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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 343 417
Rank change year-on-year -95 +74 +138
Contract jobs citing NumPy 133 138 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.56% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.70% 2.47% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 120 124
10th Percentile £399 £463 £463
25th Percentile £453 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £749 £838 £788
90th Percentile £876 £888 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -18.52% -3.57% -
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 7,807 5,595 7,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.43% 22.71% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,233 3,767 5,411
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £429 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +0.37% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 85 202
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.26 £20.87
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.80 £75.00
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 12 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 12 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 -53 109 £650 -3.70% 55
North of England -56 8 £516 -6.14% 33
South East -40 7 £500 - 37
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 14
Midlands -56 5 £503 +5.89% 24
West Midlands -57 5 £503 +5.89% 7
North West -36 1 £575 +4.55% 14
East of England -40 1 £425 -34.62% 11
South West - 1 £550 - 12
North East - 1 £500 - 6
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 (13.53%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (8.27%) Apache Spark
3 10 (7.52%) Apache
4 9 (6.77%) Jupyter
5 8 (6.02%) Appian
6 1 (0.75%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.75%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 59 (44.36%) AWS
2 49 (36.84%) Azure
3 22 (16.54%) GCP
4 18 (13.53%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.02%) Azure AI
5 12 (9.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (8.27%) GitHub
6 11 (8.27%) Power Automate
7 10 (7.52%) Amazon SageMaker
7 10 (7.52%) dbt
8 9 (6.77%) Serverless
9 8 (6.02%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (6.02%) Azure Machine Learning
9 8 (6.02%) Snowflake
10 7 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (4.51%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.01%) Dagster
14 3 (2.26%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.28%) Power BI
1 15 (11.28%) Relational Database
2 13 (9.77%) NoSQL
3 11 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.77%) Pinecone
5 8 (6.02%) Big Data
5 8 (6.02%) BigQuery
5 8 (6.02%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.51%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (4.51%) Hadoop
7 6 (4.51%) MySQL
7 6 (4.51%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.26%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (2.26%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (2.26%) Dremio
8 3 (2.26%) Metadata
8 3 (2.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (22.56%) Git
2 15 (11.28%) MLflow
3 12 (9.02%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.51%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.75%) Poetry
5 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 63 (47.37%) Finance
2 38 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 33 (24.81%) Banking
4 29 (21.80%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (15.04%) Front Office
6 11 (8.27%) Investment Banking
6 11 (8.27%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.76%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.26%) Marketing
9 2 (1.50%) Electronics
9 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.75%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.75%) Law
10 1 (0.75%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Publishing
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (39.10%) Developer
2 41 (30.83%) Python Developer
3 28 (21.05%) Data Scientist
3 28 (21.05%) Senior
4 16 (12.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 13 (9.77%) Data Engineer
5 13 (9.77%) Senior Developer
5 13 (9.77%) Senior Python Developer
6 12 (9.02%) Python Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) RAD Developer
8 8 (6.02%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Quantitative Developer
10 6 (4.51%) AWS Developer
10 6 (4.51%) JavaScript Developer
10 6 (4.51%) Python Data Engineer
10 6 (4.51%) Senior Data Scientist
11 5 (3.76%) Analyst
11 5 (3.76%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (95.49%) Pandas
2 52 (39.10%) scikit-learn
3 35 (26.32%) TensorFlow
4 32 (24.06%) PyTorch
5 30 (22.56%) REST
6 26 (19.55%) FastAPI
7 23 (17.29%) Flask
7 23 (17.29%) SciPy
8 16 (12.03%) Django
9 15 (11.28%) Hugging Face
10 13 (9.77%) Seaborn
10 13 (9.77%) Web Services
11 11 (8.27%) pytest
12 10 (7.52%) LangChain
12 10 (7.52%) Plotly
12 10 (7.52%) Polars
13 9 (6.77%) Matplotlib
13 9 (6.77%) OpenAPI
13 9 (6.77%) RESTful
13 9 (6.77%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.05%) Algorithms
2 23 (17.29%) Hedge funds
3 21 (15.79%) Equities
4 18 (13.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (6.77%) Fixed Income
6 8 (6.02%) Derivative
6 8 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (6.02%) Low-Code
7 5 (3.76%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.76%) Public Cloud
8 4 (3.01%) AI Agents
8 4 (3.01%) Clustering
8 4 (3.01%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (3.01%) Online Banking
8 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.26%) Pricing Data
10 2 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.77%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (49.62%) Machine Learning
2 54 (40.60%) Data Science
3 51 (38.35%) AI
4 48 (36.09%) Analytics
5 45 (33.83%) Data Pipeline
6 40 (30.08%) Data Engineering
7 34 (25.56%) CI/CD
8 33 (24.81%) Generative AI
9 31 (23.31%) LLM
9 31 (23.31%) Natural Language Processing
10 30 (22.56%) Data Analysis
11 29 (21.80%) Visualisation
12 28 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (18.80%) Decision-Making
13 25 (18.80%) ETL
14 23 (17.29%) Software Engineering
15 22 (16.54%) MLOps
16 21 (15.79%) Containerisation
16 21 (15.79%) Mathematics
17 20 (15.04%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 133 (100.00%) Python
2 70 (52.63%) SQL
3 15 (11.28%) C++
3 15 (11.28%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.53%) Java
5 13 (9.77%) C#
6 9 (6.77%) VBA
7 7 (5.26%) Rust
8 3 (2.26%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.50%) Ada
9 2 (1.50%) 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 24 (18.05%) Degree
2 20 (15.04%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.77%) Master's Degree
4 11 (8.27%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.51%) PhD
6 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.54%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.26%) QA
3 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (24.81%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (22.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.76%) Kubeflow
3 3 (2.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (10.53%) Google
1 14 (10.53%) OpenAI
2 13 (9.77%) Databricks
2 13 (9.77%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.02%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (6.02%) UiPath
4 5 (3.76%) Dataiku
5 4 (3.01%) Bloomberg
5 4 (3.01%) SAP
6 3 (2.26%) Cognos
6 3 (2.26%) IBM
6 3 (2.26%) Sage
7 2 (1.50%) Foundry
7 2 (1.50%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.50%) Reuters
8 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.75%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.75%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle