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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 346 297
Rank change year-on-year -217 -49 +184
Contract jobs citing NumPy 79 172 241
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.62% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.80% 2.42% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 135 233
10th Percentile £349 £418 £638
25th Percentile £394 £531 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
UK median daily rate £589 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -21.53% -6.25% +23.08%

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 9,929 7,105 8,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.32% 25.53% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,522 4,828 5,354
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £445 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
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 281 169 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.54 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -12.60% +2.74%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% +2.67%

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 24 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 24 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 -158 65 £625 -16.67% 154
South East -66 9 £358 -17.82% 24
Midlands -47 3 £425 +14.29% 16
East Midlands - 3 £425 - 11
North West - 2 £650 - 12
North of England - 2 £650 - 23
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 (11.39%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (11.39%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.59%) Jupyter
3 3 (3.80%) Apache
3 3 (3.80%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) CPLEX
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 21 (26.58%) AWS
2 20 (25.32%) Azure
3 10 (12.66%) GCP
4 7 (8.86%) Amazon SageMaker
4 7 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.59%) Amazon S3
5 6 (7.59%) dbt
6 5 (6.33%) Amazon Neptune
7 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.06%) Serverless
7 4 (5.06%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.80%) Azure Databricks
8 3 (3.80%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.52%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (12.66%) MongoDB
3 9 (11.39%) NoSQL
3 9 (11.39%) Relational Database
4 8 (10.13%) Neo4j
5 6 (7.59%) Big Data
6 4 (5.06%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.53%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.53%) Power BI
8 2 (2.53%) Power Query
8 2 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (2.53%) Tableau
9 1 (1.27%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.27%) Kdb+
9 1 (1.27%) Looker
9 1 (1.27%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 24 (30.38%) Git
2 5 (6.33%) MLflow
3 3 (3.80%) Selenium
4 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.53%) JIRA
5 1 (1.27%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.27%) GitLab
5 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (41.77%) Finance
2 20 (25.32%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
4 11 (13.92%) Banking
5 8 (10.13%) Investment Banking
6 7 (8.86%) Publishing
7 5 (6.33%) Front Office
8 3 (3.80%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.27%) Advertising
10 1 (1.27%) Automotive
10 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.27%) Marketing
10 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (39.24%) Developer
2 29 (36.71%) Python Developer
3 19 (24.05%) Data Scientist
4 14 (17.72%) Senior
5 7 (8.86%) Analyst
5 7 (8.86%) Data Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Kafka Developer
5 7 (8.86%) Python Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Senior Data Scientist
7 5 (6.33%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Senior Python Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Quantitative Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Associate Director
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (92.41%) Pandas
2 27 (34.18%) FastAPI
3 26 (32.91%) scikit-learn
4 19 (24.05%) Flask
5 18 (22.78%) REST
6 16 (20.25%) Kafka
6 16 (20.25%) Polars
6 16 (20.25%) PySpark
7 15 (18.99%) Django
8 14 (17.72%) PyTorch
9 13 (16.46%) TensorFlow
10 11 (13.92%) pytest
10 11 (13.92%) SciPy
11 8 (10.13%) RESTful
12 7 (8.86%) Apache Avro
13 6 (7.59%) OpenAPI
13 6 (7.59%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (7.59%) Swagger
14 5 (6.33%) Matplotlib
15 4 (5.06%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Derivative
1 10 (12.66%) Equities
2 9 (11.39%) Algorithms
2 9 (11.39%) Data Structures
3 8 (10.13%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.13%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (8.86%) Hedge funds
4 7 (8.86%) Management Information System
5 6 (7.59%) Market Risk
6 5 (6.33%) Public Cloud
7 4 (5.06%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (5.06%) Fixed Income
7 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
8 3 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (3.80%) Exotic Derivative
9 2 (2.53%) Life Science
9 2 (2.53%) Robotics
9 2 (2.53%) SCADA
9 2 (2.53%) Self-Driving Car
10 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.13%) Linux
2 7 (8.86%) Unix
3 1 (1.27%) Android
3 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.27%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (50.63%) Machine Learning
2 38 (48.10%) Analytics
3 34 (43.04%) Data Science
4 33 (41.77%) Data Pipeline
5 30 (37.97%) AI
6 23 (29.11%) CI/CD
6 23 (29.11%) Containerisation
7 17 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (18.99%) DevOps
8 15 (18.99%) Visualisation
9 14 (17.72%) Data Analysis
9 14 (17.72%) Data Transformation
9 14 (17.72%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (16.46%) LLM
11 12 (15.19%) Feature Engineering
11 12 (15.19%) Mathematics
11 12 (15.19%) Software Engineering
12 11 (13.92%) Agile
12 11 (13.92%) Data Engineering
12 11 (13.92%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 79 (100.00%) Python
2 44 (55.70%) SQL
3 6 (7.59%) Shell Script
4 5 (6.33%) C#
4 5 (6.33%) Cypher
4 5 (6.33%) Gremlin
5 4 (5.06%) Java
6 2 (2.53%) C++
6 2 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.53%) R
6 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.53%) VBA
7 1 (1.27%) Bash
7 1 (1.27%) C
7 1 (1.27%) Haskell
7 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (7.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.33%) Degree
2 5 (6.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.06%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) QA
2 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (39.24%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (27.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.06%) Podman
3 3 (3.80%) Kubeflow
4 2 (2.53%) Grafana
5 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (8.86%) Databricks
2 4 (5.06%) Google
3 3 (3.80%) Foundry
3 3 (3.80%) Palantir
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.27%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle