NumPy Contract Job Trends in Central London

NumPy
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring NumPy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 132 137
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 +66
Contract jobs citing NumPy 12 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.60% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.67% 0.69% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £613 - £372
25th Percentile £650 £775 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £800 £573
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +39.74% +6.51%
75th Percentile £738 £825 £724
90th Percentile £779 - £815
London median daily rate £725 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.34% +16.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 449 582 635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.60% 24.73% 23.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 355 449
10th Percentile £361 £413 £411
25th Percentile £436 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £755 £833 £825
London median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.65% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £44.38 £27.67 -
25th Percentile £47.19 £31.07 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £41.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £53.75
% change year-on-year +12.82% -9.30% -17.31%

NumPy
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

NumPy job vacancy trend in Central London

NumPy
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing NumPy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing NumPy

NumPy
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NumPy in Central London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NumPy in Central London

NumPy
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NumPy within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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
City of London +9 9 £725 -9.38% 3
NumPy
London

NumPy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Power Platform
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (25.00%) Serverless
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (16.67%) IBM Watson
6 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Power BI
2 2 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 7 (58.33%) Banking
3 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Front Office
4 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Quantitative Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Data Scientist
4 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) Pandas
2 9 (75.00%) scikit-learn
3 3 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 3 (25.00%) SciPy
3 3 (25.00%) TensorFlow
4 2 (16.67%) Matplotlib
4 2 (16.67%) Seaborn
5 1 (8.33%) LangChain
5 1 (8.33%) LangGraph
5 1 (8.33%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 3 (25.00%) Derivative
2 3 (25.00%) Equities
2 3 (25.00%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (8.33%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) AI
1 9 (75.00%) Analytics
1 9 (75.00%) Data Science
2 8 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 6 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 6 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (33.33%) Deep Learning
5 4 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
6 3 (25.00%) Benchmarking
6 3 (25.00%) Black-Scholes
6 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) Greeks
6 3 (25.00%) Mathematics
6 3 (25.00%) Monte Carlo Method
6 3 (25.00%) Regression Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) C++
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (25.00%) PhD
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Cognos
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) Sage
3 1 (8.33%) Alteryx
3 1 (8.33%) Foundry