SciPy Job Trends

SciPy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SciPy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 358 736
Rank change year-on-year -133 +378 +226
Permanent jobs citing SciPy 190 574 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.73% 0.068%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.40% 3.74% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 188 566 35
10th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £57,300
25th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £93,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £135,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -2.22%
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £142,500
90th Percentile - £165,000 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.23% +18.18% +22.22%

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 7,921 15,360 16,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.02% 19.67% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,036 9,843 13,390
10th Percentile £38,825 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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

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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Top 6 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 18 September 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 -150 190 £130,000 -3.70% 21
London -102 189 £130,000 -3.70% 14
Work from Home -114 186 £130,000 -3.70% 7
UK excluding London +109 1 £71,000 +9.23% 9
North of England - 1 £71,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £71,000 - 2

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
1 186 (97.89%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (46.84%) Apache
3 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 190 (100.00%) AWS
2 186 (97.89%) dbt
3 99 (52.11%) GCP
4 89 (46.84%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.05%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.05%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.05%) Azure
5 2 (1.05%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (97.89%) Amazon Athena
1 186 (97.89%) Apache Arrow
1 186 (97.89%) Apache Iceberg
1 186 (97.89%) Dremio
2 97 (51.05%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (46.84%) Apache Ignite
3 89 (46.84%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.05%) Big Data
4 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
General
1 188 (98.95%) Finance
2 186 (97.89%) Front Office
3 91 (47.89%) Banking
4 89 (46.84%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 186 (97.89%) AWS Engineer
1 186 (97.89%) AWS Software Engineer
1 186 (97.89%) Software Engineer
2 162 (85.26%) Python Engineer
2 162 (85.26%) Python Software Engineer
3 113 (59.47%) Java Engineer
3 113 (59.47%) Java Software Engineer
4 97 (51.05%) AWS Developer
4 97 (51.05%) Developer
4 97 (51.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 91 (47.89%) Senior
6 89 (46.84%) Senior Java Engineer
6 89 (46.84%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 89 (46.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 73 (38.42%) Python Developer
8 24 (12.63%) Java Developer
8 24 (12.63%) Java Software Developer
9 2 (1.05%) Data Scientist
9 2 (1.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 2 (1.05%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (100.00%) NumPy
2 188 (98.95%) Pandas
3 97 (51.05%) AngularJS
3 97 (51.05%) Node.js
3 97 (51.05%) React
3 97 (51.05%) Vue
4 89 (46.84%) gRPC
4 89 (46.84%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (2.11%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.05%) Dask
6 2 (1.05%) Kafka
6 2 (1.05%) Keras
6 2 (1.05%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.05%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 186 (97.89%) Fixed Income
2 184 (96.84%) Equities
2 184 (96.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 89 (46.84%) Derivative
3 89 (46.84%) Hedge funds
3 89 (46.84%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (98.95%) Agile
1 188 (98.95%) Asset Management
1 188 (98.95%) Software Engineering
2 186 (97.89%) Investment Management
3 97 (51.05%) Fintech
3 97 (51.05%) Order Management
3 97 (51.05%) Performance Attribution
3 97 (51.05%) Risk Management
4 4 (2.11%) CI/CD
4 4 (2.11%) DevOps
4 4 (2.11%) Machine Learning
4 4 (2.11%) MLOps
5 2 (1.05%) Analytics
5 2 (1.05%) Bayesian Methods
5 2 (1.05%) Commercialisation
5 2 (1.05%) Data Engineering
5 2 (1.05%) Deep Learning
5 2 (1.05%) Prototyping
5 2 (1.05%) Rapid Prototyping
5 2 (1.05%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 186 (97.89%) JavaScript
1 186 (97.89%) TypeScript
2 166 (87.37%) Python
3 113 (59.47%) Java
4 2 (1.05%) Bash
4 2 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
1 2 (1.05%) Degree
1 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
1 2 (1.05%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (1.05%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (1.05%) Google