SciPy Contracts in London

SciPy
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SciPy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SciPy over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 476 501
Rank change year-on-year +195 +25 -88
Contract jobs citing SciPy 108 24 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.088% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.42% 0.32% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 16 87
10th Percentile £619 £588 -
25th Percentile £663 £650 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -5.88%
75th Percentile £888 £788 £650
90th Percentile - £806 £743
England median daily rate £800 £725 £600
% change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.25
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 - £61.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,456 7,462 12,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.01% 27.47% 31.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,350 5,556 9,402
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £700
90th Percentile £813 £813 £788
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 41 69
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.75 £30.25
25th Percentile £23.80 £37.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.84 £65.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -43.32% +33.80% +3.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.80 £76.00 £80.10
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +43 4 £1,000 -
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 81 (75.00%) Apache
1 81 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 89 (82.41%) AWS
2 81 (75.00%) dbt
3 58 (53.70%) Snowflake
4 52 (48.15%) GCP
5 15 (13.89%) Azure
6 14 (12.96%) GitHub
7 11 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.78%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.78%) Dagster
8 3 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (75.00%) Amazon Athena
2 78 (72.22%) Apache Arrow
2 78 (72.22%) Apache Ignite
2 78 (72.22%) Dremio
3 58 (53.70%) Data Lake
4 12 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.78%) Big Data
5 3 (2.78%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.78%) Flink
5 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Git
1 3 (2.78%) Poetry
General
1 91 (84.26%) Finance
2 89 (82.41%) Front Office
3 73 (67.59%) Banking
3 73 (67.59%) Investment Banking
4 3 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.85%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Games
Job Titles
1 50 (46.30%) Software Engineer
2 48 (44.44%) Developer
3 42 (38.89%) Python Engineer
4 34 (31.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 34 (31.48%) Senior
5 30 (27.78%) AWS Engineer
5 30 (27.78%) AWS Software Engineer
5 30 (27.78%) Python Software Engineer
6 28 (25.93%) Lead
7 27 (25.00%) Software Developer
8 25 (23.15%) Python Developer
9 22 (20.37%) Java Engineer
9 22 (20.37%) Java Software Engineer
10 18 (16.67%) Architect
10 18 (16.67%) Lead Developer
10 18 (16.67%) Lead Software Developer
10 18 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
10 18 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (16.67%) Software Team Leader
10 18 (16.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (99.07%) Pandas
2 105 (97.22%) NumPy
3 78 (72.22%) gRPC
3 78 (72.22%) Protocol Buffers
4 5 (4.63%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.63%) Node.js
4 5 (4.63%) React
4 5 (4.63%) Redux
4 5 (4.63%) Vue
5 3 (2.78%) Great Expectations
5 3 (2.78%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (2.78%) LAPP Stack
5 3 (2.78%) Plotly
5 3 (2.78%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.78%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 76 (70.37%) Derivative
2 73 (67.59%) Fixed Income
3 65 (60.19%) Hedge funds
4 64 (59.26%) Equities
4 64 (59.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.70%) Pricing Data
6 3 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.85%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (78.70%) Software Engineering
2 78 (72.22%) Agile
2 78 (72.22%) Asset Management
3 65 (60.19%) Investment Management
4 32 (29.63%) Line Management
5 26 (24.07%) Mathematics
6 22 (20.37%) Greeks
7 19 (17.59%) Mathematical Modelling
8 15 (13.89%) Analytics
8 15 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (12.96%) CI/CD
9 14 (12.96%) DevOps
9 14 (12.96%) Test Automation
10 12 (11.11%) Data Architecture
11 11 (10.19%) Product Requirements
12 10 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence
12 10 (9.26%) Backtesting
12 10 (9.26%) Decision Intelligence
13 8 (7.41%) Financial Modelling
13 8 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 108 (100.00%) Python
2 82 (75.93%) Java
3 75 (69.44%) JavaScript
3 75 (69.44%) TypeScript
4 18 (16.67%) SQL
5 16 (14.81%) C++
6 12 (11.11%) Rust
7 8 (7.41%) Ruby
7 8 (7.41%) Scala
8 3 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (23.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.78%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.78%) Terraform