NumPy Contract Job Trends in England

NumPy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring NumPy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 347 430
Rank change year-on-year -67 +83 +108
Contract jobs citing NumPy 135 134 120
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.52% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.86% 2.30% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 121 108
10th Percentile £405 £510 £463
25th Percentile £463 £613 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £806 £850 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 -
UK median daily rate £543 £675 £644
% change year-on-year -19.54% +4.85% -0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.38
90th Percentile - - £66.60
UK median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,262 5,823 7,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.82% 22.38% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,871 3,732 5,612
10th Percentile £358 £363 £355
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 75 182
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.35 £25.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £47.38 £45.96
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £76.26 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

NumPy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

NumPy job vacancy trend in England

NumPy
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NumPy

NumPy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NumPy in England over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NumPy in England

NumPy
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NumPy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NumPy

NumPy
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 NumPy within the England region over the 6 months to 9 February 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
London -38 113 £650 -13.33% 42
North of England -47 8 £516 -6.14% 25
South East -21 6 £488 - 23
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 9
Midlands -44 4 £506 +6.53% 14
West Midlands -45 4 £506 +6.53% 4
East of England -30 2 £450 -30.77% 8
North West -22 1 £575 +4.55% 12
South West - 1 £550 - 7
North East - 1 £500 - 4
NumPy
UK

NumPy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 23 (17.04%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (11.11%) Apache
3 12 (8.89%) Apache Spark
4 10 (7.41%) Jupyter
5 7 (5.19%) Appian
6 1 (0.74%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (5.93%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.74%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 62 (45.93%) AWS
2 43 (31.85%) Azure
3 22 (16.30%) GCP
4 19 (14.07%) dbt
5 17 (12.59%) Power Platform
6 14 (10.37%) Azure AI
7 12 (8.89%) Snowflake
8 10 (7.41%) Amazon SageMaker
8 10 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (7.41%) Power Automate
9 9 (6.67%) GitHub
9 9 (6.67%) Serverless
10 8 (5.93%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (5.19%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (4.44%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.37%) Power BI
3 13 (9.63%) Relational Database
4 12 (8.89%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (8.89%) Apache Arrow
4 12 (8.89%) Apache Iceberg
4 12 (8.89%) Dremio
4 12 (8.89%) NoSQL
5 11 (8.15%) Data Lake
6 8 (5.93%) Apache Ignite
6 8 (5.93%) Big Data
6 8 (5.93%) Pinecone
7 7 (5.19%) BigQuery
7 7 (5.19%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.44%) Hadoop
8 6 (4.44%) MySQL
8 6 (4.44%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (22.96%) Git
2 13 (9.63%) MLflow
3 11 (8.15%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.44%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.74%) Poetry
5 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 69 (51.11%) Finance
2 41 (30.37%) Banking
3 36 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 29 (21.48%) Front Office
5 22 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (13.33%) Investment Banking
7 10 (7.41%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.96%) Legal
9 3 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.22%) Marketing
10 2 (1.48%) Electronics
10 2 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.48%) Retail
10 2 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.74%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (37.78%) Developer
2 43 (31.85%) Python Developer
3 34 (25.19%) Senior
4 28 (20.74%) Data Scientist
5 21 (15.56%) Python Engineer
6 15 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 14 (10.37%) Data Engineer
7 14 (10.37%) Software Engineer
8 13 (9.63%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (9.63%) Senior Developer
8 13 (9.63%) Senior Python Developer
9 12 (8.89%) AWS Developer
9 12 (8.89%) AWS Software Engineer
9 12 (8.89%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) RAD Developer
11 8 (5.93%) Java Engineer
11 8 (5.93%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (5.93%) JavaScript Developer
11 8 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (94.81%) Pandas
2 48 (35.56%) scikit-learn
3 33 (24.44%) TensorFlow
4 32 (23.70%) SciPy
5 31 (22.96%) PyTorch
6 28 (20.74%) REST
7 26 (19.26%) FastAPI
8 23 (17.04%) Flask
9 15 (11.11%) Django
10 14 (10.37%) Hugging Face
11 13 (9.63%) LangChain
11 13 (9.63%) React
12 12 (8.89%) AngularJS
12 12 (8.89%) Vue
12 12 (8.89%) Web Services
13 10 (7.41%) LangGraph
13 10 (7.41%) Plotly
13 10 (7.41%) Polars
13 10 (7.41%) pytest
14 9 (6.67%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (20.74%) Hedge funds
3 27 (20.00%) Equities
4 24 (17.78%) Algorithms
5 15 (11.11%) Fixed Income
6 12 (8.89%) Derivative
7 8 (5.93%) Pricing Data
8 7 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (5.19%) Low-Code
9 4 (2.96%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.96%) Clustering
9 4 (2.96%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.96%) Online Banking
9 4 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.96%) Reinsurance
10 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.22%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.15%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (43.70%) Machine Learning
2 53 (39.26%) Data Science
3 52 (38.52%) AI
4 45 (33.33%) Analytics
5 37 (27.41%) Data Engineering
6 36 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
7 35 (25.93%) Software Engineering
8 32 (23.70%) Generative AI
9 30 (22.22%) CI/CD
9 30 (22.22%) Data Analysis
9 30 (22.22%) Natural Language Processing
10 29 (21.48%) Agile
10 29 (21.48%) LLM
10 29 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (19.26%) Visualisation
12 23 (17.04%) MLOps
13 22 (16.30%) ETL
13 22 (16.30%) Mathematics
14 18 (13.33%) Data Modelling
15 17 (12.59%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 135 (100.00%) Python
2 62 (45.93%) SQL
3 26 (19.26%) JavaScript
4 20 (14.81%) Java
5 16 (11.85%) C++
6 15 (11.11%) C#
7 12 (8.89%) TypeScript
8 9 (6.67%) Rust
8 9 (6.67%) VBA
9 2 (1.48%) Ada
9 2 (1.48%) R
10 1 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.74%) C
10 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.74%) SHACL
10 1 (0.74%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.74%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 22 (16.30%) Degree
2 18 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.89%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.44%) PhD
6 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.22%) QA
3 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (21.48%) Docker
2 2 (1.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (21.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.22%) Kubeflow
2 3 (2.22%) Terraform
3 1 (0.74%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (9.63%) Databricks
1 13 (9.63%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.89%) Google
3 11 (8.15%) OpenAI
4 7 (5.19%) Automation Anywhere
4 7 (5.19%) UiPath
5 5 (3.70%) Dataiku
5 5 (3.70%) Foundry
6 4 (2.96%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.96%) SAP
7 3 (2.22%) Bloomberg
7 3 (2.22%) Cognos
7 3 (2.22%) IBM
7 3 (2.22%) Sage
8 2 (1.48%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.74%) DataRobot
9 1 (0.74%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle
9 1 (0.74%) Reuters