SciPy Contract Job Trends in the South East

SciPy
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SciPy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SciPy 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.057% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £750 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 610 712 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.38% 15.65% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 469 564
10th Percentile £288 £323 £316
25th Percentile £368 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £625 £670 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -6.82% -1.12% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 43
10th Percentile £24.69 £27.00 £50.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -5.14%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £73.73
90th Percentile £58.75 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.19% +5.59% -7.69%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SciPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SciPy in the South East

SciPy
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SciPy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SciPy

SciPy
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SciPy within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
Berkshire - 2 £500 - 3
Thames Valley - 2 £500 - 3
SciPy
England

SciPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) CPLEX
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Linear Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Operations Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python