SciPy Job Trends in London

SciPy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring SciPy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 246 417
Rank change year-on-year -104 +171 +178
Permanent jobs citing SciPy 29 188 61
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.19% 1.25% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.05% 4.67% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 29 170 57
10th Percentile £99,500 £77,500 £105,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £81,250 £117,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £106,250 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% -15.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £155,000
90th Percentile - £147,500 -
England median annual salary £130,000 £105,000 £125,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -16.00% +47.06%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,764 4,023 5,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.95% 26.70% 26.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,979 2,536 4,849
10th Percentile £51,200 £52,500 £49,868
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £108,418 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £123,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SciPy job vacancy trend in London

SciPy
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SciPy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SciPy

SciPy
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SciPy in London over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for SciPy in London

SciPy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 28 (96.55%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (48.28%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (96.55%) dbt
3 15 (51.72%) GCP
4 14 (48.28%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (96.55%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (96.55%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (96.55%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (96.55%) Dremio
2 14 (48.28%) Apache Ignite
2 14 (48.28%) Data Lake
2 14 (48.28%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Big Data
3 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
General
1 28 (96.55%) Finance
1 28 (96.55%) Front Office
2 14 (48.28%) Banking
2 14 (48.28%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (96.55%) AWS Engineer
1 28 (96.55%) AWS Software Engineer
1 28 (96.55%) Python Engineer
1 28 (96.55%) Python Software Engineer
1 28 (96.55%) Software Engineer
2 14 (48.28%) AWS Developer
2 14 (48.28%) Developer
2 14 (48.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 14 (48.28%) Java Engineer
2 14 (48.28%) Java Software Engineer
2 14 (48.28%) Python Developer
3 12 (41.38%) Senior
3 12 (41.38%) Senior Java Engineer
3 12 (41.38%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 12 (41.38%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (100.00%) NumPy
1 29 (100.00%) Pandas
2 14 (48.28%) AngularJS
2 14 (48.28%) gRPC
2 14 (48.28%) Node.js
2 14 (48.28%) Protocol Buffers
2 14 (48.28%) React
2 14 (48.28%) Vue
3 1 (3.45%) Dask
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (96.55%) Equities
1 28 (96.55%) Fixed Income
1 28 (96.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (48.28%) Derivative
2 14 (48.28%) Hedge funds
2 14 (48.28%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 28 (96.55%) Agile
2 28 (96.55%) Asset Management
2 28 (96.55%) Investment Management
3 14 (48.28%) Fintech
3 14 (48.28%) Order Management
3 14 (48.28%) Performance Attribution
3 14 (48.28%) Risk Management
4 1 (3.45%) Bayesian Methods
4 1 (3.45%) CI/CD
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Security
4 1 (3.45%) Data Engineering
4 1 (3.45%) DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (3.45%) Machine Learning
4 1 (3.45%) MLOps
4 1 (3.45%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Python
2 28 (96.55%) JavaScript
2 28 (96.55%) TypeScript
3 14 (48.28%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (3.45%) Google