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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 355 447
Rank change year-on-year -59 +92 +106
Contract jobs citing NumPy 136 133 119
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.51% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.86% 2.27% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 119 107
10th Percentile £405 £510 £463
25th Percentile £463 £606 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £806 £850 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 -
UK median daily rate £543 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -19.54% +3.85% -
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 7,311 5,867 7,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.88% 22.33% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,898 3,751 5,599
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £657
90th Percentile £738 £788 £751
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £534
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.66% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 76 182
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.38 £25.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.31 £45.96
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £66.19 £69.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -30 115 £650 -13.33% 56
North of England -46 8 £516 -6.14% 22
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 9
South East -27 5 £500 - 25
West Midlands -40 4 £506 +6.53% 3
Midlands -51 4 £506 +6.53% 13
East of England -36 2 £450 -30.77% 8
North West -27 1 £575 +4.55% 10
South West - 1 £550 - 7
North East - 1 £500 - 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 23 (16.91%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (11.03%) Apache
3 12 (8.82%) Apache Spark
4 10 (7.35%) Jupyter
5 7 (5.15%) Appian
6 1 (0.74%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 64 (47.06%) AWS
2 43 (31.62%) Azure
3 23 (16.91%) GCP
4 19 (13.97%) dbt
5 17 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 14 (10.29%) Azure AI
7 12 (8.82%) Snowflake
8 10 (7.35%) Amazon SageMaker
8 10 (7.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (7.35%) Power Automate
9 9 (6.62%) GitHub
9 9 (6.62%) Serverless
10 8 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (5.15%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (4.41%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (2.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
1 14 (10.29%) Power BI
2 13 (9.56%) Relational Database
3 12 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (8.82%) Apache Arrow
3 12 (8.82%) Apache Iceberg
3 12 (8.82%) Dremio
4 11 (8.09%) Data Lake
4 11 (8.09%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.88%) Apache Ignite
5 8 (5.88%) Big Data
5 8 (5.88%) Pinecone
6 7 (5.15%) BigQuery
6 7 (5.15%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.41%) Hadoop
7 6 (4.41%) MySQL
7 6 (4.41%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (23.53%) Git
2 14 (10.29%) MLflow
3 11 (8.09%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.41%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.74%) Poetry
5 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 70 (51.47%) Finance
2 42 (30.88%) Banking
3 36 (26.47%) Social Skills
4 29 (21.32%) Front Office
5 21 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (13.97%) Investment Banking
7 10 (7.35%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.94%) Legal
9 3 (2.21%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.21%) Marketing
10 2 (1.47%) Electronics
10 2 (1.47%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.47%) Retail
10 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.74%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (37.50%) Developer
2 43 (31.62%) Python Developer
3 34 (25.00%) Senior
4 28 (20.59%) Data Scientist
5 22 (16.18%) Python Engineer
6 16 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 14 (10.29%) Data Engineer
7 14 (10.29%) Software Engineer
8 13 (9.56%) AWS Developer
8 13 (9.56%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (9.56%) Senior Developer
8 13 (9.56%) Senior Python Developer
9 12 (8.82%) AWS Software Engineer
9 12 (8.82%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (6.62%) JavaScript Developer
10 9 (6.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 9 (6.62%) RAD Developer
11 8 (5.88%) Java Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (94.85%) Pandas
2 49 (36.03%) scikit-learn
3 34 (25.00%) TensorFlow
4 33 (24.26%) SciPy
5 32 (23.53%) PyTorch
6 28 (20.59%) REST
7 26 (19.12%) FastAPI
8 23 (16.91%) Flask
9 15 (11.03%) Hugging Face
10 14 (10.29%) Django
10 14 (10.29%) LangChain
10 14 (10.29%) React
11 13 (9.56%) AngularJS
11 13 (9.56%) Vue
12 12 (8.82%) Web Services
13 11 (8.09%) Polars
14 10 (7.35%) LangGraph
14 10 (7.35%) Plotly
15 9 (6.62%) COM
15 9 (6.62%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 29 (21.32%) Hedge funds
3 27 (19.85%) Equities
4 23 (16.91%) Algorithms
5 15 (11.03%) Fixed Income
6 12 (8.82%) Derivative
7 8 (5.88%) Pricing Data
8 7 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (5.15%) Low-Code
9 4 (2.94%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.94%) Clustering
9 4 (2.94%) Online Banking
9 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.94%) Reinsurance
10 3 (2.21%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.21%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.47%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.82%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (44.12%) Machine Learning
2 53 (38.97%) AI
2 53 (38.97%) Data Science
3 44 (32.35%) Analytics
4 39 (28.68%) Data Engineering
5 36 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
5 36 (26.47%) Software Engineering
6 33 (24.26%) Generative AI
7 31 (22.79%) CI/CD
7 31 (22.79%) Natural Language Processing
8 30 (22.06%) Data Analysis
8 30 (22.06%) LLM
9 29 (21.32%) Agile
10 28 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (19.12%) Visualisation
12 24 (17.65%) MLOps
13 22 (16.18%) ETL
13 22 (16.18%) Mathematics
14 19 (13.97%) Clean Code
15 18 (13.24%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 136 (100.00%) Python
2 62 (45.59%) SQL
3 27 (19.85%) JavaScript
4 21 (15.44%) Java
5 17 (12.50%) C++
6 16 (11.76%) C#
7 12 (8.82%) TypeScript
8 10 (7.35%) Rust
9 9 (6.62%) VBA
10 2 (1.47%) Ada
10 2 (1.47%) R
11 1 (0.74%) Bash
11 1 (0.74%) C
11 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.74%) SHACL
11 1 (0.74%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.74%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 22 (16.18%) Degree
2 18 (13.24%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.82%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.62%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.41%) PhD
6 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.21%) QA
3 2 (1.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (22.06%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (22.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.21%) Kubeflow
2 3 (2.21%) Terraform
3 1 (0.74%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (9.56%) Databricks
1 13 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.82%) Google
3 11 (8.09%) OpenAI
4 7 (5.15%) Automation Anywhere
4 7 (5.15%) UiPath
5 5 (3.68%) Dataiku
5 5 (3.68%) Foundry
6 4 (2.94%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.94%) SAP
7 3 (2.21%) Bloomberg
7 3 (2.21%) Cognos
7 3 (2.21%) IBM
7 3 (2.21%) Sage
8 2 (1.47%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.74%) DataRobot
9 1 (0.74%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle
9 1 (0.74%) Reuters