SciPy
UK

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 676 884 986
Rank change year-on-year +208 +102 -164
Permanent jobs citing SciPy 202 94 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.091% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 0.30% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 194 83 154
10th Percentile £85,000 £64,500 £55,375
25th Percentile £107,500 £74,375 £82,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £105,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -8.70% +43.75%
75th Percentile £148,750 £142,500 £125,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £152,500 £145,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,001 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

SciPy is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,058 31,283 63,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.37% 30.13% 40.47%
Number of salaries quoted 15,741 19,277 30,292
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SciPy.

Salary trend for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SciPy over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SciPy within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +194 199 £135,000 +28.57% 22
London +219 195 £135,000 +28.57% 16
Work from Home +205 191 £135,000 +25.58% 11
UK excluding London +2 6 £80,001 - 7
Scotland -56 3 - - 2
East of England - 2 £80,001 - 2
South West - 1 £62,500 - 1

SciPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 191 (94.55%) Apache
2 189 (93.56%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.97%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 197 (97.52%) AWS
2 189 (93.56%) dbt
3 158 (78.22%) Snowflake
4 107 (52.97%) GCP
5 11 (5.45%) Azure
6 2 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (93.56%) Amazon Athena
1 189 (93.56%) Apache Arrow
1 189 (93.56%) Apache Ignite
1 189 (93.56%) Dremio
2 158 (78.22%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.98%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.49%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (2.48%) Git
2 1 (0.50%) JIRA
General
1 191 (94.55%) Finance
2 189 (93.56%) Front Office
3 179 (88.61%) Banking
3 179 (88.61%) Investment Banking
4 3 (1.49%) Social Skills
5 2 (0.99%) Law
Job Titles
1 115 (56.93%) Software Engineer
2 76 (37.62%) Lead
3 73 (36.14%) Python Engineer
3 73 (36.14%) Python Software Engineer
4 71 (35.15%) AWS Engineer
4 71 (35.15%) AWS Software Engineer
5 66 (32.67%) Developer
6 63 (31.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 57 (28.22%) Java Engineer
7 57 (28.22%) Java Software Engineer
8 53 (26.24%) Software Developer
9 50 (24.75%) Senior
10 49 (24.26%) Senior Software Engineer
11 40 (19.80%) Architect
11 40 (19.80%) Lead Developer
11 40 (19.80%) Lead Software Developer
11 40 (19.80%) Lead Software Engineer
11 40 (19.80%) Software Team Leader
11 40 (19.80%) Solutions Architect
11 40 (19.80%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (100.00%) NumPy
2 196 (97.03%) Pandas
3 189 (93.56%) gRPC
3 189 (93.56%) Protocol Buffers
4 10 (4.95%) AngularJS
4 10 (4.95%) Node.js
4 10 (4.95%) React
4 10 (4.95%) Redux
4 10 (4.95%) Vue
5 7 (3.47%) PyTorch
5 7 (3.47%) scikit-learn
6 4 (1.98%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.49%) MLlib
7 3 (1.49%) MXNet
8 2 (0.99%) Kafka
8 2 (0.99%) PySpark
9 1 (0.50%) NetworkX
Miscellaneous
1 186 (92.08%) Fixed Income
2 171 (84.65%) Equities
2 171 (84.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 171 (84.65%) Hedge funds
3 170 (84.16%) Derivative
4 18 (8.91%) Pricing Data
5 8 (3.96%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (96.53%) Software Engineering
2 190 (94.06%) Agile
3 189 (93.56%) Asset Management
4 166 (82.18%) Investment Management
5 72 (35.64%) Line Management
6 68 (33.66%) Greeks
7 27 (13.37%) Analytics
8 15 (7.43%) Data Architecture
9 12 (5.94%) Machine Learning
9 12 (5.94%) Mentoring
9 12 (5.94%) Product Management
10 11 (5.45%) Performance Attribution
11 10 (4.95%) Credit Risk Analysis
11 10 (4.95%) Fintech
12 7 (3.47%) Data Engineering
12 7 (3.47%) Data Science
13 6 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence
13 6 (2.97%) Mathematics
14 5 (2.48%) Computer Science
15 4 (1.98%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 202 (100.00%) Python
2 183 (90.59%) JavaScript
2 183 (90.59%) TypeScript
3 176 (87.13%) Java
4 15 (7.43%) Ruby
4 15 (7.43%) Scala
5 3 (1.49%) SQL
6 2 (0.99%) C
7 1 (0.50%) C++
7 1 (0.50%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 7 (3.47%) Degree
2 5 (2.48%) PhD
3 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (33.66%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (0.99%) Docker