Data Scientist Contracts in the South West

Data Scientist
England > South West

The median Data Scientist daily rate in the South West is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 154 157
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 3 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.095% 0.38% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.41% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 7
10th Percentile £466 £466 £280
25th Percentile £491 £484 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% +11.36% -18.52%
75th Percentile £591 £675 £606
90th Percentile £619 - £630
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £20.47 £54.88
% change year-on-year +107.62% -62.70% +24.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 2,957 3,163 3,485
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 92.43% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,880 2,361 2,495
10th Percentile £213 £285 £220
25th Percentile £400 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £613 £644 £591
90th Percentile £700 £719 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 250 215
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £48.99 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.07 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% +36.32% +10.59%
75th Percentile £71.25 £70.30 £63.60
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.05
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in the South West

Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Scientist in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Data Scientist in the South West

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Scientist in the South West over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Scientist in the South West

Data Scientist
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Scientist within the South West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Bristol +12 3 £538 -17.31% 8
Data Scientist
England

Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Data Scientist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) SQL

Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL