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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 359 431
Rank change year-on-year -44 +72 +117
Contract jobs citing NumPy 138 133 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.50% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.93% 2.24% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 122 113
10th Percentile £410 £510 £463
25th Percentile £463 £603 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £825 £850 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 -
UK median daily rate £550 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.50
90th Percentile - - £66.65
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 7,167 5,947 7,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.08% 22.19% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,807 3,801 5,641
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £657 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £758
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £545
% change year-on-year -4.65% -1.38% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 77 177
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £26.84
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year - +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £66.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.80 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -25 118 £688 -8.33% 50
North of England - 7 £508 - 44
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 20
South East -18 5 £500 - 68
West Midlands -43 4 £506 +6.53% 7
Midlands -45 4 £506 +6.53% 26
East of England -30 2 £450 -28.00% 33
North East - 1 £500 - 7
South West - 1 £550 - 23
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 29 (21.01%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (14.49%) Apache
3 11 (7.97%) Apache Spark
4 10 (7.25%) Jupyter
5 5 (3.62%) Appian
6 1 (0.72%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (5.80%) Chatbot
2 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 70 (50.72%) AWS
2 39 (28.26%) Azure
3 27 (19.57%) dbt
4 24 (17.39%) GCP
5 18 (13.04%) Snowflake
6 17 (12.32%) Power Platform
7 12 (8.70%) Azure AI
8 9 (6.52%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (6.52%) Serverless
9 8 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (5.80%) Azure Machine Learning
9 8 (5.80%) GitHub
9 8 (5.80%) Power Automate
10 7 (5.07%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.62%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.62%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.17%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.49%) Amazon Athena
1 20 (14.49%) Apache Arrow
1 20 (14.49%) Apache Iceberg
1 20 (14.49%) Dremio
2 17 (12.32%) Data Lake
3 15 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (10.14%) Apache Ignite
4 14 (10.14%) Power BI
5 13 (9.42%) Relational Database
6 10 (7.25%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.07%) Big Data
7 7 (5.07%) BigQuery
8 6 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.35%) MySQL
8 6 (4.35%) Pinecone
8 6 (4.35%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.62%) Hadoop
9 5 (3.62%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (22.46%) Git
2 11 (7.97%) MLflow
3 10 (7.25%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.35%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.72%) Poetry
General
1 76 (55.07%) Finance
2 49 (35.51%) Banking
3 37 (26.81%) Front Office
4 34 (24.64%) Social Skills
5 26 (18.84%) Investment Banking
6 20 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (7.25%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.90%) Legal
9 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.17%) Marketing
10 2 (1.45%) Electronics
10 2 (1.45%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.45%) Retail
10 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.72%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (38.41%) Developer
2 45 (32.61%) Python Developer
3 38 (27.54%) Senior
4 30 (21.74%) Python Engineer
5 26 (18.84%) Data Scientist
6 22 (15.94%) Software Engineer
7 21 (15.22%) AWS Engineer
8 20 (14.49%) AWS Software Engineer
8 20 (14.49%) Python Software Engineer
9 16 (11.59%) AWS Developer
10 14 (10.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (10.14%) Java Engineer
10 14 (10.14%) Java Software Engineer
10 14 (10.14%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (9.42%) Data Engineer
11 13 (9.42%) Senior Java Engineer
11 13 (9.42%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 12 (8.70%) Senior Developer
12 12 (8.70%) Senior Python Developer
13 10 (7.25%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (94.93%) Pandas
2 44 (31.88%) scikit-learn
3 42 (30.43%) SciPy
4 30 (21.74%) TensorFlow
5 28 (20.29%) PyTorch
6 26 (18.84%) REST
7 25 (18.12%) FastAPI
8 22 (15.94%) Flask
9 17 (12.32%) React
10 16 (11.59%) AngularJS
10 16 (11.59%) Vue
11 14 (10.14%) gRPC
11 14 (10.14%) Protocol Buffers
12 13 (9.42%) LangChain
13 12 (8.70%) Polars
14 11 (7.97%) Django
14 11 (7.97%) Hugging Face
15 10 (7.25%) LangGraph
15 10 (7.25%) Plotly
15 10 (7.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (28.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (26.09%) Hedge funds
3 35 (25.36%) Equities
4 23 (16.67%) Fixed Income
5 20 (14.49%) Algorithms
6 18 (13.04%) Derivative
7 14 (10.14%) Pricing Data
8 5 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.62%) Low-Code
9 4 (2.90%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.90%) Clustering
9 4 (2.90%) Online Banking
9 4 (2.90%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.90%) Reinsurance
10 3 (2.17%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.17%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (2.17%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.45%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.42%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (39.86%) Machine Learning
2 51 (36.96%) Data Science
3 48 (34.78%) AI
4 45 (32.61%) Software Engineering
5 44 (31.88%) Analytics
6 37 (26.81%) Agile
6 37 (26.81%) Data Engineering
7 31 (22.46%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (21.74%) Generative AI
9 28 (20.29%) Data Analysis
9 28 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (19.57%) CI/CD
10 27 (19.57%) LLM
10 27 (19.57%) Natural Language Processing
11 25 (18.12%) Visualisation
12 22 (15.94%) Asset Management
12 22 (15.94%) Mathematics
13 21 (15.22%) Investment Management
13 21 (15.22%) MLOps
14 19 (13.77%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 138 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (40.58%) SQL
3 36 (26.09%) JavaScript
4 28 (20.29%) Java
5 20 (14.49%) TypeScript
6 18 (13.04%) C++
7 17 (12.32%) C#
8 11 (7.97%) Rust
9 9 (6.52%) VBA
10 2 (1.45%) Ada
10 2 (1.45%) R
11 1 (0.72%) Bash
11 1 (0.72%) C
11 1 (0.72%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.72%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 22 (15.94%) Degree
2 18 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.70%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.07%) MCP
6 6 (4.35%) PhD
7 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.42%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.17%) QA
3 2 (1.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (19.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (20.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.17%) Kubeflow
2 3 (2.17%) Terraform
3 1 (0.72%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (8.70%) Databricks
1 12 (8.70%) Google
1 12 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.80%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.62%) Automation Anywhere
3 5 (3.62%) Dataiku
3 5 (3.62%) Foundry
3 5 (3.62%) UiPath
4 4 (2.90%) Alteryx
4 4 (2.90%) SAP
5 3 (2.17%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.17%) Cognos
5 3 (2.17%) IBM
5 3 (2.17%) Sage
6 2 (1.45%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.72%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.72%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle
7 1 (0.72%) Reuters