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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 355 430
Rank change year-on-year -27 +75 +116
Contract jobs citing NumPy 159 159 135
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.55% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.26% 2.53% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 149 121
10th Percentile £400 £510 £463
25th Percentile £450 £638 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% +14.29%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £800 £675
% change year-on-year -31.25% +18.52% +8.00%
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 7,030 6,295 7,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.25% 21.87% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,686 4,020 5,761
10th Percentile £351 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.39%
75th Percentile £633 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -6.45% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 77 165
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.20
25th Percentile £44.01 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.18 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -6.04% +16.82% -17.69%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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 -32 126 £700 -12.50% 91
South East - 14 £435 - 32
West Midlands -18 8 £451 -5.05% 2
Midlands -36 8 £451 -5.05% 6
North of England - 6 £516 - 11
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 4
East of England -19 3 £450 -28.00% 14
South West - 1 £550 - 12
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 43 (27.04%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (19.50%) Apache
3 15 (9.43%) Apache Spark
4 9 (5.66%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.63%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (5.03%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.63%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 94 (59.12%) AWS
2 43 (27.04%) Azure
3 40 (25.16%) dbt
4 32 (20.13%) GCP
5 28 (17.61%) Snowflake
6 17 (10.69%) Power Platform
7 14 (8.81%) Serverless
8 13 (8.18%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.92%) Amazon SageMaker
9 11 (6.92%) GitHub
10 10 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.66%) Azure Machine Learning
12 8 (5.03%) Azure AI
13 7 (4.40%) Amazon Bedrock
13 7 (4.40%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (3.14%) ChatGPT
16 4 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (2.52%) Power Automate
16 4 (2.52%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.52%) Internet
2 3 (1.89%) SSH
2 3 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.26%) DNS
3 2 (1.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (24.53%) Amazon Athena
2 34 (21.38%) Apache Arrow
2 34 (21.38%) Apache Iceberg
2 34 (21.38%) Dremio
3 27 (16.98%) Data Lake
4 24 (15.09%) Apache Ignite
5 22 (13.84%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (10.06%) Big Data
7 15 (9.43%) Relational Database
8 14 (8.81%) Power BI
9 12 (7.55%) NoSQL
10 10 (6.29%) Hadoop
11 6 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (3.77%) BigQuery
11 6 (3.77%) MySQL
11 6 (3.77%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.52%) Parquet
12 4 (2.52%) Tableau
13 3 (1.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 38 (23.90%) Git
2 14 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.66%) PyCharm
4 7 (4.40%) MLflow
5 4 (2.52%) JIRA
5 4 (2.52%) Poetry
5 4 (2.52%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 83 (52.20%) Finance
2 59 (37.11%) Banking
3 50 (31.45%) Front Office
4 38 (23.90%) Investment Banking
5 32 (20.13%) Social Skills
6 19 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (8.18%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.52%) Legal
9 3 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.89%) Marketing
10 2 (1.26%) Electronics
10 2 (1.26%) Retail
10 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Law
11 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (37.11%) Developer
2 51 (32.08%) Python Developer
3 43 (27.04%) Python Engineer
4 42 (26.42%) Senior
5 36 (22.64%) Software Engineer
6 35 (22.01%) AWS Engineer
7 34 (21.38%) AWS Software Engineer
7 34 (21.38%) Python Software Engineer
8 31 (19.50%) Data Scientist
9 24 (15.09%) AWS Developer
9 24 (15.09%) Java Engineer
9 24 (15.09%) Java Software Engineer
9 24 (15.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 23 (14.47%) Senior Java Engineer
10 23 (14.47%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 14 (8.81%) Data Engineer
11 14 (8.81%) JavaScript Developer
12 10 (6.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 10 (6.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 9 (5.66%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (94.97%) Pandas
2 61 (38.36%) SciPy
3 46 (28.93%) scikit-learn
4 28 (17.61%) PyTorch
5 27 (16.98%) Flask
6 26 (16.35%) TensorFlow
7 25 (15.72%) FastAPI
7 25 (15.72%) React
8 24 (15.09%) AngularJS
8 24 (15.09%) gRPC
8 24 (15.09%) Protocol Buffers
8 24 (15.09%) Vue
9 22 (13.84%) REST
10 16 (10.06%) Polars
11 13 (8.18%) LangChain
12 12 (7.55%) Hugging Face
12 12 (7.55%) Node.js
13 10 (6.29%) LangGraph
13 10 (6.29%) Plotly
14 9 (5.66%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 57 (35.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 50 (31.45%) Hedge funds
3 48 (30.19%) Equities
4 34 (21.38%) Fixed Income
5 27 (16.98%) Derivative
6 24 (15.09%) Algorithms
6 24 (15.09%) Pricing Data
7 4 (2.52%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.52%) Clustering
7 4 (2.52%) Online Banking
7 4 (2.52%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.89%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.89%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.63%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.21%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (40.25%) Software Engineering
2 58 (36.48%) Agile
3 57 (35.85%) Machine Learning
4 56 (35.22%) Data Science
5 44 (27.67%) AI
6 43 (27.04%) Analytics
7 42 (26.42%) Data Engineering
8 35 (22.01%) Asset Management
8 35 (22.01%) Investment Management
9 34 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (20.13%) LLM
11 28 (17.61%) CI/CD
11 28 (17.61%) Visualisation
12 27 (16.98%) Data Analysis
13 26 (16.35%) Mathematics
14 25 (15.72%) Generative AI
15 22 (13.84%) Clean Code
15 22 (13.84%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (13.84%) DevOps
15 22 (13.84%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 159 (100.00%) Python
2 55 (34.59%) SQL
3 51 (32.08%) JavaScript
4 42 (26.42%) Java
5 34 (21.38%) TypeScript
6 22 (13.84%) C++
7 21 (13.21%) C#
8 15 (9.43%) Rust
9 9 (5.66%) VBA
10 5 (3.14%) Bash
11 4 (2.52%) Groovy
11 4 (2.52%) R
12 2 (1.26%) Ada
13 1 (0.63%) C
13 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.63%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 23 (14.47%) Degree
2 20 (12.58%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.81%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.66%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.03%) PhD
6 7 (4.40%) MCP
7 4 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.03%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.52%) GDPR
3 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.26%) QA
System Software
1 28 (17.61%) Docker
2 2 (1.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (18.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.89%) Argo
2 3 (1.89%) Istio
2 3 (1.89%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.89%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (8.18%) Google
2 12 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.92%) Databricks
4 5 (3.14%) Dataiku
4 5 (3.14%) Foundry
4 5 (3.14%) Sage
5 4 (2.52%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.52%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.52%) SAP
6 3 (1.89%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.26%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.26%) Cognos
7 2 (1.26%) IBM
7 2 (1.26%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.63%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.63%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle
8 1 (0.63%) UiPath