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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 342 321
Rank change year-on-year -158 -21 +187
Contract jobs citing NumPy 103 154 241
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.61% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 2.72% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 121 222
10th Percentile £349 £500 £515
25th Percentile £450 £625 £700
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 £813 - -
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 8,281 5,656 7,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.06% 22.58% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,470 3,926 5,494
10th Percentile £363 £358 £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 £740 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 115 264
10th Percentile £30.61 £32.69 £23.07
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.87% -14.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.14 £81.01 £74.48
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 24 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 24 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 81 £725 -3.33% 36
South East -51 13 £374 -25.25% 21
North of England -77 3 £538 -2.27% 19
Midlands - 3 £425 - 10
East Midlands - 2 £425 - 7
South West -32 1 £575 +35.29% 14
North West -48 1 £575 +4.55% 9
West Midlands - 1 £325 - 3
North East - 1 £500 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 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 (16.50%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.77%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.80%) Appian
4 5 (4.85%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.94%) Apache
6 1 (0.97%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (8.74%) CPLEX
2 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 40 (38.83%) Azure
2 35 (33.98%) AWS
3 16 (15.53%) GCP
4 10 (9.71%) Amazon SageMaker
4 10 (9.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.77%) Anthropic Claude
6 8 (7.77%) Dagster
6 8 (7.77%) GitHub
6 8 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.80%) Azure AI
7 7 (6.80%) Power Automate
8 6 (5.83%) dbt
9 5 (4.85%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.91%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.94%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (1.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.50%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (13.59%) MongoDB
2 14 (13.59%) Relational Database
3 13 (12.62%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.80%) Pinecone
4 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.83%) Big Data
5 6 (5.83%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.85%) Power BI
7 4 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.88%) Neo4j
7 4 (3.88%) Power Query
8 3 (2.91%) Tableau
9 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.94%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.97%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.97%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.97%) Looker
10 1 (0.97%) Stardog
10 1 (0.97%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 24 (23.30%) Git
2 21 (20.39%) MLflow
3 3 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.94%) Selenium
5 1 (0.97%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.97%) GitLab
5 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (44.66%) Finance
2 31 (30.10%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (19.42%) Social Skills
4 13 (12.62%) Banking
5 9 (8.74%) Publishing
6 6 (5.83%) Front Office
6 6 (5.83%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.85%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.91%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Advertising
10 1 (0.97%) Aviation
10 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 46 (44.66%) Developer
2 40 (38.83%) Python Developer
3 24 (23.30%) Data Scientist
4 17 (16.50%) Senior
5 9 (8.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Kafka Developer
6 8 (7.77%) Analyst
6 8 (7.77%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Senior Developer
7 7 (6.80%) Senior Python Developer
8 6 (5.83%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.85%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Senior Data Scientist
11 3 (2.91%) Associate Director
11 3 (2.91%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 3 (2.91%) Senior Business Analyst
11 3 (2.91%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (96.12%) Pandas
2 44 (42.72%) scikit-learn
3 34 (33.01%) FastAPI
4 29 (28.16%) Flask
5 28 (27.18%) Django
6 25 (24.27%) PyTorch
7 24 (23.30%) TensorFlow
8 23 (22.33%) Kafka
9 22 (21.36%) REST
10 18 (17.48%) RESTful
11 17 (16.50%) Polars
11 17 (16.50%) pytest
12 16 (15.53%) OpenAPI
12 16 (15.53%) Swagger
13 13 (12.62%) Seaborn
14 9 (8.74%) Apache Avro
14 9 (8.74%) Hugging Face
15 8 (7.77%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (7.77%) SciPy
16 7 (6.80%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.42%) Algorithms
2 16 (15.53%) Equities
3 12 (11.65%) Data Structures
4 10 (9.71%) Cloud Native
4 10 (9.71%) Hedge funds
5 9 (8.74%) Derivative
5 9 (8.74%) Management Information System
6 7 (6.80%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (6.80%) Low-Code
7 6 (5.83%) Fixed Income
7 6 (5.83%) Public Cloud
8 5 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (4.85%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (3.88%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.91%) Exotic Derivative
11 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.94%) Life Science
11 2 (1.94%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.94%) SCADA
11 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.91%) Linux
2 2 (1.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (53.40%) Machine Learning
2 54 (52.43%) Data Pipeline
3 43 (41.75%) CI/CD
3 43 (41.75%) Data Science
4 36 (34.95%) Containerisation
5 32 (31.07%) Analytics
6 29 (28.16%) AI
7 27 (26.21%) Data Engineering
8 21 (20.39%) Visualisation
9 20 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (18.45%) Decision-Making
10 19 (18.45%) Workflow
11 18 (17.48%) DevOps
12 17 (16.50%) LLM
12 17 (16.50%) MLOps
13 16 (15.53%) ETL
13 16 (15.53%) Feature Engineering
13 16 (15.53%) Generative AI
13 16 (15.53%) Mathematics
13 16 (15.53%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 103 (100.00%) Python
2 54 (52.43%) SQL
3 7 (6.80%) C#
4 4 (3.88%) Java
5 3 (2.91%) C++
5 3 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.91%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.91%) R
6 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.94%) VBA
7 1 (0.97%) Bash
7 1 (0.97%) C
7 1 (0.97%) Haskell
7 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.97%) SHACL
7 1 (0.97%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (13.59%) Degree
2 11 (10.68%) Master's Degree
3 10 (9.71%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.80%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.88%) PhD
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.88%) QA
System Software
1 49 (47.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (32.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.85%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.97%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (10.68%) OpenAI
2 10 (9.71%) Databricks
3 8 (7.77%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.80%) Automation Anywhere
4 7 (6.80%) UiPath
5 6 (5.83%) Google
6 2 (1.94%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.94%) Reuters
7 1 (0.97%) Cognos
7 1 (0.97%) IBM
7 1 (0.97%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.97%) Sage