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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 354 307
Rank change year-on-year -212 -47 +170
Contract jobs citing NumPy 74 164 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.59% 0.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 2.30% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 126 228
10th Percentile £329 £419 £580
25th Percentile £375 £525 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
UK median daily rate £577 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -23.10% -6.25% +23.08%

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 9,763 7,122 8,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.17% 25.50% 24.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,416 4,807 5,269
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.14%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 175 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.60
25th Percentile £54.68 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.40 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -155 62 £625 -16.67% 145
South East -63 7 £358 -16.86% 42
Midlands -43 3 £425 +14.29% 30
East Midlands - 3 £425 - 16
North of England - 2 £650 - 44
North West - 2 £650 - 20
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 9 (12.16%) Apache Spark
2 7 (9.46%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.05%) Apache
3 3 (4.05%) Jupyter
3 3 (4.05%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.68%) AWS
2 18 (24.32%) Azure
3 8 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.46%) Amazon SageMaker
4 7 (9.46%) GCP
5 6 (8.11%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.76%) Amazon Neptune
7 4 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (5.41%) dbt
7 4 (5.41%) Serverless
7 4 (5.41%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.05%) Azure Databricks
8 3 (4.05%) GitHub
8 3 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (2.70%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (2.70%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (13.51%) MongoDB
3 9 (12.16%) NoSQL
3 9 (12.16%) Relational Database
4 8 (10.81%) Neo4j
5 6 (8.11%) Big Data
6 3 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.70%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.70%) Tableau
8 1 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.35%) KDB
8 1 (1.35%) Kdb+
8 1 (1.35%) Looker
8 1 (1.35%) Parquet
8 1 (1.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (37.84%) Git
2 5 (6.76%) MLflow
3 3 (4.05%) Selenium
4 2 (2.70%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.70%) JIRA
5 1 (1.35%) GitLab
5 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (44.59%) Finance
2 19 (25.68%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Banking
3 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.16%) Investment Banking
5 5 (6.76%) Publishing
6 4 (5.41%) Front Office
7 3 (4.05%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Advertising
8 1 (1.35%) Automotive
8 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (45.95%) Developer
2 31 (41.89%) Python Developer
3 18 (24.32%) Data Scientist
4 11 (14.86%) Senior
5 7 (9.46%) Data Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Senior Data Scientist
7 5 (6.76%) Kafka Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Senior Python Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Quantitative Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Analyst
9 3 (4.05%) Associate Director
9 3 (4.05%) Lead
10 2 (2.70%) Junior
10 2 (2.70%) Lead Data Scientist
10 2 (2.70%) Palantir Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Python Data Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (91.89%) Pandas
2 28 (37.84%) FastAPI
3 26 (35.14%) scikit-learn
4 20 (27.03%) Flask
5 18 (24.32%) Django
6 17 (22.97%) PySpark
7 16 (21.62%) REST
8 15 (20.27%) Polars
9 14 (18.92%) Kafka
9 14 (18.92%) PyTorch
10 13 (17.57%) TensorFlow
11 11 (14.86%) pytest
12 10 (13.51%) SciPy
13 8 (10.81%) RESTful
14 6 (8.11%) OpenAPI
14 6 (8.11%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (8.11%) Swagger
15 5 (6.76%) Apache Avro
16 4 (5.41%) Matplotlib
16 4 (5.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Derivative
2 9 (12.16%) Algorithms
2 9 (12.16%) Data Structures
2 9 (12.16%) Equities
3 8 (10.81%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (9.46%) Market Risk
5 6 (8.11%) Hedge funds
6 5 (6.76%) Fixed Income
6 5 (6.76%) Management Information System
7 4 (5.41%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (4.05%) Exotic Derivative
9 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.70%) Life Science
9 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.70%) Robotics
9 2 (2.70%) SCADA
9 2 (2.70%) Self-Driving Car
9 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.35%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.16%) Linux
2 8 (10.81%) Unix
3 1 (1.35%) Android
3 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.35%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (51.35%) Analytics
2 35 (47.30%) Machine Learning
3 31 (41.89%) Data Science
4 30 (40.54%) Data Pipeline
5 29 (39.19%) AI
6 24 (32.43%) CI/CD
7 22 (29.73%) Containerisation
8 18 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (21.62%) DevOps
9 16 (21.62%) Visualisation
10 15 (20.27%) Performance Optimisation
11 14 (18.92%) Data Analysis
11 14 (18.92%) LLM
12 13 (17.57%) Software Engineering
13 12 (16.22%) Data Engineering
13 12 (16.22%) Mathematics
14 11 (14.86%) Agile
14 11 (14.86%) API Development
14 11 (14.86%) Data Transformation
15 10 (13.51%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 74 (100.00%) Python
2 43 (58.11%) SQL
3 7 (9.46%) Shell Script
4 5 (6.76%) C#
4 5 (6.76%) Cypher
4 5 (6.76%) Gremlin
5 4 (5.41%) Java
6 2 (2.70%) C++
6 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.35%) Bash
7 1 (1.35%) Bicep
7 1 (1.35%) C
7 1 (1.35%) Haskell
7 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.35%) R
7 1 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.76%) Degree
2 5 (6.76%) Master's Degree
2 5 (6.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.41%) PhD
4 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.05%) QA
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (39.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (28.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.41%) Podman
3 1 (1.35%) Grafana
3 1 (1.35%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (9.46%) Databricks
2 3 (4.05%) Foundry
2 3 (4.05%) Palantir
3 2 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.35%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.35%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle