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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 359 420
Rank change year-on-year -29 +61 +118
Contract jobs citing NumPy 157 147 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.52% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.22% 2.36% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 137 120
10th Percentile £400 £510 £463
25th Percentile £450 £638 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £770 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +10.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +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 7,059 6,242 7,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.20% 21.88% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,708 3,999 5,799
10th Percentile £352 £359 £363
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £632 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £505 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 75 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £45.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.26 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -3.20% +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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 -18 125 £700 -12.50% 128
South East - 14 £435 - 102
West Midlands -19 8 £451 -5.05% 33
Midlands -33 8 £451 -5.05% 76
North of England - 6 £516 - 87
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 43
East of England -26 2 £450 -28.00% 67
South West - 1 £550 - 49
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 41 (26.11%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (18.47%) Apache
3 14 (8.92%) Apache Spark
4 9 (5.73%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.27%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (5.10%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.64%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 90 (57.32%) AWS
2 43 (27.39%) Azure
3 38 (24.20%) dbt
4 32 (20.38%) GCP
5 26 (16.56%) Snowflake
6 17 (10.83%) Power Platform
7 14 (8.92%) Serverless
8 13 (8.28%) Amazon S3
9 11 (7.01%) Amazon SageMaker
9 11 (7.01%) GitHub
10 10 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.73%) Azure AI
11 9 (5.73%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (4.46%) Amazon Bedrock
12 7 (4.46%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (3.18%) ChatGPT
14 5 (3.18%) Power Automate
15 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) Internet
2 3 (1.91%) SSH
2 3 (1.91%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.27%) DNS
3 2 (1.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (23.57%) Amazon Athena
2 32 (20.38%) Apache Arrow
2 32 (20.38%) Apache Iceberg
2 32 (20.38%) Dremio
3 25 (15.92%) Data Lake
4 22 (14.01%) Apache Ignite
4 22 (14.01%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (9.55%) Big Data
5 15 (9.55%) Relational Database
6 14 (8.92%) Power BI
7 12 (7.64%) NoSQL
8 9 (5.73%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.82%) BigQuery
9 6 (3.82%) MySQL
9 6 (3.82%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.55%) Parquet
10 4 (2.55%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (23.57%) Git
2 14 (8.92%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.73%) PyCharm
4 8 (5.10%) MLflow
5 4 (2.55%) JIRA
5 4 (2.55%) Poetry
5 4 (2.55%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.91%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 82 (52.23%) Finance
2 56 (35.67%) Banking
3 48 (30.57%) Front Office
4 35 (22.29%) Investment Banking
5 33 (21.02%) Social Skills
6 18 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (8.28%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.55%) Legal
9 3 (1.91%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.91%) Marketing
10 2 (1.27%) Electronics
10 2 (1.27%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.64%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.64%) Law
11 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (36.94%) Developer
2 51 (32.48%) Python Developer
3 41 (26.11%) Python Engineer
3 41 (26.11%) Senior
4 34 (21.66%) Software Engineer
5 33 (21.02%) AWS Engineer
6 32 (20.38%) AWS Software Engineer
6 32 (20.38%) Python Software Engineer
7 31 (19.75%) Data Scientist
8 23 (14.65%) AWS Developer
9 22 (14.01%) Java Engineer
9 22 (14.01%) Java Software Engineer
9 22 (14.01%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (13.38%) Senior Java Engineer
10 21 (13.38%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 14 (8.92%) Data Engineer
12 13 (8.28%) JavaScript Developer
13 11 (7.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 10 (6.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 10 (6.37%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (94.90%) Pandas
2 58 (36.94%) SciPy
3 46 (29.30%) scikit-learn
4 28 (17.83%) PyTorch
5 27 (17.20%) Flask
6 26 (16.56%) TensorFlow
7 25 (15.92%) FastAPI
8 24 (15.29%) React
9 23 (14.65%) AngularJS
9 23 (14.65%) REST
9 23 (14.65%) Vue
10 22 (14.01%) gRPC
10 22 (14.01%) Protocol Buffers
11 15 (9.55%) Polars
12 13 (8.28%) Hugging Face
12 13 (8.28%) LangChain
13 12 (7.64%) Node.js
14 10 (6.37%) LangGraph
14 10 (6.37%) Plotly
15 9 (5.73%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 54 (34.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 47 (29.94%) Hedge funds
3 46 (29.30%) Equities
4 32 (20.38%) Fixed Income
5 25 (15.92%) Derivative
6 23 (14.65%) Algorithms
7 22 (14.01%) Pricing Data
8 4 (2.55%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.55%) Clustering
8 4 (2.55%) Online Banking
8 4 (2.55%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.91%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.91%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.91%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.91%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.64%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.74%) Linux
2 1 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (38.85%) Software Engineering
2 57 (36.31%) Machine Learning
3 56 (35.67%) Agile
4 55 (35.03%) Data Science
5 44 (28.03%) AI
6 42 (26.75%) Analytics
6 42 (26.75%) Data Engineering
7 34 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (21.02%) Asset Management
8 33 (21.02%) Investment Management
9 32 (20.38%) LLM
10 28 (17.83%) CI/CD
11 27 (17.20%) Visualisation
12 26 (16.56%) Data Analysis
13 25 (15.92%) Generative AI
13 25 (15.92%) Mathematics
14 23 (14.65%) Data Pipeline
14 23 (14.65%) Natural Language Processing
15 22 (14.01%) Clean Code
15 22 (14.01%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 157 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (35.67%) SQL
3 49 (31.21%) JavaScript
4 39 (24.84%) Java
5 32 (20.38%) TypeScript
6 21 (13.38%) C++
7 20 (12.74%) C#
8 14 (8.92%) Rust
9 9 (5.73%) VBA
10 5 (3.18%) Bash
11 4 (2.55%) Groovy
12 3 (1.91%) R
13 2 (1.27%) Ada
14 1 (0.64%) C
14 1 (0.64%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.64%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 22 (14.01%) Degree
2 20 (12.74%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.28%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.73%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.46%) MCP
5 7 (4.46%) PhD
6 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.55%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 28 (17.83%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (18.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.91%) Argo
2 3 (1.91%) Istio
2 3 (1.91%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.91%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (8.28%) Google
2 12 (7.64%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.01%) Databricks
4 5 (3.18%) Dataiku
4 5 (3.18%) Foundry
4 5 (3.18%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.18%) Sage
5 4 (2.55%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.55%) SAP
6 3 (1.91%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.91%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.27%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.27%) Cognos
7 2 (1.27%) IBM
7 2 (1.27%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.27%) UiPath
8 1 (0.64%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.64%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle