Data Science Contracts in the North West

Data Science
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 113 141 154
Rank change year-on-year +28 +13 -38
Contract jobs citing Data Science 25 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.94% 0.58% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.65% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 18
10th Percentile - £390 £400
25th Percentile £325 £481 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £494
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +16.40% -8.09%
75th Percentile £544 £725 £538
90th Percentile £585 - £591
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% -
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,294 2,778 3,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.95% 90.22% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,950 2,598
10th Percentile £311 £313 £244
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 139 170
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.47 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.03 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -30.94% +52.12% +27.12%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.08 £49.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the North West

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the North West

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the North West

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +11 10 £350 -46.15% 22
Cheshire +5 10 £573 +34.71% 3
Merseyside - 3 £488 - 3
Cumbria - 2 £520 - 1
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) SAP MDG
2 1 (4.00%) SAP BPC
2 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
1 2 (8.00%) Figma
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (12.00%) Big Data
2 3 (12.00%) Metadata
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (4.00%) Presto
4 1 (4.00%) SAP BW
4 1 (4.00%) SAP HANA
4 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (36.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 2 (8.00%) Marketing
5 2 (8.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) User Researcher
2 5 (20.00%) Data Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Product Manager
3 3 (12.00%) SQL Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Content Designer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Governance Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Data Governance Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Data Modeller
4 2 (8.00%) Data Scientist
4 2 (8.00%) Designer
4 2 (8.00%) Governance Manager
4 2 (8.00%) SAP Data Manager
4 2 (8.00%) SAP Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Digital Programme Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Supply Chain Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) JSON
1 2 (8.00%) REST
1 2 (8.00%) Swagger
1 2 (8.00%) YAML
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Reference Data
2 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Life Science
3 2 (8.00%) Taxonomies
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (32.00%) User Experience
3 8 (32.00%) UX Design
3 8 (32.00%) Visualisation
4 7 (28.00%) Analytics
4 7 (28.00%) Data Visualisation
5 6 (24.00%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (24.00%) Ergonomics
5 6 (24.00%) Ethnography
5 6 (24.00%) ETL
5 6 (24.00%) Front End Development
5 6 (24.00%) Guerrilla Testing
5 6 (24.00%) Human Factors
5 6 (24.00%) Market Research
5 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (24.00%) Qualitative Research
5 6 (24.00%) Service Design
5 6 (24.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (8.00%) PhD
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) GxP
3 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Hyperion
3 1 (4.00%) Splunk
3 1 (4.00%) Teradata