Data Science Contracts in London

Data Science
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 158 143
Rank change year-on-year +29 -15 -24
Contract jobs citing Data Science 332 417 776
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.90% 1.61% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.78% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 256 499
10th Percentile £388 £413 £418
25th Percentile £475 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £680 £738 £688
90th Percentile £759 £800 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £598
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +8.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 24
10th Percentile £31.85 £39.50 £29.78
25th Percentile £39.50 £46.25 £34.25
Median hourly rate £43.75 £51.50 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.05% +10.16% -2.70%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £63.06
90th Percentile £68.75 - £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +21.43% -16.67% +51.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in London

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in London

Data Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Science in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Science in London

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London +36 38 £625 +2.04% 31
West London +21 3 £525 +31.25% 8
East London - 2 £460 - 11
South London - 2 - -
North London - 1 - - 1
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 18 (5.42%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.11%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.20%) Apache
5 3 (0.90%) CMS
6 2 (0.60%) Confluence
6 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.60%) Simulink
5 1 (0.30%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (2.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (22.59%) Azure
2 63 (18.98%) GCP
3 53 (15.96%) AWS
3 53 (15.96%) Power Platform
4 22 (6.63%) Vertex AI
5 15 (4.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (3.31%) Snowflake
8 10 (3.01%) Google Compute Engine
9 9 (2.71%) Amazon S3
9 9 (2.71%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (2.71%) Serverless
10 7 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.81%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.81%) dbt
11 6 (1.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (1.51%) Figma
12 5 (1.51%) GitHub
13 4 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.30%) LAN
2 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.96%) Power BI
2 47 (14.16%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (13.55%) Tableau
4 40 (12.05%) Big Data
5 26 (7.83%) BigQuery
6 17 (5.12%) Data Lake
7 16 (4.82%) Hadoop
8 13 (3.92%) BusinessObjects
9 9 (2.71%) Data Mining
10 8 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.41%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.51%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.51%) Presto
12 4 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.20%) Looker
12 4 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.90%) Metadata
13 3 (0.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (7.83%) Git
2 17 (5.12%) JIRA
3 9 (2.71%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.11%) GitLab
5 6 (1.81%) MLflow
6 3 (0.90%) RStudio
6 3 (0.90%) Selenium
7 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.30%) Poetry
8 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.30%) Xcode
General
1 95 (28.61%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.37%) Finance
3 57 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.92%) Marketing
6 11 (3.31%) Retail
7 9 (2.71%) Banking
7 9 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.11%) Advertising
8 7 (2.11%) Legal
9 5 (1.51%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.20%) Czech Language
10 4 (1.20%) Games
10 4 (1.20%) Local Government
10 4 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.90%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 91 (27.41%) Data Scientist
2 41 (12.35%) Senior
3 32 (9.64%) Architect
3 32 (9.64%) Developer
4 31 (9.34%) Analyst
5 29 (8.73%) Data Engineer
6 27 (8.13%) Data Analyst
7 21 (6.33%) Lead
8 18 (5.42%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 16 (4.82%) GCP Engineer
9 16 (4.82%) Senior Data Scientist
10 13 (3.92%) Data Architect
10 13 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.01%) Consultant
12 9 (2.71%) Python Developer
12 9 (2.71%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (2.41%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (2.41%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (2.11%) Designer
14 7 (2.11%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.04%) scikit-learn
2 24 (7.23%) TensorFlow
3 23 (6.93%) Pandas
4 19 (5.72%) PySpark
5 15 (4.52%) PyTorch
6 13 (3.92%) NumPy
7 12 (3.61%) HTML
7 12 (3.61%) React
8 10 (3.01%) CSS
9 9 (2.71%) Kafka
10 7 (2.11%) Django
10 7 (2.11%) Matplotlib
11 6 (1.81%) Plotly
12 5 (1.51%) XGBoost
13 4 (1.20%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.20%) Shiny
14 3 (0.90%) ggplot2
14 3 (0.90%) NgRx
14 3 (0.90%) RxJS
15 2 (0.60%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.57%) Algorithms
2 15 (4.52%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 10 (3.01%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.71%) IoT
7 7 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.11%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.51%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.51%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.20%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.90%) CBDC
10 3 (0.90%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.90%) FMCG
10 3 (0.90%) Genomics
10 3 (0.90%) Grid Computing
10 3 (0.90%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.90%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.60%) Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Android
2 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (45.48%) Machine Learning
2 114 (34.34%) Analytics
3 85 (25.60%) Artificial Intelligence
4 75 (22.59%) Computer Science
5 73 (21.99%) Data Analysis
6 67 (20.18%) Visualisation
7 65 (19.58%) Agile
7 65 (19.58%) Data Modelling
8 61 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
9 59 (17.77%) ETL
10 54 (16.27%) Data Pipeline
11 48 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (14.16%) Data Visualisation
13 43 (12.95%) DevOps
14 41 (12.35%) Mathematics
15 39 (11.75%) CI/CD
16 34 (10.24%) Data Engineering
16 34 (10.24%) Data Management
16 34 (10.24%) Statistics
17 32 (9.64%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 200 (60.24%) Python
2 128 (38.55%) SQL
3 33 (9.94%) R
4 18 (5.42%) Bash
5 14 (4.22%) Java
6 13 (3.92%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.71%) Scala
8 6 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.51%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.90%) C++
10 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.60%) VBA
12 1 (0.30%) C
12 1 (0.30%) C#
12 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.30%) Ruby
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) Swift
12 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (25.00%) Degree
2 41 (12.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (11.14%) Security Cleared
4 32 (9.64%) SC Cleared
5 24 (7.23%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.71%) PhD
7 8 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.81%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.81%) PMP
9 5 (1.51%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.51%) CISSP
10 4 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.90%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.60%) CFA
12 2 (0.60%) MBA
13 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.01%) QA
4 5 (1.51%) WCAG
5 3 (0.90%) PMO
6 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
7 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (4.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (7.53%) Terraform
2 17 (5.12%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.81%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 43 (12.95%) Databricks
2 24 (7.23%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.31%) Google
4 10 (3.01%) Foundry
4 10 (3.01%) Oracle
4 10 (3.01%) Palantir
5 8 (2.41%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.11%) SAP
7 2 (0.60%) Adobe
7 2 (0.60%) CA
7 2 (0.60%) ESRI
7 2 (0.60%) Informatica
7 2 (0.60%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.30%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.30%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.30%) IBM
8 1 (0.30%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.30%) Splunk
8 1 (0.30%) Teradata