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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 361 423
Rank change year-on-year -41 +62 +122
Contract jobs citing NumPy 138 133 126
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.49% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.96% 2.24% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 122 112
10th Percentile £413 £510 £463
25th Percentile £463 £603 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +9.80%
75th Percentile £825 £863 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 -
UK median daily rate £550 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -18.52% -3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £59.30
25th Percentile - - £60.13
Median hourly rate - - £64.00
75th Percentile - - £66.63
90th Percentile - - £66.70
UK median hourly rate - - £64.00

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 7,048 5,926 7,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.14% 21.99% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,723 3,793 5,554
10th Percentile £356 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £673
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 70 168
10th Percentile £32.31 £26.25 £29.36
25th Percentile £44.01 £44.17 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £75.10 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -7 119 £700 -6.67% 52
North of England - 7 £508 - 32
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 14
South East -18 4 £600 - 43
West Midlands -34 4 £506 +6.53% 4
Midlands -41 4 £506 +6.53% 15
East of England -26 2 £450 -28.00% 14
South West - 1 £550 - 10
North East - 1 £500 - 4
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 32 (23.19%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (16.67%) Apache
3 10 (7.25%) Apache Spark
3 10 (7.25%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.90%) Appian
5 1 (0.72%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (5.80%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 72 (52.17%) AWS
2 37 (26.81%) Azure
3 31 (22.46%) dbt
4 24 (17.39%) GCP
5 21 (15.22%) Snowflake
6 16 (11.59%) Power Platform
7 11 (7.97%) Azure AI
8 9 (6.52%) Serverless
9 8 (5.80%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (5.07%) Amazon SageMaker
10 7 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (5.07%) GitHub
10 7 (5.07%) Power Automate
11 6 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (3.62%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.90%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.39%) Amazon Athena
1 24 (17.39%) Apache Arrow
1 24 (17.39%) Apache Iceberg
1 24 (17.39%) Dremio
2 20 (14.49%) Data Lake
3 17 (12.32%) Apache Ignite
4 16 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (9.42%) Power BI
5 13 (9.42%) Relational Database
6 9 (6.52%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.07%) BigQuery
8 6 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.35%) Big Data
8 6 (4.35%) MySQL
8 6 (4.35%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.62%) Pinecone
10 4 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.90%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.90%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 31 (22.46%) Git
2 10 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.52%) MLflow
4 6 (4.35%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.72%) Poetry
General
1 78 (56.52%) Finance
2 52 (37.68%) Banking
3 41 (29.71%) Front Office
4 32 (23.19%) Social Skills
5 30 (21.74%) Investment Banking
6 18 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (7.25%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.90%) Legal
9 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.17%) Marketing
10 2 (1.45%) Electronics
10 2 (1.45%) Retail
10 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.72%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (39.13%) Developer
2 47 (34.06%) Python Developer
3 41 (29.71%) Senior
4 34 (24.64%) Python Engineer
5 26 (18.84%) Software Engineer
6 25 (18.12%) AWS Engineer
7 24 (17.39%) AWS Software Engineer
7 24 (17.39%) Python Software Engineer
8 23 (16.67%) Data Scientist
9 18 (13.04%) AWS Developer
10 17 (12.32%) Java Engineer
10 17 (12.32%) Java Software Engineer
10 17 (12.32%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (11.59%) Senior Java Engineer
11 16 (11.59%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 13 (9.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (9.42%) Data Engineer
13 12 (8.70%) Senior Developer
13 12 (8.70%) Senior Python Developer
14 11 (7.97%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (94.93%) Pandas
2 47 (34.06%) SciPy
3 39 (28.26%) scikit-learn
4 28 (20.29%) TensorFlow
5 26 (18.84%) PyTorch
6 25 (18.12%) FastAPI
6 25 (18.12%) REST
7 22 (15.94%) Flask
8 19 (13.77%) React
9 18 (13.04%) AngularJS
9 18 (13.04%) Vue
10 17 (12.32%) gRPC
10 17 (12.32%) Protocol Buffers
11 13 (9.42%) LangChain
11 13 (9.42%) Polars
12 10 (7.25%) Django
12 10 (7.25%) Hugging Face
12 10 (7.25%) LangGraph
12 10 (7.25%) Plotly
13 9 (6.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (31.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 40 (28.99%) Hedge funds
3 39 (28.26%) Equities
4 26 (18.84%) Fixed Income
5 21 (15.22%) Derivative
6 17 (12.32%) Algorithms
6 17 (12.32%) Pricing Data
7 4 (2.90%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.90%) Clustering
7 4 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.90%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.90%) Online Banking
7 4 (2.90%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.90%) Reinsurance
8 3 (2.17%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.17%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (2.17%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.45%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.14%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (36.23%) Machine Learning
1 50 (36.23%) Software Engineering
2 47 (34.06%) Data Science
3 45 (32.61%) AI
4 42 (30.43%) Analytics
5 40 (28.99%) Agile
6 35 (25.36%) Data Engineering
7 28 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
8 27 (19.57%) Generative AI
9 26 (18.84%) Asset Management
9 26 (18.84%) Data Analysis
10 25 (18.12%) CI/CD
10 25 (18.12%) Investment Management
10 25 (18.12%) LLM
11 24 (17.39%) Natural Language Processing
12 23 (16.67%) Mathematics
12 23 (16.67%) Visualisation
13 19 (13.77%) MLOps
14 18 (13.04%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 138 (100.00%) Python
2 51 (36.96%) SQL
3 41 (29.71%) JavaScript
4 32 (23.19%) Java
5 24 (17.39%) TypeScript
6 19 (13.77%) C++
7 18 (13.04%) C#
8 12 (8.70%) Rust
9 9 (6.52%) VBA
10 2 (1.45%) Ada
10 2 (1.45%) R
11 1 (0.72%) Bash
11 1 (0.72%) C
11 1 (0.72%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.72%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 21 (15.22%) Degree
2 18 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.97%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.07%) MCP
6 6 (4.35%) PhD
7 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.97%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.17%) QA
3 2 (1.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (18.12%) Docker
2 2 (1.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.17%) Kubeflow
2 3 (2.17%) Terraform
3 1 (0.72%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (8.70%) Databricks
2 11 (7.97%) Google
2 11 (7.97%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.07%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.62%) Dataiku
4 5 (3.62%) Foundry
5 4 (2.90%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.90%) Automation Anywhere
5 4 (2.90%) SAP
5 4 (2.90%) UiPath
6 3 (2.17%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.45%) Cognos
7 2 (1.45%) IBM
7 2 (1.45%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.45%) Sage
8 1 (0.72%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.72%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle
8 1 (0.72%) Reuters