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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 348 419
Rank change year-on-year -66 +71 +139
Contract jobs citing NumPy 135 132 124
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.50% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.90% 2.23% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 121 111
10th Percentile £405 £510 £463
25th Percentile £463 £613 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £825 £850 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 -
UK median daily rate £550 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.50
90th Percentile - - £66.65
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 7,106 5,911 7,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.02% 22.35% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,760 3,761 5,667
10th Percentile £358 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £430 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £662
90th Percentile £738 £788 £751
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 78 182
10th Percentile £34.20 £26.25 £26.79
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.56 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 26 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 26 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 -9 115 £663 -11.67% 48
North of England - 7 £508 - 23
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 10
South East -29 5 £500 - 37
West Midlands -35 4 £506 +6.53% 3
Midlands -42 4 £506 +6.53% 12
East of England -21 2 £450 -28.00% 9
South West - 1 £550 - 6
North East - 1 £500 - 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 25 (18.52%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (12.59%) Apache
3 12 (8.89%) Apache Spark
4 10 (7.41%) Jupyter
5 5 (3.70%) Appian
6 1 (0.74%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (5.93%) Chatbot
2 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 67 (49.63%) AWS
2 40 (29.63%) Azure
3 24 (17.78%) GCP
4 23 (17.04%) dbt
5 17 (12.59%) Power Platform
6 15 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 12 (8.89%) Azure AI
8 9 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (6.67%) Serverless
9 8 (5.93%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (5.93%) Azure Machine Learning
9 8 (5.93%) GitHub
9 8 (5.93%) Power Automate
10 7 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.70%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.22%) IBM Watson
12 3 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.85%) Amazon Athena
1 16 (11.85%) Apache Arrow
1 16 (11.85%) Apache Iceberg
1 16 (11.85%) Dremio
2 14 (10.37%) Data Lake
2 14 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.37%) Power BI
3 13 (9.63%) Relational Database
4 11 (8.15%) Apache Ignite
4 11 (8.15%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.93%) Big Data
6 7 (5.19%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.44%) Hadoop
7 6 (4.44%) MySQL
7 6 (4.44%) Pinecone
7 6 (4.44%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.70%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (22.96%) Git
2 11 (8.15%) MLflow
3 10 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.44%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.74%) Poetry
General
1 72 (53.33%) Finance
2 46 (34.07%) Banking
3 34 (25.19%) Social Skills
4 33 (24.44%) Front Office
5 23 (17.04%) Investment Banking
6 20 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (7.41%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.96%) Legal
9 3 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.22%) Marketing
10 2 (1.48%) Electronics
10 2 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.48%) Retail
10 2 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.74%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (38.52%) Developer
2 44 (32.59%) Python Developer
3 35 (25.93%) Senior
4 27 (20.00%) Data Scientist
5 26 (19.26%) Python Engineer
6 18 (13.33%) Software Engineer
7 17 (12.59%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (11.85%) AWS Software Engineer
8 16 (11.85%) Python Software Engineer
9 15 (11.11%) AWS Developer
10 14 (10.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 13 (9.63%) Data Engineer
12 12 (8.89%) Senior Developer
12 12 (8.89%) Senior Python Developer
13 11 (8.15%) Java Engineer
13 11 (8.15%) Java Software Engineer
13 11 (8.15%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (7.41%) JavaScript Developer
14 10 (7.41%) Senior Java Engineer
14 10 (7.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (94.81%) Pandas
2 45 (33.33%) scikit-learn
3 38 (28.15%) SciPy
4 31 (22.96%) TensorFlow
5 29 (21.48%) PyTorch
6 26 (19.26%) REST
7 25 (18.52%) FastAPI
8 22 (16.30%) Flask
9 16 (11.85%) React
10 15 (11.11%) AngularJS
10 15 (11.11%) Vue
11 14 (10.37%) LangChain
12 12 (8.89%) Hugging Face
12 12 (8.89%) Polars
13 11 (8.15%) Django
13 11 (8.15%) gRPC
13 11 (8.15%) Protocol Buffers
14 10 (7.41%) LangGraph
14 10 (7.41%) Plotly
14 10 (7.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (25.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 33 (24.44%) Hedge funds
3 31 (22.96%) Equities
4 21 (15.56%) Algorithms
5 19 (14.07%) Fixed Income
6 15 (11.11%) Derivative
7 11 (8.15%) Pricing Data
8 5 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.70%) Low-Code
9 4 (2.96%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.96%) Clustering
9 4 (2.96%) Online Banking
9 4 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.96%) Reinsurance
10 3 (2.22%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.22%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.48%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (41.48%) Machine Learning
2 52 (38.52%) Data Science
3 49 (36.30%) AI
4 44 (32.59%) Analytics
5 41 (30.37%) Software Engineering
6 37 (27.41%) Data Engineering
7 33 (24.44%) Agile
8 32 (23.70%) Data Pipeline
9 31 (22.96%) Generative AI
10 29 (21.48%) Data Analysis
11 28 (20.74%) CI/CD
11 28 (20.74%) LLM
11 28 (20.74%) Natural Language Processing
11 28 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (18.52%) Visualisation
13 22 (16.30%) Mathematics
13 22 (16.30%) MLOps
14 19 (14.07%) ETL
15 18 (13.33%) Asset Management
15 18 (13.33%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 135 (100.00%) Python
2 57 (42.22%) SQL
3 32 (23.70%) JavaScript
4 25 (18.52%) Java
5 18 (13.33%) C++
6 17 (12.59%) C#
7 16 (11.85%) TypeScript
8 11 (8.15%) Rust
9 9 (6.67%) VBA
10 2 (1.48%) Ada
10 2 (1.48%) R
11 1 (0.74%) Bash
11 1 (0.74%) C
11 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.74%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 22 (16.30%) Degree
2 18 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.89%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.19%) MCP
6 6 (4.44%) PhD
7 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.63%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.22%) QA
3 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (20.74%) Docker
2 2 (1.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (21.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.22%) Kubeflow
2 3 (2.22%) Terraform
3 1 (0.74%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (8.89%) Databricks
1 12 (8.89%) Google
1 12 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.67%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.70%) Automation Anywhere
3 5 (3.70%) Dataiku
3 5 (3.70%) Foundry
3 5 (3.70%) UiPath
4 4 (2.96%) Alteryx
4 4 (2.96%) SAP
5 3 (2.22%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.22%) Cognos
5 3 (2.22%) IBM
5 3 (2.22%) Sage
6 2 (1.48%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.74%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.74%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle
7 1 (0.74%) Reuters