Data Scientist Contracts in England

Data Scientist
UK > England

The median Data Scientist daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 523 525
Rank change year-on-year +105 +2 -128
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 125 115 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.24% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.26% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 76 185
10th Percentile £363 £363 £408
25th Percentile £463 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +5.50%
75th Percentile £603 £656 £638
90th Percentile £675 £731 £695
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +5.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 10
10th Percentile £21.03 - £35.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.00 £43.69
Median hourly rate £32.25 £19.98 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +61.41% -63.59% +80.54%
75th Percentile £44.69 £53.84 £64.00
90th Percentile £47.88 £56.73 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £19.49 £48.50
% change year-on-year +10.31% -59.81% +59.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,518 44,474 67,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,601 31,623 48,168
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,625 1,324 1,768
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.38 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Data Scientist in England

Data Scientist
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 Scientist 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 +109 80 £525 -4.55% 81
North of England +34 23 £554 -16.38% 13
Yorkshire +24 21 £554 -17.93% 5
South East +7 3 £500 +238.98% 23
East of England +1 3 £550 +22.22% 3
South West +5 2 £538 -17.31% 9
Midlands +11 1 - - 6
West Midlands +9 1 - - 1
North West +9 1 £525 +10.53% 8
North East - 1 - -
Data Scientist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Data Scientist in the job title.

1 122 (97.60%) Data Science
2 92 (73.60%) Python
3 67 (53.60%) SQL
4 66 (52.80%) Machine Learning
5 41 (32.80%) Data Modelling
6 40 (32.00%) Data Analysis
6 40 (32.00%) Visualisation
6 40 (32.00%) Algorithms
7 39 (31.20%) Degree
7 39 (31.20%) Business Intelligence
8 38 (30.40%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (28.00%) Computer Science
10 34 (27.20%) Statistics
11 32 (25.60%) Mathematics
11 32 (25.60%) Data Visualisation
12 29 (23.20%) Analytics
13 28 (22.40%) Power BI
13 28 (22.40%) Power Platform
13 28 (22.40%) Predictive Modelling
14 25 (20.00%) Tableau
15 23 (18.40%) Data Pipeline
15 23 (18.40%) R
16 22 (17.60%) Artificial Intelligence
16 22 (17.60%) Computer Science Degree
17 21 (16.80%) Master's Degree
17 21 (16.80%) ServiceNow
18 20 (16.00%) scikit-learn
18 20 (16.00%) Finance
19 19 (15.20%) ITIL
19 19 (15.20%) Azure

Data Scientist Skill Set
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 9 (7.20%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.80%) Apache
3 1 (0.80%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.40%) Power Platform
2 19 (15.20%) Azure
3 8 (6.40%) AWS
4 7 (5.60%) GCP
5 6 (4.80%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (4.00%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.40%) Serverless
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (1.60%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 2 (1.60%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 2 (1.60%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.60%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.60%) Dagster
10 1 (0.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.80%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.80%) dbt
10 1 (0.80%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (22.40%) Power BI
2 25 (20.00%) Tableau
3 16 (12.80%) Qlik Sense
4 14 (11.20%) MySQL
4 14 (11.20%) Relational Database
5 13 (10.40%) Big Data
6 10 (8.00%) Hadoop
7 7 (5.60%) Data Mining
8 6 (4.80%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.40%) Looker
10 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (12.80%) Git
2 2 (1.60%) MLflow
3 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.80%) JIRA
3 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (30.40%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (16.00%) Finance
3 18 (14.40%) Social Skills
4 13 (10.40%) Marketing
5 8 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.60%) Retail
7 5 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.20%) Legal
9 3 (2.40%) Police
9 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.60%) Banking
10 2 (1.60%) Czech Language
11 1 (0.80%) Advertising
11 1 (0.80%) Games
11 1 (0.80%) Hungarian Language
11 1 (0.80%) Law
11 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.00%) scikit-learn
2 14 (11.20%) AngularJS
2 14 (11.20%) CSS
2 14 (11.20%) HTML
2 14 (11.20%) Pandas
3 10 (8.00%) PySpark
3 10 (8.00%) TensorFlow
4 9 (7.20%) PyTorch
5 7 (5.60%) Matplotlib
6 4 (3.20%) Plotly
6 4 (3.20%) XGBoost
7 3 (2.40%) NumPy
7 3 (2.40%) pytest
8 2 (1.60%) Flask
9 1 (0.80%) JSON
9 1 (0.80%) REST
9 1 (0.80%) SciPy
9 1 (0.80%) Swagger
9 1 (0.80%) Tkinter
9 1 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (32.00%) Algorithms
2 7 (5.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (5.60%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.20%) Social Media
4 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.80%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (97.60%) Data Science
2 66 (52.80%) Machine Learning
3 41 (32.80%) Data Modelling
4 40 (32.00%) Data Analysis
4 40 (32.00%) Visualisation
5 39 (31.20%) Business Intelligence
6 35 (28.00%) Computer Science
7 34 (27.20%) Statistics
8 32 (25.60%) Data Visualisation
8 32 (25.60%) Mathematics
9 29 (23.20%) Analytics
10 28 (22.40%) Predictive Modelling
11 23 (18.40%) Data Pipeline
12 22 (17.60%) Artificial Intelligence
13 19 (15.20%) ITIL
14 18 (14.40%) Problem Management
14 18 (14.40%) Service Management
15 17 (13.60%) Actionable Insight
15 17 (13.60%) Scrum
16 16 (12.80%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 92 (73.60%) Python
2 67 (53.60%) SQL
3 23 (18.40%) R
4 14 (11.20%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (0.80%) C#
6 1 (0.80%) Scala
6 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (31.20%) Degree
2 22 (17.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (16.80%) Master's Degree
4 14 (11.20%) PMI Certification
4 14 (11.20%) PMP
5 13 (10.40%) Security Cleared
6 10 (8.00%) SC Cleared
7 9 (7.20%) PhD
8 4 (3.20%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.80%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.80%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (6.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (16.80%) ServiceNow
2 14 (11.20%) Databricks
3 7 (5.60%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.80%) Alteryx
5 3 (2.40%) Google
5 3 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.60%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.60%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.80%) Adobe
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle