SpaCy Contracts

SpaCy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SpaCy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SpaCy over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 624 835
Rank change year-on-year +87 +211 +9
Contract jobs citing SpaCy 12 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.006% 0.001%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.028% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £419 £603 -
25th Percentile £442 £630 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -37.67% +15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £489 £808 £775
90th Percentile £494 £818 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £690 -
% change year-on-year -32.25% - -

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 contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,986 10,577 21,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.83% 22.43% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,052 7,589 15,589
10th Percentile £350 £363 £405
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 189 218
10th Percentile £24.06 £36.13 £19.43
25th Percentile £41.25 £46.18 £47.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.56 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.99% -14.52% +32.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £78.00 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +32.65%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SpaCy in the UK

SpaCy
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpaCy within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 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
UK excluding London +54 12 £468 -32.25%
Scotland - 11 £475 -
Work from Home +84 8 £494 -34.13%
England +73 1 £400 -46.67% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £400 -
North of England - 1 £400 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Amazon S3
2 7 (58.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (58.33%) Serverless
3 4 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 4 (33.33%) Textract
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
General
1 9 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (91.67%) Automation Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Python Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) AWS CDK
2 5 (41.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) Dask
3 1 (8.33%) Django
3 1 (8.33%) Flask
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) NLTK
3 1 (8.33%) NumPy
3 1 (8.33%) Pandas
3 1 (8.33%) Pyramid
3 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
3 1 (8.33%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (41.67%) Kanban
4 5 (41.67%) Scrum
5 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 4 (33.33%) MLOps
5 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Coaching
6 3 (25.00%) Community of Practice
6 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (25.00%) OCR
6 3 (25.00%) Product Management
6 3 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
6 3 (25.00%) Service Design
6 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 7 (58.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Grafana
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google