NumPy Contract Job Trends in the City of London

NumPy
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring NumPy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - 152
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Contract jobs citing NumPy 6 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% - 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% - 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile - - £394
25th Percentile £525 - £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £594
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.85%
75th Percentile £613 - £706
90th Percentile £639 - £794
Central London median daily rate £563 £863 £594
% change year-on-year -34.78% +45.26% +15.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 439 492 830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.72% 23.96% 26.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 325 548
10th Percentile £404 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £505 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £614
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -2.24% +2.29%
75th Percentile £675 £719 £738
90th Percentile £763 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £25.79 £53.00
% change year-on-year +142.34% -51.34% +11.58%

NumPy
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing NumPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for NumPy in the City of London

NumPy
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NumPy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NumPy

NumPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AI
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Advertising
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Pandas
2 3 (50.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (33.33%) Django
3 2 (33.33%) Flask
4 1 (16.67%) Kafka
4 1 (16.67%) LangChain
4 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
4 1 (16.67%) OAuth
4 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
4 1 (16.67%) OpenID
4 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
4 1 (16.67%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Science
1 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Financial Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) MLOps
4 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Alteryx
1 1 (16.67%) Foundry