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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 360 430
Rank change year-on-year -39 +70 +106
Contract jobs citing NumPy 149 134 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.49% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.13% 2.25% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 124 114
10th Percentile £398 £510 £463
25th Percentile £462 £622 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -24.14% +3.57% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £64.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £66.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £65.50
% change year-on-year - - +19.09%

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 7,001 5,963 7,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.24% 21.83% 21.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,680 3,807 5,614
10th Percentile £356 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £636 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £784 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.58% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 68 161
10th Percentile £32.72 £26.25 £31.25
25th Percentile £45.00 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.60% +19.05% -19.23%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -5 121 £700 -6.67% 72
South East - 9 £500 - 42
Midlands -29 8 £451 -5.05% 15
West Midlands -32 8 £451 -5.05% 8
North of England - 7 £508 - 15
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 8
East of England -21 2 £450 -29.41% 15
South West - 1 £550 - 14
North East - 1 £500 - 1
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 38 (25.50%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (18.12%) Apache
3 15 (10.07%) Apache Spark
4 9 (6.04%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.01%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (5.37%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 80 (53.69%) AWS
2 38 (25.50%) Azure
3 35 (23.49%) dbt
4 30 (20.13%) GCP
5 24 (16.11%) Snowflake
6 17 (11.41%) Power Platform
7 11 (7.38%) GitHub
8 10 (6.71%) Azure AI
9 9 (6.04%) Serverless
10 8 (5.37%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.37%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (4.70%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (4.03%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (4.03%) Power Automate
13 5 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (2.01%) Anthropic Claude
15 3 (2.01%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.68%) Internet
2 3 (2.01%) SSH
2 3 (2.01%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.34%) DNS
3 2 (1.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.79%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (18.79%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (18.79%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (18.79%) Dremio
2 23 (15.44%) Data Lake
3 20 (13.42%) Apache Ignite
3 20 (13.42%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (10.07%) Relational Database
5 14 (9.40%) Power BI
6 12 (8.05%) NoSQL
7 11 (7.38%) Big Data
8 9 (6.04%) Hadoop
9 7 (4.70%) BigQuery
10 6 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (4.03%) MySQL
10 6 (4.03%) RDBMS
11 5 (3.36%) Pinecone
12 4 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.68%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.68%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 36 (24.16%) Git
2 14 (9.40%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.71%) MLflow
4 9 (6.04%) PyCharm
5 4 (2.68%) Poetry
5 4 (2.68%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (54.36%) Finance
2 54 (36.24%) Banking
3 44 (29.53%) Front Office
4 34 (22.82%) Social Skills
5 32 (21.48%) Investment Banking
6 19 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (8.05%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.68%) Legal
9 3 (2.01%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.01%) Marketing
10 2 (1.34%) Electronics
10 2 (1.34%) Retail
10 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.67%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.67%) Law
11 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (36.91%) Developer
2 48 (32.21%) Python Developer
3 41 (27.52%) Senior
4 37 (24.83%) Python Engineer
5 30 (20.13%) Software Engineer
6 29 (19.46%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (18.79%) AWS Software Engineer
7 28 (18.79%) Python Software Engineer
8 25 (16.78%) Data Scientist
9 20 (13.42%) AWS Developer
9 20 (13.42%) Java Engineer
9 20 (13.42%) Java Software Engineer
9 20 (13.42%) Senior Software Engineer
10 19 (12.75%) Senior Java Engineer
10 19 (12.75%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 15 (10.07%) Data Engineer
12 12 (8.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (8.05%) JavaScript Developer
13 11 (7.38%) Senior Developer
13 11 (7.38%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (95.30%) Pandas
2 53 (35.57%) SciPy
3 42 (28.19%) scikit-learn
4 27 (18.12%) TensorFlow
5 26 (17.45%) Flask
6 25 (16.78%) FastAPI
6 25 (16.78%) PyTorch
7 24 (16.11%) REST
8 21 (14.09%) React
9 20 (13.42%) AngularJS
9 20 (13.42%) gRPC
9 20 (13.42%) Protocol Buffers
9 20 (13.42%) Vue
10 14 (9.40%) Polars
11 13 (8.72%) LangChain
12 10 (6.71%) LangGraph
12 10 (6.71%) Node.js
12 10 (6.71%) Plotly
13 9 (6.04%) COM
13 9 (6.04%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 49 (32.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 44 (29.53%) Hedge funds
3 42 (28.19%) Equities
4 28 (18.79%) Fixed Income
5 23 (15.44%) Derivative
6 22 (14.77%) Algorithms
7 20 (13.42%) Pricing Data
8 4 (2.68%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.68%) Clustering
8 4 (2.68%) Online Banking
8 4 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.68%) Reinsurance
9 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.01%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.01%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.01%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.34%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.75%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (36.91%) Software Engineering
2 52 (34.90%) Machine Learning
3 50 (33.56%) Data Science
4 47 (31.54%) Agile
5 45 (30.20%) AI
6 43 (28.86%) Analytics
7 39 (26.17%) Data Engineering
8 34 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (20.13%) Asset Management
10 29 (19.46%) Investment Management
11 28 (18.79%) CI/CD
11 28 (18.79%) LLM
12 27 (18.12%) Generative AI
13 26 (17.45%) Data Analysis
13 26 (17.45%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (17.45%) Visualisation
14 24 (16.11%) Mathematics
14 24 (16.11%) Natural Language Processing
15 20 (13.42%) ETL
16 19 (12.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 149 (100.00%) Python
2 55 (36.91%) SQL
3 45 (30.20%) JavaScript
4 36 (24.16%) Java
5 28 (18.79%) TypeScript
6 20 (13.42%) C++
7 19 (12.75%) C#
8 13 (8.72%) Rust
9 9 (6.04%) VBA
10 5 (3.36%) Bash
11 4 (2.68%) Groovy
12 3 (2.01%) R
13 2 (1.34%) Ada
14 1 (0.67%) C
14 1 (0.67%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.67%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 23 (15.44%) Degree
2 19 (12.75%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.72%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.04%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.70%) MCP
5 7 (4.70%) PhD
6 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.34%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.34%) QA
System Software
1 28 (18.79%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (19.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.01%) Argo
2 3 (2.01%) Istio
2 3 (2.01%) Kubeflow
2 3 (2.01%) Terraform
3 1 (0.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (8.05%) Databricks
1 12 (8.05%) Google
1 12 (8.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.03%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.36%) Dataiku
3 5 (3.36%) Foundry
4 4 (2.68%) Alteryx
4 4 (2.68%) SAP
5 3 (2.01%) Automation Anywhere
5 3 (2.01%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.01%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.01%) UiPath
6 2 (1.34%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.34%) Cognos
6 2 (1.34%) IBM
6 2 (1.34%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.34%) Sage
7 1 (0.67%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.67%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle