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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 336 306
Rank change year-on-year -189 -30 +201
Contract jobs citing NumPy 101 169 266
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.63% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 2.80% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 131 247
10th Percentile £349 £456 £563
25th Percentile £450 £622 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +14.90%
75th Percentile £750 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -23.33% -6.25% +17.00%
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 8,500 6,027 7,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.01% 22.34% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,603 4,138 5,570
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £428 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 134 265
10th Percentile £30.35 £30.90 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.61 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year +17.12% -0.22% -14.42%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -126 80 £700 -6.67% 57
South East -51 13 £374 -14.08% 24
Midlands - 3 £425 - 11
North of England -78 2 £575 +4.55% 23
East Midlands - 2 £425 - 8
South West -36 1 £575 +35.29% 22
North West -41 1 £575 +4.55% 13
Yorkshire - 1 - - 6
West Midlands - 1 £325 - 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 16 (15.84%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.93%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.96%) Appian
3 4 (3.96%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.98%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (8.91%) CPLEX
2 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (4.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 37 (36.63%) Azure
2 34 (33.66%) AWS
3 15 (14.85%) GCP
4 13 (12.87%) Amazon SageMaker
5 9 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.92%) Dagster
6 8 (7.92%) GitHub
6 8 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (5.94%) dbt
9 5 (4.95%) Amazon Neptune
9 5 (4.95%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (4.95%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.96%) Azure AI
10 4 (3.96%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.97%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.98%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (1.98%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.83%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (13.86%) MongoDB
2 14 (13.86%) Relational Database
3 13 (12.87%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.92%) Neo4j
5 6 (5.94%) Big Data
6 5 (4.95%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.95%) Power BI
7 4 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.96%) Pinecone
7 4 (3.96%) Power Query
7 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.97%) Tableau
9 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.98%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.98%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.99%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.99%) Stardog
10 1 (0.99%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 27 (26.73%) Git
2 17 (16.83%) MLflow
3 3 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.98%) Selenium
5 1 (0.99%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.99%) GitLab
5 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (44.55%) Finance
2 31 (30.69%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (16.83%) Social Skills
4 13 (12.87%) Banking
5 9 (8.91%) Publishing
6 7 (6.93%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.94%) Front Office
7 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.95%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.97%) Private Banking
10 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.99%) Advertising
11 1 (0.99%) Aviation
11 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.99%) Marketing
11 1 (0.99%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 44 (43.56%) Developer
2 38 (37.62%) Python Developer
3 30 (29.70%) Data Scientist
4 14 (13.86%) Senior
5 9 (8.91%) Kafka Developer
6 8 (7.92%) Analyst
7 7 (6.93%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Python Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Senior Data Scientist
9 5 (4.95%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.95%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Senior Python Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Lead
11 3 (2.97%) Associate Director
11 3 (2.97%) Data Engineer
11 3 (2.97%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 3 (2.97%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
11 3 (2.97%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (96.04%) Pandas
2 45 (44.55%) scikit-learn
3 32 (31.68%) FastAPI
4 27 (26.73%) Flask
5 23 (22.77%) Django
5 23 (22.77%) Kafka
6 20 (19.80%) PyTorch
6 20 (19.80%) REST
6 20 (19.80%) TensorFlow
7 17 (16.83%) Polars
8 15 (14.85%) RESTful
9 14 (13.86%) pytest
10 13 (12.87%) OpenAPI
10 13 (12.87%) Seaborn
10 13 (12.87%) Swagger
11 9 (8.91%) Apache Avro
11 9 (8.91%) SciPy
12 8 (7.92%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (5.94%) PySpark
13 6 (5.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.80%) Algorithms
2 16 (15.84%) Equities
3 12 (11.88%) Data Structures
4 10 (9.90%) Derivative
4 10 (9.90%) Hedge funds
5 9 (8.91%) Cloud Native
5 9 (8.91%) Management Information System
6 7 (6.93%) Fixed Income
7 6 (5.94%) Public Cloud
8 5 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (4.95%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (3.96%) Low-Code
9 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.97%) Exotic Derivative
10 3 (2.97%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.98%) Life Science
11 2 (1.98%) SCADA
11 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.96%) Linux
2 3 (2.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (54.46%) Machine Learning
2 49 (48.51%) Data Pipeline
3 48 (47.52%) Data Science
4 39 (38.61%) CI/CD
5 38 (37.62%) Analytics
6 37 (36.63%) Containerisation
7 29 (28.71%) AI
8 24 (23.76%) Data Engineering
8 24 (23.76%) Visualisation
9 20 (19.80%) Decision-Making
9 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (18.81%) Data Analysis
11 18 (17.82%) DevOps
12 16 (15.84%) Feature Engineering
12 16 (15.84%) Mathematics
13 15 (14.85%) LLM
13 15 (14.85%) Workflow
14 14 (13.86%) Predictive Modelling
15 13 (12.87%) ETL
15 13 (12.87%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (55.45%) SQL
3 7 (6.93%) C#
4 4 (3.96%) Cypher
4 4 (3.96%) Gremlin
4 4 (3.96%) Java
5 3 (2.97%) C++
5 3 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.97%) R
5 3 (2.97%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.98%) VBA
7 1 (0.99%) Bash
7 1 (0.99%) C
7 1 (0.99%) Haskell
7 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.99%) SHACL
7 1 (0.99%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (12.87%) Degree
2 11 (10.89%) Master's Degree
3 9 (8.91%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.94%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.96%) PhD
6 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.87%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.97%) QA
3 1 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 46 (45.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (28.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.95%) Kubeflow
3 3 (2.97%) Podman
4 1 (0.99%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (9.90%) Databricks
2 8 (7.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.92%) OpenAI
3 6 (5.94%) Google
4 4 (3.96%) Automation Anywhere
4 4 (3.96%) UiPath
5 2 (1.98%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.98%) Reuters
6 1 (0.99%) Cognos
6 1 (0.99%) IBM
6 1 (0.99%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.99%) Sage