Data Science Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Science
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 86 90 144
Rank change year-on-year +4 +54 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Science 20 39 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.06% 1.73% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.96% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 24
10th Percentile £357 £431 £489
25th Percentile £430 £463 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £538 £638
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -15.61% +30.77%
75th Percentile £731 £563 £788
90th Percentile £750 £638 £1,100
England median daily rate £550 £575 £596
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.56% +8.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,582 1,992 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.70% 88.26% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,359 2,336
10th Percentile £272 £263 £273
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +4.52% +15.94%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £576
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 65
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.15
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in the West Midlands

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +20 15 £488 -11.36% 11
Warwickshire +5 2 £650 +20.93% 2
Coventry +9 1 £550 +0.92% 5
Worcestershire - 1 £590 -
Data Science
England

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (15.00%) Serverless
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (10.00%) Tableau
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data
4 1 (5.00%) Flink
4 1 (5.00%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (5.00%) GIS
4 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Power Query
4 1 (5.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Retail
4 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) German Language
6 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Multimedia
6 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) GIS Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning Scientist
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SCADA Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
1 2 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.00%) Dask
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Keras
2 1 (5.00%) NumPy
2 1 (5.00%) Pandas
2 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) FMCG
2 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) SCADA
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Analytics
2 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (15.00%) Data Reconciliation
6 3 (15.00%) Database Security
6 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (15.00%) ITIL
6 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
6 3 (15.00%) Runbook
6 3 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Statistics
6 3 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) C++
3 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) PhD
4 1 (5.00%) HND
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) SysTrack
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Citrix
2 3 (15.00%) New Relic
2 3 (15.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Teradata