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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 345 294
Rank change year-on-year -205 -51 +179
Contract jobs citing NumPy 83 168 247
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.61% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.84% 2.45% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 129 240
10th Percentile £349 £437 £635
25th Percentile £413 £550 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £810 - -
UK median daily rate £570 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -24.00% -6.25% +23.08%

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 9,824 6,855 8,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.25% 25.05% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,456 4,670 5,469
10th Percentile £375 £353 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% -5.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 161 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -2.99%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -153 67 £625 -16.67% 202
South East -66 10 £358 -17.82% 29
Midlands -45 3 £425 +14.29% 13
East Midlands - 3 £425 - 10
North West - 2 £650 - 17
North of England - 2 £650 - 26
South West -51 1 £575 +35.29% 14
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 10 (12.05%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (10.84%) Apache Spark
3 6 (7.23%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.61%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (2.41%) Apache
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (9.64%) CPLEX
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.71%) Azure
2 22 (26.51%) AWS
3 11 (13.25%) GCP
4 9 (10.84%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (7.23%) dbt
7 5 (6.02%) Amazon Neptune
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.82%) Azure Databricks
8 4 (4.82%) GitHub
8 4 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.82%) Serverless
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (3.61%) Dagster
9 3 (3.61%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.48%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.46%) MongoDB
2 12 (14.46%) Relational Database
3 11 (13.25%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.64%) Neo4j
5 6 (7.23%) Big Data
6 4 (4.82%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.41%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.41%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.41%) Power BI
8 2 (2.41%) Power Query
8 2 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (2.41%) Tableau
9 1 (1.20%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.20%) KDB
9 1 (1.20%) Kdb+
9 1 (1.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 25 (30.12%) Git
2 8 (9.64%) MLflow
3 1 (1.20%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.20%) GitLab
3 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) Selenium
3 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (40.96%) Finance
2 23 (27.71%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.87%) Social Skills
4 13 (15.66%) Banking
5 8 (9.64%) Investment Banking
5 8 (9.64%) Publishing
6 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.82%) Front Office
8 3 (3.61%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Advertising
10 1 (1.20%) Automotive
10 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.20%) Marketing
10 1 (1.20%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (42.17%) Developer
2 33 (39.76%) Python Developer
3 20 (24.10%) Data Scientist
4 15 (18.07%) Senior
5 8 (9.64%) Kafka Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Analyst
6 7 (8.43%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Senior Python Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (4.82%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Quantitative Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (93.98%) Pandas
2 30 (36.14%) FastAPI
3 29 (34.94%) scikit-learn
4 24 (28.92%) Flask
5 19 (22.89%) Django
6 18 (21.69%) Kafka
6 18 (21.69%) REST
7 16 (19.28%) Polars
7 16 (19.28%) PySpark
8 15 (18.07%) PyTorch
9 14 (16.87%) TensorFlow
10 11 (13.25%) pytest
11 10 (12.05%) RESTful
12 9 (10.84%) SciPy
13 8 (9.64%) Apache Avro
13 8 (9.64%) OpenAPI
13 8 (9.64%) Swagger
14 7 (8.43%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (7.23%) React
16 5 (6.02%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.46%) Algorithms
2 11 (13.25%) Data Structures
2 11 (13.25%) Equities
3 10 (12.05%) Derivative
4 9 (10.84%) Cloud Native
4 9 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (9.64%) Hedge funds
5 8 (9.64%) Management Information System
6 6 (7.23%) Market Risk
7 5 (6.02%) Public Cloud
8 4 (4.82%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (4.82%) Fixed Income
8 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
9 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (3.61%) Exotic Derivative
10 2 (2.41%) Life Science
10 2 (2.41%) Robotics
10 2 (2.41%) SCADA
10 2 (2.41%) Self-Driving Car
11 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Linux
2 7 (8.43%) Unix
3 1 (1.20%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (49.40%) Machine Learning
2 39 (46.99%) Analytics
3 36 (43.37%) Data Pipeline
3 36 (43.37%) Data Science
4 29 (34.94%) AI
5 28 (33.73%) Containerisation
6 25 (30.12%) CI/CD
7 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (21.69%) Visualisation
8 15 (18.07%) Data Analysis
8 15 (18.07%) DevOps
8 15 (18.07%) Performance Optimisation
9 14 (16.87%) Data Transformation
10 13 (15.66%) Decision-Making
10 13 (15.66%) Mathematics
10 13 (15.66%) Software Engineering
11 12 (14.46%) Data Engineering
11 12 (14.46%) Feature Engineering
11 12 (14.46%) LLM
12 11 (13.25%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 83 (100.00%) Python
2 44 (53.01%) SQL
3 7 (8.43%) C#
4 6 (7.23%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.02%) Cypher
5 5 (6.02%) Gremlin
6 4 (4.82%) Java
7 2 (2.41%) C++
7 2 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.41%) R
7 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.41%) VBA
8 1 (1.20%) Bash
8 1 (1.20%) C
8 1 (1.20%) Haskell
8 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (10.84%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.23%) Degree
2 6 (7.23%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.82%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) QA
2 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (40.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (28.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.82%) Kubeflow
2 4 (4.82%) Podman
3 2 (2.41%) Grafana
4 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (10.84%) Databricks
2 4 (4.82%) Google
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.61%) Foundry
3 3 (3.61%) Palantir
4 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.20%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle