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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 352 438
Rank change year-on-year -68 +86 +108
Contract jobs citing NumPy 136 134 121
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.52% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.85% 2.31% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 121 109
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 £650
% change year-on-year -19.54% +3.85% -
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 7,344 5,793 7,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.86% 22.41% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,918 3,715 5,598
10th Percentile £358 £363 £355
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £662
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 201 74 181
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.33 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.44 £45.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.25 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £76.49 £77.50
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 10 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 10 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 -37 114 £650 -13.33% 44
North of England -55 8 £516 -6.14% 25
South East -17 6 £488 - 22
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 9
West Midlands -44 4 £506 +6.53% 4
Midlands -52 4 £506 +6.53% 14
East of England -28 2 £450 -30.77% 9
North West -27 1 £575 +4.55% 12
North East - 1 £500 - 4
South West - 1 £550 - 7
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 (16.91%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (11.03%) Apache
3 12 (8.82%) Apache Spark
4 10 (7.35%) Jupyter
5 8 (5.88%) Appian
6 1 (0.74%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.74%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 62 (45.59%) AWS
2 44 (32.35%) Azure
3 22 (16.18%) GCP
4 19 (13.97%) dbt
5 17 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 15 (11.03%) Azure AI
7 12 (8.82%) Snowflake
8 11 (8.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (8.09%) Power Automate
9 10 (7.35%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (6.62%) GitHub
10 9 (6.62%) Serverless
11 8 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (4.41%) Amazon S3
14 5 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
15 3 (2.21%) Azure Functions
15 3 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (2.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.29%) Power BI
3 13 (9.56%) Relational Database
4 12 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (8.82%) Apache Arrow
4 12 (8.82%) Apache Iceberg
4 12 (8.82%) Dremio
4 12 (8.82%) NoSQL
5 11 (8.09%) Data Lake
6 9 (6.62%) Pinecone
7 8 (5.88%) Apache Ignite
7 8 (5.88%) Big Data
7 8 (5.88%) SQL Server
8 7 (5.15%) BigQuery
9 6 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.41%) Hadoop
9 6 (4.41%) MySQL
9 6 (4.41%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (22.79%) Git
2 14 (10.29%) MLflow
3 11 (8.09%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.41%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.74%) Poetry
5 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 70 (51.47%) Finance
2 41 (30.15%) Banking
3 37 (27.21%) Social Skills
4 29 (21.32%) Front Office
5 22 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (13.24%) Investment Banking
7 10 (7.35%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.94%) Legal
9 3 (2.21%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.21%) Marketing
10 2 (1.47%) Electronics
10 2 (1.47%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.47%) Retail
10 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.74%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (37.50%) Developer
2 43 (31.62%) Python Developer
3 34 (25.00%) Senior
4 28 (20.59%) Data Scientist
5 21 (15.44%) Python Engineer
6 16 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 14 (10.29%) Data Engineer
7 14 (10.29%) Software Engineer
8 13 (9.56%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (9.56%) Senior Developer
8 13 (9.56%) Senior Python Developer
9 12 (8.82%) AWS Developer
9 12 (8.82%) AWS Software Engineer
9 12 (8.82%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (6.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 9 (6.62%) RAD Developer
11 8 (5.88%) Java Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
11 8 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (94.85%) Pandas
2 49 (36.03%) scikit-learn
3 34 (25.00%) TensorFlow
4 32 (23.53%) PyTorch
4 32 (23.53%) SciPy
5 29 (21.32%) REST
6 27 (19.85%) FastAPI
7 24 (17.65%) Flask
8 16 (11.76%) Django
9 15 (11.03%) Hugging Face
10 13 (9.56%) LangChain
10 13 (9.56%) React
10 13 (9.56%) Web Services
11 12 (8.82%) AngularJS
11 12 (8.82%) Vue
12 11 (8.09%) pytest
13 10 (7.35%) LangGraph
13 10 (7.35%) Plotly
13 10 (7.35%) Polars
14 9 (6.62%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (20.59%) Hedge funds
3 27 (19.85%) Equities
4 24 (17.65%) Algorithms
5 15 (11.03%) Fixed Income
6 12 (8.82%) Derivative
7 8 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (5.88%) Low-Code
7 8 (5.88%) Pricing Data
8 4 (2.94%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.94%) Clustering
8 4 (2.94%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.94%) Online Banking
8 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.94%) Reinsurance
9 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.21%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.09%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (44.12%) Machine Learning
2 53 (38.97%) AI
2 53 (38.97%) Data Science
3 45 (33.09%) Analytics
4 38 (27.94%) Data Engineering
5 37 (27.21%) Data Pipeline
6 35 (25.74%) Software Engineering
7 33 (24.26%) Generative AI
8 31 (22.79%) CI/CD
8 31 (22.79%) Natural Language Processing
9 30 (22.06%) Data Analysis
9 30 (22.06%) LLM
10 29 (21.32%) Agile
10 29 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (19.12%) Visualisation
12 24 (17.65%) MLOps
13 23 (16.91%) ETL
14 22 (16.18%) Mathematics
15 19 (13.97%) Data Modelling
16 18 (13.24%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 136 (100.00%) Python
2 63 (46.32%) SQL
3 26 (19.12%) JavaScript
4 20 (14.71%) Java
5 16 (11.76%) C++
6 15 (11.03%) C#
7 12 (8.82%) TypeScript
8 9 (6.62%) Rust
8 9 (6.62%) VBA
9 2 (1.47%) Ada
9 2 (1.47%) 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 (16.18%) Degree
2 18 (13.24%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.82%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.62%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.41%) PhD
6 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.21%) QA
3 2 (1.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (22.06%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (22.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.21%) Kubeflow
2 3 (2.21%) Terraform
3 1 (0.74%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (9.56%) Databricks
1 13 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.82%) Google
2 12 (8.82%) OpenAI
3 8 (5.88%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (5.88%) UiPath
4 5 (3.68%) Dataiku
4 5 (3.68%) Foundry
5 4 (2.94%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.94%) SAP
6 3 (2.21%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.21%) Cognos
6 3 (2.21%) IBM
6 3 (2.21%) Sage
7 2 (1.47%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.74%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.74%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle
8 1 (0.74%) Reuters