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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 316 383
Rank change year-on-year -141 +67 +140
Contract jobs citing NumPy 132 152 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.66% 2.77% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 123 133
10th Percentile £371 £510 £463
25th Percentile £450 £588 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% -6.90% +2.84%
75th Percentile £738 £853 £875
90th Percentile £875 £888 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -18.52% -6.90% +2.84%
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 7,961 5,490 7,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.31% 22.51% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,322 3,805 5,301
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 89 171
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.42 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £36.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.90 £83.17 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -71 107 £600 -20.00% 50
South East -43 10 £500 -6.98% 21
North of England -64 6 £538 -2.27% 18
West Midlands -56 5 £503 +5.89% 4
Midlands -58 5 £503 +5.89% 10
Yorkshire - 4 - - 4
South West -26 2 £563 +32.35% 9
North West -42 1 £575 +4.55% 9
North East - 1 £500 - 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 21 (15.91%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.58%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.82%) Jupyter
4 8 (6.06%) Appian
5 5 (3.79%) Apache
6 1 (0.76%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.03%) CPLEX
5 2 (1.52%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 53 (40.15%) Azure
2 52 (39.39%) AWS
3 21 (15.91%) GCP
4 18 (13.64%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
5 12 (9.09%) Azure AI
5 12 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (9.09%) GitHub
6 11 (8.33%) Power Automate
7 9 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (6.06%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (6.06%) Azure Machine Learning
8 8 (6.06%) Dagster
8 8 (6.06%) dbt
8 8 (6.06%) Serverless
9 7 (5.30%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (4.55%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.12%) Relational Database
2 15 (11.36%) Power BI
3 10 (7.58%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.82%) Pinecone
5 8 (6.06%) BigQuery
5 8 (6.06%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (5.30%) Big Data
7 5 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.79%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.03%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.03%) Power Query
8 4 (3.03%) Tableau
9 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.27%) MySQL
9 3 (2.27%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.52%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.52%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (22.73%) Git
2 19 (14.39%) MLflow
3 9 (6.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.27%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.76%) Poetry
5 1 (0.76%) Selenium
General
1 54 (40.91%) Finance
2 37 (28.03%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (25.76%) Social Skills
4 24 (18.18%) Banking
5 14 (10.61%) Front Office
5 14 (10.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.79%) Publishing
7 4 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.03%) Marketing
8 2 (1.52%) Electronics
8 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.76%) Aviation
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (40.91%) Developer
2 44 (33.33%) Python Developer
3 33 (25.00%) Data Scientist
4 28 (21.21%) Senior
5 14 (10.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 14 (10.61%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.61%) Senior Python Developer
6 11 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Python Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) Analyst
8 8 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) RAD Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Quantitative Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Senior Data Scientist
10 5 (3.79%) Kafka Developer
10 5 (3.79%) Python Data Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Business Analyst
11 4 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (2.27%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (96.97%) Pandas
2 56 (42.42%) scikit-learn
3 35 (26.52%) REST
4 32 (24.24%) TensorFlow
5 30 (22.73%) PyTorch
6 25 (18.94%) Flask
7 23 (17.42%) FastAPI
8 22 (16.67%) Django
9 16 (12.12%) SciPy
9 16 (12.12%) Seaborn
10 14 (10.61%) Hugging Face
10 14 (10.61%) pytest
11 13 (9.85%) Web Services
12 12 (9.09%) Kafka
12 12 (9.09%) OpenAPI
12 12 (9.09%) Plotly
12 12 (9.09%) RESTful
12 12 (9.09%) Swagger
13 11 (8.33%) Polars
14 9 (6.82%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 22 (16.67%) Equities
2 19 (14.39%) Hedge funds
3 10 (7.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (6.06%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (6.06%) Low-Code
4 8 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.55%) Derivative
5 6 (4.55%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.79%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.03%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.03%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.52%) Clustering
8 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.52%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.79%) Linux
2 1 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (51.52%) Machine Learning
2 54 (40.91%) Data Science
3 52 (39.39%) Data Pipeline
4 50 (37.88%) Analytics
5 46 (34.85%) AI
6 38 (28.79%) CI/CD
7 35 (26.52%) Data Engineering
8 31 (23.48%) Generative AI
8 31 (23.48%) Visualisation
9 30 (22.73%) Containerisation
10 29 (21.97%) Data Analysis
11 28 (21.21%) Decision-Making
11 28 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (18.94%) LLM
13 24 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
14 22 (16.67%) ETL
15 21 (15.91%) Mathematics
15 21 (15.91%) Workflow
16 19 (14.39%) Data Cleansing
16 19 (14.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 132 (100.00%) Python
2 70 (53.03%) SQL
3 10 (7.58%) C#
3 10 (7.58%) C++
3 10 (7.58%) VBA
4 8 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.55%) Java
6 4 (3.03%) R
7 3 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.52%) Ada
8 2 (1.52%) Rust
9 1 (0.76%) Bash
9 1 (0.76%) C
9 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.76%) SHACL
9 1 (0.76%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.76%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 22 (16.67%) Degree
1 22 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.61%) Master's Degree
3 12 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.55%) PhD
5 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.91%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 40 (30.30%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) HDFS
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.06%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.12%) Databricks
3 15 (11.36%) Google
3 15 (11.36%) OpenAI
4 8 (6.06%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (6.06%) UiPath
5 4 (3.03%) Dataiku
5 4 (3.03%) SAP
6 3 (2.27%) Cognos
6 3 (2.27%) IBM
6 3 (2.27%) Sage
7 2 (1.52%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.52%) Foundry
7 2 (1.52%) Reuters
8 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.76%) NVIDIA