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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 333 691
Rank change year-on-year -183 +358 +265
Permanent jobs citing SciPy 145 505 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.74% 0.095%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% 3.62% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 145 496 50
10th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £75,825
25th Percentile £105,000 £96,250 £106,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £115,000 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £150,313
90th Percentile - £165,000 £155,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.19% +22.73% -18.52%

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 7,654 13,943 15,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.51% 20.31% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,869 8,471 12,292
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.60% -3.48% +3.60%

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 25 October 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 25 October 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 -166 145 £130,000 +13.04% 31
London -115 144 £130,000 +13.04% 22
Work from Home -141 143 £130,000 +13.04% 22
UK excluding London +52 1 £71,000 +5.19% 18
North of England - 1 £71,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £71,000 - 2

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
1 143 (98.62%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (50.34%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 145 (100.00%) AWS
2 143 (98.62%) dbt
3 73 (50.34%) Snowflake
4 72 (49.66%) GCP
5 2 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.38%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.38%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.38%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (98.62%) Amazon Athena
1 143 (98.62%) Apache Arrow
1 143 (98.62%) Apache Iceberg
1 143 (98.62%) Dremio
2 73 (50.34%) Apache Ignite
2 73 (50.34%) Data Lake
3 70 (48.28%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.38%) Big Data
4 2 (1.38%) DynamoDB
General
1 143 (98.62%) Finance
1 143 (98.62%) Front Office
2 73 (50.34%) Banking
2 73 (50.34%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 143 (98.62%) AWS Engineer
1 143 (98.62%) AWS Software Engineer
1 143 (98.62%) Software Engineer
2 129 (88.97%) Python Engineer
2 129 (88.97%) Python Software Engineer
3 87 (60.00%) Java Engineer
3 87 (60.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 71 (48.97%) Senior
4 71 (48.97%) Senior Java Engineer
4 71 (48.97%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 71 (48.97%) Senior Software Engineer
5 70 (48.28%) AWS Developer
5 70 (48.28%) Developer
5 70 (48.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 56 (38.62%) Python Developer
7 14 (9.66%) Java Developer
7 14 (9.66%) Java Software Developer
8 2 (1.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (100.00%) NumPy
1 145 (100.00%) Pandas
2 73 (50.34%) gRPC
2 73 (50.34%) Protocol Buffers
3 70 (48.28%) AngularJS
3 70 (48.28%) Node.js
3 70 (48.28%) React
3 70 (48.28%) Vue
4 2 (1.38%) Dask
4 2 (1.38%) Kafka
4 2 (1.38%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 143 (98.62%) Equities
1 143 (98.62%) Fixed Income
1 143 (98.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 73 (50.34%) Derivative
2 73 (50.34%) Hedge funds
2 73 (50.34%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 143 (98.62%) Agile
2 143 (98.62%) Asset Management
2 143 (98.62%) Investment Management
3 70 (48.28%) Fintech
3 70 (48.28%) Order Management
3 70 (48.28%) Performance Attribution
3 70 (48.28%) Risk Management
4 2 (1.38%) Bayesian Methods
4 2 (1.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (1.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (1.38%) Data Engineering
4 2 (1.38%) DevOps
4 2 (1.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (1.38%) Machine Learning
4 2 (1.38%) MLOps
4 2 (1.38%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 143 (98.62%) JavaScript
1 143 (98.62%) TypeScript
2 131 (90.34%) Python
3 87 (60.00%) Java
4 2 (1.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (1.38%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (1.38%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (1.38%) Google