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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 745 514 404
Rank change year-on-year -231 -110 +386
Permanent jobs citing SciPy 12 178 537
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.36% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 2.01% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10 173 529
10th Percentile - £100,000 £85,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £105,000 £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £130,000 £135,000
Median % change year-on-year -60.77% -3.70% +28.57%
75th Percentile £69,375 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £81,000 - £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 - £80,001
% change year-on-year - - +45.46%

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 10,247 8,854 18,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 18.01% 19.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,659 5,843 13,687
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £102,500
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 22 July 2026.

Salary histogram for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Top 10 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 22 July 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 -231 11 £51,000 -60.77% 9
Work from Home -155 10 £50,000 -61.54% 2
UK excluding London -74 6 £50,000 - 5
London -193 5 £65,000 -50.00% 7
Midlands - 2 £55,000 -
South East - 2 £50,000 - 3
East of England -6 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 -
South West - 1 £50,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £50,000 -

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
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Prefect
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (8.33%) GIS
1 1 (8.33%) QGIS
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (8.33%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) MLflow
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (8.33%) French Language
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Python Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Data Scientist
4 2 (16.67%) Data Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Geospatial Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Quantitative Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Quantitative Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) NumPy
1 11 (91.67%) Pandas
2 7 (58.33%) PyTorch
3 6 (50.00%) OpenCV
3 6 (50.00%) TensorFlow
4 5 (41.67%) Google JAX
4 5 (41.67%) JAX
5 3 (25.00%) scikit-learn
6 1 (8.33%) Flask
6 1 (8.33%) Keras
6 1 (8.33%) LightGBM
6 1 (8.33%) Matplotlib
6 1 (8.33%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) 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 7 (58.33%) Deep Learning
2 6 (50.00%) Computer Vision
3 5 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
3 5 (41.67%) Signal Processing
3 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) Data Science
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) AI
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (25.00%) LLM
5 3 (25.00%) Statistics
6 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (16.67%) Business Development
6 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
6 2 (16.67%) Physics
6 2 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) R
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Google