Senior Data Scientist Contracts

Senior Data Scientist
UK

The median Senior Data Scientist daily rate in the UK is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 685 774
Rank change year-on-year +130 +89 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 29 12 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.022% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.023% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 51
10th Percentile £463 £431 £519
25th Percentile £494 £450 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -22.00% -
75th Percentile £648 £556 £650
90th Percentile £775 £613 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +5.26% -26.92% +6.12%
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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Scientist in the UK

Senior Data Scientist
Top 6 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 12 June 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 +102 26 £580 +18.97% 66
London +100 24 £575 +9.52% 46
Work from Home +121 13 £625 +31.58% 53
UK excluding London +28 3 £500 +5.26% 22
Scotland - 2 £488 -
South West +2 1 £625 -3.85% 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 29 (100.00%) Data Science
2 25 (86.21%) Python
3 21 (72.41%) Machine Learning
4 17 (58.62%) SQL
5 13 (44.83%) Analytics
5 13 (44.83%) Algorithms
6 12 (41.38%) Computer Science
7 11 (37.93%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (34.48%) Mathematics
9 9 (31.03%) Marketing
9 9 (31.03%) Jupyter
9 9 (31.03%) Pandas
10 8 (27.59%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (27.59%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (27.59%) Statistics
10 8 (27.59%) Propensity Modelling
10 8 (27.59%) Git
10 8 (27.59%) AWS
11 7 (24.14%) Visualisation
11 7 (24.14%) Azure
11 7 (24.14%) Matplotlib
11 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
11 7 (24.14%) Databricks
11 7 (24.14%) scikit-learn
12 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (20.69%) R
12 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
12 6 (20.69%) Finance
12 6 (20.69%) Customer Experience
13 5 (17.24%) Snowflake

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 9 (31.03%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.45%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) Snowflake
4 4 (13.79%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (13.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Functions
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (6.90%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.45%) dbt
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.45%) Looker
3 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) MLflow
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 9 (31.03%) Marketing
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Finance
4 5 (17.24%) Retail
5 3 (10.34%) Legal
5 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.45%) Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Law
7 1 (3.45%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) Pandas
2 7 (24.14%) Matplotlib
2 7 (24.14%) scikit-learn
3 4 (13.79%) Plotly
3 4 (13.79%) pytest
3 4 (13.79%) PyTorch
4 3 (10.34%) PySpark
4 3 (10.34%) XGBoost
5 2 (6.90%) NumPy
6 1 (3.45%) D3.js
6 1 (3.45%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 13 (44.83%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (3.45%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Data Science
2 21 (72.41%) Machine Learning
3 13 (44.83%) Analytics
4 12 (41.38%) Computer Science
5 11 (37.93%) Actionable Insight
6 10 (34.48%) Mathematics
7 8 (27.59%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (27.59%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (27.59%) Propensity Modelling
7 8 (27.59%) Statistics
8 7 (24.14%) Visualisation
9 6 (20.69%) Customer Experience
9 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
10 5 (17.24%) Data Analysis
10 5 (17.24%) Data Cleansing
10 5 (17.24%) Data Visualisation
10 5 (17.24%) E-Commerce
10 5 (17.24%) Physics
10 5 (17.24%) Predictive Modelling
10 5 (17.24%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 25 (86.21%) Python
2 17 (58.62%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) R
4 4 (13.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Master's Degree
3 3 (10.34%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (6.90%) PhD
5 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
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