Data Science Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Science Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Science Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £349 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Science Developer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.014% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £349 - -
UK median daily rate £349 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,691 22,958 42,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.26% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,251 16,282 30,640
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +43.84% +57.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.72 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Data Science Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Data Science Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Science Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Data Science Developer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Science Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Shiny
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) ODBC
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Blog
2 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (50.00%) Market Risk
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) R
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithms

Data Science Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ODBC
1 1 (50.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Blog
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (50.00%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared