Analyst
4 52 (10.53%) Data Engineer
5 44 (8.91%) Architect
6 42 (8.50%) Developer
7 41 (8.30%) Data Analyst
8 28 (5.67%) Lead
9 19 (3.85%) Senior Data Scientist
9 19 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.64%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 17 (3.44%) Data Manager
11 17 (3.44%) GCP Engineer
12 15 (3.04%) Data Architect
13 13 (2.63%) Senior Data Engineer
14 12 (2.43%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (2.43%) Consultant
15 10 (2.02%) Data Modeller
15 10 (2.02%) Product Manager
16 9 (1.82%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.48%) scikit-learn
2 31 (6.28%) PySpark
3 28 (5.67%) TensorFlow
4 26 (5.26%) Pandas
5 19 (3.85%) PyTorch
6 16 (3.24%) HTML
6 16 (3.24%) NumPy
7 14 (2.83%) CSS
7 14 (2.83%) Kafka
7 14 (2.83%) React
8 8 (1.62%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.42%) Django
9 7 (1.42%) Matplotlib
10 6 (1.21%) Plotly
11 5 (1.01%) REST
11 5 (1.01%) XGBoost
11 5 (1.01%) XML
12 4 (0.81%) JSON
12 4 (0.81%) Middleware
12 4 (0.81%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 76 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 23 (4.66%) Data Structures
2 23 (4.66%) Management Information System
3 21 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 10 (2.02%) Reference Data
6 9 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (1.82%) IoT
7 8 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.42%) Blockchain
9 6 (1.21%) FMCG
9 6 (1.21%) Life Science
9 6 (1.21%) NHS
10 5 (1.01%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.01%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.81%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.23%) Windows
2 9 (1.82%) Linux
3 4 (0.81%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (39.88%) Machine Learning
2 174 (35.22%) Analytics
3 113 (22.87%) Computer Science
4 112 (22.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 112 (22.67%) Data Modelling
5 108 (21.86%) Data Analysis
6 104 (21.05%) Agile
7 102 (20.65%) Visualisation
8 91 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
9 83 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
10 80 (16.19%) ETL
11 72 (14.57%) Data Pipeline
12 70 (14.17%) Data Visualisation
13 65 (13.16%) DevOps
14 60 (12.15%) Data Engineering
15 55 (11.13%) Statistics
16 54 (10.93%) CI/CD
16 54 (10.93%) Mathematics
17 53 (10.73%) Data Management
17 53 (10.73%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 269 (54.45%) Python
2 187 (37.85%) SQL
3 48 (9.72%) R
4 31 (6.28%) Java
5 18 (3.64%) Bash
5 18 (3.64%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.24%) Scala
7 7 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (1.21%) C#
8 6 (1.21%) C++
8 6 (1.21%) MATLAB
9 5 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.40%) VBA
12 1 (0.20%) C
12 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.20%) Ruby
12 1 (0.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 134 (27.13%) Degree
2 68 (13.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (10.32%) Security Cleared
4 40 (8.10%) SC Cleared
5 36 (7.29%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.63%) PhD
7 9 (1.82%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.82%) PMP
8 8 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.01%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.01%) CISSP
11 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.61%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.40%) CFA
12 2 (0.40%) MBA
13 1 (0.20%) CBAP
13 1 (0.20%) CSSLP
13 1 (0.20%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.31%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.04%) QA
3 12 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.23%) GDPR
5 8 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.01%) WCAG
7 4 (0.81%) PMO
8 3 (0.61%) GxP
8 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (3.85%) Docker
2 4 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (6.68%) Terraform
2 21 (4.25%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.21%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.61%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 57 (11.54%) Databricks
2 37 (7.49%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.25%) Google
4 12 (2.43%) Oracle
4 12 (2.43%) SAP
5 10 (2.02%) Foundry
5 10 (2.02%) Palantir
6 8 (1.62%) Alteryx
6 8 (1.62%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.21%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.01%) Ab Initio
9 3 (0.61%) Citrix
9 3 (0.61%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.61%) Hyperion
9 3 (0.61%) Informatica
9 3 (0.61%) New Relic
9 3 (0.61%) Splunk
9 3 (0.61%) Teradata
10 2 (0.40%) ESRI
10 2 (0.40%) Salesforce