NumPy Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

NumPy
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring NumPy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 89 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing NumPy 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.33% 0.17% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.71% 0.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £356 - -
25th Percentile £367 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% - -
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile £479 - -
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £660
% change year-on-year -2.50% -24.24% -34.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

NumPy 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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 351 245 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.06% 21.25% 16.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 170 156
10th Percentile £373 £367 £320
25th Percentile £414 £427 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £608
90th Percentile £649 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 16
10th Percentile £56.01 £39.64 £56.50
25th Percentile £73.25 £53.72 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £77.19 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +25.31% -21.53%
75th Percentile - £84.85 £62.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £89.44 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.46% -5.23%

NumPy
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NumPy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

NumPy job vacancy trend in Berkshire

NumPy
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing NumPy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing NumPy

NumPy
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NumPy in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NumPy in Berkshire

NumPy
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NumPy within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 March 2026. 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
Wokingham -37 4 £374 -25.25% 1
Reading - 1 - - 5
NumPy
South East

NumPy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Big Data
3 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Python Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Pandas
2 3 (50.00%) Django
2 3 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (50.00%) Flask
2 3 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (50.00%) Swagger
3 2 (33.33%) Jinja
3 2 (33.33%) Kafka
3 2 (33.33%) pytest
3 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (33.33%) scikit-learn
4 1 (16.67%) Plotly
4 1 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Algorithms
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) OOP
2 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Model Validation
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google