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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 392 663
Rank change year-on-year -52 +271 +76
Contract jobs citing SciPy 90 205 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.47% 0.061%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.32% 2.21% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 190 25
10th Percentile £638 £619 £440
25th Percentile £675 £750 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +28.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £788
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +17.49% -3.68% -10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 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 6,837 9,290 12,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.82% 21.16% 22.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,660 6,382 9,226
10th Percentile £356 £350 £391
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 280 151
10th Percentile £29.21 £22.45 £30.75
25th Percentile £41.60 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £53.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -17.31% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.19 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.08 £74.44 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.46% +18.18%

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

SciPy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SciPy over the 6 months to 21 June 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 6 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 21 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
England -58 88 £750 -6.25% 137
London -47 86 £750 -6.25% 109
Work from Home -30 70 £750 -6.25% 67
UK excluding London +33 2 £538 +17.49% 39
South East - 1 £500 - 11
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 70 (77.78%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (38.89%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 87 (96.67%) AWS
2 69 (76.67%) dbt
3 45 (50.00%) GCP
4 31 (34.44%) Snowflake
5 10 (11.11%) Dagster
6 6 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.67%) Azure
7 5 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.22%) Serverless
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.11%) GitHub
9 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.11%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (76.67%) Amazon Athena
1 69 (76.67%) Apache Iceberg
1 69 (76.67%) Dremio
2 65 (72.22%) Apache Arrow
3 35 (38.89%) Apache Ignite
3 35 (38.89%) Data Lake
4 30 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) Git
General
1 86 (95.56%) Finance
2 70 (77.78%) Front Office
3 51 (56.67%) Banking
4 46 (51.11%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.33%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (72.22%) AWS Engineer
1 65 (72.22%) AWS Software Engineer
1 65 (72.22%) Software Engineer
2 55 (61.11%) Python Engineer
3 50 (55.56%) Developer
4 48 (53.33%) Python Software Engineer
5 46 (51.11%) AWS Developer
6 43 (47.78%) Java Engineer
6 43 (47.78%) Java Software Engineer
7 38 (42.22%) Python Developer
8 34 (37.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 29 (32.22%) Senior
9 29 (32.22%) Senior Java Engineer
9 29 (32.22%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 29 (32.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (13.33%) Java Developer
10 12 (13.33%) Java Software Developer
10 12 (13.33%) JavaScript Developer
11 5 (5.56%) Data Engineer
12 4 (4.44%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (100.00%) NumPy
2 88 (97.78%) Pandas
3 48 (53.33%) AngularJS
3 48 (53.33%) React
3 48 (53.33%) Vue
4 35 (38.89%) gRPC
4 35 (38.89%) Protocol Buffers
5 34 (37.78%) Node.js
6 15 (16.67%) Polars
7 14 (15.56%) FastAPI
7 14 (15.56%) Flask
8 10 (11.11%) PySpark
9 4 (4.44%) Redux
10 2 (2.22%) PyTorch
10 2 (2.22%) scikit-learn
10 2 (2.22%) TensorFlow
11 1 (1.11%) Kafka
11 1 (1.11%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 67 (74.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 66 (73.33%) Fixed Income
3 55 (61.11%) Equities
4 45 (50.00%) Hedge funds
5 32 (35.56%) Derivative
6 26 (28.89%) Pricing Data
7 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.11%) Genomics
8 1 (1.11%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.11%) Omics
8 1 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.11%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (95.56%) Software Engineering
2 70 (77.78%) Agile
3 69 (76.67%) Asset Management
4 64 (71.11%) Investment Management
5 38 (42.22%) Fintech
6 34 (37.78%) Performance Attribution
7 32 (35.56%) Risk Management
8 30 (33.33%) Order Management
9 20 (22.22%) Data Engineering
10 15 (16.67%) Mathematics
11 14 (15.56%) CI/CD
11 14 (15.56%) Systematic Trading
12 13 (14.44%) Clean Code
13 12 (13.33%) Structured Programming
14 5 (5.56%) Analytics
14 5 (5.56%) Migration
15 4 (4.44%) Credit Risk Analysis
16 2 (2.22%) Data Science
16 2 (2.22%) Machine Learning
16 2 (2.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 79 (87.78%) JavaScript
2 78 (86.67%) Python
3 65 (72.22%) TypeScript
4 61 (67.78%) Java
5 14 (15.56%) C++
6 13 (14.44%) Rust
7 12 (13.33%) C#
8 3 (3.33%) SQL
9 1 (1.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.11%) Degree
1 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 16 (17.78%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.11%) Bloomberg
1 1 (1.11%) Google
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.11%) Oracle
1 1 (1.11%) Reuters
1 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow