SciPy Job Trends in England

SciPy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SciPy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 453 641
Rank change year-on-year -87 +188 +249
Permanent jobs citing SciPy 58 228 55
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.47% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.94% 2.19% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 58 201 54
10th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £106,250
25th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £117,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £107,500 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -14.00% +36.99%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £155,000
90th Percentile - £147,500 -
UK median annual salary £130,000 £107,500 £125,000
% change year-on-year +20.93% -14.00% +36.99%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

SciPy falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,192 10,388 12,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.85% 21.51% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,759 6,104 10,139
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,087 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SciPy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

SciPy job vacancy trend in England

SciPy
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SciPy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SciPy

SciPy
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SciPy in England over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SciPy in England

SciPy
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SciPy within the England region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -101 56 £130,000 +20.93% 4
East of England +16 1 £80,000 - 2
North of England - 1 £71,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £71,000 -
SciPy
UK

SciPy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 55 (94.83%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 57 (98.28%) AWS
2 55 (94.83%) dbt
3 29 (50.00%) Snowflake
4 28 (48.28%) GCP
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) LTE
1 1 (1.72%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (94.83%) Amazon Athena
1 55 (94.83%) Apache Arrow
1 55 (94.83%) Apache Iceberg
1 55 (94.83%) Dremio
2 29 (50.00%) Apache Ignite
2 29 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 26 (44.83%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Big Data
4 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
General
1 55 (94.83%) Finance
1 55 (94.83%) Front Office
2 29 (50.00%) Banking
2 29 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.72%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (94.83%) AWS Engineer
1 55 (94.83%) AWS Software Engineer
1 55 (94.83%) Python Engineer
1 55 (94.83%) Python Software Engineer
1 55 (94.83%) Software Engineer
2 29 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 29 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 28 (48.28%) Senior
4 27 (46.55%) Senior Java Engineer
4 27 (46.55%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 27 (46.55%) Senior Software Engineer
5 26 (44.83%) AWS Developer
5 26 (44.83%) Developer
5 26 (44.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 26 (44.83%) Python Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) Data Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) RF Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (100.00%) NumPy
2 57 (98.28%) Pandas
3 29 (50.00%) gRPC
3 29 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
4 26 (44.83%) AngularJS
4 26 (44.83%) Node.js
4 26 (44.83%) React
4 26 (44.83%) Vue
5 3 (5.17%) PyTorch
6 2 (3.45%) Dask
6 2 (3.45%) Kafka
6 2 (3.45%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.72%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 55 (94.83%) Equities
1 55 (94.83%) Fixed Income
1 55 (94.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 29 (50.00%) Derivative
2 29 (50.00%) Hedge funds
2 29 (50.00%) Pricing Data
3 1 (1.72%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (98.28%) Software Engineering
2 55 (94.83%) Agile
2 55 (94.83%) Asset Management
2 55 (94.83%) Investment Management
3 26 (44.83%) Fintech
3 26 (44.83%) Order Management
3 26 (44.83%) Performance Attribution
3 26 (44.83%) Risk Management
4 3 (5.17%) Machine Learning
5 2 (3.45%) Bayesian Methods
5 2 (3.45%) CI/CD
5 2 (3.45%) Cloud Security
5 2 (3.45%) Data Engineering
5 2 (3.45%) DevOps
5 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (3.45%) MLOps
5 2 (3.45%) Reinforcement Learning
6 1 (1.72%) Batch Processing
6 1 (1.72%) Data Collection
6 1 (1.72%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 58 (100.00%) Python
2 55 (94.83%) JavaScript
2 55 (94.83%) TypeScript
3 29 (50.00%) Java
4 2 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (1.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (3.45%) Google
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft