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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 352 417
Rank change year-on-year -40 +65 +106
Contract jobs citing NumPy 158 163 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.56% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.28% 2.55% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 155 123
10th Percentile £401 £550 £463
25th Percentile £463 £638 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -31.25% +14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £64.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £66.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £65.50
% change year-on-year - - +19.09%

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 6,941 6,399 8,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.33% 21.82% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,632 4,087 6,018
10th Percentile £350 £357 £370
25th Percentile £413 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £665 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £772
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 89 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.77 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 -24 123 £725 -9.38% 17
South East - 15 £438 - 20
West Midlands -29 8 £451 -5.05% 7
Midlands -31 8 £451 -5.05% 15
North of England -32 6 £516 -0.72% 17
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 8
East of England -25 4 £475 -24.00% 16
South West - 1 £550 - 16
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 46 (29.11%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (20.89%) Apache
3 13 (8.23%) Apache Spark
4 9 (5.70%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (5.06%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.27%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 93 (58.86%) AWS
2 43 (27.22%) dbt
3 42 (26.58%) Azure
4 33 (20.89%) GCP
5 30 (18.99%) Snowflake
6 17 (10.76%) Power Platform
7 12 (7.59%) Serverless
8 11 (6.96%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.96%) Amazon SageMaker
8 11 (6.96%) GitHub
9 9 (5.70%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (4.43%) Azure AI
12 6 (3.80%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (3.16%) Amazon Bedrock
13 5 (3.16%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (3.16%) ChatGPT
14 4 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.53%) Internet
2 3 (1.90%) SSH
2 3 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.27%) DNS
3 2 (1.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (26.58%) Amazon Athena
2 37 (23.42%) Apache Arrow
2 37 (23.42%) Apache Iceberg
2 37 (23.42%) Dremio
3 26 (16.46%) Apache Ignite
3 26 (16.46%) Data Lake
4 23 (14.56%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (9.49%) Relational Database
6 14 (8.86%) Big Data
6 14 (8.86%) Power BI
7 12 (7.59%) NoSQL
8 8 (5.06%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.80%) BigQuery
9 6 (3.80%) MySQL
9 6 (3.80%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.16%) Tableau
11 4 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.53%) Parquet
12 3 (1.90%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.27%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 38 (24.05%) Git
2 14 (8.86%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.70%) PyCharm
4 6 (3.80%) MLflow
5 4 (2.53%) JIRA
5 4 (2.53%) Poetry
5 4 (2.53%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 84 (53.16%) Finance
2 61 (38.61%) Banking
3 54 (34.18%) Front Office
4 40 (25.32%) Investment Banking
5 31 (19.62%) Social Skills
6 20 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (8.23%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.53%) Legal
9 3 (1.90%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.90%) Marketing
10 2 (1.27%) Electronics
10 2 (1.27%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Law
11 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (37.97%) Developer
2 51 (32.28%) Python Developer
3 46 (29.11%) Python Engineer
4 41 (25.95%) Senior
5 39 (24.68%) Software Engineer
6 37 (23.42%) AWS Engineer
6 37 (23.42%) AWS Software Engineer
6 37 (23.42%) Python Software Engineer
7 31 (19.62%) Data Scientist
8 26 (16.46%) Java Engineer
8 26 (16.46%) Java Software Engineer
8 26 (16.46%) Senior Software Engineer
9 25 (15.82%) AWS Developer
9 25 (15.82%) Senior Java Engineer
9 25 (15.82%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 14 (8.86%) JavaScript Developer
11 12 (7.59%) Data Engineer
12 11 (6.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 9 (5.70%) RAD Developer
14 8 (5.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (94.94%) Pandas
2 63 (39.87%) SciPy
3 44 (27.85%) scikit-learn
4 26 (16.46%) Flask
4 26 (16.46%) gRPC
4 26 (16.46%) Protocol Buffers
4 26 (16.46%) PyTorch
4 26 (16.46%) React
5 25 (15.82%) AngularJS
5 25 (15.82%) Vue
6 24 (15.19%) FastAPI
6 24 (15.19%) TensorFlow
7 19 (12.03%) REST
8 16 (10.13%) Polars
9 11 (6.96%) Hugging Face
9 11 (6.96%) LangChain
9 11 (6.96%) Node.js
10 9 (5.70%) COM
11 8 (5.06%) Matplotlib
11 8 (5.06%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 60 (37.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 52 (32.91%) Equities
2 52 (32.91%) Hedge funds
3 38 (24.05%) Fixed Income
4 29 (18.35%) Derivative
5 26 (16.46%) Pricing Data
6 25 (15.82%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.53%) Clustering
7 4 (2.53%) Online Banking
7 4 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.90%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.90%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.63%) Industry 4.0
10 1 (0.63%) MicroBlaze
10 1 (0.63%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.29%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (42.41%) Software Engineering
2 63 (39.87%) Agile
3 57 (36.08%) Data Science
4 55 (34.81%) Machine Learning
5 44 (27.85%) Analytics
6 42 (26.58%) Data Engineering
7 41 (25.95%) AI
8 38 (24.05%) Asset Management
8 38 (24.05%) Investment Management
9 34 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (19.62%) LLM
11 27 (17.09%) CI/CD
11 27 (17.09%) Visualisation
12 26 (16.46%) Mathematics
13 25 (15.82%) Data Analysis
14 23 (14.56%) Generative AI
15 22 (13.92%) Clean Code
15 22 (13.92%) DevOps
16 21 (13.29%) Decision-Making
17 20 (12.66%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 158 (100.00%) Python
2 52 (32.91%) JavaScript
3 50 (31.65%) SQL
4 43 (27.22%) Java
5 37 (23.42%) TypeScript
6 20 (12.66%) C++
7 19 (12.03%) C#
8 15 (9.49%) Rust
9 9 (5.70%) VBA
10 5 (3.16%) Bash
11 4 (2.53%) Groovy
12 3 (1.90%) R
13 1 (0.63%) C
13 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.63%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 23 (14.56%) Degree
2 20 (12.66%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.86%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.70%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.06%) PhD
6 5 (3.16%) MCP
7 4 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.16%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.53%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 27 (17.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (17.72%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.90%) Argo
2 3 (1.90%) Istio
2 3 (1.90%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.90%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (8.23%) Google
2 12 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.70%) Databricks
4 5 (3.16%) Dataiku
4 5 (3.16%) Foundry
4 5 (3.16%) Sage
5 4 (2.53%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.90%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.90%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.27%) Cognos
7 2 (1.27%) IBM
7 2 (1.27%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.27%) SAP
8 1 (0.63%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.63%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle