SciPy Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

SciPy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 268 463
Rank change year-on-year +32 +195 +156
Contract jobs citing SciPy 68 77 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.69% 0.50% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.65% 2.10% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 75 12
10th Percentile £603 £678 £573
25th Percentile £638 £750 £663
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 - -
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

SciPy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SciPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SciPy trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SciPy
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SciPy.

SciPy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SciPy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SciPy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SciPy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SciPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 65 (95.59%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (58.82%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (95.59%) dbt
3 53 (77.94%) GCP
4 29 (42.65%) Snowflake
5 26 (38.24%) Dagster
6 17 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (13.24%) Azure
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (4.41%) AWS CodeCommit
8 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.41%) Cloud9 IDE
8 3 (4.41%) Serverless
8 3 (4.41%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (95.59%) Amazon Athena
1 65 (95.59%) Apache Iceberg
1 65 (95.59%) Dremio
2 56 (82.35%) Apache Arrow
3 40 (58.82%) Apache Ignite
4 38 (55.88%) Data Lake
5 19 (27.94%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
General
1 65 (95.59%) Finance
1 65 (95.59%) Front Office
2 38 (55.88%) Banking
3 29 (42.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (82.35%) AWS Engineer
1 56 (82.35%) AWS Software Engineer
1 56 (82.35%) Software Engineer
2 48 (70.59%) Python Engineer
3 39 (57.35%) Python Software Engineer
4 29 (42.65%) Java Engineer
4 29 (42.65%) Java Software Engineer
5 27 (39.71%) AWS Developer
5 27 (39.71%) Developer
5 27 (39.71%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 21 (30.88%) Python Developer
6 21 (30.88%) Senior
6 21 (30.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 18 (26.47%) Senior Java Engineer
7 18 (26.47%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 9 (13.24%) Data Engineer
8 9 (13.24%) Python Data Engineer
9 6 (8.82%) Java Developer
9 6 (8.82%) Java Software Developer
10 3 (4.41%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (100.00%) NumPy
1 68 (100.00%) Pandas
2 40 (58.82%) gRPC
2 40 (58.82%) Protocol Buffers
3 27 (39.71%) AngularJS
3 27 (39.71%) Node.js
3 27 (39.71%) React
3 27 (39.71%) Vue
4 26 (38.24%) PySpark
5 11 (16.18%) Redux
6 3 (4.41%) OpenCV
6 3 (4.41%) pydantic
6 3 (4.41%) PyTorch
6 3 (4.41%) scikit-learn
6 3 (4.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (82.35%) Fixed Income
2 39 (57.35%) Equities
2 39 (57.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 29 (42.65%) Derivative
3 29 (42.65%) Hedge funds
4 12 (17.65%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (95.59%) Agile
1 65 (95.59%) Asset Management
1 65 (95.59%) Software Engineering
2 48 (70.59%) Investment Management
3 36 (52.94%) Fintech
4 27 (39.71%) Performance Attribution
5 17 (25.00%) Migration
6 16 (23.53%) Order Management
6 16 (23.53%) Risk Management
7 11 (16.18%) Credit Risk Analysis
8 9 (13.24%) Analytics
8 9 (13.24%) Data Engineering
9 3 (4.41%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (4.41%) Computer Vision
9 3 (4.41%) Data Munging
9 3 (4.41%) Data Science
9 3 (4.41%) Deep Learning
9 3 (4.41%) Natural Language Processing
9 3 (4.41%) Statistical Inference
9 3 (4.41%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 62 (91.18%) Python
2 56 (82.35%) JavaScript
2 56 (82.35%) TypeScript
3 44 (64.71%) Java
4 3 (4.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (4.41%) Oracle