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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 367 609
Rank change year-on-year -26 +242 +57
Contract jobs citing SciPy 92 184 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.49% 0.057%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 2.35% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 171 20
10th Percentile £638 £619 £423
25th Percentile £675 £750 £533
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 - - £791
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 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 5,523 7,836 10,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.44% 20.89% 22.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,841 5,490 7,932
10th Percentile £360 £350 £394
25th Percentile £413 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £520 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 250 136
10th Percentile £31.49 £22.73 £32.88
25th Percentile £48.13 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £49.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.63% -23.46% +22.07%
75th Percentile £68.38 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.15 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £58.88 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.75% -23.08% +23.81%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -38 90 £750 -6.25% 55
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 (72.83%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (36.96%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 89 (96.74%) AWS
2 65 (70.65%) dbt
3 41 (44.57%) GCP
4 29 (31.52%) Snowflake
5 11 (11.96%) Dagster
6 9 (9.78%) Amazon S3
6 9 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (9.78%) Serverless
7 7 (7.61%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (7.61%) Amazon SageMaker
7 7 (7.61%) AWS CodeCommit
7 7 (7.61%) Azure
7 7 (7.61%) Cloud9 IDE
7 7 (7.61%) Textract
8 5 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.26%) GitHub
9 3 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.17%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (70.65%) Amazon Athena
1 65 (70.65%) Apache Iceberg
1 65 (70.65%) Dremio
2 61 (66.30%) Apache Arrow
3 34 (36.96%) Apache Ignite
3 34 (36.96%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (35.87%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.52%) Oracle Database
6 4 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.09%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (11.96%) Git
General
1 83 (90.22%) Finance
2 66 (71.74%) Front Office
3 48 (52.17%) Banking
4 43 (46.74%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.17%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Military
6 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (66.30%) AWS Engineer
1 61 (66.30%) AWS Software Engineer
1 61 (66.30%) Software Engineer
2 51 (55.43%) Python Engineer
3 49 (53.26%) Developer
4 45 (48.91%) Python Software Engineer
5 43 (46.74%) AWS Developer
6 40 (43.48%) Java Engineer
6 40 (43.48%) Java Software Engineer
7 38 (41.30%) Python Developer
8 32 (34.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 28 (30.43%) Senior
10 27 (29.35%) Senior Java Engineer
10 27 (29.35%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 27 (29.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (11.96%) Java Developer
11 11 (11.96%) Java Software Developer
11 11 (11.96%) JavaScript Developer
12 7 (7.61%) Data Scientist
13 6 (6.52%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (100.00%) NumPy
2 91 (98.91%) Pandas
3 45 (48.91%) AngularJS
3 45 (48.91%) React
3 45 (48.91%) Vue
4 34 (36.96%) gRPC
4 34 (36.96%) Protocol Buffers
5 32 (34.78%) Node.js
6 15 (16.30%) Polars
7 13 (14.13%) FastAPI
7 13 (14.13%) Flask
8 11 (11.96%) PySpark
9 7 (7.61%) OpenCV
9 7 (7.61%) pydantic
9 7 (7.61%) PyTorch
9 7 (7.61%) scikit-learn
9 7 (7.61%) TensorFlow
10 5 (5.43%) Redux
11 2 (2.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 62 (67.39%) Fixed Income
2 61 (66.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 50 (54.35%) Equities
4 42 (45.65%) Hedge funds
5 31 (33.70%) Derivative
6 24 (26.09%) Pricing Data
7 3 (3.26%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.17%) Genomics
8 2 (2.17%) Omics
8 2 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.17%) Solar Panel
9 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.09%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.22%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (89.13%) Software Engineering
2 67 (72.83%) Agile
3 65 (70.65%) Asset Management
4 60 (65.22%) Investment Management
5 36 (39.13%) Fintech
6 32 (34.78%) Performance Attribution
7 31 (33.70%) Risk Management
8 27 (29.35%) Order Management
9 21 (22.83%) Data Engineering
10 16 (17.39%) Mathematics
11 14 (15.22%) CI/CD
12 13 (14.13%) Systematic Trading
13 11 (11.96%) Clean Code
13 11 (11.96%) Structured Programming
14 9 (9.78%) Data Science
14 9 (9.78%) Visualisation
15 7 (7.61%) Computer Vision
15 7 (7.61%) Deep Learning
15 7 (7.61%) Natural Language Processing
15 7 (7.61%) Statistical Inference
Programming Languages
1 81 (88.04%) Python
2 74 (80.43%) JavaScript
3 61 (66.30%) TypeScript
4 58 (63.04%) Java
5 14 (15.22%) C++
5 14 (15.22%) Rust
6 12 (13.04%) SQL
7 11 (11.96%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (5.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (5.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.17%) Degree
2 2 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (17.39%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (14.13%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.70%) Oracle
2 1 (1.09%) Bloomberg
2 1 (1.09%) Reuters
2 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow