Data Science Contracts in England

Data Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 209 183
Rank change year-on-year +33 -26 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Science 500 603 1,126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.34% 1.28% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.42% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 395 752
10th Percentile £344 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £483 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £596
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -3.56% +8.41%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £596
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.56% +8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 29
10th Percentile £21.25 £19.00 £29.05
25th Percentile £21.61 £20.47 £34.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -16.67% +31.25%
75th Percentile £50.31 £52.99 £59.38
90th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £29.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -24.14% -30.95% +31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,789 42,321 64,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 89.92% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,706 45,695
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,534 1,708
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.35 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Science in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in England

Data Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Science in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Science in England

Data Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Science in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Science in England

Data Science
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +26 321 £550 -8.33% 404
North of England +29 52 £513 -16.29% 75
South East -1 40 £475 -9.52% 77
Yorkshire +8 27 £538 -14.00% 21
Midlands +15 26 £450 -18.18% 29
North West +20 24 £419 -25.22% 49
East of England +13 23 £538 +19.44% 23
West Midlands +9 20 £488 -9.30% 17
South West +3 15 £525 - 37
East Midlands +9 6 £375 -37.50% 12
North East +10 1 - - 7
Data Science
UK

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 33 (6.60%) Apache Spark
2 24 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.20%) Apache
4 10 (2.00%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.80%) Confluence
5 4 (0.80%) SAS
6 3 (0.60%) CMS
7 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Chatbot
1 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.40%) Simulink
5 1 (0.20%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.20%) SPSS
5 1 (0.20%) Stata
Business Applications
1 7 (1.40%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (25.40%) Azure
2 86 (17.20%) AWS
3 80 (16.00%) GCP
4 71 (14.20%) Power Platform
5 23 (4.60%) Serverless
6 22 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (4.40%) Snowflake
7 21 (4.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 19 (3.80%) Vertex AI
9 17 (3.40%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.00%) Azure Machine Learning
10 15 (3.00%) GitHub
11 14 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.00%) Google Compute Engine
13 9 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.80%) Azure Functions
14 8 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.60%) dbt
15 7 (1.40%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.20%) Internet
1 6 (1.20%) LAN
1 6 (1.20%) WAN
2 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (14.20%) Data Warehouse
1 71 (14.20%) Power BI
2 64 (12.80%) Big Data
3 56 (11.20%) Tableau
4 44 (8.80%) Data Lake
5 34 (6.80%) BigQuery
6 28 (5.60%) Hadoop
7 22 (4.40%) Relational Database
8 19 (3.80%) Data Mining
9 18 (3.60%) Qlik Sense
10 15 (3.00%) Metadata
10 15 (3.00%) MySQL
11 14 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (2.40%) SQL Server
13 10 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.80%) NoSQL
15 7 (1.40%) Presto
16 6 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (1.20%) Looker
16 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (9.00%) Git
2 18 (3.60%) JIRA
3 12 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.40%) GitLab
4 7 (1.40%) MLflow
5 4 (0.80%) RStudio
6 3 (0.60%) Selenium
7 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.40%) ERwin
7 2 (0.40%) kappa
8 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.20%) CMake
8 1 (0.20%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.20%) Xcode
General
1 146 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 105 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (17.80%) Finance
4 30 (6.00%) Marketing
4 30 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
6 22 (4.40%) Banking
7 21 (4.20%) Retail
8 17 (3.40%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (2.80%) Legal
10 12 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.40%) Advertising
14 6 (1.20%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.20%) Wearables
