SciPy Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

SciPy
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 156 - 132
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SciPy 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.032% - 0.039%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £620
75th Percentile £588 - £655
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £750 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 637 421 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.21% 18.24% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 274 280
10th Percentile £360 £350 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £550
90th Percentile £688 £725 £676
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 7
10th Percentile £20.25 - £17.35
25th Percentile £25.07 £26.25 £19.16
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -9.84% +55.10%
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £49.88
90th Percentile £69.08 - £59.60
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 the Midlands

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

SciPy job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SciPy
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SciPy within the Midlands 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
West Midlands - 1 £575 -
SciPy
England

SciPy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) MicroBlaze
1 1 (100.00%) RISC-V
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) UVM
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared