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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 341 314
Rank change year-on-year -172 -27 +192
Contract jobs citing NumPy 102 157 252
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.61% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.22% 2.72% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 122 233
10th Percentile £349 £500 £553
25th Percentile £450 £625 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +15.52%
75th Percentile £750 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -23.33% -6.25% +18.52%
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 8,366 5,767 7,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.09% 22.50% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,514 3,979 5,497
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 123 266
10th Percentile £30.45 £30.45 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £48.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -10.54%
75th Percentile £74.45 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.63 £80.81 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -120 81 £725 -3.33% 76
South East -55 13 £374 -25.25% 29
Midlands - 3 £425 - 11
North of England -74 2 £575 +4.55% 20
East Midlands - 2 £425 - 8
South West -32 1 £575 +35.29% 14
North West -39 1 £575 +4.55% 10
Yorkshire - 1 - - 7
West Midlands - 1 £325 - 3
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 7 (6.86%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.88%) Appian
4 5 (4.90%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.96%) Apache
6 1 (0.98%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (8.82%) CPLEX
2 8 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (4.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 39 (38.24%) Azure
2 34 (33.33%) AWS
3 15 (14.71%) GCP
4 11 (10.78%) Amazon SageMaker
5 9 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.84%) Dagster
6 8 (7.84%) GitHub
6 8 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.86%) Anthropic Claude
8 6 (5.88%) Azure AI
8 6 (5.88%) dbt
8 6 (5.88%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.90%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.94%) Amazon Neptune
10 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.96%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (1.96%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (13.73%) MongoDB
2 14 (13.73%) Relational Database
3 13 (12.75%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.88%) Big Data
4 6 (5.88%) Neo4j
4 6 (5.88%) Pinecone
4 6 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.90%) BigQuery
5 5 (4.90%) Power BI
6 4 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.92%) Power Query
7 3 (2.94%) Tableau
8 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.96%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.98%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.98%) Looker
9 1 (0.98%) Stardog
9 1 (0.98%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 26 (25.49%) Git
2 20 (19.61%) MLflow
3 3 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.96%) Selenium
5 1 (0.98%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.98%) GitLab
5 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (44.12%) Finance
2 30 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (18.63%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.76%) Banking
5 9 (8.82%) Publishing
6 6 (5.88%) Front Office
6 6 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.90%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.94%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Advertising
10 1 (0.98%) Aviation
10 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.98%) Marketing
10 1 (0.98%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 45 (44.12%) Developer
2 39 (38.24%) Python Developer
3 27 (26.47%) Data Scientist
4 16 (15.69%) Senior
5 9 (8.82%) Kafka Developer
6 8 (7.84%) Analyst
6 8 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 7 (6.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Python Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
9 5 (4.90%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.90%) Senior Data Scientist
10 4 (3.92%) Data Engineer
11 3 (2.94%) Associate Director
11 3 (2.94%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 3 (2.94%) Senior Business Analyst
11 3 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (2.94%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (96.08%) Pandas
2 45 (44.12%) scikit-learn
3 33 (32.35%) FastAPI
4 28 (27.45%) Flask
5 26 (25.49%) Django
6 23 (22.55%) Kafka
6 23 (22.55%) PyTorch
6 23 (22.55%) TensorFlow
7 21 (20.59%) REST
8 17 (16.67%) Polars
8 17 (16.67%) RESTful
9 16 (15.69%) pytest
10 15 (14.71%) OpenAPI
10 15 (14.71%) Swagger
11 13 (12.75%) Seaborn
12 9 (8.82%) Apache Avro
12 9 (8.82%) SciPy
13 8 (7.84%) Hugging Face
13 8 (7.84%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (5.88%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.61%) Algorithms
2 16 (15.69%) Equities
3 12 (11.76%) Data Structures
4 10 (9.80%) Hedge funds
5 9 (8.82%) Cloud Native
5 9 (8.82%) Derivative
5 9 (8.82%) Management Information System
6 6 (5.88%) Fixed Income
6 6 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (5.88%) Low-Code
6 6 (5.88%) Public Cloud
7 5 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (4.90%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.94%) Exotic Derivative
10 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.96%) Life Science
10 2 (1.96%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.96%) SCADA
10 2 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.94%) Linux
2 2 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (54.90%) Machine Learning
2 51 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 45 (44.12%) Data Science
4 41 (40.20%) CI/CD
5 37 (36.27%) Containerisation
6 34 (33.33%) Analytics
7 29 (28.43%) AI
8 25 (24.51%) Data Engineering
9 23 (22.55%) Visualisation
10 20 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (18.63%) Decision-Making
12 18 (17.65%) DevOps
13 17 (16.67%) LLM
13 17 (16.67%) Workflow
14 16 (15.69%) Data Analysis
14 16 (15.69%) Feature Engineering
14 16 (15.69%) Mathematics
15 15 (14.71%) ETL
15 15 (14.71%) MLOps
15 15 (14.71%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 102 (100.00%) Python
2 54 (52.94%) SQL
3 7 (6.86%) C#
4 4 (3.92%) Java
5 3 (2.94%) C++
5 3 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.94%) R
6 2 (1.96%) Cypher
6 2 (1.96%) Gremlin
6 2 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.96%) VBA
7 1 (0.98%) Bash
7 1 (0.98%) C
7 1 (0.98%) Haskell
7 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.98%) SHACL
7 1 (0.98%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (12.75%) Degree
2 11 (10.78%) Master's Degree
3 10 (9.80%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.86%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.92%) PhD
6 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.92%) QA
System Software
1 48 (47.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (31.37%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.90%) Kubeflow
3 2 (1.96%) Podman
4 1 (0.98%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (9.80%) Databricks
1 10 (9.80%) OpenAI
2 8 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.88%) Automation Anywhere
3 6 (5.88%) Google
3 6 (5.88%) UiPath
4 2 (1.96%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.96%) Reuters
5 1 (0.98%) Cognos
5 1 (0.98%) IBM
5 1 (0.98%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.98%) Sage