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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 761 502 368
Rank change year-on-year -259 -134 +363
Permanent jobs citing SciPy 14 177 582
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.35% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 2.10% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12 173 570
10th Percentile - £100,000 £85,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £105,000 £103,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £130,000 £135,000
Median % change year-on-year -56.92% -3.70% +28.57%
75th Percentile £72,500 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile - - £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +27.27%

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 10,661 8,409 16,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 16.85% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7,780 5,443 11,343
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -246 13 £56,000 -56.92% 27
Work from Home -172 12 £51,000 -60.77% 9
London -205 7 £65,000 -50.00% 26
UK excluding London - 6 £50,000 - 3
Midlands - 2 £55,000 -
South East - 2 £50,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £50,000 -
South West - 1 £50,000 - 2
East of England - 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 5 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Prefect
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (7.14%) GIS
1 1 (7.14%) QGIS
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.14%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) MLflow
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
2 1 (7.14%) French Language
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Data Scientist
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Python Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Data Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Geospatial Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Quantitative Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) NumPy
1 13 (92.86%) Pandas
2 7 (50.00%) PyTorch
3 6 (42.86%) OpenCV
3 6 (42.86%) TensorFlow
4 5 (35.71%) Google JAX
4 5 (35.71%) JAX
5 3 (21.43%) scikit-learn
6 1 (7.14%) Flask
6 1 (7.14%) Keras
6 1 (7.14%) LightGBM
6 1 (7.14%) Matplotlib
6 1 (7.14%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Derivative
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Equities
2 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Deep Learning
1 7 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (42.86%) Computer Vision
2 6 (42.86%) Data Analysis
2 6 (42.86%) Data Science
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) AI
3 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (35.71%) LLM
3 5 (35.71%) Signal Processing
3 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Statistics
4 4 (28.57%) Business Development
4 4 (28.57%) Business Forecasting
4 4 (28.57%) Clean Code
4 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 4 (28.57%) MLOps
4 4 (28.57%) Prompt Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 4 (28.57%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) R
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (7.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Google