SciPy Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SciPy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SciPy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 365 403
Rank change year-on-year -31 +38 +104
Contract jobs citing SciPy 3 2 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.012% 0.073%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.092% 0.069% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile £430 £411 £400
25th Percentile £456 £428 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £498 £655
90th Percentile - £517 -
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £64.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £66.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £65.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,278 2,878 3,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.73% 17.42% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,173 1,739 2,528
10th Percentile £325 £340 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £685 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 91 147
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £44.31
25th Percentile £44.50 £44.34 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +19.13% -16.06%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -13.73%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SciPy job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SciPy
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SciPy

SciPy
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SciPy

SciPy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 November 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
South East - 2 £500 - 3
East of England - 1 £425 -
SciPy
UK

SciPy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) CPLEX
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) NumPy
2 2 (66.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Linear Programming
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Research
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Physics
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python