15 5 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.80%) Czech Language
16 4 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 122 (24.40%) Data Scientist
2 57 (11.40%) Senior
3 53 (10.60%) Data Engineer
4 52 (10.40%) Analyst
5 47 (9.40%) Developer
6 44 (8.80%) Architect
7 39 (7.80%) Data Analyst
8 28 (5.60%) Lead
9 24 (4.80%) Senior Data Scientist
10 17 (3.40%) Data Manager
11 16 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.00%) Consultant
12 15 (3.00%) GCP Engineer
13 13 (2.60%) Data Architect
13 13 (2.60%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 13 (2.60%) Senior Data Engineer
14 12 (2.40%) Data Modeller
15 11 (2.20%) Azure Engineer
16 10 (2.00%) Cloud Architect
16 10 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.60%) PySpark
2 31 (6.20%) scikit-learn
3 27 (5.40%) TensorFlow
4 24 (4.80%) CSS
4 24 (4.80%) HTML
5 23 (4.60%) Pandas
5 23 (4.60%) PyTorch
6 21 (4.20%) AngularJS
7 16 (3.20%) Kafka
8 15 (3.00%) React
9 11 (2.20%) NumPy
10 7 (1.40%) Django
10 7 (1.40%) Matplotlib
11 6 (1.20%) Middleware
11 6 (1.20%) RxJS
12 5 (1.00%) XGBoost
12 5 (1.00%) XML
13 4 (0.80%) .NET
13 4 (0.80%) ADO
13 4 (0.80%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 71 (14.20%) Algorithms
2 22 (4.40%) Data Structures
2 22 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 17 (3.40%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 11 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.00%) Reference Data
7 9 (1.80%) IoT
8 8 (1.60%) Blockchain
8 8 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.40%) FMCG
9 7 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.20%) NHS
10 6 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.20%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.00%) Life Science
12 4 (0.80%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.00%) Linux
2 14 (2.80%) Windows
3 4 (0.80%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (40.40%) Machine Learning
2 183 (36.60%) Analytics
3 128 (25.60%) Computer Science
4 120 (24.00%) Data Modelling
5 112 (22.40%) Artificial Intelligence
6 104 (20.80%) Agile
7 98 (19.60%) Data Analysis
8 93 (18.60%) Business Intelligence
9 92 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
10 86 (17.20%) Visualisation
11 84 (16.80%) ETL
12 81 (16.20%) Data Pipeline
13 75 (15.00%) DevOps
14 67 (13.40%) Data Visualisation
15 66 (13.20%) Data Engineering
16 61 (12.20%) Decision-Making
16 61 (12.20%) Statistics
17 60 (12.00%) Mathematics
18 58 (11.60%) CI/CD
19 56 (11.20%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 260 (52.00%) Python
2 208 (41.60%) SQL
3 43 (8.60%) R
4 33 (6.60%) Java
5 25 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 22 (4.40%) Bash
7 16 (3.20%) Scala
8 9 (1.80%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.60%) C++
10 5 (1.00%) C#
10 5 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.00%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.60%) C
13 2 (0.40%) Ruby
13 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.40%) VBA
14 1 (0.20%) Groovy
14 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 153 (30.60%) Degree
2 76 (15.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 56 (11.20%) Master's Degree
4 43 (8.60%) Security Cleared
5 34 (6.80%) SC Cleared
6 19 (3.80%) PMI Certification
6 19 (3.80%) PMP
7 13 (2.60%) PhD
8 12 (2.40%) Numerate Degree
9 10 (2.00%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.40%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.00%) CISSP
12 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.60%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.40%) CFA
13 2 (0.40%) MBA
14 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.20%) CSSLP
14 1 (0.20%) ISEB
14 1 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.20%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.20%) Accessibility
2 16 (3.20%) QA
3 12 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
3 12 (2.40%) GDPR
4 5 (1.00%) WCAG
5 4 (0.80%) PMO
6 3 (0.60%) NIST
7 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) GxP
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (5.00%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) HDFS
2 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (6.40%) Terraform
2 31 (6.20%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.80%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.60%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.20%) Kibana
5 1 (0.20%) logstash
5 1 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 69 (13.80%) Databricks
2 41 (8.20%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.20%) Google
4 20 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.40%) Alteryx
5 12 (2.40%) Oracle
6 10 (2.00%) Foundry
6 10 (2.00%) Palantir
6 10 (2.00%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.00%) SAP
7 5 (1.00%) Ab Initio
7 5 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.60%) Citrix
8 3 (0.60%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.60%) Informatica
8 3 (0.60%) New Relic
8 3 (0.60%) Splunk
8 3 (0.60%) Teradata
9 2 (0.40%) Adobe
9 2 (0.40%) CA