Data Science Contracts in the North of England

Data Science
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 145 167 178
Rank change year-on-year +22 +11 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Science 40 51 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.86% 0.91% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.01% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 28 46
10th Percentile - £459 £379
25th Percentile £325 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £554 £713 £607
90th Percentile £581 £725 £625
England median daily rate £550 £575 £596
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.56% +8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £37.23 -
25th Percentile - £40.58 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £49.57 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -5.58% +98.11%
75th Percentile - £54.69 £56.25
90th Percentile - £55.72 -
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
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,960 5,069 6,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.44% 90.47% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 3,492 4,629
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £570
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 204 265
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.54 £13.38
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.84 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.35% +46.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.94 £35.00
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.89
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the North of England

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +28 25 £488 -15.22% 32
Yorkshire -3 14 £525 -14.29% 23
North East +9 1 - - 6
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) Apache
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SAP MDG
2 1 (2.50%) SAP BPC
2 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) Azure
2 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.00%) AWS
3 4 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.00%) Figma
5 1 (2.50%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) Data Lake
2 5 (12.50%) Big Data
2 5 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 5 (12.50%) Power BI
2 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 4 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (7.50%) BigQuery
4 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
4 3 (7.50%) Metadata
4 3 (7.50%) MySQL
4 3 (7.50%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.00%) Apache Hive
5 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.00%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.50%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Finance
6 3 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.00%) Marketing
7 2 (5.00%) Publishing
8 1 (2.50%) Banking
8 1 (2.50%) Health Technology
8 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Data Scientist
2 6 (15.00%) User Researcher
3 5 (12.50%) Data Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Product Manager
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Content Designer
5 2 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Data Governance Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Data Governance Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Data Modeller
5 2 (5.00%) Designer
5 2 (5.00%) Governance Manager
5 2 (5.00%) SAP Data Manager
5 2 (5.00%) SAP Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (2.50%) Digital Programme Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (7.50%) CSS
2 3 (7.50%) HTML
3 2 (5.00%) JSON
3 2 (5.00%) Kafka
3 2 (5.00%) REST
3 2 (5.00%) Swagger
3 2 (5.00%) YAML
4 1 (2.50%) .NET
4 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Reference Data
2 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.00%) Life Science
3 2 (5.00%) NHS
3 2 (5.00%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) Data Modelling
2 16 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 13 (32.50%) Data Visualisation
3 13 (32.50%) Machine Learning
4 12 (30.00%) Agile
4 12 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 11 (27.50%) Data Analysis
6 10 (25.00%) Analytics
7 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
7 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 8 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 8 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 8 (20.00%) ITIL
8 8 (20.00%) User Experience
8 8 (20.00%) UX Design
9 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (17.50%) Data Privacy
9 7 (17.50%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) SQL
2 7 (17.50%) Python
3 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) C#
4 2 (5.00%) Scala
5 1 (2.50%) R
5 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Degree
2 7 (17.50%) Master's Degree
3 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.50%) PMI Certification
4 3 (7.50%) PMP
5 2 (5.00%) PhD
5 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) GxP
3 1 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
1 2 (5.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) Databricks
3 3 (7.50%) SAP
4 2 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (2.50%) Hyperion
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) Teradata