SciPy Contract Job Trends in London

SciPy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London 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 321 244 363
Rank change year-on-year -77 +119 +107
Contract jobs citing SciPy 59 131 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.86% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.56% 3.36% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 129 38
10th Percentile £655 £638 £524
25th Percentile £675 £675 £663
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 - - -
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 3,782 3,902 4,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 25.66% 25.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,556 2,548 3,677
10th Percentile £359 £379 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £708 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.83 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.13 £37.88 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -9.30% -17.31%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.13 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.80 £71.90 £78.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SciPy job vacancy trend in London

SciPy
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SciPy

SciPy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for SciPy in London

SciPy
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SciPy

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 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
Central London +7 3 £650 - 2
SciPy
England

SciPy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (62.71%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (44.07%) Apache
3 3 (5.08%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 58 (98.31%) AWS
2 37 (62.71%) dbt
3 26 (44.07%) Snowflake
4 11 (18.64%) GCP
5 3 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.08%) Azure
5 3 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.08%) Serverless
6 2 (3.39%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (62.71%) Amazon Athena
1 37 (62.71%) Apache Arrow
1 37 (62.71%) Apache Iceberg
1 37 (62.71%) Dremio
2 26 (44.07%) Apache Ignite
2 26 (44.07%) Data Lake
3 11 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.08%) Power BI
4 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (33.90%) Git
2 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
General
1 54 (91.53%) Finance
2 44 (74.58%) Banking
3 40 (67.80%) Front Office
3 40 (67.80%) Investment Banking
4 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (64.41%) Software Engineer
2 37 (62.71%) AWS Engineer
2 37 (62.71%) AWS Software Engineer
2 37 (62.71%) Python Engineer
2 37 (62.71%) Python Software Engineer
3 32 (54.24%) Developer
4 28 (47.46%) Python Developer
4 28 (47.46%) Senior
5 26 (44.07%) Java Engineer
5 26 (44.07%) Java Software Engineer
5 26 (44.07%) Senior Software Engineer
6 25 (42.37%) AWS Developer
6 25 (42.37%) Senior Java Engineer
6 25 (42.37%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 14 (23.73%) JavaScript Developer
8 11 (18.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Quantitative Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (100.00%) NumPy
2 58 (98.31%) Pandas
3 26 (44.07%) gRPC
3 26 (44.07%) Protocol Buffers
4 25 (42.37%) AngularJS
4 25 (42.37%) React
4 25 (42.37%) Vue
5 14 (23.73%) FastAPI
5 14 (23.73%) Flask
5 14 (23.73%) Polars
6 11 (18.64%) Node.js
7 3 (5.08%) Plotly
7 3 (5.08%) REST
7 3 (5.08%) scikit-learn
7 3 (5.08%) Statsmodels
7 3 (5.08%) Web Services
8 1 (1.69%) HEVC
8 1 (1.69%) ONNX
8 1 (1.69%) OpenCL
Miscellaneous
1 51 (86.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (71.19%) Hedge funds
3 40 (67.80%) Equities
4 37 (62.71%) Fixed Income
5 29 (49.15%) Derivative
6 26 (44.07%) Pricing Data
7 3 (5.08%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.69%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (88.14%) Software Engineering
2 38 (64.41%) Agile
3 37 (62.71%) Asset Management
3 37 (62.71%) Investment Management
4 20 (33.90%) Mathematics
5 17 (28.81%) CI/CD
6 14 (23.73%) Clean Code
6 14 (23.73%) Data Engineering
6 14 (23.73%) Structured Programming
6 14 (23.73%) Systematic Trading
7 11 (18.64%) Fintech
7 11 (18.64%) Order Management
7 11 (18.64%) Performance Attribution
7 11 (18.64%) Risk Management
8 6 (10.17%) Analytics
8 6 (10.17%) Decision-Making
9 4 (6.78%) DevOps
9 4 (6.78%) Visualisation
10 3 (5.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (5.08%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 59 (100.00%) Python
2 51 (86.44%) JavaScript
3 41 (69.49%) Java
4 37 (62.71%) TypeScript
5 18 (30.51%) C#
5 18 (30.51%) C++
6 15 (25.42%) Rust
7 3 (5.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.08%) Degree
1 3 (5.08%) Master's Degree
1 3 (5.08%) PhD
System Software
1 17 (28.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (28.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (5.08%) Dataiku
2 1 (1.69%) NVIDIA