SciPy Contracts in the Thames Valley

SciPy
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 - 145
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SciPy 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.067% - 0.034%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.34% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £475
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 - £475

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 295 396 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.64% 14.68% 16.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 269 349
10th Percentile £325 £338 £350
25th Percentile £411 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 11
10th Percentile £13.25 £56.62 -
25th Percentile £18.95 £56.65 £50.00
Median hourly rate £29.63 £61.60 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.90% -21.53% +62.69%
75th Percentile £43.86 - £79.72
90th Percentile £81.78 £61.68 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% -5.23% +44.44%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SciPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SciPy in the Thames Valley

SciPy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SciPy in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SciPy in the Thames Valley

SciPy
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SciPy within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 June 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 - 1 £500 - 13
SciPy
South East

SciPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) CPLEX
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Linear Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python