SpaCy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SpaCy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SpaCy 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 692 884 960
Rank change year-on-year +192 +76 +218
Permanent jobs citing SpaCy 10 23 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.022% 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.10% 0.11% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 6 15 6
10th Percentile £48,125 £58,500 £48,750
25th Percentile - £60,000 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £80,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +8.47% +7.27%
75th Percentile £52,813 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £56,250 £124,250 £126,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £80,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -34.38% +48.84% -10.42%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

SpaCy 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%

SpaCy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SpaCy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SpaCy in the UK

SpaCy
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SpaCy.

Salary trend for SpaCy in the UK

SpaCy
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SpaCy 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 +165 10 £50,000 -37.50% 13
London +112 9 £50,000 -54.55% 13
Work from Home - 4 £50,000 - 6
UK excluding London +163 1 £52,500 -34.38%
North of England +37 1 £52,500 -38.24%
North West - 1 £52,500 -

SpaCy
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 4 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Dialogflow
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) TigerGraph
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Financial Institution
1 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (40.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 5 (50.00%) Trainer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Data Scientist
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Hugging Face
2 5 (50.00%) Keras
2 5 (50.00%) NumPy
2 5 (50.00%) TensorFlow
3 4 (40.00%) NLTK
3 4 (40.00%) SciPy
4 3 (30.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) OpenCV
5 1 (10.00%) Pandas
5 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
5 1 (10.00%) Regular Expression
5 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
5 1 (10.00%) Seaborn
5 1 (10.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (10.00%) Blog
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (80.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (60.00%) Conversational AI
3 6 (60.00%) Conversational UI
3 6 (60.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 5 (50.00%) Data Science
4 5 (50.00%) Deep Learning
5 4 (40.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) Analytics
5 4 (40.00%) Asset Management
5 4 (40.00%) Data Management
5 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Innovative Thinking
5 4 (40.00%) MLOps
5 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (40.00%) Prototyping
5 4 (40.00%) Rapid Prototyping
5 4 (40.00%) Use Case
5 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Julia
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (70.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (40.00%) PhD
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft