Senior Data Scientist Contracts

Senior Data Scientist
UK

The median Senior Data Scientist daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 693 783
Rank change year-on-year +136 +90 -190
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 22 8 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.014% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.015% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 43
10th Percentile £470 £505 £504
25th Percentile £525 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £680 £613 £638
90th Percentile £775 £635 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -13.46% -3.70% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 39,532 53,805 83,473
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,714 37,580 58,666
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,503 2,037
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.30 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK

Senior Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Scientist.

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK

Senior Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Scientist in the UK

Senior Data Scientist
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Scientist within the UK 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
England +122 19 £625 +13.64% 87
London +95 16 £600 +14.29% 58
Work from Home +132 13 £680 +29.52% 36
UK excluding London +64 4 £563 -13.46% 39
Scotland - 2 £488 - 1
South West +2 1 £625 -3.85% 7
South East - 1 £698 - 17

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Data Science
2 20 (90.91%) Python
3 14 (63.64%) Machine Learning
4 12 (54.55%) Algorithms
5 11 (50.00%) SQL
6 7 (31.82%) Analytics
6 7 (31.82%) Computer Science
7 6 (27.27%) Visualisation
7 6 (27.27%) Pandas
7 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
7 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
7 6 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (27.27%) Jupyter
8 5 (22.73%) Power BI
8 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
8 5 (22.73%) E-Commerce
8 5 (22.73%) Data Analysis
8 5 (22.73%) Mathematics
8 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (22.73%) Deep Learning
8 5 (22.73%) Azure
8 5 (22.73%) Git
8 5 (22.73%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (18.18%) Matplotlib
9 4 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
9 4 (18.18%) AWS
9 4 (18.18%) Statistical Modelling
9 4 (18.18%) Retail
9 4 (18.18%) Statistics

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (27.27%) Jupyter
2 1 (4.55%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
1 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.55%) dbt
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.55%) Looker
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Retail
4 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 3 (13.64%) Marketing
5 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Law
6 1 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (4.55%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Pandas
2 4 (18.18%) Matplotlib
2 4 (18.18%) scikit-learn
3 3 (13.64%) PySpark
3 3 (13.64%) XGBoost
4 2 (9.09%) NumPy
5 1 (4.55%) D3.js
5 1 (4.55%) LightGBM
5 1 (4.55%) Plotly
5 1 (4.55%) pytest
5 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
5 1 (4.55%) Shiny
5 1 (4.55%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.55%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (4.55%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Data Science
2 14 (63.64%) Machine Learning
3 7 (31.82%) Analytics
3 7 (31.82%) Computer Science
4 6 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 6 (27.27%) Visualisation
5 5 (22.73%) Data Analysis
5 5 (22.73%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (22.73%) Deep Learning
5 5 (22.73%) E-Commerce
5 5 (22.73%) Mathematics
6 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
6 4 (18.18%) Statistical Modelling
6 4 (18.18%) Statistics
7 3 (13.64%) Logistic Regression
7 3 (13.64%) Propensity Modelling
7 3 (13.64%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) Python
2 11 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) R
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
3 2 (9.09%) PhD
4 1 (4.55%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Databricks