SciPy Contracts

SciPy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 479 686
Rank change year-on-year +51 +207 +51
Contract jobs citing SciPy 91 121 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.28% 0.045%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 1.35% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 106 19
10th Percentile £550 £616 £420
25th Percentile £638 £663 £588
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 £888 - £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £458 £463
% change year-on-year +25.68% -1.08% -15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SciPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SciPy in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SciPy over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SciPy.

Hourly rate trend for SciPy in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +32 89 £750 -6.25% 44
London +11 87 £750 -6.25% 39
Work from Home +43 67 £750 -6.25% 16
UK excluding London +47 1 £575 +25.68% 9
Wales - 1 £575 -

SciPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 66 (72.53%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (43.96%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 88 (96.70%) AWS
2 64 (70.33%) dbt
3 53 (58.24%) GCP
4 29 (31.87%) Snowflake
5 28 (30.77%) Dagster
6 19 (20.88%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (18.68%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (18.68%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (14.29%) Azure
9 12 (13.19%) Amazon S3
9 12 (13.19%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (13.19%) Serverless
10 10 (10.99%) Amazon SageMaker
10 10 (10.99%) AWS CodeCommit
10 10 (10.99%) Cloud9 IDE
10 10 (10.99%) Textract
11 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.30%) GitHub
11 3 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.20%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (70.33%) Amazon Athena
1 64 (70.33%) Apache Iceberg
1 64 (70.33%) Dremio
2 55 (60.44%) Apache Arrow
3 40 (43.96%) Apache Ignite
4 38 (41.76%) Data Lake
5 25 (27.47%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (9.89%) Oracle Database
7 4 (4.40%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Git
General
1 78 (85.71%) Finance
2 66 (72.53%) Front Office
3 48 (52.75%) Banking
4 39 (42.86%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.30%) Military
6 3 (3.30%) Social Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 56 (61.54%) Software Engineer
2 55 (60.44%) AWS Engineer
2 55 (60.44%) AWS Software Engineer
3 52 (57.14%) Python Engineer
4 40 (43.96%) Python Software Engineer
5 38 (41.76%) Developer
6 33 (36.26%) AWS Developer
6 33 (36.26%) Python Developer
7 28 (30.77%) Java Engineer
7 28 (30.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 26 (28.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 23 (25.27%) Senior
10 22 (24.18%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (19.78%) Senior Java Engineer
11 18 (19.78%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 11 (12.09%) Data Engineer
13 10 (10.99%) Data Scientist
14 9 (9.89%) Python Data Engineer
15 7 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
16 5 (5.49%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (100.00%) NumPy
1 91 (100.00%) Pandas
2 40 (43.96%) gRPC
2 40 (43.96%) Protocol Buffers
3 35 (38.46%) AngularJS
3 35 (38.46%) React
3 35 (38.46%) Vue
4 28 (30.77%) PySpark
5 26 (28.57%) Node.js
6 11 (12.09%) Polars
6 11 (12.09%) PyTorch
6 11 (12.09%) Redux
6 11 (12.09%) scikit-learn
6 11 (12.09%) TensorFlow
7 10 (10.99%) Flask
7 10 (10.99%) OpenCV
7 10 (10.99%) pydantic
8 9 (9.89%) FastAPI
9 2 (2.20%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 55 (60.44%) Fixed Income
2 45 (49.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 38 (41.76%) Equities
3 38 (41.76%) Hedge funds
4 31 (34.07%) Derivative
5 12 (13.19%) Pricing Data
6 3 (3.30%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.20%) Genomics
7 2 (2.20%) Omics
7 2 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.20%) Solar Panel
8 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.99%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (84.62%) Software Engineering
2 66 (72.53%) Agile
3 64 (70.33%) Asset Management
4 47 (51.65%) Investment Management
5 35 (38.46%) Fintech
6 26 (28.57%) Performance Attribution
7 23 (25.27%) Data Engineering
8 18 (19.78%) Risk Management
9 17 (18.68%) Migration
10 15 (16.48%) Order Management
11 13 (14.29%) Data Science
12 12 (13.19%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (13.19%) Mathematics
12 12 (13.19%) Visualisation
13 11 (12.09%) Analytics
13 11 (12.09%) Credit Risk Analysis
13 11 (12.09%) Deep Learning
14 10 (10.99%) CI/CD
14 10 (10.99%) Data Munging
14 10 (10.99%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 86 (94.51%) Python
2 64 (70.33%) JavaScript
3 55 (60.44%) TypeScript
4 53 (58.24%) Java
5 16 (17.58%) SQL
6 10 (10.99%) C++
6 10 (10.99%) Rust
7 7 (7.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (8.79%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) Degree
3 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (13.19%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (9.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (12.09%) Oracle
2 1 (1.10%) Google
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow