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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 503 737
Rank change year-on-year -150 +234 +201
Permanent jobs citing SciPy 18 169 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.36% 0.093%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 1.64% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 16 146 68
10th Percentile £69,000 £77,500 £97,500
25th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £106,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £105,000 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -16.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £147,500 £155,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,500 £65,000 £80,001
% change year-on-year +16.15% -18.75% +1.59%

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 7,731 10,294 18,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.03% 22.02% 23.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,671 6,544 14,598
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,829
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,225 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +10.38% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £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 1 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Top 7 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 1 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
England -119 17 £130,000 +23.81% 6
Work from Home -76 16 £130,000 +23.81% 4
London -119 14 £130,000 +23.81% 2
UK excluding London -5 3 £75,500 +16.15% 4
East of England +6 2 £80,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £71,000 - 1
North of England - 1 £71,000 - 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 13 (72.22%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (33.33%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) AWS
2 13 (72.22%) dbt
3 9 (50.00%) GCP
4 6 (33.33%) Snowflake
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) LTE
1 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (72.22%) Amazon Athena
1 13 (72.22%) Apache Arrow
1 13 (72.22%) Apache Iceberg
1 13 (72.22%) Dremio
2 7 (38.89%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
3 6 (33.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (11.11%) Big Data
4 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
5 1 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (5.56%) GIS
5 1 (5.56%) QGIS
5 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.56%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 13 (72.22%) Finance
1 13 (72.22%) Front Office
2 6 (33.33%) Banking
2 6 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) French Language
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) AWS Engineer
1 13 (72.22%) AWS Software Engineer
1 13 (72.22%) Python Engineer
1 13 (72.22%) Python Software Engineer
1 13 (72.22%) Software Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) AWS Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Python Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Java Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) Senior
5 4 (22.22%) Senior Java Engineer
5 4 (22.22%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 4 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Research Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) RF Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (94.44%) NumPy
2 16 (88.89%) Pandas
3 7 (38.89%) AngularJS
3 7 (38.89%) Node.js
3 7 (38.89%) React
3 7 (38.89%) Vue
4 6 (33.33%) gRPC
4 6 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
5 5 (27.78%) PyTorch
6 3 (16.67%) TensorFlow
7 2 (11.11%) Dask
7 2 (11.11%) Kafka
8 1 (5.56%) Flask
8 1 (5.56%) Keras
8 1 (5.56%) Matplotlib
8 1 (5.56%) OpenCV
8 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
8 1 (5.56%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Equities
1 13 (72.22%) Fixed Income
1 13 (72.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (33.33%) Derivative
2 6 (33.33%) Hedge funds
2 6 (33.33%) Pricing Data
3 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.56%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 13 (72.22%) Agile
2 13 (72.22%) Asset Management
2 13 (72.22%) Investment Management
3 7 (38.89%) Fintech
3 7 (38.89%) Order Management
3 7 (38.89%) Performance Attribution
3 7 (38.89%) Risk Management
4 4 (22.22%) Machine Learning
5 2 (11.11%) Bayesian Methods
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 2 (11.11%) Data Collection
5 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Deep Learning
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.11%) MLOps
5 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (72.22%) JavaScript
2 13 (72.22%) TypeScript
3 6 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) R
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft