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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 332 444
Rank change year-on-year -43 +112 +88
Contract jobs citing NumPy 165 187 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.60% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.37% 2.78% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 182 121
10th Percentile £402 £550 £463
25th Percentile £463 £653 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -28.13% +23.08% +8.33%
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 6,968 6,730 8,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.69% 21.72% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,693 4,269 6,227
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -5.16%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 105 179
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +22.64% -18.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -15.38% +19.13% -12.93%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -19 131 £750 -6.25% 35
South East - 15 £438 - 21
West Midlands -18 7 £402 -15.37% 1
Midlands -26 7 £402 -15.37% 1
Yorkshire -23 6 £516 +29.06% 2
North of England -38 6 £516 +12.23% 4
East of England -16 4 £475 +48.44%
South West - 1 £550 -
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 55 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (21.82%) Apache
3 13 (7.88%) Apache Spark
4 9 (5.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (4.85%) Chatbot
2 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.21%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 102 (61.82%) AWS
2 53 (32.12%) dbt
3 39 (23.64%) Azure
3 39 (23.64%) GCP
4 34 (20.61%) Snowflake
5 16 (9.70%) Power Platform
6 11 (6.67%) GitHub
6 11 (6.67%) Serverless
7 10 (6.06%) Amazon S3
7 10 (6.06%) Amazon SageMaker
8 7 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.24%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (3.03%) Amazon Bedrock
9 5 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (3.03%) Azure AI
9 5 (3.03%) ChatGPT
9 5 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.42%) Internet
2 3 (1.82%) SSH
2 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.21%) DNS
3 2 (1.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (31.52%) Amazon Athena
2 47 (28.48%) Apache Arrow
2 47 (28.48%) Apache Iceberg
2 47 (28.48%) Dremio
3 30 (18.18%) Apache Ignite
3 30 (18.18%) Data Lake
4 29 (17.58%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (9.09%) Relational Database
6 14 (8.48%) Big Data
7 13 (7.88%) NoSQL
7 13 (7.88%) Power BI
8 8 (4.85%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.64%) BigQuery
9 6 (3.64%) MySQL
9 6 (3.64%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.42%) Parquet
10 4 (2.42%) Tableau
11 3 (1.82%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.21%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 38 (23.03%) Git
2 13 (7.88%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.45%) PyCharm
4 6 (3.64%) MLflow
5 4 (2.42%) JIRA
5 4 (2.42%) Poetry
5 4 (2.42%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 98 (59.39%) Finance
2 67 (40.61%) Banking
3 64 (38.79%) Front Office
4 47 (28.48%) Investment Banking
5 28 (16.97%) Social Skills
6 21 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (7.88%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.42%) Legal
9 3 (1.82%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.82%) Marketing
9 3 (1.82%) Retail
10 2 (1.21%) Electronics
10 2 (1.21%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.61%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (41.21%) Developer
2 57 (34.55%) Python Developer
3 53 (32.12%) Python Engineer
4 49 (29.70%) Software Engineer
5 47 (28.48%) AWS Engineer
5 47 (28.48%) AWS Software Engineer
6 44 (26.67%) Python Software Engineer
6 44 (26.67%) Senior
7 33 (20.00%) AWS Developer
7 33 (20.00%) Java Engineer
7 33 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 30 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (17.58%) Senior Java Engineer
9 29 (17.58%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 27 (16.36%) Data Scientist
11 17 (10.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 16 (9.70%) JavaScript Developer
13 12 (7.27%) Data Engineer
14 9 (5.45%) RAD Developer
15 8 (4.85%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (94.55%) Pandas
2 74 (44.85%) SciPy
3 41 (24.85%) scikit-learn
4 34 (20.61%) React
5 33 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 33 (20.00%) Vue
6 30 (18.18%) gRPC
6 30 (18.18%) Protocol Buffers
7 29 (17.58%) Flask
8 26 (15.76%) FastAPI
9 23 (13.94%) PyTorch
10 21 (12.73%) TensorFlow
11 18 (10.91%) REST
12 17 (10.30%) Node.js
12 17 (10.30%) Polars
13 9 (5.45%) COM
14 8 (4.85%) Hugging Face
14 8 (4.85%) LangChain
15 7 (4.24%) Matplotlib
15 7 (4.24%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 72 (43.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 61 (36.97%) Equities
3 58 (35.15%) Hedge funds
4 50 (30.30%) Fixed Income
5 32 (19.39%) Derivative
6 30 (18.18%) Pricing Data
7 25 (15.15%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.42%) Clustering
8 4 (2.42%) Online Banking
8 4 (2.42%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.82%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.82%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.82%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.21%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.61%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.61%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (47.88%) Software Engineering
2 73 (44.24%) Agile
3 53 (32.12%) Data Science
3 53 (32.12%) Machine Learning
4 49 (29.70%) Asset Management
4 49 (29.70%) Investment Management
5 42 (25.45%) Data Engineering
6 39 (23.64%) Analytics
7 37 (22.42%) AI
8 34 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (16.97%) CI/CD
10 27 (16.36%) LLM
10 27 (16.36%) Risk Management
10 27 (16.36%) Visualisation
11 26 (15.76%) Mathematics
12 25 (15.15%) Clean Code
13 24 (14.55%) Data Analysis
14 22 (13.33%) DevOps
15 20 (12.12%) Decision-Making
16 18 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 162 (98.18%) Python
2 63 (38.18%) JavaScript
3 53 (32.12%) Java
4 51 (30.91%) SQL
5 47 (28.48%) TypeScript
6 20 (12.12%) C#
6 20 (12.12%) C++
7 17 (10.30%) Rust
8 9 (5.45%) VBA
9 5 (3.03%) Bash
10 4 (2.42%) Groovy
11 3 (1.82%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (13.33%) Degree
2 19 (11.52%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.27%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.85%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.03%) PhD
6 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.21%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.21%) MCP
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.42%) GDPR
3 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.21%) QA
System Software
1 28 (16.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (17.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.82%) Argo
2 3 (1.82%) Istio
2 3 (1.82%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.45%) Google
3 6 (3.64%) Databricks
4 5 (3.03%) Dataiku
4 5 (3.03%) Foundry
5 4 (2.42%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.42%) Sage
6 3 (1.82%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.82%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.21%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.21%) SAP
8 1 (0.61%) Cognos
8 1 (0.61%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.61%) IBM
8 1 (0.61%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle
8 1 (0.61%) Reuters