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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 345 287
Rank change year-on-year -185 -58 +197
Contract jobs citing NumPy 86 168 265
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.61% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% 2.46% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 129 254
10th Percentile £349 £433 £675
25th Percentile £441 £538 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £741 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
UK median daily rate £594 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -20.77% -6.25% +28.00%

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 9,788 6,843 8,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.84% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,447 4,702 5,580
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 164 185
10th Percentile £29.35 £31.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -13.04% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.72 £75.00 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.83%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -156 69 £700 -6.67% 125
South East -61 10 £358 -18.29% 23
Midlands -49 3 £425 +14.29% 15
East Midlands - 3 £425 - 12
North of England - 2 £650 - 21
South West -32 1 £575 +35.29% 11
North West - 1 £650 - 12
Yorkshire - 1 - - 5
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 11 (12.79%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (10.47%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.81%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.49%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.16%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (9.30%) CPLEX
2 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.91%) Azure
2 23 (26.74%) AWS
3 11 (12.79%) GCP
4 9 (10.47%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.81%) dbt
7 4 (4.65%) Amazon Neptune
7 4 (4.65%) Dagster
7 4 (4.65%) GitHub
7 4 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.49%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.49%) Serverless
9 2 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.44%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (15.12%) MongoDB
2 13 (15.12%) Relational Database
3 11 (12.79%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.14%) Big Data
4 7 (8.14%) Neo4j
5 4 (4.65%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.49%) Power BI
6 3 (3.49%) Tableau
7 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.33%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.33%) Power Query
7 2 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.16%) KDB
8 1 (1.16%) Kdb+
8 1 (1.16%) Looker
Development Applications
1 23 (26.74%) Git
2 9 (10.47%) MLflow
3 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.16%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.16%) GitLab
4 1 (1.16%) JIRA
4 1 (1.16%) Selenium
4 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (43.02%) Finance
2 24 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.12%) Banking
3 13 (15.12%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.47%) Publishing
5 8 (9.30%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.81%) Front Office
7 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.49%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.33%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Advertising
10 1 (1.16%) Aviation
10 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.16%) Marketing
10 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.16%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 41 (47.67%) Developer
2 39 (45.35%) Python Developer
3 22 (25.58%) Data Scientist
4 13 (15.12%) Senior
5 9 (10.47%) Kafka Developer
6 7 (8.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.14%) Senior Python Developer
7 6 (6.98%) Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Senior Data Scientist
9 3 (3.49%) Associate Director
9 3 (3.49%) Quantitative Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) Senior Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (94.19%) Pandas
2 31 (36.05%) scikit-learn
3 30 (34.88%) FastAPI
4 25 (29.07%) Flask
5 20 (23.26%) Django
6 19 (22.09%) Kafka
6 19 (22.09%) REST
7 18 (20.93%) Polars
8 15 (17.44%) PyTorch
9 14 (16.28%) PySpark
9 14 (16.28%) TensorFlow
10 10 (11.63%) pytest
10 10 (11.63%) RESTful
10 10 (11.63%) SciPy
11 9 (10.47%) Apache Avro
12 8 (9.30%) OpenAPI
12 8 (9.30%) Swagger
13 7 (8.14%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (8.14%) Seaborn
14 6 (6.98%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.44%) Equities
2 14 (16.28%) Algorithms
3 12 (13.95%) Data Structures
3 12 (13.95%) Derivative
4 10 (11.63%) Hedge funds
5 9 (10.47%) Management Information System
6 8 (9.30%) Cloud Native
6 8 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (6.98%) Market Risk
8 5 (5.81%) Equity Derivative
8 5 (5.81%) Fixed Income
8 5 (5.81%) Public Cloud
9 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
10 3 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (3.49%) Exotic Derivative
11 2 (2.33%) Life Science
11 2 (2.33%) SCADA
12 1 (1.16%) Credit Derivative
12 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
12 1 (1.16%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.14%) Linux
2 6 (6.98%) Unix
3 1 (1.16%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (46.51%) Machine Learning
2 38 (44.19%) Analytics
2 38 (44.19%) Data Science
3 36 (41.86%) Data Pipeline
4 29 (33.72%) Containerisation
5 28 (32.56%) CI/CD
6 23 (26.74%) AI
7 19 (22.09%) Visualisation
8 18 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (18.60%) Performance Optimisation
10 15 (17.44%) Data Engineering
10 15 (17.44%) Data Transformation
10 15 (17.44%) DevOps
11 14 (16.28%) Data Analysis
11 14 (16.28%) Mathematics
12 13 (15.12%) Decision-Making
12 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
13 12 (13.95%) Feature Engineering
14 11 (12.79%) Agile
14 11 (12.79%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 86 (100.00%) Python
2 45 (52.33%) SQL
3 7 (8.14%) C#
4 6 (6.98%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.65%) Cypher
5 4 (4.65%) Gremlin
5 4 (4.65%) Java
6 3 (3.49%) C++
6 3 (3.49%) R
7 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.33%) VBA
8 1 (1.16%) Bash
8 1 (1.16%) C
8 1 (1.16%) Haskell
8 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (11.63%) Degree
2 9 (10.47%) Master's Degree
3 8 (9.30%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.65%) PhD
6 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.49%) QA
2 1 (1.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 35 (40.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (25.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.65%) Kubeflow
3 3 (3.49%) Podman
4 1 (1.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (9.30%) Databricks
2 5 (5.81%) Google
2 5 (5.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.49%) Foundry
3 3 (3.49%) Palantir
4 1 (1.16%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.16%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.16%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.16%) Reuters