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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 350 301
Rank change year-on-year -192 -49 +193
Contract jobs citing NumPy 85 169 251
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.61% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 2.43% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 130 244
10th Percentile £349 £437 £641
25th Percentile £413 £553 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £809 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -23.33% -6.25% +23.08%

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 9,813 6,959 8,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.08% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,443 4,755 5,537
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 162 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.82 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.10 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.83 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +25.39% -14.77% -1.83%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -156 69 £638 -15.00% 112
South East -64 10 £358 -17.82% 23
Midlands -44 3 £425 +14.29% 13
East Midlands - 3 £425 - 10
North West - 2 £650 - 10
North of England - 2 £650 - 19
South West -44 1 £575 +35.29% 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 12 (14.12%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (10.59%) Apache Spark
3 6 (7.06%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.53%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (2.35%) Apache
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (9.41%) CPLEX
2 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.06%) AWS
1 23 (27.06%) Azure
2 11 (12.94%) Amazon SageMaker
2 11 (12.94%) GCP
3 7 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.06%) dbt
5 5 (5.88%) Amazon Neptune
5 5 (5.88%) Dagster
5 5 (5.88%) GitHub
5 5 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.71%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.71%) Azure Databricks
6 4 (4.71%) Serverless
7 3 (3.53%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (3.53%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.35%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.35%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.82%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.12%) MongoDB
2 12 (14.12%) Relational Database
3 11 (12.94%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.41%) Neo4j
5 6 (7.06%) Big Data
6 4 (4.71%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.35%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.35%) Power BI
8 2 (2.35%) Power Query
8 2 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (2.35%) Tableau
9 1 (1.18%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.18%) KDB
9 1 (1.18%) Kdb+
9 1 (1.18%) Looker
Development Applications
1 26 (30.59%) Git
2 10 (11.76%) MLflow
3 1 (1.18%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.18%) GitLab
3 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.18%) JIRA
3 1 (1.18%) Selenium
3 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (40.00%) Finance
2 24 (28.24%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.47%) Social Skills
4 13 (15.29%) Banking
5 8 (9.41%) Investment Banking
5 8 (9.41%) Publishing
6 5 (5.88%) Front Office
6 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.53%) Private Banking
8 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Advertising
9 1 (1.18%) Automotive
9 1 (1.18%) Aviation
9 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.18%) Marketing
9 1 (1.18%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (42.35%) Developer
2 34 (40.00%) Python Developer
3 22 (25.88%) Data Scientist
4 15 (17.65%) Senior
5 8 (9.41%) Kafka Developer
6 7 (8.24%) Analyst
6 7 (8.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.24%) Senior Python Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (4.71%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Quantitative Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) Senior Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (94.12%) Pandas
2 31 (36.47%) scikit-learn
3 29 (34.12%) FastAPI
4 24 (28.24%) Flask
5 19 (22.35%) Django
5 19 (22.35%) REST
6 18 (21.18%) Kafka
7 16 (18.82%) Polars
7 16 (18.82%) PySpark
8 15 (17.65%) PyTorch
9 14 (16.47%) TensorFlow
10 11 (12.94%) pytest
11 10 (11.76%) RESTful
12 9 (10.59%) SciPy
13 8 (9.41%) Apache Avro
13 8 (9.41%) OpenAPI
13 8 (9.41%) Swagger
14 7 (8.24%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (7.06%) React
15 6 (7.06%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.29%) Algorithms
2 11 (12.94%) Data Structures
2 11 (12.94%) Equities
3 10 (11.76%) Derivative
4 9 (10.59%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (9.41%) Cloud Native
5 8 (9.41%) Hedge funds
5 8 (9.41%) Management Information System
6 6 (7.06%) Market Risk
7 5 (5.88%) Public Cloud
8 4 (4.71%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (4.71%) Fixed Income
8 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
9 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (3.53%) Exotic Derivative
10 2 (2.35%) Life Science
10 2 (2.35%) Robotics
10 2 (2.35%) SCADA
10 2 (2.35%) Self-Driving Car
11 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.41%) Linux
2 7 (8.24%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (49.41%) Machine Learning
2 40 (47.06%) Analytics
3 38 (44.71%) Data Science
4 37 (43.53%) Data Pipeline
5 30 (35.29%) Containerisation
6 28 (32.94%) AI
7 27 (31.76%) CI/CD
8 18 (21.18%) Visualisation
9 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (17.65%) Data Analysis
10 15 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
11 14 (16.47%) Data Engineering
11 14 (16.47%) Data Transformation
11 14 (16.47%) DevOps
11 14 (16.47%) Software Engineering
12 13 (15.29%) Decision-Making
12 13 (15.29%) Mathematics
13 12 (14.12%) Feature Engineering
13 12 (14.12%) LLM
14 11 (12.94%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 85 (100.00%) Python
2 46 (54.12%) SQL
3 7 (8.24%) C#
4 6 (7.06%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.88%) Cypher
5 5 (5.88%) Gremlin
6 4 (4.71%) Java
7 2 (2.35%) C++
7 2 (2.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.35%) R
7 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.35%) VBA
8 1 (1.18%) Bash
8 1 (1.18%) C
8 1 (1.18%) Haskell
8 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (10.59%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.41%) Degree
3 7 (8.24%) Master's Degree
4 6 (7.06%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 35 (41.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (27.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.71%) Kubeflow
2 4 (4.71%) Podman
3 2 (2.35%) Grafana
4 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (10.59%) Databricks
2 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.71%) Google
4 3 (3.53%) Foundry
4 3 (3.53%) Palantir
5 1 (1.18%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.18%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle