SciPy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SciPy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SciPy over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 677 740
Rank change year-on-year +208 +63 -105
Contract jobs citing SciPy 123 26 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.044% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.38% 0.19% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 18 106
10th Percentile £617 £418 -
25th Percentile £691 £613 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -
75th Percentile £888 £788 £650
90th Percentile - £799 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £463 £550
% change year-on-year -1.08% -15.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - £58.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £61.50
75th Percentile £66.38 - £64.75
90th Percentile £66.60 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

SciPy is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,932 13,763 24,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.23% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,201 10,039 17,650
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SciPy.

Daily rate trend for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SciPy over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SciPy.

Hourly rate trend for SciPy in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SciPy within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +221 122 £800 +10.34% 18
London +185 114 £800 +10.34% 12
Work from Home +188 76 £800 +10.34% 7
UK excluding London +60 8 £458 -1.08% 7
East of England - 8 £458 - 2

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 87 (70.73%) Apache
1 87 (70.73%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 96 (78.05%) AWS
2 87 (70.73%) dbt
3 67 (54.47%) Snowflake
4 54 (43.90%) GCP
5 16 (13.01%) Azure
6 14 (11.38%) GitHub
7 11 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.44%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.44%) Dagster
8 3 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (70.73%) Amazon Athena
2 84 (68.29%) Apache Arrow
2 84 (68.29%) Apache Ignite
2 84 (68.29%) Dremio
3 67 (54.47%) Data Lake
4 12 (9.76%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.44%) Big Data
5 3 (2.44%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.44%) Flink
5 3 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.13%) Git
2 7 (5.69%) Mercurial
3 3 (2.44%) Poetry
General
1 97 (78.86%) Finance
2 95 (77.24%) Front Office
3 79 (64.23%) Banking
3 79 (64.23%) Investment Banking
4 7 (5.69%) Multimedia
5 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.44%) Social Skills
6 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Games
7 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 57 (46.34%) Software Engineer
2 48 (39.02%) Developer
3 46 (37.40%) Python Engineer
4 38 (30.89%) Senior
5 34 (27.64%) Python Software Engineer
6 33 (26.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 31 (25.20%) AWS Engineer
7 31 (25.20%) AWS Software Engineer
7 31 (25.20%) Lead
8 28 (22.76%) Software Developer
9 26 (21.14%) Python Developer
10 25 (20.33%) Java Engineer
10 25 (20.33%) Java Software Engineer
11 22 (17.89%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (16.26%) Architect
12 20 (16.26%) Lead Developer
12 20 (16.26%) Lead Software Developer
12 20 (16.26%) Software Team Leader
12 20 (16.26%) Solutions Architect
12 20 (16.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (99.19%) Pandas
2 120 (97.56%) NumPy
3 84 (68.29%) gRPC
3 84 (68.29%) Protocol Buffers
4 13 (10.57%) React
5 5 (4.07%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.07%) Node.js
5 5 (4.07%) Redux
5 5 (4.07%) Vue
6 3 (2.44%) Great Expectations
6 3 (2.44%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (2.44%) LAPP Stack
6 3 (2.44%) Plotly
6 3 (2.44%) scikit-learn
6 3 (2.44%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 85 (69.11%) Derivative
2 82 (66.67%) Fixed Income
3 74 (60.16%) Hedge funds
4 73 (59.35%) Equities
4 73 (59.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (4.88%) Pricing Data
6 5 (4.07%) Social Media
7 3 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.63%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.63%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.69%) Windows
2 3 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (79.67%) Software Engineering
2 84 (68.29%) Agile
2 84 (68.29%) Asset Management
3 70 (56.91%) Investment Management
4 36 (29.27%) Line Management
5 27 (21.95%) Mathematics
6 25 (20.33%) Greeks
7 22 (17.89%) Data Pipeline
8 21 (17.07%) Test Automation
9 19 (15.45%) Mathematical Modelling
10 18 (14.63%) Artificial Intelligence
11 15 (12.20%) Computer Science
12 14 (11.38%) CI/CD
12 14 (11.38%) DevOps
13 13 (10.57%) Analytics
14 11 (8.94%) Machine Learning
14 11 (8.94%) Product Requirements
15 10 (8.13%) Backtesting
15 10 (8.13%) Decision Intelligence
16 9 (7.32%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 123 (100.00%) Python
2 88 (71.54%) Java
2 88 (71.54%) JavaScript
3 81 (65.85%) TypeScript
4 17 (13.82%) SQL
5 16 (13.01%) C++
6 12 (9.76%) Rust
7 7 (5.69%) C#
7 7 (5.69%) Ruby
7 7 (5.69%) Scala
8 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (12.20%) Degree
2 6 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (22.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (0.81%) Google