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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 338 277
Rank change year-on-year -176 -61 +215
Contract jobs citing NumPy 95 172 271
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.62% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.12% 2.79% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 131 255
10th Percentile £350 £435 £563
25th Percentile £450 £581 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £744 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +18.52%

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 8,486 6,154 7,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.60% 22.31% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,559 4,231 5,050
10th Percentile £365 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £643 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 151 228
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £23.94
25th Percentile £47.60 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -11.00%
75th Percentile £73.34 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £51.25
% change year-on-year +18.45% +7.07% -14.58%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -136 76 £700 -6.67% 59
South East -70 11 £374 -14.57% 21
Midlands -57 3 £425 +14.29% 11
East Midlands - 2 £425 - 8
North of England - 2 £650 - 21
South West -36 1 £575 +35.29% 14
West Midlands -65 1 £325 -12.61% 3
North West - 1 £650 - 10
Yorkshire - 1 - - 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 13 (13.68%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.42%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.21%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.16%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.05%) Apache
5 1 (1.05%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (8.42%) CPLEX
2 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.58%) AWS
1 30 (31.58%) Azure
2 14 (14.74%) GCP
3 11 (11.58%) Amazon SageMaker
4 7 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.32%) Dagster
5 6 (6.32%) dbt
5 6 (6.32%) GitHub
5 6 (6.32%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.21%) Amazon Neptune
6 4 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.16%) Serverless
8 2 (2.11%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (2.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (14.74%) Relational Database
3 13 (13.68%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 7 (7.37%) Big Data
5 7 (7.37%) Neo4j
6 5 (5.26%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.21%) Power BI
8 3 (3.16%) Power Query
8 3 (3.16%) Tableau
9 2 (2.11%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.11%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.05%) KDB
10 1 (1.05%) Looker
10 1 (1.05%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (24.21%) Git
2 12 (12.63%) MLflow
3 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.05%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.05%) GitLab
4 1 (1.05%) Selenium
4 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (44.21%) Finance
2 29 (30.53%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.74%) Social Skills
4 13 (13.68%) Banking
5 9 (9.47%) Publishing
6 8 (8.42%) Investment Banking
7 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.26%) Front Office
9 4 (4.21%) Financial Institution
10 3 (3.16%) Private Banking
11 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.05%) Advertising
12 1 (1.05%) Aviation
12 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.05%) Marketing
12 1 (1.05%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (45.26%) Developer
2 39 (41.05%) Python Developer
3 25 (26.32%) Data Scientist
4 14 (14.74%) Senior
5 9 (9.47%) Kafka Developer
6 8 (8.42%) Analyst
6 8 (8.42%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Senior Python Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.26%) Python Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Senior Data Scientist
9 4 (4.21%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Associate Director
10 3 (3.16%) Data Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (95.79%) Pandas
2 37 (38.95%) scikit-learn
3 31 (32.63%) FastAPI
4 26 (27.37%) Flask
5 21 (22.11%) Django
5 21 (22.11%) Kafka
6 20 (21.05%) REST
7 17 (17.89%) Polars
7 17 (17.89%) PyTorch
8 16 (16.84%) TensorFlow
9 13 (13.68%) PySpark
10 11 (11.58%) RESTful
10 11 (11.58%) Seaborn
11 10 (10.53%) pytest
11 10 (10.53%) SciPy
12 9 (9.47%) Apache Avro
12 9 (9.47%) OpenAPI
12 9 (9.47%) Swagger
13 7 (7.37%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (6.32%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Equities
2 14 (14.74%) Algorithms
3 12 (12.63%) Derivative
4 11 (11.58%) Data Structures
5 10 (10.53%) Hedge funds
6 9 (9.47%) Management Information System
7 8 (8.42%) Cloud Native
7 8 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (7.37%) Fixed Income
9 6 (6.32%) Market Risk
9 6 (6.32%) Public Cloud
10 5 (5.26%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (4.21%) Product Ownership
12 3 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (3.16%) Exotic Derivative
13 2 (2.11%) Life Science
13 2 (2.11%) SCADA
13 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 1 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.37%) Linux
2 6 (6.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (49.47%) Machine Learning
2 42 (44.21%) Analytics
2 42 (44.21%) Data Science
3 41 (43.16%) Data Pipeline
4 32 (33.68%) CI/CD
4 32 (33.68%) Containerisation
5 26 (27.37%) AI
6 22 (23.16%) Visualisation
7 20 (21.05%) Decision-Making
8 19 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 19 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (16.84%) DevOps
9 16 (16.84%) Performance Optimisation
10 15 (15.79%) Data Transformation
11 14 (14.74%) Data Analysis
11 14 (14.74%) Mathematics
12 13 (13.68%) Feature Engineering
12 13 (13.68%) Software Engineering
12 13 (13.68%) Workflow
13 12 (12.63%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 95 (100.00%) Python
2 51 (53.68%) SQL
3 7 (7.37%) C#
4 6 (6.32%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.21%) Cypher
5 4 (4.21%) Gremlin
5 4 (4.21%) Java
6 3 (3.16%) C++
6 3 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.16%) R
7 2 (2.11%) VBA
8 1 (1.05%) Bash
8 1 (1.05%) C
8 1 (1.05%) Haskell
8 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.63%) Degree
2 11 (11.58%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.53%) Master's Degree
4 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.21%) PhD
6 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.16%) QA
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (41.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (24.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.26%) Kubeflow
3 3 (3.16%) Podman
4 1 (1.05%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (10.53%) Databricks
2 7 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.32%) Google
4 4 (4.21%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.16%) Foundry
5 3 (3.16%) Palantir
6 1 (1.05%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.05%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.05%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.05%) Reuters
6 1 (1.05%) UiPath