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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 606 878
Rank change year-on-year +63 +272 +117
Permanent jobs citing SciPy 160 316 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.30% 0.094%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 1.47% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 137 308 77
10th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £68,250
25th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £135,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +28.57% -8.70%
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% -15.38%

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 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +33 160 £110,000 -18.52% 51
London -10 159 £110,000 -18.52% 45
Work from Home -27 127 £110,000 -18.52% 27
UK excluding London +178 1 - - 12
East of England +49 1 - - 4

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
1 136 (85.00%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (40.63%) Apache
3 4 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 141 (88.13%) AWS
2 136 (85.00%) dbt
3 96 (60.00%) GCP
4 51 (31.88%) Snowflake
5 22 (13.75%) Dagster
6 15 (9.38%) Azure
7 11 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (6.88%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (6.88%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.63%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.63%) Cloud9 IDE
8 1 (0.63%) SaaS
8 1 (0.63%) Serverless
8 1 (0.63%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (85.00%) Amazon Athena
1 136 (85.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 136 (85.00%) Dremio
2 125 (78.13%) Apache Arrow
3 65 (40.63%) Apache Ignite
4 61 (38.13%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (32.50%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.50%) Apache Hive
6 4 (2.50%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
General
1 141 (88.13%) Finance
2 136 (85.00%) Front Office
3 66 (41.25%) Banking
4 51 (31.88%) Investment Banking
5 5 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.50%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 125 (78.13%) AWS Engineer
1 125 (78.13%) AWS Software Engineer
1 125 (78.13%) Software Engineer
2 105 (65.63%) Python Engineer
3 94 (58.75%) Python Software Engineer
4 75 (46.88%) Developer
5 74 (46.25%) AWS Developer
5 74 (46.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 71 (44.38%) Java Engineer
6 71 (44.38%) Java Software Engineer
7 54 (33.75%) Python Developer
8 50 (31.25%) Senior
9 46 (28.75%) Senior Java Engineer
9 46 (28.75%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 46 (28.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (12.50%) Java Developer
10 20 (12.50%) Java Software Developer
11 11 (6.88%) Data Engineer
11 11 (6.88%) Python Data Engineer
12 5 (3.13%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (100.00%) NumPy
2 156 (97.50%) Pandas
3 74 (46.25%) AngularJS
3 74 (46.25%) Node.js
3 74 (46.25%) React
3 74 (46.25%) Vue
4 65 (40.63%) gRPC
4 65 (40.63%) Protocol Buffers
5 22 (13.75%) PySpark
6 20 (12.50%) PyTorch
7 19 (11.88%) OpenCV
8 14 (8.75%) Redux
9 7 (4.38%) TensorFlow
10 5 (3.13%) Keras
11 4 (2.50%) SpaCy
12 2 (1.25%) scikit-learn
13 1 (0.63%) Flask
13 1 (0.63%) Matplotlib
13 1 (0.63%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 135 (84.38%) Fixed Income
2 113 (70.63%) Equities
3 103 (64.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 51 (31.88%) Derivative
4 51 (31.88%) Hedge funds
5 40 (25.00%) Pricing Data
6 20 (12.50%) Algorithms
7 17 (10.63%) Robotics
7 17 (10.63%) Virtual Team
8 10 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (98.13%) Agile
2 140 (87.50%) Asset Management
3 136 (85.00%) Software Engineering
4 125 (78.13%) Investment Management
5 75 (46.88%) Fintech
6 74 (46.25%) Performance Attribution
7 61 (38.13%) Risk Management
8 60 (37.50%) Order Management
9 32 (20.00%) Analytics
10 24 (15.00%) Machine Learning
11 23 (14.38%) Artificial Intelligence
11 23 (14.38%) Data Science
12 21 (13.13%) MLOps
13 19 (11.88%) Computer Vision
14 14 (8.75%) Credit Risk Analysis
15 11 (6.88%) Data Engineering
15 11 (6.88%) Migration
15 11 (6.88%) Roadmaps
16 10 (6.25%) Portfolio Management
16 10 (6.25%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 140 (87.50%) Python
2 125 (78.13%) JavaScript
2 125 (78.13%) TypeScript
3 82 (51.25%) Java
4 5 (3.13%) SQL
5 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (20.00%) Degree
2 22 (13.75%) Master's Degree
2 22 (13.75%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle