SciPy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SciPy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SciPy over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 480 846
Rank change year-on-year -72 +366 +163
Permanent jobs citing SciPy 171 493 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.46% 0.093%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 2.26% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 161 484 70
10th Percentile - £85,000 £62,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £135,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £142,500
90th Percentile - £165,000 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £80,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +45.46% -26.67%

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 9,842 21,782 25,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.84% 20.17% 28.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,968 16,169 17,160
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,579
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,071
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -10.54% +4.87%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,600 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SciPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SciPy.

Salary trend for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SciPy over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Top 5 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 July 2025. 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 -100 171 £130,000 -3.70% 130
London -72 170 £130,000 -3.70% 105
Work from Home -84 154 £130,000 -3.70% 59
UK excluding London +181 1 - - 28
East of England +32 1 - - 5

SciPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 161 (94.15%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (45.03%) Apache
3 4 (2.34%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 165 (96.49%) AWS
2 161 (94.15%) dbt
3 101 (59.06%) GCP
4 71 (41.52%) Snowflake
5 19 (11.11%) Dagster
6 12 (7.02%) Azure
7 11 (6.43%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (6.43%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.58%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (94.15%) Amazon Athena
1 161 (94.15%) Apache Iceberg
1 161 (94.15%) Dremio
2 153 (89.47%) Apache Arrow
3 77 (45.03%) Apache Ignite
4 76 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
5 71 (41.52%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.34%) Apache Hive
6 4 (2.34%) Hadoop
General
1 165 (96.49%) Finance
2 161 (94.15%) Front Office
3 83 (48.54%) Banking
4 71 (41.52%) Investment Banking
5 5 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.34%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (89.47%) AWS Engineer
1 153 (89.47%) AWS Software Engineer
1 153 (89.47%) Software Engineer
2 126 (73.68%) Python Engineer
3 118 (69.01%) Python Software Engineer
4 95 (55.56%) Java Engineer
4 95 (55.56%) Java Software Engineer
5 82 (47.95%) AWS Developer
5 82 (47.95%) Developer
5 82 (47.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 70 (40.94%) Senior
7 66 (38.60%) Senior Java Engineer
7 66 (38.60%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 66 (38.60%) Senior Software Engineer
8 58 (33.92%) Python Developer
9 24 (14.04%) Java Developer
9 24 (14.04%) Java Software Developer
10 8 (4.68%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.68%) Python Data Engineer
11 4 (2.34%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (100.00%) NumPy
2 167 (97.66%) Pandas
3 82 (47.95%) AngularJS
3 82 (47.95%) Node.js
3 82 (47.95%) React
3 82 (47.95%) Vue
4 77 (45.03%) gRPC
4 77 (45.03%) Protocol Buffers
5 19 (11.11%) PySpark
6 6 (3.51%) OpenCV
6 6 (3.51%) PyTorch
6 6 (3.51%) Redux
7 5 (2.92%) Keras
7 5 (2.92%) TensorFlow
8 4 (2.34%) SpaCy
9 1 (0.58%) Flask
9 1 (0.58%) Matplotlib
9 1 (0.58%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 161 (94.15%) Fixed Income
2 147 (85.96%) Equities
3 139 (81.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 71 (41.52%) Derivative
4 71 (41.52%) Hedge funds
5 60 (35.09%) Pricing Data
6 8 (4.68%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.51%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.92%) Robotics
8 5 (2.92%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (99.42%) Agile
2 165 (96.49%) Asset Management
3 161 (94.15%) Software Engineering
4 150 (87.72%) Investment Management
5 82 (47.95%) Fintech
5 82 (47.95%) Performance Attribution
6 76 (44.44%) Order Management
6 76 (44.44%) Risk Management
7 17 (9.94%) Analytics
8 11 (6.43%) Migration
9 10 (5.85%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (5.85%) Machine Learning
10 9 (5.26%) Data Science
10 9 (5.26%) MLOps
10 9 (5.26%) Roadmaps
11 8 (4.68%) Data Engineering
11 8 (4.68%) Front End Development
11 8 (4.68%) Portfolio Management
11 8 (4.68%) Quantitative Analysis
11 8 (4.68%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 153 (89.47%) JavaScript
1 153 (89.47%) TypeScript
2 147 (85.96%) Python
3 103 (60.23%) Java
4 4 (2.34%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.53%) Degree
2 10 (5.85%) Master's Degree
2 10 (5.85%) PhD