SciPy Contracts in England

SciPy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SciPy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SciPy over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 605 655
Rank change year-on-year +271 +50 -39
Contract jobs citing SciPy 218 32 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.068% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.76% 0.30% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 22 120
10th Percentile £621 £429 £538
25th Percentile £750 £518 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £888 £788 £713
90th Percentile - - £750
UK median daily rate £800 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +28.00% +4.17% -
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 median hourly rate £62.50 - £61.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

SciPy 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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,911 10,638 18,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.20% 22.55% 26.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,508 7,917 14,165
10th Percentile £350 £386 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.75%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 137 205
10th Percentile £23.80 £30.45 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.25 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +26.83% +13.89%

SciPy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SciPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SciPy in England

SciPy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SciPy in England

SciPy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SciPy in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SciPy in England

SciPy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SciPy in England

SciPy
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SciPy within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +259 211 £800 +10.34% 25
East of England - 5 £458 -
North of England +27 2 £460 -11.54%
Yorkshire +14 1 £400 -
North West +11 1 £520 -
SciPy
UK

SciPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 180 (82.57%) Apache Airflow
2 174 (79.82%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 191 (87.61%) AWS
2 180 (82.57%) dbt
3 155 (71.10%) Snowflake
4 110 (50.46%) GCP
5 23 (10.55%) Azure
6 16 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (7.34%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (5.05%) GitHub
8 6 (2.75%) Dagster
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.46%) AWS CodeCommit
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.46%) Cloud9 IDE
9 1 (0.46%) Serverless
9 1 (0.46%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (82.57%) Amazon Athena
1 180 (82.57%) Dremio
2 174 (79.82%) Apache Arrow
2 174 (79.82%) Apache Ignite
3 161 (73.85%) Data Lake
4 13 (5.96%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Git
1 4 (1.83%) Mercurial
General
1 198 (90.83%) Finance
2 196 (89.91%) Front Office
3 171 (78.44%) Banking
4 164 (75.23%) Investment Banking
5 4 (1.83%) Multimedia
6 3 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.38%) Social Skills
7 2 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Games
Job Titles
1 112 (51.38%) Software Engineer
2 90 (41.28%) Python Engineer
3 79 (36.24%) Developer
4 73 (33.49%) AWS Engineer
4 73 (33.49%) AWS Software Engineer
4 73 (33.49%) Python Software Engineer
4 73 (33.49%) Senior
5 64 (29.36%) Lead
6 60 (27.52%) Java Engineer
6 60 (27.52%) Java Software Engineer
7 59 (27.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 54 (24.77%) Senior Software Engineer
9 51 (23.39%) Software Developer
10 47 (21.56%) Python Developer
11 45 (20.64%) Lead Developer
12 44 (20.18%) Architect
12 44 (20.18%) Lead Software Engineer
12 44 (20.18%) Software Team Leader
12 44 (20.18%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (20.18%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (100.00%) NumPy
2 217 (99.54%) Pandas
3 174 (79.82%) gRPC
3 174 (79.82%) Protocol Buffers
4 18 (8.26%) PySpark
5 15 (6.88%) React
6 11 (5.05%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.59%) Node.js
7 10 (4.59%) Redux
7 10 (4.59%) Vue
8 2 (0.92%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.92%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.46%) Flask
9 1 (0.46%) HTML
9 1 (0.46%) Kafka
9 1 (0.46%) NLTK
9 1 (0.46%) OpenCV
9 1 (0.46%) pydantic
9 1 (0.46%) Pyramid
9 1 (0.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 176 (80.73%) Fixed Income
2 173 (79.36%) Derivative
3 163 (74.77%) Hedge funds
4 161 (73.85%) Equities
4 161 (73.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 22 (10.09%) Pricing Data
6 4 (1.83%) Social Media
7 2 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.92%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.83%) Windows
2 1 (0.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (88.53%) Software Engineering
2 180 (82.57%) Agile
2 180 (82.57%) Asset Management
3 121 (55.50%) Investment Management
4 84 (38.53%) Line Management
5 49 (22.48%) Greeks
6 22 (10.09%) Mathematics
7 18 (8.26%) Mathematical Modelling
8 16 (7.34%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (7.34%) Fintech
8 16 (7.34%) Migration
9 15 (6.88%) Analytics
9 15 (6.88%) Artificial Intelligence
9 15 (6.88%) Test Automation
10 13 (5.96%) Computer Science
11 11 (5.05%) CI/CD
11 11 (5.05%) DevOps
11 11 (5.05%) Product Requirements
12 10 (4.59%) Backtesting
12 10 (4.59%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 218 (100.00%) Python
2 179 (82.11%) Java
3 176 (80.73%) JavaScript
4 171 (78.44%) TypeScript
5 35 (16.06%) SQL
6 15 (6.88%) C++
7 12 (5.50%) Rust
8 6 (2.75%) Ruby
8 6 (2.75%) Scala
9 4 (1.83%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (5.96%) Degree
2 5 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.46%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (22.48%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 16 (7.34%) Bloomberg
1 16 (7.34%) Reuters
2 1 (0.46%) Google
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle