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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 322 344
Rank change year-on-year -170 +22 +181
Contract jobs citing NumPy 107 154 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.64% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.33% 2.87% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 120 183
10th Percentile £350 £500 £468
25th Percentile £450 £614 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £847 £888
90th Percentile £883 £875 -
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -23.33% -6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - - -
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 8,035 5,357 7,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.39% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 3,715 5,407
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
75th Percentile £630 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £790
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £535
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.34% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 96 236
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.66 £22.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.90 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £66.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 May 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 29 May 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 -110 89 £650 -13.33% 39
South East -45 9 £433 -19.53% 18
North of England -71 3 £538 -2.27% 22
Midlands - 3 £425 - 11
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 3
South West -32 1 £575 +35.29% 8
North West -33 1 £575 +4.55% 12
North East - 1 £500 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £425 - 8
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 18 (16.82%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (8.41%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.48%) Appian
4 5 (4.67%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.80%) Apache
6 1 (0.93%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.67%) CPLEX
3 5 (4.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 42 (39.25%) Azure
2 40 (37.38%) AWS
3 15 (14.02%) GCP
4 11 (10.28%) Amazon SageMaker
4 11 (10.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (9.35%) Azure AI
6 8 (7.48%) Anthropic Claude
6 8 (7.48%) Dagster
6 8 (7.48%) GitHub
6 8 (7.48%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (7.48%) Power Automate
7 7 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.61%) dbt
8 6 (5.61%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.74%) Serverless
11 3 (2.80%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.87%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.21%) Relational Database
2 10 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.41%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.48%) Big Data
4 8 (7.48%) Pinecone
4 8 (7.48%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.54%) MongoDB
6 6 (5.61%) BigQuery
6 6 (5.61%) Power BI
7 5 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (4.67%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.74%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.74%) Power Query
8 4 (3.74%) Tableau
9 3 (2.80%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.87%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.87%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.87%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.87%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (20.56%) Git
2 21 (19.63%) MLflow
3 4 (3.74%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.87%) Selenium
5 1 (0.93%) GitLab
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (42.99%) Finance
2 29 (27.10%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (22.43%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.21%) Banking
5 9 (8.41%) Publishing
6 6 (5.61%) Front Office
6 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.67%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.67%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Advertising
9 1 (0.93%) Aviation
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (40.19%) Developer
2 36 (33.64%) Python Developer
3 27 (25.23%) Data Scientist
4 19 (17.76%) Senior
5 11 (10.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (8.41%) Kafka Developer
6 9 (8.41%) Senior Developer
6 9 (8.41%) Senior Python Developer
7 8 (7.48%) Analyst
7 8 (7.48%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.67%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Lead
10 4 (3.74%) Quantitative Developer
10 4 (3.74%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Senior Data Scientist
11 3 (2.80%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 3 (2.80%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (97.20%) Pandas
2 47 (43.93%) scikit-learn
3 28 (26.17%) PyTorch
3 28 (26.17%) TensorFlow
4 26 (24.30%) FastAPI
5 25 (23.36%) Django
5 25 (23.36%) Flask
6 24 (22.43%) REST
7 18 (16.82%) Kafka
8 16 (14.95%) Polars
8 16 (14.95%) Seaborn
9 15 (14.02%) pytest
10 14 (13.08%) RESTful
11 13 (12.15%) Hugging Face
11 13 (12.15%) OpenAPI
11 13 (12.15%) Swagger
12 10 (9.35%) SciPy
13 9 (8.41%) Apache Avro
14 8 (7.48%) Matplotlib
14 8 (7.48%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) Algorithms
1 16 (14.95%) Equities
2 10 (9.35%) Hedge funds
2 10 (9.35%) Management Information System
3 9 (8.41%) Data Structures
4 8 (7.48%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (7.48%) Low-Code
5 7 (6.54%) Derivative
6 6 (5.61%) Cloud Native
6 6 (5.61%) Fixed Income
6 6 (5.61%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.74%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.80%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.93%) Life Science
10 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.93%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.87%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (53.27%) Machine Learning
2 55 (51.40%) Data Pipeline
3 44 (41.12%) Data Science
4 42 (39.25%) CI/CD
5 35 (32.71%) AI
6 32 (29.91%) Containerisation
7 31 (28.97%) Analytics
7 31 (28.97%) Data Engineering
8 24 (22.43%) Generative AI
9 21 (19.63%) Visualisation
10 20 (18.69%) Decision-Making
10 20 (18.69%) ETL
10 20 (18.69%) LLM
10 20 (18.69%) Workflow
11 19 (17.76%) MLOps
11 19 (17.76%) Natural Language Processing
12 17 (15.89%) Data Cleansing
12 17 (15.89%) Feature Engineering
13 16 (14.95%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 16 (14.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 107 (100.00%) Python
2 59 (55.14%) SQL
3 7 (6.54%) C#
4 6 (5.61%) C++
4 6 (5.61%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.67%) R
6 4 (3.74%) Java
7 3 (2.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.87%) Ada
8 2 (1.87%) C
8 2 (1.87%) VBA
9 1 (0.93%) Bash
9 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.93%) SHACL
9 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.93%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.93%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 16 (14.95%) Degree
2 13 (12.15%) Master's Degree
3 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.48%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.61%) PhD
6 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.69%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.87%) QA
System Software
1 43 (40.19%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) HDFS
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (28.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.67%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.93%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (14.02%) Databricks
2 14 (13.08%) OpenAI
3 10 (9.35%) Google
4 9 (8.41%) Microsoft
5 8 (7.48%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (7.48%) UiPath
6 2 (1.87%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.87%) Cognos
6 2 (1.87%) IBM
6 2 (1.87%) Reuters
6 2 (1.87%) Sage
6 2 (1.87%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) Optimizely