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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 327 353
Rank change year-on-year -170 +26 +169
Contract jobs citing NumPy 102 156 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.65% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 2.89% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 123 183
10th Percentile £349 £502 £490
25th Percentile £450 £625 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £875 £888
90th Percentile £880 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -23.33% -6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - - -
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 8,012 5,403 7,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.18% 22.52% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,287 3,737 5,386
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £536
% change year-on-year +0.86% -2.85% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 106 239
10th Percentile £31.03 £31.28 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.00 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -117 83 £650 -13.33% 53
South East -53 10 £390 -27.44% 21
North of England -71 3 £538 -2.27% 19
Midlands - 3 £425 - 10
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 3
North West -29 1 £575 +4.55% 13
South West -34 1 £575 +35.29% 10
North East - 1 £500 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £425 - 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 17 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (8.82%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.84%) Appian
4 5 (4.90%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.96%) Apache
6 1 (0.98%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.88%) CPLEX
2 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 40 (39.22%) Azure
2 38 (37.25%) AWS
3 15 (14.71%) GCP
4 11 (10.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (9.80%) Amazon SageMaker
6 9 (8.82%) Azure AI
7 8 (7.84%) Anthropic Claude
7 8 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.84%) Dagster
7 8 (7.84%) GitHub
7 8 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.84%) Power Automate
8 6 (5.88%) dbt
9 5 (4.90%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.90%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.92%) Serverless
11 3 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.96%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 11 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.80%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.84%) Big Data
4 8 (7.84%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.84%) Pinecone
4 8 (7.84%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.88%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.90%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.90%) Power BI
7 4 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.92%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.92%) Power Query
8 3 (2.94%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.94%) Tableau
9 2 (1.96%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.96%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (21.57%) Git
2 21 (20.59%) MLflow
3 4 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.96%) Selenium
5 1 (0.98%) GitLab
5 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (44.12%) Finance
2 30 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (21.57%) Social Skills
4 11 (10.78%) Banking
5 9 (8.82%) Publishing
6 6 (5.88%) Front Office
6 6 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.90%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.90%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Advertising
9 1 (0.98%) Aviation
9 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.98%) Marketing
9 1 (0.98%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (42.16%) Developer
2 36 (35.29%) Python Developer
3 23 (22.55%) Data Scientist
4 19 (18.63%) Senior
5 11 (10.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (8.82%) Kafka Developer
6 9 (8.82%) Senior Developer
6 9 (8.82%) Senior Python Developer
7 8 (7.84%) Analyst
7 8 (7.84%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.90%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (2.94%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 3 (2.94%) Lead
11 3 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (2.94%) Senior Business Analyst
11 3 (2.94%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (97.06%) Pandas
2 44 (43.14%) scikit-learn
3 27 (26.47%) FastAPI
4 26 (25.49%) Django
4 26 (25.49%) Flask
4 26 (25.49%) PyTorch
4 26 (25.49%) TensorFlow
5 23 (22.55%) REST
6 19 (18.63%) Kafka
7 15 (14.71%) Polars
7 15 (14.71%) pytest
7 15 (14.71%) RESTful
7 15 (14.71%) Seaborn
8 14 (13.73%) OpenAPI
8 14 (13.73%) Swagger
9 11 (10.78%) Hugging Face
10 10 (9.80%) SciPy
11 9 (8.82%) Apache Avro
12 8 (7.84%) OAuth
12 8 (7.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.69%) Algorithms
2 15 (14.71%) Equities
3 10 (9.80%) Data Structures
3 10 (9.80%) Hedge funds
3 10 (9.80%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.84%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (7.84%) Low-Code
5 7 (6.86%) Cloud Native
5 7 (6.86%) Derivative
6 6 (5.88%) Fixed Income
6 6 (5.88%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.92%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.98%) Life Science
9 1 (0.98%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.98%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.96%) Linux
2 1 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (52.94%) Machine Learning
2 53 (51.96%) Data Pipeline
3 42 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 40 (39.22%) Data Science
5 33 (32.35%) Containerisation
6 31 (30.39%) AI
7 29 (28.43%) Analytics
7 29 (28.43%) Data Engineering
8 20 (19.61%) Generative AI
8 20 (19.61%) Visualisation
8 20 (19.61%) Workflow
9 19 (18.63%) Decision-Making
9 19 (18.63%) ETL
10 18 (17.65%) Natural Language Processing
11 17 (16.67%) Feature Engineering
11 17 (16.67%) LLM
11 17 (16.67%) MLOps
12 16 (15.69%) Data Cleansing
12 16 (15.69%) Validation
13 15 (14.71%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 102 (100.00%) Python
2 57 (55.88%) SQL
3 7 (6.86%) C#
4 6 (5.88%) C++
4 6 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.90%) R
6 4 (3.92%) Java
7 3 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.96%) Ada
8 2 (1.96%) C
8 2 (1.96%) VBA
9 1 (0.98%) Bash
9 1 (0.98%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.98%) SHACL
9 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.98%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.98%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 15 (14.71%) Degree
2 12 (11.76%) Master's Degree
3 11 (10.78%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.84%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.90%) PhD
6 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.61%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 44 (43.14%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) HDFS
3 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (30.39%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.90%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.98%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (13.73%) OpenAI
2 13 (12.75%) Databricks
3 8 (7.84%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.84%) UiPath
4 7 (6.86%) Google
5 2 (1.96%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.96%) Reuters
5 2 (1.96%) SAP
6 1 (0.98%) Cognos
6 1 (0.98%) IBM
6 1 (0.98%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.98%) Sage