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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 292 483
Rank change year-on-year -51 +191 +15
Contract jobs citing NumPy 177 248 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.75% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.81% 3.36% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 241 98
10th Percentile £425 £638 £464
25th Percentile £538 £750 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £663
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +20.75% +10.42%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £788
90th Percentile - - £845
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% +8.33%

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 6,298 7,374 9,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.64% 22.38% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,266 4,854 6,779
10th Percentile £350 £355 £377
25th Percentile £413 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £810 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 178 168
10th Percentile £31.50 £27.53 £37.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.93 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +4.88% -5.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £72.41
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.46 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.85 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.96% +2.67% -4.00%

NumPy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing NumPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for NumPy 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 -61 147 £750 -6.25% 68
South East +28 12 £435 -34.34% 25
East of England +11 11 £550 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £372 - 4
Midlands - 4 £372 - 4
South West +20 3 £425 +54.55% 3
NumPy
UK

NumPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 88 (49.72%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (28.25%) Apache
3 13 (7.34%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.95%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.13%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 136 (76.84%) AWS
2 87 (49.15%) dbt
3 52 (29.38%) GCP
4 48 (27.12%) Snowflake
5 31 (17.51%) Azure
6 14 (7.91%) Amazon SageMaker
7 12 (6.78%) GitHub
8 11 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (5.08%) Amazon Bedrock
9 9 (5.08%) Serverless
10 8 (4.52%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (2.82%) Azure AI
11 5 (2.82%) ChatGPT
12 4 (2.26%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (2.26%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) SSH
1 3 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.13%) DNS
2 2 (1.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (50.28%) Amazon Athena
2 84 (47.46%) Apache Arrow
2 84 (47.46%) Apache Iceberg
2 84 (47.46%) Dremio
3 48 (27.12%) Apache Ignite
3 48 (27.12%) Data Lake
4 44 (24.86%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (9.04%) Big Data
6 11 (6.21%) Hadoop
6 11 (6.21%) Tableau
7 7 (3.95%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.82%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.26%) Parquet
9 4 (2.26%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.69%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.69%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.69%) KDB
11 2 (1.13%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.13%) GIS
11 2 (1.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (16.38%) Git
2 10 (5.65%) MLflow
3 5 (2.82%) JIRA
4 4 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.26%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.69%) Poetry
5 3 (1.69%) PyCharm
5 3 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 124 (70.06%) Finance
2 93 (52.54%) Front Office
3 70 (39.55%) Banking
4 68 (38.42%) Investment Banking
5 10 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.95%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.95%) Social Skills
7 3 (1.69%) Legal
7 3 (1.69%) Retail
8 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.56%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 90 (50.85%) Software Engineer
2 84 (47.46%) AWS Engineer
2 84 (47.46%) AWS Software Engineer
2 84 (47.46%) Python Engineer
3 82 (46.33%) Developer
4 77 (43.50%) Python Software Engineer
5 60 (33.90%) Java Engineer
5 60 (33.90%) Java Software Engineer
5 60 (33.90%) Python Developer
6 55 (31.07%) Senior
7 53 (29.94%) AWS Developer
8 48 (27.12%) Senior Java Engineer
8 48 (27.12%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 48 (27.12%) Senior Software Engineer
9 36 (20.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 18 (10.17%) Data Scientist
11 17 (9.60%) JavaScript Developer
12 12 (6.78%) Java Developer
12 12 (6.78%) Java Software Developer
13 8 (4.52%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (95.48%) Pandas
2 106 (59.89%) SciPy
3 53 (29.94%) AngularJS
3 53 (29.94%) React
3 53 (29.94%) Vue
4 48 (27.12%) gRPC
4 48 (27.12%) Protocol Buffers
5 36 (20.34%) Node.js
6 33 (18.64%) scikit-learn
7 29 (16.38%) Flask
8 26 (14.69%) FastAPI
8 26 (14.69%) PyTorch
9 19 (10.73%) TensorFlow
10 18 (10.17%) Polars
11 12 (6.78%) Matplotlib
12 11 (6.21%) Hugging Face
12 11 (6.21%) LangChain
13 10 (5.65%) Seaborn
14 8 (4.52%) OpenTelemetry
15 6 (3.39%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 100 (56.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 89 (50.28%) Fixed Income
3 85 (48.02%) Equities
4 67 (37.85%) Hedge funds
5 49 (27.68%) Derivative
6 48 (27.12%) Pricing Data
7 18 (10.17%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.82%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.69%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.13%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.56%) CUDA
11 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.56%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.56%) Genomics
11 1 (0.56%) IoT
11 1 (0.56%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.99%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (64.97%) Software Engineering
2 103 (58.19%) Agile
3 87 (49.15%) Asset Management
4 86 (48.59%) Investment Management
5 47 (26.55%) Data Science
6 40 (22.60%) Machine Learning
7 37 (20.90%) Risk Management
8 36 (20.34%) Fintech
8 36 (20.34%) Order Management
8 36 (20.34%) Performance Attribution
9 35 (19.77%) Data Engineering
10 31 (17.51%) Artificial Intelligence
11 25 (14.12%) CI/CD
11 25 (14.12%) Clean Code
12 22 (12.43%) LLM
13 21 (11.86%) Generative AI
14 20 (11.30%) Mathematics
14 20 (11.30%) Visualisation
15 17 (9.60%) Structured Programming
15 17 (9.60%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 165 (93.22%) Python
2 101 (57.06%) JavaScript
3 84 (47.46%) TypeScript
4 80 (45.20%) Java
5 26 (14.69%) SQL
6 22 (12.43%) C#
7 18 (10.17%) C++
7 18 (10.17%) Rust
8 10 (5.65%) R
9 4 (2.26%) Bash
9 4 (2.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (7.34%) Degree
2 10 (5.65%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.82%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.82%) PhD
3 5 (2.82%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.21%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.82%) QA
3 4 (2.26%) GDPR
3 4 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (15.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (17.51%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.08%) Terraform
3 3 (1.69%) Argo
3 3 (1.69%) Istio
4 1 (0.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (2.26%) Dataiku
1 4 (2.26%) DataRobot
1 4 (2.26%) Google
2 3 (1.69%) Alteryx
2 3 (1.69%) Bloomberg
2 3 (1.69%) Cloudera
2 3 (1.69%) Databricks
2 3 (1.69%) Foundry
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.69%) Red Hat
2 3 (1.69%) Sage
3 2 (1.13%) Refinitiv
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle
4 1 (0.56%) Reuters
4 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow