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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 347 420
Rank change year-on-year -86 +73 +119
Contract jobs citing NumPy 134 135 131
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.53% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.71% 2.36% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 116 115
10th Percentile £400 £463 £460
25th Percentile £455 £578 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £749 £838 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 £800
UK median daily rate £543 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -19.54% +3.85% -7.14%
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 7,844 5,730 7,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.60% 22.59% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,271 3,792 5,388
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £431 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £674
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 78 206
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.92 £21.04
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.75 £40.55
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.94
90th Percentile £78.25 £81.34 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -53 110 £650 -3.70% 51
North of England -52 8 £516 -6.14% 37
South East -40 7 £500 - 28
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 15
West Midlands -50 5 £503 +5.89% 10
Midlands -56 5 £503 +5.89% 25
North West -35 1 £575 +4.55% 14
East of England -41 1 £425 -34.62% 17
North East - 1 £500 - 9
South West - 1 £550 - 14
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 (15.67%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (8.96%) Apache Spark
3 11 (8.21%) Apache
4 9 (6.72%) Jupyter
5 8 (5.97%) Appian
6 1 (0.75%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.75%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 63 (47.01%) AWS
2 49 (36.57%) Azure
3 24 (17.91%) GCP
4 18 (13.43%) Power Platform
5 13 (9.70%) dbt
6 12 (8.96%) Azure AI
6 12 (8.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (8.21%) Amazon SageMaker
7 11 (8.21%) GitHub
7 11 (8.21%) Power Automate
8 9 (6.72%) Serverless
8 9 (6.72%) Snowflake
9 8 (5.97%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (5.97%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (5.22%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (4.48%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.99%) Dagster
14 3 (2.24%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.19%) Power BI
2 14 (10.45%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.70%) NoSQL
3 13 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.72%) BigQuery
4 9 (6.72%) Pinecone
5 8 (5.97%) Big Data
5 8 (5.97%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (5.22%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (4.48%) Apache Arrow
7 6 (4.48%) Apache Iceberg
7 6 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (4.48%) Dremio
7 6 (4.48%) Hadoop
7 6 (4.48%) MySQL
7 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.99%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (2.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 31 (23.13%) Git
2 15 (11.19%) MLflow
3 12 (8.96%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.48%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.75%) Poetry
5 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 65 (48.51%) Finance
2 38 (28.36%) Social Skills
3 35 (26.12%) Banking
4 27 (20.15%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (17.16%) Front Office
6 12 (8.96%) Investment Banking
7 11 (8.21%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.99%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.24%) Marketing
10 2 (1.49%) Electronics
10 2 (1.49%) Retail
10 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.75%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.75%) Law
11 1 (0.75%) Legal
11 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (38.06%) Developer
2 41 (30.60%) Python Developer
3 29 (21.64%) Senior
4 27 (20.15%) Data Scientist
5 16 (11.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 15 (11.19%) Python Engineer
7 13 (9.70%) Data Engineer
7 13 (9.70%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.70%) Senior Python Developer
8 11 (8.21%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) RAD Developer
10 8 (5.97%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) AWS Developer
10 8 (5.97%) Software Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Quantitative Developer
12 6 (4.48%) AWS Software Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) JavaScript Developer
12 6 (4.48%) Python Software Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (94.78%) Pandas
2 51 (38.06%) scikit-learn
3 36 (26.87%) TensorFlow
4 33 (24.63%) PyTorch
5 29 (21.64%) REST
6 26 (19.40%) SciPy
7 25 (18.66%) FastAPI
8 22 (16.42%) Flask
9 16 (11.94%) Django
10 15 (11.19%) Hugging Face
11 13 (9.70%) Seaborn
11 13 (9.70%) Web Services
12 11 (8.21%) pytest
13 10 (7.46%) LangChain
13 10 (7.46%) Plotly
14 9 (6.72%) Matplotlib
14 9 (6.72%) OpenAPI
14 9 (6.72%) React
14 9 (6.72%) RESTful
14 9 (6.72%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.66%) Algorithms
2 22 (16.42%) Equities
2 22 (16.42%) Hedge funds
3 21 (15.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (8.21%) Fixed Income
5 9 (6.72%) Derivative
6 8 (5.97%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (5.97%) Low-Code
7 5 (3.73%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.73%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.99%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.99%) Clustering
8 4 (2.99%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (2.99%) Online Banking
8 4 (2.99%) Pricing Data
8 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.49%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.72%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (49.25%) Machine Learning
2 54 (40.30%) Data Science
3 52 (38.81%) AI
4 47 (35.07%) Analytics
5 43 (32.09%) Data Pipeline
6 40 (29.85%) Data Engineering
7 34 (25.37%) CI/CD
8 33 (24.63%) Generative AI
9 32 (23.88%) Natural Language Processing
10 31 (23.13%) LLM
11 29 (21.64%) Data Analysis
11 29 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (21.64%) Visualisation
12 26 (19.40%) ETL
12 26 (19.40%) Software Engineering
13 24 (17.91%) Decision-Making
13 24 (17.91%) MLOps
14 23 (17.16%) Agile
15 21 (15.67%) Mathematics
16 20 (14.93%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 134 (100.00%) Python
2 69 (51.49%) SQL
3 18 (13.43%) JavaScript
4 15 (11.19%) C++
4 15 (11.19%) Java
5 13 (9.70%) C#
6 9 (6.72%) VBA
7 7 (5.22%) Rust
8 6 (4.48%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.49%) Ada
9 2 (1.49%) R
10 1 (0.75%) Bash
10 1 (0.75%) C
10 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.75%) SHACL
10 1 (0.75%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.75%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 25 (18.66%) Degree
2 20 (14.93%) Security Cleared
3 14 (10.45%) Master's Degree
4 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.48%) PhD
6 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.93%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.24%) QA
3 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (23.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (21.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.73%) Kubeflow
3 3 (2.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (10.45%) Google
1 14 (10.45%) OpenAI
2 13 (9.70%) Databricks
2 13 (9.70%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.97%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (5.97%) UiPath
4 5 (3.73%) Dataiku
5 4 (2.99%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.99%) SAP
6 3 (2.24%) Cognos
6 3 (2.24%) IBM
6 3 (2.24%) Sage
7 2 (1.49%) Foundry
7 2 (1.49%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.49%) Reuters
8 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.75%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.75%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle