SciPy Contract Job Trends in England

SciPy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SciPy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 378 503
Rank change year-on-year -108 +125 +135
Contract jobs citing SciPy 63 133 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.46% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.90% 2.08% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 130 48
10th Percentile £538 £633 £480
25th Percentile £675 £656 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £725
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £850 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £64.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £66.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £65.50

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 7,026 6,380 8,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.37% 21.87% 21.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,694 4,091 5,916
10th Percentile £350 £358 £374
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.09%
75th Percentile £630 £666 £675
90th Percentile £736 £800 £768
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 85 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.75 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SciPy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

SciPy job vacancy trend in England

SciPy
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SciPy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SciPy

SciPy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SciPy in England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SciPy in England

SciPy
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SciPy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SciPy

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 17 December 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 -77 59 £750 -6.25% 3
South East - 2 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £575 -
East of England - 1 £425 - 4
Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
SciPy
UK

SciPy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 37 (58.73%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (41.27%) Apache
3 3 (4.76%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 58 (92.06%) AWS
2 37 (58.73%) dbt
3 26 (41.27%) Snowflake
4 11 (17.46%) GCP
5 3 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.76%) Azure
5 3 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.76%) Serverless
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (58.73%) Amazon Athena
1 37 (58.73%) Apache Arrow
1 37 (58.73%) Apache Iceberg
1 37 (58.73%) Dremio
2 26 (41.27%) Apache Ignite
2 26 (41.27%) Data Lake
3 11 (17.46%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.76%) Power BI
4 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (31.75%) Git
2 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 54 (85.71%) Finance
2 44 (69.84%) Banking
3 40 (63.49%) Front Office
3 40 (63.49%) Investment Banking
4 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (61.90%) Software Engineer
2 37 (58.73%) AWS Engineer
2 37 (58.73%) AWS Software Engineer
2 37 (58.73%) Python Engineer
2 37 (58.73%) Python Software Engineer
3 32 (50.79%) Developer
4 28 (44.44%) Python Developer
4 28 (44.44%) Senior
5 26 (41.27%) Java Engineer
5 26 (41.27%) Java Software Engineer
5 26 (41.27%) Senior Software Engineer
6 25 (39.68%) AWS Developer
6 25 (39.68%) Senior Java Engineer
6 25 (39.68%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 14 (22.22%) JavaScript Developer
8 11 (17.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Quantitative Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Consultant
10 2 (3.17%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (100.00%) NumPy
2 60 (95.24%) Pandas
3 26 (41.27%) gRPC
3 26 (41.27%) Protocol Buffers
4 25 (39.68%) AngularJS
4 25 (39.68%) React
4 25 (39.68%) Vue
5 14 (22.22%) FastAPI
5 14 (22.22%) Flask
5 14 (22.22%) Polars
6 11 (17.46%) Node.js
7 3 (4.76%) Plotly
7 3 (4.76%) REST
7 3 (4.76%) scikit-learn
7 3 (4.76%) Statsmodels
7 3 (4.76%) Web Services
8 1 (1.59%) HEVC
8 1 (1.59%) ONNX
8 1 (1.59%) OpenCL
8 1 (1.59%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 51 (80.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (66.67%) Hedge funds
3 40 (63.49%) Equities
4 37 (58.73%) Fixed Income
5 29 (46.03%) Derivative
6 26 (41.27%) Pricing Data
7 3 (4.76%) Algorithms
7 3 (4.76%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.59%) CUDA
8 1 (1.59%) FPGA
8 1 (1.59%) MicroBlaze
8 1 (1.59%) RISC-V
8 1 (1.59%) Verilog
8 1 (1.59%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.40%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (84.13%) Software Engineering
2 41 (65.08%) Agile
3 37 (58.73%) Asset Management
3 37 (58.73%) Investment Management
4 21 (33.33%) Mathematics
5 17 (26.98%) CI/CD
6 14 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 14 (22.22%) Data Engineering
6 14 (22.22%) Structured Programming
6 14 (22.22%) Systematic Trading
7 11 (17.46%) Fintech
7 11 (17.46%) Order Management
7 11 (17.46%) Performance Attribution
7 11 (17.46%) Risk Management
8 6 (9.52%) Analytics
8 6 (9.52%) Decision-Making
9 4 (6.35%) DevOps
9 4 (6.35%) Physics
9 4 (6.35%) Visualisation
10 3 (4.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 63 (100.00%) Python
2 51 (80.95%) JavaScript
3 41 (65.08%) Java
4 37 (58.73%) TypeScript
5 19 (30.16%) C++
6 18 (28.57%) C#
7 15 (23.81%) Rust
8 3 (4.76%) SQL
9 1 (1.59%) C
9 1 (1.59%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.59%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 3 (4.76%) Degree
1 3 (4.76%) Master's Degree
1 3 (4.76%) PhD
2 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.59%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 17 (26.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (26.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (4.76%) Dataiku
2 1 (1.59%) NVIDIA