SciPy Job Trends

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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 685 461 741
Rank change year-on-year -224 +280 +174
Permanent jobs citing SciPy 11 171 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.42% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 1.93% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9 145 102
10th Percentile - £77,500 £102,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £80,000 £117,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £135,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -22.22% +63.64%
75th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £155,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £147,500 £171,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 - £80,001
% change year-on-year - - -11.11%

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 8,169 8,878 19,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.56% 21.67% 22.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,986 6,576 15,338
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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
Work from Home -111 11 £80,000 -23.81% 9
England -205 10 £80,000 -23.81% 13
UK excluding London -59 5 £50,000 - 9
London -151 5 £105,000 - 4
East of England -19 2 £80,000 - 2
West Midlands -6 1 £50,000 - 1
Midlands -39 1 £50,000 - 1
South East - 1 £50,000 - 5
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 8 (72.73%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (36.36%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) dbt
1 4 (36.36%) Prefect
1 4 (36.36%) Snowflake
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) LTE
1 1 (9.09%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (36.36%) Apache Arrow
1 4 (36.36%) Apache Iceberg
1 4 (36.36%) Apache Ignite
1 4 (36.36%) Data Lake
1 4 (36.36%) Dremio
2 1 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (9.09%) GIS
2 1 (9.09%) QGIS
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Front Office
1 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) French Language
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) AWS Software Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Java Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Java Software Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Python Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Python Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Python Software Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Research Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) RF Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) NumPy
2 9 (81.82%) Pandas
3 7 (63.64%) PyTorch
4 5 (45.45%) OpenCV
4 5 (45.45%) TensorFlow
5 4 (36.36%) Google JAX
5 4 (36.36%) gRPC
5 4 (36.36%) JAX
5 4 (36.36%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (9.09%) Flask
6 1 (9.09%) Keras
6 1 (9.09%) Matplotlib
6 1 (9.09%) scikit-learn
6 1 (9.09%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Algorithms
2 4 (36.36%) Derivative
2 4 (36.36%) Equities
2 4 (36.36%) Fixed Income
2 4 (36.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (36.36%) Hedge funds
2 4 (36.36%) Pricing Data
3 1 (9.09%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Software Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Deep Learning
3 5 (45.45%) Computer Vision
3 5 (45.45%) Signal Processing
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Asset Management
4 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (36.36%) Investment Management
5 2 (18.18%) AI
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Data Collection
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Open Source
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (9.09%) Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Batch Processing
6 1 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (9.09%) LLM
6 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 1 (9.09%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) R
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft