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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 323 326
Rank change year-on-year -169 +3 +192
Contract jobs citing NumPy 105 156 232
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.63% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.28% 2.79% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 122 213
10th Percentile £349 £501 £513
25th Percentile £431 £625 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -21.53% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £749 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
UK median daily rate £569 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -24.13% -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 8,202 5,586 7,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.08% 22.52% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,407 3,877 5,488
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 £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 111 260
10th Percentile £30.50 £32.31 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +25.63% -23.46%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -23.08%

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 18 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 18 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 -99 84 £675 -10.00% 35
South East -46 13 £374 -30.47% 19
North of England -69 3 £538 -2.27% 17
Midlands - 2 £375 - 9
South West -26 1 £575 +35.29% 13
North West -36 1 £575 +4.55% 10
West Midlands - 1 £325 - 3
North East - 1 £500 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 £425 - 6
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 (16.19%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (9.52%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.62%) Appian
4 5 (4.76%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.90%) Apache
6 1 (0.95%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (8.57%) CPLEX
2 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 41 (39.05%) Azure
2 39 (37.14%) AWS
3 16 (15.24%) GCP
4 11 (10.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
6 9 (8.57%) Anthropic Claude
6 9 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.62%) Azure AI
7 8 (7.62%) Dagster
7 8 (7.62%) GitHub
7 8 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.62%) Power Automate
8 6 (5.71%) dbt
9 5 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.76%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.81%) Serverless
11 3 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.90%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.19%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 14 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 13 (12.38%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.62%) Big Data
4 8 (7.62%) Pinecone
4 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.71%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.76%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.76%) Power BI
7 4 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.81%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.81%) Neo4j
7 4 (3.81%) Power Query
8 3 (2.86%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.86%) Tableau
9 2 (1.90%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.90%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (22.86%) Git
2 22 (20.95%) MLflow
3 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.90%) Selenium
5 1 (0.95%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.95%) GitLab
5 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (43.81%) Finance
2 30 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 13 (12.38%) Banking
5 9 (8.57%) Publishing
6 6 (5.71%) Front Office
6 6 (5.71%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.76%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.86%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Advertising
10 1 (0.95%) Aviation
10 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (42.86%) Developer
2 39 (37.14%) Python Developer
3 22 (20.95%) Data Scientist
4 16 (15.24%) Senior
5 12 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Kafka Developer
7 8 (7.62%) Analyst
7 8 (7.62%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Python Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.71%) Senior Python Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Business Analyst
11 4 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (2.86%) Associate Director
12 3 (2.86%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 3 (2.86%) Lead
12 3 (2.86%) Senior Business Analyst
12 3 (2.86%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (96.19%) Pandas
2 45 (42.86%) scikit-learn
3 34 (32.38%) FastAPI
4 30 (28.57%) Flask
5 29 (27.62%) Django
6 27 (25.71%) PyTorch
7 26 (24.76%) TensorFlow
8 24 (22.86%) REST
9 23 (21.90%) Kafka
10 19 (18.10%) RESTful
11 18 (17.14%) pytest
12 17 (16.19%) OpenAPI
12 17 (16.19%) Polars
12 17 (16.19%) Swagger
13 15 (14.29%) Seaborn
14 10 (9.52%) Hugging Face
15 9 (8.57%) Apache Avro
16 8 (7.62%) OAuth
16 8 (7.62%) RabbitMQ
16 8 (7.62%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.05%) Algorithms
2 16 (15.24%) Equities
3 14 (13.33%) Data Structures
4 10 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 10 (9.52%) Hedge funds
4 10 (9.52%) Management Information System
5 9 (8.57%) Derivative
6 8 (7.62%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (7.62%) Low-Code
7 6 (5.71%) Fixed Income
7 6 (5.71%) Public Cloud
8 5 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (4.76%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.86%) AI Agents
10 3 (2.86%) Exotic Derivative
11 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.90%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.86%) Linux
2 2 (1.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (54.29%) Data Pipeline
2 56 (53.33%) Machine Learning
3 44 (41.90%) CI/CD
4 41 (39.05%) Data Science
5 37 (35.24%) Containerisation
6 32 (30.48%) AI
7 30 (28.57%) Analytics
8 28 (26.67%) Data Engineering
9 23 (21.90%) Visualisation
10 20 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (19.05%) Workflow
11 19 (18.10%) Decision-Making
11 19 (18.10%) ETL
11 19 (18.10%) Generative AI
11 19 (18.10%) Natural Language Processing
12 18 (17.14%) DevOps
12 18 (17.14%) LLM
12 18 (17.14%) MLOps
13 17 (16.19%) Feature Engineering
14 16 (15.24%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 105 (100.00%) Python
2 59 (56.19%) SQL
3 9 (8.57%) C#
4 6 (5.71%) Java
5 5 (4.76%) C++
5 5 (4.76%) R
6 3 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.90%) Ada
7 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.90%) VBA
8 1 (0.95%) Bash
8 1 (0.95%) C
8 1 (0.95%) Haskell
8 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.95%) SHACL
8 1 (0.95%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Degree
2 11 (10.48%) Master's Degree
3 10 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.81%) PhD
6 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.81%) QA
System Software
1 49 (46.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) HDFS
3 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (31.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.76%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (13.33%) OpenAI
2 12 (11.43%) Databricks
3 8 (7.62%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (7.62%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.62%) UiPath
4 6 (5.71%) Google
5 2 (1.90%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.90%) Reuters
5 2 (1.90%) SAP
6 1 (0.95%) Cognos
6 1 (0.95%) IBM
6 1 (0.95%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.95%) Sage