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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 332 399
Rank change year-on-year -103 +67 +139
Contract jobs citing NumPy 139 141 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.58% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.75% 2.59% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 118 133
10th Percentile £386 £507 £463
25th Percentile £450 £588 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £838 £850
90th Percentile £870 £888 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -18.52% -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 7,960 5,444 7,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.76% 22.46% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,336 3,762 5,389
10th Percentile £358 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 87 156
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.76 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.16 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £83.38 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -73 111 £600 -20.00% 46
South East -47 9 £600 +11.63% 33
North of England -58 9 £516 -6.14% 28
Yorkshire - 7 £516 - 8
Midlands -60 5 £503 +5.89% 19
West Midlands -60 5 £503 +5.89% 6
South West -26 2 £563 +32.35% 14
North West -45 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 23 (16.55%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.19%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.47%) Jupyter
4 8 (5.76%) Appian
5 7 (5.04%) Apache
6 1 (0.72%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.32%) Chatbot
2 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.16%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 56 (40.29%) AWS
2 52 (37.41%) Azure
3 21 (15.11%) GCP
4 20 (14.39%) Power Platform
5 15 (10.79%) GitHub
6 12 (8.63%) Amazon SageMaker
6 12 (8.63%) Azure AI
6 12 (8.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (7.91%) Power Automate
8 10 (7.19%) dbt
9 9 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.76%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (5.76%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (5.76%) Dagster
10 8 (5.76%) Serverless
11 7 (5.04%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (5.04%) Snowflake
12 6 (4.32%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.95%) Relational Database
2 17 (12.23%) Power BI
3 13 (9.35%) NoSQL
4 12 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (6.47%) Pinecone
6 8 (5.76%) Big Data
6 8 (5.76%) BigQuery
6 8 (5.76%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (4.32%) MySQL
8 6 (4.32%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.60%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.88%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.88%) Tableau
11 3 (2.16%) Metadata
11 3 (2.16%) Power Query
12 2 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.44%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 30 (21.58%) Git
2 19 (13.67%) MLflow
3 12 (8.63%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.32%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.72%) Poetry
5 1 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 58 (41.73%) Finance
2 37 (26.62%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (26.62%) Social Skills
3 30 (21.58%) Banking
4 16 (11.51%) Front Office
5 15 (10.79%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.04%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.88%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.88%) Marketing
7 4 (2.88%) Publishing
8 3 (2.16%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.44%) Electronics
9 2 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.72%) Aviation
10 1 (0.72%) Legal
10 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (38.85%) Developer
2 44 (31.65%) Python Developer
3 34 (24.46%) Data Scientist
4 30 (21.58%) Senior
5 16 (11.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 14 (10.07%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.07%) Senior Python Developer
7 12 (8.63%) Data Engineer
7 12 (8.63%) Python Engineer
8 9 (6.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 9 (6.47%) RAD Developer
9 8 (5.76%) Analyst
9 8 (5.76%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Python Data Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Quantitative Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Senior Data Scientist
11 5 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (2.88%) Data Analyst
12 4 (2.88%) Kafka Developer
13 3 (2.16%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (97.12%) Pandas
2 57 (41.01%) scikit-learn
3 35 (25.18%) TensorFlow
4 34 (24.46%) REST
5 31 (22.30%) PyTorch
6 24 (17.27%) Flask
7 23 (16.55%) FastAPI
8 21 (15.11%) Django
9 18 (12.95%) SciPy
9 18 (12.95%) Seaborn
10 14 (10.07%) Hugging Face
11 13 (9.35%) pytest
11 13 (9.35%) Web Services
12 12 (8.63%) Plotly
13 11 (7.91%) OpenAPI
13 11 (7.91%) Polars
13 11 (7.91%) RESTful
13 11 (7.91%) Swagger
14 10 (7.19%) Kafka
14 10 (7.19%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.99%) Algorithms
2 24 (17.27%) Equities
3 22 (15.83%) Hedge funds
4 14 (10.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (5.76%) Derivative
5 8 (5.76%) Fixed Income
5 8 (5.76%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (5.76%) Low-Code
5 8 (5.76%) Public Cloud
6 7 (5.04%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.60%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.60%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.88%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.88%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.88%) Clustering
8 4 (2.88%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (2.88%) Online Banking
9 2 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.44%) Pricing Data
9 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.32%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (51.80%) Machine Learning
2 58 (41.73%) Data Science
3 51 (36.69%) Analytics
4 50 (35.97%) Data Pipeline
5 49 (35.25%) AI
6 38 (27.34%) CI/CD
7 37 (26.62%) Data Engineering
8 33 (23.74%) Visualisation
9 32 (23.02%) Data Analysis
9 32 (23.02%) Generative AI
10 29 (20.86%) Containerisation
10 29 (20.86%) Natural Language Processing
10 29 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (20.14%) Decision-Making
12 27 (19.42%) LLM
13 24 (17.27%) ETL
14 21 (15.11%) Software Engineering
14 21 (15.11%) Workflow
15 20 (14.39%) Data Modelling
15 20 (14.39%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 139 (100.00%) Python
2 73 (52.52%) SQL
3 11 (7.91%) C#
3 11 (7.91%) C++
3 11 (7.91%) JavaScript
4 10 (7.19%) VBA
5 9 (6.47%) Java
6 3 (2.16%) R
6 3 (2.16%) Rust
7 2 (1.44%) Ada
7 2 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.44%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.72%) Bash
8 1 (0.72%) C
8 1 (0.72%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.72%) SHACL
8 1 (0.72%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.72%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 24 (17.27%) Degree
1 24 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.07%) Master's Degree
3 13 (9.35%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.32%) PhD
5 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.83%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.16%) QA
3 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (27.34%) Docker
2 2 (1.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (21.58%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.76%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.51%) Databricks
3 15 (10.79%) Google
4 14 (10.07%) OpenAI
5 8 (5.76%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (5.76%) UiPath
6 4 (2.88%) Dataiku
6 4 (2.88%) SAP
7 3 (2.16%) Cognos
7 3 (2.16%) IBM
7 3 (2.16%) Sage
8 2 (1.44%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.44%) Foundry
8 2 (1.44%) Reuters
9 1 (0.72%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.72%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle