SciPy Contracts

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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 662 727
Rank change year-on-year +242 +65 -78
Contract jobs citing SciPy 173 26 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.047% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% 0.20% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 18 109
10th Percentile £619 £418 -
25th Percentile £750 £613 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -
75th Percentile £888 £788 £675
90th Percentile - £799 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £463 £533
% change year-on-year -1.08% -13.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - £58.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £61.50
75th Percentile £66.25 - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 9,170 12,773 23,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.91% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,339 9,318 17,450
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 150 223
10th Percentile £22.05 £30.68 £23.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £67.43
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.33 £76.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 7 June 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 7 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +230 172 £800 +10.34% 29
London +224 167 £800 +10.34% 19
Work from Home +234 125 £800 +10.34% 15
UK excluding London +57 5 £458 -1.08% 13
East of England - 5 £458 -

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
1 138 (79.77%) Apache Airflow
2 135 (78.03%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 147 (84.97%) AWS
2 138 (79.77%) dbt
3 116 (67.05%) Snowflake
4 83 (47.98%) GCP
5 19 (10.98%) Azure
6 11 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.36%) GitHub
7 4 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.73%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (79.77%) Amazon Athena
1 138 (79.77%) Dremio
2 135 (78.03%) Apache Arrow
2 135 (78.03%) Apache Ignite
3 119 (68.79%) Data Lake
4 12 (6.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Git
1 4 (2.31%) Mercurial
General
1 153 (88.44%) Finance
2 151 (87.28%) Front Office
3 128 (73.99%) Banking
4 125 (72.25%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.31%) Multimedia
6 3 (1.73%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.73%) Social Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Games
8 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 88 (50.87%) Software Engineer
2 73 (42.20%) Python Engineer
3 64 (36.99%) Developer
4 59 (34.10%) Senior
5 58 (33.53%) Python Software Engineer
6 55 (31.79%) AWS Engineer
6 55 (31.79%) AWS Software Engineer
7 48 (27.75%) Lead
8 47 (27.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 45 (26.01%) Java Engineer
9 45 (26.01%) Java Software Engineer
10 42 (24.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 39 (22.54%) Software Developer
12 38 (21.97%) Python Developer
13 32 (18.50%) Architect
13 32 (18.50%) Lead Software Developer
13 32 (18.50%) Lead Software Engineer
13 32 (18.50%) Software Team Leader
13 32 (18.50%) Solutions Architect
13 32 (18.50%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (100.00%) NumPy
2 172 (99.42%) Pandas
3 135 (78.03%) gRPC
3 135 (78.03%) Protocol Buffers
4 15 (8.67%) React
5 11 (6.36%) AngularJS
6 10 (5.78%) Node.js
6 10 (5.78%) Redux
6 10 (5.78%) Vue
7 6 (3.47%) PySpark
8 1 (0.58%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 137 (79.19%) Fixed Income
2 134 (77.46%) Derivative
3 124 (71.68%) Hedge funds
4 122 (70.52%) Equities
4 122 (70.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (9.25%) Pricing Data
6 4 (2.31%) Social Media
7 2 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.16%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.31%) Windows
2 1 (0.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (86.13%) Software Engineering
2 138 (79.77%) Agile
2 138 (79.77%) Asset Management
3 103 (59.54%) Investment Management
4 60 (34.68%) Line Management
5 40 (23.12%) Greeks
6 24 (13.87%) Mathematics
7 19 (10.98%) Mathematical Modelling
8 16 (9.25%) Data Pipeline
9 15 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence
9 15 (8.67%) Test Automation
10 13 (7.51%) Analytics
10 13 (7.51%) Computer Science
10 13 (7.51%) Fintech
11 11 (6.36%) CI/CD
11 11 (6.36%) DevOps
11 11 (6.36%) Product Requirements
12 10 (5.78%) Backtesting
12 10 (5.78%) Decision Intelligence
12 10 (5.78%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 173 (100.00%) Python
2 137 (79.19%) Java
3 136 (78.61%) JavaScript
4 132 (76.30%) TypeScript
5 18 (10.40%) SQL
6 16 (9.25%) C++
7 12 (6.94%) Rust
8 6 (3.47%) Ruby
8 6 (3.47%) Scala
9 4 (2.31%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (7.51%) Degree
2 4 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (23.12%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (2.31%) Bloomberg
1 4 (2.31%) Reuters
2 1 (0.58%) Google