SciPy Contracts in England

SciPy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SciPy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SciPy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 419 626
Rank change year-on-year +24 +207 +43
Contract jobs citing SciPy 90 123 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.33% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.65% 1.64% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 109 19
10th Percentile £550 £618 £420
25th Percentile £638 £663 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £725
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £788
90th Percentile £888 - £795
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

SciPy falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +11 88 £750 -6.25% 37
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 67 (74.44%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (44.44%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 87 (96.67%) AWS
2 65 (72.22%) dbt
3 53 (58.89%) GCP
4 29 (32.22%) Snowflake
5 28 (31.11%) Dagster
6 19 (21.11%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (18.89%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (18.89%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (13.33%) Azure
9 11 (12.22%) Amazon S3
9 11 (12.22%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (12.22%) Serverless
10 9 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (10.00%) AWS CodeCommit
10 9 (10.00%) Cloud9 IDE
10 9 (10.00%) Textract
11 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.33%) GitHub
11 3 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (72.22%) Amazon Athena
1 65 (72.22%) Apache Iceberg
1 65 (72.22%) Dremio
2 56 (62.22%) Apache Arrow
3 40 (44.44%) Apache Ignite
4 38 (42.22%) Data Lake
5 25 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (8.89%) Oracle Database
7 4 (4.44%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.11%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Git
General
1 79 (87.78%) Finance
2 67 (74.44%) Front Office
3 48 (53.33%) Banking
4 39 (43.33%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.33%) Military
7 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Social Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (63.33%) Software Engineer
2 56 (62.22%) AWS Engineer
2 56 (62.22%) AWS Software Engineer
3 51 (56.67%) Python Engineer
4 40 (44.44%) Python Software Engineer
5 39 (43.33%) Developer
6 34 (37.78%) AWS Developer
7 33 (36.67%) Python Developer
8 29 (32.22%) Java Engineer
8 29 (32.22%) Java Software Engineer
9 27 (30.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 23 (25.56%) Senior
11 22 (24.44%) Senior Software Engineer
12 18 (20.00%) Senior Java Engineer
12 18 (20.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 11 (12.22%) Data Engineer
14 9 (10.00%) Data Scientist
14 9 (10.00%) Python Data Engineer
15 7 (7.78%) JavaScript Developer
16 6 (6.67%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (100.00%) NumPy
1 90 (100.00%) Pandas
2 40 (44.44%) gRPC
2 40 (44.44%) Protocol Buffers
3 36 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 36 (40.00%) React
3 36 (40.00%) Vue
4 28 (31.11%) PySpark
5 27 (30.00%) Node.js
6 11 (12.22%) Polars
6 11 (12.22%) Redux
7 10 (11.11%) Flask
8 9 (10.00%) FastAPI
8 9 (10.00%) OpenCV
8 9 (10.00%) pydantic
8 9 (10.00%) PyTorch
8 9 (10.00%) scikit-learn
8 9 (10.00%) TensorFlow
9 2 (2.22%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 56 (62.22%) Fixed Income
2 46 (51.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 39 (43.33%) Equities
4 38 (42.22%) Hedge funds
5 31 (34.44%) Derivative
6 12 (13.33%) Pricing Data
7 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.22%) Genomics
8 2 (2.22%) Omics
8 2 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.22%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (86.67%) Software Engineering
2 67 (74.44%) Agile
3 65 (72.22%) Asset Management
4 48 (53.33%) Investment Management
5 36 (40.00%) Fintech
6 27 (30.00%) Performance Attribution
7 23 (25.56%) Data Engineering
8 19 (21.11%) Risk Management
9 17 (18.89%) Migration
10 16 (17.78%) Order Management
11 12 (13.33%) Mathematics
12 11 (12.22%) Analytics
12 11 (12.22%) Credit Risk Analysis
12 11 (12.22%) Data Science
12 11 (12.22%) Visualisation
13 10 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
13 10 (11.11%) CI/CD
14 9 (10.00%) Data Munging
14 9 (10.00%) Deep Learning
14 9 (10.00%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 84 (93.33%) Python
2 65 (72.22%) JavaScript
3 56 (62.22%) TypeScript
4 54 (60.00%) Java
5 15 (16.67%) SQL
6 10 (11.11%) C++
6 10 (11.11%) Rust
7 7 (7.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (7.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (7.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.22%) Degree
2 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow