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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 667 747
Rank change year-on-year +229 +80 -108
Contract jobs citing SciPy 142 27 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.047% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.59% 0.20% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 18 104
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 £650
90th Percentile - £799 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £463 £415
% change year-on-year -1.08% +11.45% -
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 8,906 13,255 23,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.94% 23.15% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,185 9,676 17,493
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 144 238
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.35
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.71
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.25 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +229 141 £800 +10.34% 31
London +210 136 £800 +10.34% 22
Work from Home +197 97 £800 +10.34% 11
UK excluding London +55 5 £458 -1.08% 15
East of England - 5 £458 - 2

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
1 109 (76.76%) Apache
1 109 (76.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 118 (83.10%) AWS
2 109 (76.76%) dbt
3 89 (62.68%) Snowflake
4 68 (47.89%) GCP
5 16 (11.27%) Azure
6 12 (8.45%) GitHub
7 11 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.70%) Dagster
8 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (76.76%) Amazon Athena
2 108 (76.06%) Apache Arrow
2 108 (76.06%) Apache Ignite
2 108 (76.06%) Dremio
3 89 (62.68%) Data Lake
4 12 (8.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.70%) Big Data
5 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.70%) Flink
5 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Git
2 4 (2.82%) Mercurial
3 1 (0.70%) Poetry
General
1 121 (85.21%) Finance
2 119 (83.80%) Front Office
3 101 (71.13%) Banking
3 101 (71.13%) Investment Banking
4 4 (2.82%) Multimedia
5 3 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.11%) Social Skills
6 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Games
7 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 70 (49.30%) Software Engineer
2 56 (39.44%) Developer
2 56 (39.44%) Python Engineer
3 46 (32.39%) Senior
4 44 (30.99%) Python Software Engineer
5 41 (28.87%) AWS Engineer
5 41 (28.87%) AWS Software Engineer
5 41 (28.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 39 (27.46%) Lead
7 34 (23.94%) Java Engineer
7 34 (23.94%) Java Software Engineer
7 34 (23.94%) Software Developer
8 31 (21.83%) Python Developer
9 30 (21.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 26 (18.31%) Architect
10 26 (18.31%) Lead Developer
10 26 (18.31%) Lead Software Engineer
10 26 (18.31%) Software Team Leader
10 26 (18.31%) Solutions Architect
10 26 (18.31%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (99.30%) NumPy
1 141 (99.30%) Pandas
2 108 (76.06%) gRPC
2 108 (76.06%) Protocol Buffers
3 12 (8.45%) React
4 7 (4.93%) AngularJS
4 7 (4.93%) Node.js
4 7 (4.93%) Redux
4 7 (4.93%) Vue
5 1 (0.70%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.70%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.70%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (0.70%) Plotly
5 1 (0.70%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.70%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 107 (75.35%) Derivative
2 106 (74.65%) Fixed Income
3 96 (67.61%) Hedge funds
4 95 (66.90%) Equities
4 95 (66.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (7.04%) Pricing Data
6 4 (2.82%) Social Media
7 2 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.41%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.82%) Windows
2 1 (0.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (83.80%) Software Engineering
2 108 (76.06%) Agile
2 108 (76.06%) Asset Management
3 82 (57.75%) Investment Management
4 48 (33.80%) Line Management
5 31 (21.83%) Greeks
6 25 (17.61%) Mathematics
7 19 (13.38%) Mathematical Modelling
8 17 (11.97%) Data Pipeline
9 16 (11.27%) Test Automation
10 15 (10.56%) Artificial Intelligence
11 13 (9.15%) Analytics
11 13 (9.15%) Computer Science
12 12 (8.45%) CI/CD
12 12 (8.45%) DevOps
13 11 (7.75%) Product Requirements
14 10 (7.04%) Backtesting
14 10 (7.04%) Decision Intelligence
15 9 (6.34%) Data Architecture
16 8 (5.63%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 142 (100.00%) Python
2 110 (77.46%) Java
3 109 (76.76%) JavaScript
4 105 (73.94%) TypeScript
5 16 (11.27%) C++
6 15 (10.56%) SQL
7 12 (8.45%) Rust
8 7 (4.93%) Ruby
8 7 (4.93%) Scala
9 4 (2.82%) C#
10 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (9.15%) Degree
2 4 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (22.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (0.70%) Google