SciPy Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 445 617
Rank change year-on-year +207 +172 -132
Contract jobs citing SciPy 111 14 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 0.058% 0.020%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.04% 0.23% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 11 9
10th Percentile £700 - £615
25th Percentile £750 £663 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £888 £788 £750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £800 £725 £600
% change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,657 6,059 13,124
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.97% 24.99% 29.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,580 4,544 9,747
10th Percentile £343 £399 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% +10.55%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £741
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 77 110
10th Percentile £24.23 £24.45 £22.50
25th Percentile - £46.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £66.64
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.10 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

SciPy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SciPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SciPy trend for jobs with a WFH option

SciPy
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SciPy.

SciPy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SciPy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SciPy over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

SciPy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 107 (96.40%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (94.59%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 109 (98.20%) AWS
2 107 (96.40%) dbt
3 90 (81.08%) Snowflake
4 57 (51.35%) GCP
5 4 (3.60%) Azure
6 2 (1.80%) Dagster
7 1 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.90%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (96.40%) Amazon Athena
1 107 (96.40%) Dremio
2 105 (94.59%) Apache Arrow
2 105 (94.59%) Apache Ignite
3 92 (82.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
General
1 108 (97.30%) Finance
1 108 (97.30%) Front Office
2 98 (88.29%) Banking
3 96 (86.49%) Investment Banking
4 1 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.90%) Games
4 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.90%) Marketing
4 1 (0.90%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (67.57%) Software Engineer
2 51 (45.95%) Python Engineer
3 49 (44.14%) Python Software Engineer
4 45 (40.54%) AWS Engineer
4 45 (40.54%) AWS Software Engineer
5 43 (38.74%) Lead
6 41 (36.94%) Developer
7 40 (36.04%) Java Engineer
7 40 (36.04%) Java Software Engineer
8 39 (35.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 39 (35.14%) Senior
9 38 (34.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 31 (27.93%) Software Developer
11 28 (25.23%) Lead Developer
11 28 (25.23%) Lead Software Developer
11 28 (25.23%) Lead Software Engineer
11 28 (25.23%) Software Team Leader
11 28 (25.23%) Team Leader
12 26 (23.42%) Senior Java Engineer
12 26 (23.42%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (100.00%) NumPy
2 110 (99.10%) Pandas
3 105 (94.59%) gRPC
3 105 (94.59%) Protocol Buffers
4 10 (9.01%) React
5 9 (8.11%) AngularJS
5 9 (8.11%) Node.js
5 9 (8.11%) Redux
5 9 (8.11%) Vue
6 2 (1.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 105 (94.59%) Fixed Income
2 97 (87.39%) Derivative
3 96 (86.49%) Equities
3 96 (86.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 96 (86.49%) Hedge funds
4 14 (12.61%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (96.40%) Agile
1 107 (96.40%) Asset Management
1 107 (96.40%) Software Engineering
2 89 (80.18%) Investment Management
3 39 (35.14%) Line Management
4 37 (33.33%) Greeks
5 11 (9.91%) Fintech
6 9 (8.11%) Analytics
6 9 (8.11%) Credit Risk Analysis
6 9 (8.11%) Performance Attribution
7 6 (5.41%) Data Architecture
7 6 (5.41%) Mentoring
7 6 (5.41%) Product Management
8 2 (1.80%) Data Engineering
8 2 (1.80%) Data Science
8 2 (1.80%) Mathematics
9 1 (0.90%) Decision-Making
9 1 (0.90%) Performance Optimisation
9 1 (0.90%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (0.90%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 111 (100.00%) Python
2 105 (94.59%) JavaScript
2 105 (94.59%) TypeScript
3 99 (89.19%) Java
4 6 (5.41%) Ruby
4 6 (5.41%) Scala
5 1 (0.90%) C++
5 1 (0.90%) Rust
5 1 (0.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (0.90%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (0.90%) Google