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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 345 284
Rank change year-on-year -202 -61 +194
Contract jobs citing NumPy 86 169 264
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.61% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% 2.46% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 131 254
10th Percentile £349 £435 £666
25th Percentile £413 £531 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -6.25% +25.49%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
UK median daily rate £589 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -21.53% -6.25% +28.00%

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 9,753 6,874 8,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.36% 24.93% 24.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,422 4,723 5,577
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -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 263 166 182
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £50.38 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.59 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

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 1 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 1 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 -145 69 £700 -6.67% 135
South East -64 10 £358 -18.29% 24
Midlands -55 3 £425 +14.29% 14
East Midlands - 3 £425 - 11
North of England - 2 £650 - 22
South West -40 1 £575 +35.29% 12
North West - 1 £650 - 13
Yorkshire - 1 - - 5
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 11 (12.79%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (10.47%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.81%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.49%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.16%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (9.30%) CPLEX
2 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.74%) Azure
2 22 (25.58%) AWS
3 11 (12.79%) GCP
4 9 (10.47%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.81%) dbt
7 4 (4.65%) Amazon Neptune
7 4 (4.65%) Azure Databricks
7 4 (4.65%) Dagster
7 4 (4.65%) GitHub
7 4 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.49%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.49%) Serverless
9 2 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.44%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (15.12%) MongoDB
2 13 (15.12%) Relational Database
3 10 (11.63%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.14%) Big Data
4 7 (8.14%) Neo4j
5 4 (4.65%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.49%) Power BI
6 3 (3.49%) Tableau
7 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.33%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.33%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (2.33%) Power Query
7 2 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.16%) KDB
8 1 (1.16%) Kdb+
8 1 (1.16%) Looker
Development Applications
1 23 (26.74%) Git
2 9 (10.47%) MLflow
3 1 (1.16%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.16%) GitLab
3 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.16%) JIRA
3 1 (1.16%) Selenium
3 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (41.86%) Finance
2 25 (29.07%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.28%) Social Skills
4 13 (15.12%) Banking
5 9 (10.47%) Publishing
6 8 (9.30%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.81%) Front Office
8 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.49%) Private Banking
10 2 (2.33%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.16%) Advertising
11 1 (1.16%) Aviation
11 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.16%) Marketing
11 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.16%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 40 (46.51%) Developer
2 38 (44.19%) Python Developer
3 22 (25.58%) Data Scientist
4 13 (15.12%) Senior
5 9 (10.47%) Kafka Developer
6 7 (8.14%) Analyst
6 7 (8.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.14%) Senior Python Developer
7 4 (4.65%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.65%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Senior Data Scientist
8 3 (3.49%) Associate Director
8 3 (3.49%) Quantitative Developer
8 3 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Senior Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (94.19%) Pandas
2 32 (37.21%) scikit-learn
3 30 (34.88%) FastAPI
4 25 (29.07%) Flask
5 20 (23.26%) Django
6 19 (22.09%) Kafka
6 19 (22.09%) Polars
6 19 (22.09%) REST
7 15 (17.44%) PyTorch
8 14 (16.28%) PySpark
8 14 (16.28%) TensorFlow
9 10 (11.63%) pytest
9 10 (11.63%) RESTful
10 9 (10.47%) Apache Avro
10 9 (10.47%) SciPy
11 8 (9.30%) OpenAPI
11 8 (9.30%) Swagger
12 7 (8.14%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (8.14%) Seaborn
13 6 (6.98%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.28%) Algorithms
1 14 (16.28%) Equities
2 11 (12.79%) Data Structures
2 11 (12.79%) Derivative
3 10 (11.63%) Hedge funds
4 9 (10.47%) Management Information System
5 8 (9.30%) Cloud Native
5 8 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (6.98%) Market Risk
7 5 (5.81%) Fixed Income
7 5 (5.81%) Public Cloud
8 4 (4.65%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
9 3 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (3.49%) Exotic Derivative
10 2 (2.33%) Life Science
10 2 (2.33%) SCADA
11 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
11 1 (1.16%) Robotics
11 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.14%) Linux
2 6 (6.98%) Unix
3 1 (1.16%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (46.51%) Machine Learning
2 39 (45.35%) Analytics
2 39 (45.35%) Data Science
3 37 (43.02%) Data Pipeline
4 28 (32.56%) Containerisation
5 27 (31.40%) CI/CD
6 24 (27.91%) AI
7 19 (22.09%) Visualisation
8 18 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (17.44%) Data Analysis
9 15 (17.44%) Data Engineering
9 15 (17.44%) Data Transformation
9 15 (17.44%) Performance Optimisation
10 14 (16.28%) DevOps
11 13 (15.12%) Decision-Making
11 13 (15.12%) Mathematics
11 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
12 12 (13.95%) Feature Engineering
13 11 (12.79%) Agile
13 11 (12.79%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 86 (100.00%) Python
2 45 (52.33%) SQL
3 7 (8.14%) C#
4 6 (6.98%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.65%) Cypher
5 4 (4.65%) Gremlin
6 3 (3.49%) Java
6 3 (3.49%) R
7 2 (2.33%) C++
7 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.33%) VBA
8 1 (1.16%) Bash
8 1 (1.16%) C
8 1 (1.16%) Haskell
8 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (10.47%) Degree
2 8 (9.30%) Master's Degree
2 8 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.49%) QA
2 1 (1.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (39.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (24.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.65%) Kubeflow
3 3 (3.49%) Podman
4 1 (1.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (9.30%) Databricks
2 5 (5.81%) Google
2 5 (5.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.49%) Foundry
3 3 (3.49%) Palantir
4 1 (1.16%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.16%) Optimizely