SciPy Contracts with Work from Home Options

SciPy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SciPy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SciPy over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 458 610
Rank change year-on-year +183 +152 -157
Contract jobs citing SciPy 71 14 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.054% 0.029%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.95% 0.21% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 12 13
10th Percentile £663 £573 £515
25th Percentile £750 £663 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £888 £788 £750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £800 £725 £600
% change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

SciPy is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,643 6,514 13,221
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.84% 25.19% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,538 4,853 9,766
10th Percentile £331 £394 £394
25th Percentile £428 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.46% +13.02%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £775 £753 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 80 120
10th Percentile £25.80 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £42.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £63.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.02% +29.08% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

SciPy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SciPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SciPy trend for jobs with a WFH option

SciPy
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing SciPy over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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 67 (94.37%) Apache
1 67 (94.37%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 69 (97.18%) AWS
2 67 (94.37%) dbt
3 50 (70.42%) Snowflake
4 42 (59.15%) GCP
5 2 (2.82%) Azure
6 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.41%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (94.37%) Amazon Athena
1 67 (94.37%) Apache Arrow
1 67 (94.37%) Apache Ignite
1 67 (94.37%) Dremio
2 50 (70.42%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
General
1 68 (95.77%) Finance
1 68 (95.77%) Front Office
2 62 (87.32%) Banking
2 62 (87.32%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.41%) Games
3 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.41%) Marketing
3 1 (1.41%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (66.20%) Software Engineer
2 33 (46.48%) Developer
3 31 (43.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 28 (39.44%) Lead
5 27 (38.03%) AWS Engineer
5 27 (38.03%) AWS Software Engineer
5 27 (38.03%) Python Engineer
5 27 (38.03%) Python Software Engineer
6 23 (32.39%) Software Developer
7 22 (30.99%) Java Engineer
7 22 (30.99%) Java Software Engineer
8 19 (26.76%) Senior
9 18 (25.35%) Lead Developer
9 18 (25.35%) Lead Software Developer
9 18 (25.35%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (25.35%) Python Developer
9 18 (25.35%) Senior Software Engineer
9 18 (25.35%) Software Team Leader
9 18 (25.35%) Team Leader
10 12 (16.90%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (100.00%) NumPy
2 70 (98.59%) Pandas
3 67 (94.37%) gRPC
3 67 (94.37%) Protocol Buffers
4 6 (8.45%) React
5 5 (7.04%) AngularJS
5 5 (7.04%) Node.js
5 5 (7.04%) Redux
5 5 (7.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 61 (85.92%) Fixed Income
2 57 (80.28%) Derivative
3 56 (78.87%) Equities
3 56 (78.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 56 (78.87%) Hedge funds
4 4 (5.63%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (94.37%) Agile
1 67 (94.37%) Asset Management
1 67 (94.37%) Software Engineering
2 58 (81.69%) Investment Management
3 24 (33.80%) Line Management
4 22 (30.99%) Greeks
5 13 (18.31%) Analytics
6 12 (16.90%) Data Architecture
7 6 (8.45%) Mentoring
7 6 (8.45%) Product Management
8 5 (7.04%) Credit Risk Analysis
8 5 (7.04%) Fintech
8 5 (7.04%) Performance Attribution
9 2 (2.82%) Data Science
9 2 (2.82%) Mathematics
10 1 (1.41%) Computer Science
10 1 (1.41%) Financial Modelling
10 1 (1.41%) Logistic Regression
10 1 (1.41%) Physics
10 1 (1.41%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) Python
2 67 (94.37%) JavaScript
2 67 (94.37%) TypeScript
3 63 (88.73%) Java
4 8 (11.27%) Ruby
4 8 (11.27%) Scala
5 3 (4.23%) SQL
6 1 (1.41%) C++
6 1 (1.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (1.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (30.99%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (1.41%) Google