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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 357 429
Rank change year-on-year -73 +72 +121
Contract jobs citing NumPy 139 140 125
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.54% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.83% 2.41% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 124 112
10th Percentile £405 £477 £463
25th Percentile £463 £597 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £769 £850 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 £790
UK median daily rate £550 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.38
90th Percentile - - £66.60
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 7,582 5,821 7,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.84% 22.47% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,089 3,797 5,450
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 74 190
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £23.88
25th Percentile £51.13 £51.56 £43.78
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £69.38
90th Percentile £78.10 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year +2.80% +14.62% -16.11%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -47 118 £650 -13.33% 56
North of England -65 8 £516 -6.14% 24
South East -23 6 £488 - 19
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 10
West Midlands -55 4 £506 +6.53% 5
Midlands -62 4 £506 +6.53% 14
North West -27 1 £575 +4.55% 11
East of England -39 1 £425 -34.62% 8
South West - 1 £550 - 7
North East - 1 £500 - 3
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 23 (16.55%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (9.35%) Apache
3 12 (8.63%) Apache Spark
4 9 (6.47%) Jupyter
5 8 (5.76%) Appian
6 1 (0.72%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.72%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 65 (46.76%) AWS
2 47 (33.81%) Azure
3 24 (17.27%) GCP
4 17 (12.23%) dbt
4 17 (12.23%) Power Platform
5 14 (10.07%) Azure AI
6 12 (8.63%) Amazon SageMaker
7 11 (7.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (7.91%) GitHub
7 11 (7.91%) Power Automate
8 10 (7.19%) Snowflake
9 9 (6.47%) Serverless
10 8 (5.76%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (5.76%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (5.04%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (4.32%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (2.88%) Dagster
15 3 (2.16%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.79%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.07%) Power BI
3 13 (9.35%) Relational Database
4 12 (8.63%) NoSQL
5 10 (7.19%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (7.19%) Apache Arrow
5 10 (7.19%) Apache Iceberg
5 10 (7.19%) Dremio
6 9 (6.47%) Data Lake
6 9 (6.47%) Pinecone
7 8 (5.76%) Big Data
7 8 (5.76%) SQL Server
8 7 (5.04%) BigQuery
9 6 (4.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.32%) Apache Ignite
9 6 (4.32%) Hadoop
9 6 (4.32%) MySQL
9 6 (4.32%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (23.74%) Git
2 15 (10.79%) MLflow
3 11 (7.91%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.32%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.72%) Poetry
5 1 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 72 (51.80%) Finance
2 39 (28.06%) Banking
3 38 (27.34%) Social Skills
4 28 (20.14%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (19.42%) Front Office
6 16 (11.51%) Investment Banking
7 11 (7.91%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.88%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.16%) Legal
9 3 (2.16%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.16%) Marketing
10 2 (1.44%) Electronics
10 2 (1.44%) Retail
10 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.72%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (37.41%) Developer
2 43 (30.94%) Python Developer
3 33 (23.74%) Senior
4 30 (21.58%) Data Scientist
5 19 (13.67%) Python Engineer
6 16 (11.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 14 (10.07%) Data Engineer
8 13 (9.35%) Senior Developer
8 13 (9.35%) Senior Python Developer
9 12 (8.63%) AWS Developer
9 12 (8.63%) Software Engineer
10 11 (7.91%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (7.19%) AWS Software Engineer
11 10 (7.19%) Python Software Engineer
12 9 (6.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 9 (6.47%) RAD Developer
13 8 (5.76%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (5.76%) JavaScript Developer
14 7 (5.04%) Python Data Engineer
14 7 (5.04%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (94.96%) Pandas
2 52 (37.41%) scikit-learn
3 34 (24.46%) TensorFlow
4 31 (22.30%) PyTorch
5 30 (21.58%) SciPy
6 29 (20.86%) REST
7 27 (19.42%) FastAPI
8 24 (17.27%) Flask
9 16 (11.51%) Django
10 15 (10.79%) Hugging Face
11 13 (9.35%) React
11 13 (9.35%) Web Services
12 12 (8.63%) AngularJS
12 12 (8.63%) LangChain
12 12 (8.63%) Vue
13 11 (7.91%) pytest
13 11 (7.91%) Seaborn
14 10 (7.19%) Plotly
14 10 (7.19%) Polars
15 9 (6.47%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (18.71%) Hedge funds
3 25 (17.99%) Algorithms
3 25 (17.99%) Equities
4 15 (10.79%) Fixed Income
5 10 (7.19%) Derivative
6 8 (5.76%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (5.76%) Low-Code
7 6 (4.32%) Pricing Data
8 4 (2.88%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.88%) Clustering
8 4 (2.88%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.88%) Online Banking
8 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.88%) Reinsurance
9 3 (2.16%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.16%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (2.16%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.91%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (46.04%) Machine Learning
2 55 (39.57%) Data Science
3 54 (38.85%) AI
4 48 (34.53%) Analytics
5 42 (30.22%) Data Engineering
5 42 (30.22%) Data Pipeline
6 34 (24.46%) Generative AI
7 33 (23.74%) CI/CD
7 33 (23.74%) Software Engineering
8 32 (23.02%) LLM
8 32 (23.02%) Natural Language Processing
9 31 (22.30%) Data Analysis
10 29 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (20.14%) Visualisation
12 27 (19.42%) Agile
13 25 (17.99%) ETL
14 24 (17.27%) MLOps
15 23 (16.55%) Decision-Making
16 22 (15.83%) Mathematics
17 19 (13.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 139 (100.00%) Python
2 69 (49.64%) SQL
3 24 (17.27%) JavaScript
4 18 (12.95%) Java
5 16 (11.51%) C++
6 15 (10.79%) C#
7 10 (7.19%) TypeScript
8 9 (6.47%) Rust
8 9 (6.47%) VBA
9 2 (1.44%) Ada
9 2 (1.44%) R
10 1 (0.72%) Bash
10 1 (0.72%) C
10 1 (0.72%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.72%) SHACL
10 1 (0.72%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.72%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 23 (16.55%) Degree
2 19 (13.67%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.35%) Master's Degree
4 10 (7.19%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.32%) PhD
6 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.44%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.39%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.16%) QA
3 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 31 (22.30%) Docker
2 2 (1.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (20.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.16%) Kubeflow
2 3 (2.16%) Terraform
3 1 (0.72%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (10.79%) Databricks
2 14 (10.07%) OpenAI
3 13 (9.35%) Microsoft
4 12 (8.63%) Google
5 8 (5.76%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (5.76%) UiPath
6 5 (3.60%) Dataiku
7 4 (2.88%) Foundry
7 4 (2.88%) SAP
8 3 (2.16%) Alteryx
8 3 (2.16%) Bloomberg
8 3 (2.16%) Cognos
8 3 (2.16%) IBM
8 3 (2.16%) Sage
9 2 (1.44%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.72%) DataRobot
10 1 (0.72%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.72%) Oracle
10 1 (0.72%) Reuters