SciPy Contracts in England

SciPy
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SciPy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SciPy over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 619 655
Rank change year-on-year +208 +36 -86
Contract jobs citing SciPy 128 26 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.053% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.71% 0.23% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 18 98
10th Percentile £619 £418 -
25th Percentile £700 £613 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £888 £788 £650
90th Percentile - £799 £750
UK median daily rate £800 £725 £600
% change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - £58.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £61.50
75th Percentile £66.25 - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £61.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

SciPy is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks 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 technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,502 11,262 18,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.41% 23.04% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,321 8,347 14,217
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 139 215
10th Percentile £22.27 £29.15 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +12.22%
75th Percentile £65.01 £75.00 £67.65
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SciPy in England

SciPy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SciPy in England

SciPy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SciPy in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SciPy in England

SciPy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SciPy in England

SciPy
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 SciPy within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London +198 123 £800 +10.34% 13
East of England - 5 £458 - 2
SciPy
UK

SciPy
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 96 (75.00%) Apache
1 96 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 104 (81.25%) AWS
2 96 (75.00%) dbt
3 76 (59.38%) Snowflake
4 58 (45.31%) GCP
5 15 (11.72%) Azure
6 13 (10.16%) GitHub
7 11 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.56%) Dagster
8 2 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (75.00%) Amazon Athena
2 94 (73.44%) Apache Arrow
2 94 (73.44%) Apache Ignite
2 94 (73.44%) Dremio
3 76 (59.38%) Data Lake
4 12 (9.38%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.56%) Big Data
5 2 (1.56%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.56%) Flink
5 2 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (4.69%) Git
2 4 (3.13%) Mercurial
3 2 (1.56%) Poetry
General
1 107 (83.59%) Finance
2 105 (82.03%) Front Office
3 88 (68.75%) Banking
3 88 (68.75%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.13%) Multimedia
5 3 (2.34%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.56%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Games
Job Titles
1 61 (47.66%) Software Engineer
2 51 (39.84%) Developer
3 50 (39.06%) Python Engineer
4 42 (32.81%) Senior
5 38 (29.69%) Python Software Engineer
6 36 (28.13%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (28.13%) AWS Software Engineer
6 36 (28.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 34 (26.56%) Lead
8 30 (23.44%) Software Developer
9 29 (22.66%) Java Engineer
9 29 (22.66%) Java Software Engineer
10 28 (21.88%) Python Developer
11 26 (20.31%) Senior Software Engineer
12 22 (17.19%) Architect
12 22 (17.19%) Lead Developer
12 22 (17.19%) Lead Software Developer
12 22 (17.19%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (17.19%) Software Team Leader
12 22 (17.19%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (99.22%) Pandas
2 126 (98.44%) NumPy
3 94 (73.44%) gRPC
3 94 (73.44%) Protocol Buffers
4 11 (8.59%) React
5 6 (4.69%) AngularJS
5 6 (4.69%) Node.js
5 6 (4.69%) Redux
5 6 (4.69%) Vue
6 2 (1.56%) Great Expectations
6 2 (1.56%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (1.56%) LAPP Stack
6 2 (1.56%) Plotly
6 2 (1.56%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.56%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 94 (73.44%) Derivative
2 92 (71.88%) Fixed Income
3 83 (64.84%) Hedge funds
4 82 (64.06%) Equities
4 82 (64.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (6.25%) Pricing Data
6 4 (3.13%) Social Media
7 2 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.56%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.13%) Windows
2 2 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (82.03%) Software Engineering
2 94 (73.44%) Agile
2 94 (73.44%) Asset Management
3 76 (59.38%) Investment Management
4 40 (31.25%) Line Management
5 28 (21.88%) Greeks
6 25 (19.53%) Mathematics
7 19 (14.84%) Mathematical Modelling
8 18 (14.06%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (13.28%) Test Automation
10 14 (10.94%) Artificial Intelligence
11 13 (10.16%) CI/CD
11 13 (10.16%) DevOps
12 12 (9.38%) Analytics
12 12 (9.38%) Computer Science
13 11 (8.59%) Product Requirements
14 10 (7.81%) Backtesting
14 10 (7.81%) Decision Intelligence
15 9 (7.03%) Data Architecture
16 8 (6.25%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 128 (100.00%) Python
2 97 (75.78%) Java
3 95 (74.22%) JavaScript
4 91 (71.09%) TypeScript
5 16 (12.50%) C++
5 16 (12.50%) SQL
6 12 (9.38%) Rust
7 7 (5.47%) Ruby
7 7 (5.47%) Scala
8 4 (3.13%) C#
9 2 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (9.38%) Degree
2 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (23.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.56%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.56%) Terraform