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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 319 385
Rank change year-on-year -127 +66 +143
Contract jobs citing NumPy 126 159 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.65% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.59% 2.90% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 128 144
10th Percentile £380 £510 £459
25th Percentile £450 £614 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £749 £875 £888
90th Percentile £875 £888 -
UK median daily rate £565 £725 £775
% change year-on-year -22.14% -6.45% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.38
90th Percentile - - £66.60
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 7,942 5,483 7,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.88% 22.41% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,309 3,805 5,359
10th Percentile £358 £370 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -2.31%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 99 203
10th Percentile £33.75 £30.01 £21.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £82.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 April 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 April 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 -94 104 £650 -13.33% 37
South East -58 9 £588 +9.30% 17
West Midlands -53 5 £503 +5.89% 4
Midlands -53 5 £503 +5.89% 7
North of England -64 5 £538 -2.27% 13
Yorkshire - 3 - - 3
South West -32 1 £575 +35.29% 4
North West -35 1 £575 +4.55% 7
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 22 (17.46%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.35%) Appian
4 5 (3.97%) Jupyter
5 4 (3.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.79%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.17%) CPLEX
5 2 (1.59%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 49 (38.89%) Azure
2 45 (35.71%) AWS
3 18 (14.29%) GCP
4 13 (10.32%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
5 12 (9.52%) Azure AI
5 12 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (8.73%) GitHub
6 11 (8.73%) Power Automate
7 9 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.14%) Serverless
8 8 (6.35%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (6.35%) Azure Machine Learning
8 8 (6.35%) Dagster
8 8 (6.35%) dbt
9 7 (5.56%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 10 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.94%) Power BI
3 9 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 9 (7.14%) Pinecone
4 8 (6.35%) Big Data
4 8 (6.35%) BigQuery
4 8 (6.35%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.97%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.17%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.17%) Power Query
7 4 (3.17%) Tableau
8 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.59%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.59%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.59%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.59%) Metadata
9 2 (1.59%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 25 (19.84%) Git
2 20 (15.87%) MLflow
3 9 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.59%) PyCharm
4 2 (1.59%) Selenium
5 1 (0.79%) Poetry
General
1 53 (42.06%) Finance
2 34 (26.98%) Social Skills
3 32 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (15.87%) Banking
5 13 (10.32%) Front Office
6 11 (8.73%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.56%) Publishing
8 4 (3.17%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.38%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Marketing
10 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Aviation
11 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 48 (38.10%) Developer
2 40 (31.75%) Python Developer
3 32 (25.40%) Data Scientist
4 23 (18.25%) Senior
5 14 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 11 (8.73%) Data Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Analyst
7 9 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Python Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 9 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
8 8 (6.35%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Kafka Developer
9 7 (5.56%) Quantitative Developer
10 6 (4.76%) RAD Developer
10 6 (4.76%) Senior Data Scientist
11 5 (3.97%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.97%) Python Data Engineer
12 4 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
13 3 (2.38%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (96.83%) Pandas
2 53 (42.06%) scikit-learn
3 32 (25.40%) TensorFlow
4 31 (24.60%) PyTorch
5 30 (23.81%) REST
6 26 (20.63%) Flask
7 24 (19.05%) FastAPI
8 22 (17.46%) Django
9 16 (12.70%) Seaborn
10 14 (11.11%) Hugging Face
10 14 (11.11%) Kafka
10 14 (11.11%) Polars
10 14 (11.11%) pytest
11 13 (10.32%) SciPy
12 12 (9.52%) OpenAPI
12 12 (9.52%) RESTful
12 12 (9.52%) Swagger
13 9 (7.14%) LangChain
14 8 (6.35%) Faiss
14 8 (6.35%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.46%) Equities
2 18 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 16 (12.70%) Hedge funds
4 8 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (6.35%) Low-Code
4 8 (6.35%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.35%) Public Cloud
5 7 (5.56%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.76%) Derivative
6 6 (4.76%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.17%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.17%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.59%) Clustering
8 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.59%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.79%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (53.17%) Machine Learning
2 56 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 51 (40.48%) Data Science
4 46 (36.51%) Analytics
5 45 (35.71%) AI
6 40 (31.75%) CI/CD
7 34 (26.98%) Data Engineering
8 32 (25.40%) Containerisation
8 32 (25.40%) Generative AI
9 26 (20.63%) LLM
9 26 (20.63%) Visualisation
10 24 (19.05%) Decision-Making
10 24 (19.05%) Natural Language Processing
11 21 (16.67%) Data Analysis
11 21 (16.67%) ETL
11 21 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (16.67%) Workflow
12 20 (15.87%) MLOps
13 18 (14.29%) Mathematics
13 18 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 126 (100.00%) Python
2 65 (51.59%) SQL
3 9 (7.14%) C#
3 9 (7.14%) C++
4 8 (6.35%) VBA
5 7 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.97%) Java
6 5 (3.97%) R
7 3 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.59%) Ada
9 1 (0.79%) Bash
9 1 (0.79%) C
9 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.79%) Rust
9 1 (0.79%) SHACL
9 1 (0.79%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.79%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 23 (18.25%) Degree
2 18 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 15 (11.90%) Master's Degree
4 10 (7.94%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.56%) PhD
6 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 42 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.59%) HDFS
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (24.60%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.35%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.79%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (13.49%) Databricks
1 17 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.90%) Google
2 15 (11.90%) OpenAI
3 8 (6.35%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (6.35%) UiPath
4 3 (2.38%) Cognos
4 3 (2.38%) IBM
4 3 (2.38%) Sage
5 2 (1.59%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.59%) Foundry
5 2 (1.59%) Reuters
5 2 (1.59%) SAP
6 1 (0.79%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.79%) NVIDIA