SciPy Contracts in London

SciPy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 265 276 469
Rank change year-on-year +11 +193 +28
Contract jobs citing SciPy 88 115 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.64% 0.089%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.69% 2.58% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 105 16
10th Percentile £550 £619 £588
25th Percentile £638 £700 £650
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 - £806
England median daily rate £750 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SciPy in London

SciPy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SciPy in London

SciPy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SciPy in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SciPy in London

SciPy
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SciPy within the London 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
Central London +4 4 £520 -48.00%
SciPy
England

SciPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 65 (73.86%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (45.45%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 85 (96.59%) AWS
2 65 (73.86%) dbt
3 53 (60.23%) GCP
4 29 (32.95%) Snowflake
5 26 (29.55%) Dagster
6 17 (19.32%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (19.32%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (19.32%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (13.64%) Azure
8 9 (10.23%) Amazon S3
8 9 (10.23%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (10.23%) AWS CodeCommit
8 9 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (10.23%) Cloud9 IDE
8 9 (10.23%) Serverless
8 9 (10.23%) Textract
9 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.41%) GitHub
9 3 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (73.86%) Amazon Athena
1 65 (73.86%) Apache Iceberg
1 65 (73.86%) Dremio
2 56 (63.64%) Apache Arrow
3 40 (45.45%) Apache Ignite
4 38 (43.18%) Data Lake
5 25 (28.41%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (9.09%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.14%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Git
General
1 79 (89.77%) Finance
2 67 (76.14%) Front Office
3 48 (54.55%) Banking
4 39 (44.32%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.41%) Military
7 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (64.77%) Software Engineer
2 56 (63.64%) AWS Engineer
2 56 (63.64%) AWS Software Engineer
3 51 (57.95%) Python Engineer
4 40 (45.45%) Python Software Engineer
5 39 (44.32%) Developer
6 34 (38.64%) AWS Developer
7 33 (37.50%) Python Developer
8 29 (32.95%) Java Engineer
8 29 (32.95%) Java Software Engineer
9 27 (30.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 23 (26.14%) Senior
11 22 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
12 18 (20.45%) Senior Java Engineer
12 18 (20.45%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 9 (10.23%) Data Engineer
13 9 (10.23%) Data Scientist
13 9 (10.23%) Python Data Engineer
14 7 (7.95%) JavaScript Developer
15 6 (6.82%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (100.00%) NumPy
1 88 (100.00%) Pandas
2 40 (45.45%) gRPC
2 40 (45.45%) Protocol Buffers
3 36 (40.91%) AngularJS
3 36 (40.91%) React
3 36 (40.91%) Vue
4 28 (31.82%) PySpark
5 27 (30.68%) Node.js
6 11 (12.50%) Redux
7 10 (11.36%) Flask
8 9 (10.23%) FastAPI
8 9 (10.23%) OpenCV
8 9 (10.23%) Polars
8 9 (10.23%) pydantic
8 9 (10.23%) PyTorch
8 9 (10.23%) scikit-learn
8 9 (10.23%) TensorFlow
9 2 (2.27%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 56 (63.64%) Fixed Income
2 46 (52.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 39 (44.32%) Equities
4 38 (43.18%) Hedge funds
5 31 (35.23%) Derivative
6 12 (13.64%) Pricing Data
7 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.27%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (88.64%) Software Engineering
2 67 (76.14%) Agile
3 65 (73.86%) Asset Management
4 48 (54.55%) Investment Management
5 36 (40.91%) Fintech
6 27 (30.68%) Performance Attribution
7 21 (23.86%) Data Engineering
8 19 (21.59%) Risk Management
9 17 (19.32%) Migration
10 16 (18.18%) Order Management
11 12 (13.64%) Mathematics
12 11 (12.50%) Analytics
12 11 (12.50%) Credit Risk Analysis
13 10 (11.36%) Artificial Intelligence
13 10 (11.36%) CI/CD
14 9 (10.23%) Data Munging
14 9 (10.23%) Deep Learning
14 9 (10.23%) Natural Language Processing
14 9 (10.23%) Systematic Trading
14 9 (10.23%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 82 (93.18%) Python
2 65 (73.86%) JavaScript
3 56 (63.64%) TypeScript
4 54 (61.36%) Java
5 13 (14.77%) SQL
6 10 (11.36%) C++
6 10 (11.36%) Rust
7 7 (7.95%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
1 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.27%) Degree
2 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (11.36%) Oracle
2 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow