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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 338 304
Rank change year-on-year -223 -34 +176
Contract jobs citing NumPy 76 167 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.61% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 2.38% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 130 228
10th Percentile £331 £413 £623
25th Percentile £375 £525 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
UK median daily rate £577 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -23.10% -6.25% +18.52%

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 9,826 7,020 8,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.48% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,471 4,762 5,262
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 170 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.57 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.37 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.66 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.20% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.83% -12.48% +4.17%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -157 64 £663 -11.67% 121
South East -73 7 £358 -17.82% 11
Midlands -43 3 £425 +14.29% 7
East Midlands - 3 £425 - 6
North West - 2 £650 - 5
North of England - 2 £650 - 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 9 (11.84%) Apache Spark
2 7 (9.21%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.58%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.95%) Apache
4 3 (3.95%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (7.89%) CPLEX
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.00%) AWS
1 19 (25.00%) Azure
2 8 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (10.53%) GCP
3 7 (9.21%) Amazon SageMaker
4 6 (7.89%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.58%) Amazon Neptune
6 4 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (5.26%) dbt
6 4 (5.26%) Serverless
6 4 (5.26%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Databricks
7 3 (3.95%) GitHub
7 3 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.37%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (13.16%) MongoDB
3 9 (11.84%) NoSQL
4 8 (10.53%) Neo4j
4 8 (10.53%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.89%) Big Data
6 3 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.63%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (2.63%) Power BI
7 2 (2.63%) Power Query
7 2 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.63%) Tableau
8 1 (1.32%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.32%) Kdb+
8 1 (1.32%) Looker
8 1 (1.32%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 25 (32.89%) Git
2 5 (6.58%) MLflow
3 3 (3.95%) Selenium
4 2 (2.63%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.63%) JIRA
5 1 (1.32%) GitLab
5 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (43.42%) Finance
2 18 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
4 12 (15.79%) Banking
5 9 (11.84%) Investment Banking
6 6 (7.89%) Publishing
7 5 (6.58%) Front Office
8 3 (3.95%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Advertising
10 1 (1.32%) Automotive
10 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.32%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 32 (42.11%) Developer
2 29 (38.16%) Python Developer
3 18 (23.68%) Data Scientist
4 13 (17.11%) Senior
5 7 (9.21%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Analyst
6 6 (7.89%) Kafka Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Senior Data Scientist
7 5 (6.58%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Senior Python Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Quantitative Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Associate Director
9 3 (3.95%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 2 (2.63%) Junior
10 2 (2.63%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
10 2 (2.63%) SQL Analyst
10 2 (2.63%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (92.11%) Pandas
2 27 (35.53%) FastAPI
3 26 (34.21%) scikit-learn
4 19 (25.00%) Flask
5 18 (23.68%) REST
6 17 (22.37%) PySpark
7 16 (21.05%) Django
8 15 (19.74%) Kafka
8 15 (19.74%) Polars
8 15 (19.74%) PyTorch
9 14 (18.42%) TensorFlow
10 11 (14.47%) pytest
10 11 (14.47%) SciPy
11 8 (10.53%) RESTful
12 6 (7.89%) Apache Avro
12 6 (7.89%) OpenAPI
12 6 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (7.89%) Swagger
13 5 (6.58%) Matplotlib
14 4 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.47%) Derivative
2 9 (11.84%) Algorithms
2 9 (11.84%) Data Structures
2 9 (11.84%) Equities
3 8 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (9.21%) Market Risk
5 6 (7.89%) Hedge funds
5 6 (7.89%) Management Information System
6 5 (6.58%) Fixed Income
7 4 (5.26%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (3.95%) Exotic Derivative
8 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
8 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.63%) Life Science
9 2 (2.63%) Robotics
9 2 (2.63%) SCADA
9 2 (2.63%) Self-Driving Car
9 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.84%) Linux
2 8 (10.53%) Unix
3 1 (1.32%) Android
3 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.32%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (50.00%) Analytics
2 37 (48.68%) Machine Learning
3 33 (43.42%) Data Science
4 32 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
5 30 (39.47%) AI
6 23 (30.26%) CI/CD
6 23 (30.26%) Containerisation
7 16 (21.05%) DevOps
8 15 (19.74%) Performance Optimisation
8 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (19.74%) Visualisation
9 14 (18.42%) Data Analysis
9 14 (18.42%) LLM
10 13 (17.11%) Data Transformation
10 13 (17.11%) Mathematics
10 13 (17.11%) Software Engineering
11 11 (14.47%) Agile
11 11 (14.47%) Data Engineering
11 11 (14.47%) Feature Engineering
11 11 (14.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 76 (100.00%) Python
2 44 (57.89%) SQL
3 7 (9.21%) Shell Script
4 5 (6.58%) C#
4 5 (6.58%) Cypher
4 5 (6.58%) Gremlin
5 4 (5.26%) Java
6 2 (2.63%) C++
6 2 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.63%) R
6 2 (2.63%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.63%) VBA
7 1 (1.32%) Bash
7 1 (1.32%) Bicep
7 1 (1.32%) C
7 1 (1.32%) Haskell
7 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) Degree
1 6 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.58%) Master's Degree
2 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) PhD
4 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (40.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (28.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.26%) Podman
3 2 (2.63%) Grafana
4 1 (1.32%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (9.21%) Databricks
2 3 (3.95%) Foundry
2 3 (3.95%) Palantir
3 2 (2.63%) Google
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.63%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.32%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle