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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 330 391
Rank change year-on-year -107 +61 +143
Contract jobs citing NumPy 137 135 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.56% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 2.47% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 115 132
10th Percentile £390 £504 £463
25th Percentile £458 £594 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £740 £838 £850
90th Percentile £875 £888 £888
UK median daily rate £545 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -19.26% -6.90% +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 7,884 5,476 7,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.93% 22.60% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,272 3,775 5,394
10th Percentile £360 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.92% -5.65%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 88 173
10th Percentile £35.13 £27.38 £20.78
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.19 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £48.72
% change year-on-year +2.77% +29.82% -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 27 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 27 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 -72 108 £613 -15.52% 46
South East -42 10 £500 - 33
North of England -60 9 £516 -6.14% 28
Yorkshire - 7 £516 - 8
West Midlands -54 5 £503 +5.89% 6
Midlands -62 5 £503 +5.89% 19
South West - 2 £563 - 14
North West -33 1 £575 +4.55% 14
North East - 1 £500 - 7
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 22 (16.06%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (8.76%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.57%) Apache
4 8 (5.84%) Appian
5 7 (5.11%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.73%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.38%) Chatbot
2 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.19%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 57 (41.61%) AWS
2 53 (38.69%) Azure
3 21 (15.33%) GCP
4 19 (13.87%) Power Platform
5 15 (10.95%) GitHub
6 12 (8.76%) Amazon SageMaker
6 12 (8.76%) Azure AI
6 12 (8.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (8.03%) Power Automate
8 9 (6.57%) dbt
8 9 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (5.84%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (5.84%) Azure Machine Learning
9 8 (5.84%) Dagster
9 8 (5.84%) Serverless
10 7 (5.11%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (5.11%) Snowflake
11 6 (4.38%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.87%) Relational Database
2 16 (11.68%) Power BI
3 13 (9.49%) NoSQL
4 12 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (7.30%) Big Data
6 9 (6.57%) Pinecone
7 8 (5.84%) SQL Server
8 7 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (5.11%) BigQuery
8 7 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (4.38%) Hadoop
9 6 (4.38%) MySQL
9 6 (4.38%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.65%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.92%) Tableau
12 3 (2.19%) Metadata
13 2 (1.46%) Apache Arrow
13 2 (1.46%) Dremio
13 2 (1.46%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 33 (24.09%) Git
2 19 (13.87%) MLflow
3 12 (8.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.38%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.73%) Poetry
5 1 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 58 (42.34%) Finance
2 38 (27.74%) Social Skills
3 35 (25.55%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (22.63%) Banking
5 16 (11.68%) Front Office
6 15 (10.95%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.84%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.92%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.92%) Marketing
9 3 (2.19%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.19%) Publishing
10 2 (1.46%) Electronics
10 2 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.73%) Aviation
11 1 (0.73%) Legal
11 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (40.15%) Developer
2 44 (32.12%) Python Developer
3 34 (24.82%) Data Scientist
4 28 (20.44%) Senior
5 16 (11.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 14 (10.22%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.22%) Senior Python Developer
7 12 (8.76%) Data Engineer
8 11 (8.03%) Python Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) RAD Developer
10 8 (5.84%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) Quantitative Developer
12 6 (4.38%) Python Data Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Senior Data Scientist
13 5 (3.65%) Analyst
13 5 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
14 4 (2.92%) AWS Developer
14 4 (2.92%) JavaScript Developer
15 3 (2.19%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (97.08%) Pandas
2 58 (42.34%) scikit-learn
3 34 (24.82%) TensorFlow
4 33 (24.09%) REST
5 30 (21.90%) PyTorch
6 24 (17.52%) Flask
7 23 (16.79%) FastAPI
8 21 (15.33%) Django
9 20 (14.60%) SciPy
10 17 (12.41%) Seaborn
11 14 (10.22%) Hugging Face
12 13 (9.49%) pytest
12 13 (9.49%) Web Services
13 12 (8.76%) Plotly
14 11 (8.03%) OpenAPI
14 11 (8.03%) Polars
14 11 (8.03%) RESTful
14 11 (8.03%) Swagger
15 9 (6.57%) Kafka
15 9 (6.57%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.71%) Algorithms
2 23 (16.79%) Equities
3 22 (16.06%) Hedge funds
4 15 (10.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (5.84%) Derivative
5 8 (5.84%) Fixed Income
5 8 (5.84%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (5.84%) Low-Code
6 7 (5.11%) Data Structures
7 6 (4.38%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.92%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.92%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.92%) Clustering
8 4 (2.92%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (2.92%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.92%) Online Banking
9 3 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.46%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.11%) Linux
2 1 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (51.09%) Machine Learning
2 57 (41.61%) Data Science
3 49 (35.77%) AI
3 49 (35.77%) Analytics
4 48 (35.04%) Data Pipeline
5 40 (29.20%) Data Engineering
6 38 (27.74%) CI/CD
7 35 (25.55%) Visualisation
8 32 (23.36%) Data Analysis
8 32 (23.36%) Generative AI
9 30 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (21.17%) LLM
10 29 (21.17%) Natural Language Processing
11 28 (20.44%) Containerisation
11 28 (20.44%) Decision-Making
12 23 (16.79%) ETL
13 21 (15.33%) Data Cleansing
13 21 (15.33%) Mathematics
13 21 (15.33%) Software Engineering
14 20 (14.60%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 137 (100.00%) Python
2 72 (52.55%) SQL
3 13 (9.49%) C#
3 13 (9.49%) C++
4 12 (8.76%) JavaScript
5 11 (8.03%) Java
6 9 (6.57%) VBA
7 5 (3.65%) Rust
8 3 (2.19%) R
9 2 (1.46%) Ada
9 2 (1.46%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.73%) Bash
10 1 (0.73%) C
10 1 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.73%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.73%) SHACL
10 1 (0.73%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.73%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 26 (18.98%) Degree
2 24 (17.52%) Security Cleared
3 16 (11.68%) Master's Degree
4 13 (9.49%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.38%) PhD
6 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.19%) QA
3 2 (1.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (27.74%) Docker
2 2 (1.46%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (21.90%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.11%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (11.68%) Databricks
1 16 (11.68%) Google
1 16 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.22%) OpenAI
3 8 (5.84%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (5.84%) UiPath
4 4 (2.92%) Dataiku
4 4 (2.92%) SAP
5 3 (2.19%) Cognos
5 3 (2.19%) IBM
5 3 (2.19%) Sage
6 2 (1.46%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.46%) Foundry
6 2 (1.46%) Reuters
7 1 (0.73%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.73%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle