SciPy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SciPy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 780 489 348
Rank change year-on-year -291 -141 +393
Permanent jobs citing SciPy 12 183 602
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.37% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.10% 2.05% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 12 179 591
10th Percentile - £100,000 £85,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £105,000 £98,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £130,000 £135,000
Median % change year-on-year -56.92% -3.70% +28.57%
75th Percentile £72,500 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile - - £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 - £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +22.73%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,888 8,927 17,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 17.91% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,623 5,808 11,655
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,875 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SciPy job vacancy trend in the UK

SciPy
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SciPy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SciPy

SciPy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SciPy over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SciPy within the UK over the 6 months to 2 September 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
England -267 12 £56,000 -56.92% 42
Work from Home -193 10 £51,000 -60.77% 12
London -223 7 £65,000 -50.00% 41
UK excluding London - 5 £50,000 - 2
Midlands - 2 £55,000 -
South East - 2 £50,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £50,000 -
South West - 1 £50,000 - 1

SciPy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (41.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Prefect
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Python Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Data Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Quantitative Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) NumPy
1 12 (100.00%) Pandas
2 5 (41.67%) Google JAX
2 5 (41.67%) JAX
2 5 (41.67%) OpenCV
2 5 (41.67%) PyTorch
2 5 (41.67%) TensorFlow
3 2 (16.67%) scikit-learn
4 1 (8.33%) LightGBM
4 1 (8.33%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Derivative
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Equities
2 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Data Science
1 6 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (41.67%) Computer Vision
2 5 (41.67%) Data Analysis
2 5 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (41.67%) Deep Learning
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Signal Processing
2 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Statistics
3 4 (33.33%) AI
3 4 (33.33%) Business Development
3 4 (33.33%) Business Forecasting
3 4 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 4 (33.33%) LLM
3 4 (33.33%) MLOps
3 4 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 4 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) R
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Databricks