SciPy
UK

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 869 988
Rank change year-on-year +305 +119 -158
Permanent jobs citing SciPy 359 87 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.093% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.65% 0.32% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 351 74 174
10th Percentile £85,000 £66,375 £56,250
25th Percentile £107,500 £78,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £105,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -8.70% +35.29%
75th Percentile £148,750 £142,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £152,500 £145,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,001 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +45.46% -21.43% -12.50%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,805 27,260 70,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.38% 29.04% 41.39%
Number of salaries quoted 16,126 17,774 30,060
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SciPy in the UK

SciPy
Top 7 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 6 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +280 356 £135,000 +28.57% 30
London +308 353 £135,000 +22.73% 22
Work from Home +270 349 £135,000 +22.73% 17
UK excluding London -47 6 £80,001 +45.46% 11
Scotland -75 3 - - 1
East of England -15 2 £80,001 +45.46%
South West - 1 £62,500 -

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
1 347 (96.66%) Apache Airflow
2 340 (94.71%) Apache
3 6 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 355 (98.89%) AWS
2 347 (96.66%) dbt
3 300 (83.57%) Snowflake
4 175 (48.75%) GCP
5 20 (5.57%) Azure
6 12 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (2.51%) Dagster
8 2 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 347 (96.66%) Amazon Athena
1 347 (96.66%) Dremio
2 338 (94.15%) Apache Arrow
2 338 (94.15%) Apache Ignite
3 309 (86.07%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.11%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.84%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (0.28%) JIRA
General
1 349 (97.21%) Finance
2 347 (96.66%) Front Office
3 327 (91.09%) Banking
4 318 (88.58%) Investment Banking
5 3 (0.84%) Social Skills
6 2 (0.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 208 (57.94%) Software Engineer
2 150 (41.78%) Python Engineer
3 144 (40.11%) AWS Engineer
3 144 (40.11%) AWS Software Engineer
4 141 (39.28%) Python Software Engineer
5 132 (36.77%) Lead
6 115 (32.03%) Java Engineer
6 115 (32.03%) Java Software Engineer
7 105 (29.25%) Senior
8 104 (28.97%) Senior Software Engineer
9 99 (27.58%) Developer
10 96 (26.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 76 (21.17%) Software Developer
12 70 (19.50%) Senior Java Engineer
12 70 (19.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 66 (18.38%) Lead Developer
13 66 (18.38%) Lead Software Developer
13 66 (18.38%) Software Team Leader
13 66 (18.38%) Solutions Architect
13 66 (18.38%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (100.00%) NumPy
2 353 (98.33%) Pandas
3 338 (94.15%) gRPC
3 338 (94.15%) Protocol Buffers
4 23 (6.41%) PySpark
5 20 (5.57%) AngularJS
5 20 (5.57%) Node.js
5 20 (5.57%) React
5 20 (5.57%) Redux
5 20 (5.57%) Vue
6 7 (1.95%) scikit-learn
7 6 (1.67%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.84%) MLlib
8 3 (0.84%) MXNet
8 3 (0.84%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 338 (94.15%) Fixed Income
2 313 (87.19%) Equities
2 313 (87.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 313 (87.19%) Hedge funds
3 312 (86.91%) Derivative
4 48 (13.37%) Pricing Data
5 7 (1.95%) Algorithms
6 3 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (0.84%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.56%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (98.33%) Software Engineering
2 348 (96.94%) Agile
3 347 (96.66%) Asset Management
4 280 (77.99%) Investment Management
5 128 (35.65%) Greeks
6 124 (34.54%) Line Management
7 33 (9.19%) Analytics
8 29 (8.08%) Fintech
9 21 (5.85%) Performance Attribution
10 20 (5.57%) Credit Risk Analysis
11 16 (4.46%) Data Engineering
12 12 (3.34%) Data Architecture
12 12 (3.34%) Mentoring
12 12 (3.34%) Migration
12 12 (3.34%) Product Management
13 11 (3.06%) Machine Learning
14 6 (1.67%) Data Science
14 6 (1.67%) Mathematics
15 5 (1.39%) Artificial Intelligence
15 5 (1.39%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 359 (100.00%) Python
2 332 (92.48%) JavaScript
2 332 (92.48%) TypeScript
3 324 (90.25%) Java
4 12 (3.34%) Ruby
4 12 (3.34%) Scala
4 12 (3.34%) SQL
5 2 (0.56%) C
6 1 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (1.95%) Degree
2 5 (1.39%) PhD
3 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (35.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (0.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 12 (3.34%) Bloomberg
1 12 (3.34%) Reuters