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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 323 375
Rank change year-on-year -146 +52 +153
Contract jobs citing NumPy 113 161 170
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.66% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 2.95% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 129 149
10th Percentile £360 £510 £462
25th Percentile £450 £625 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £749 £875 £888
90th Percentile £875 £888 -
UK median daily rate £556 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -25.93% -6.25% +14.29%
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 7,919 5,465 7,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.48% 22.40% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,270 3,787 5,310
10th Percentile £363 £368 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 102 223
10th Percentile £32.50 £30.55 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.25 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

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 May 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 May 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 -84 93 £650 -13.33% 46
South East -45 9 £433 -19.53% 15
West Midlands -52 5 £503 +5.89% 3
Midlands -66 5 £503 +5.89% 9
North of England -58 3 £538 -2.27% 22
South West -36 1 £575 +35.29% 6
North West -42 1 £575 +4.55% 13
North East - 1 £500 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
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 19 (16.81%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.96%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.08%) Appian
4 5 (4.42%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.65%) Apache
6 1 (0.88%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.42%) CPLEX
3 5 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 45 (39.82%) Azure
2 40 (35.40%) AWS
3 16 (14.16%) GCP
4 12 (10.62%) Amazon SageMaker
4 12 (10.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (10.62%) Power Platform
5 11 (9.73%) Azure AI
5 11 (9.73%) Power Automate
6 9 (7.96%) GitHub
6 9 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.96%) Serverless
7 8 (7.08%) Anthropic Claude
7 8 (7.08%) Dagster
8 7 (6.19%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.31%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (5.31%) dbt
10 4 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.73%) Relational Database
2 9 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.96%) Power BI
3 8 (7.08%) Big Data
3 8 (7.08%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.08%) Pinecone
3 8 (7.08%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.31%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (5.31%) BigQuery
4 6 (5.31%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.54%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.54%) Power Query
5 4 (3.54%) Tableau
6 3 (2.65%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.77%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.77%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.77%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.77%) Metadata
7 2 (1.77%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 25 (22.12%) Git
2 20 (17.70%) MLflow
3 7 (6.19%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.77%) Selenium
5 1 (0.88%) Poetry
General
1 48 (42.48%) Finance
2 32 (28.32%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (24.78%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.39%) Banking
5 10 (8.85%) Front Office
5 10 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.08%) Publishing
7 4 (3.54%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Aviation
9 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (39.82%) Developer
2 37 (32.74%) Python Developer
3 29 (25.66%) Data Scientist
4 20 (17.70%) Senior
5 11 (9.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 10 (8.85%) Data Engineer
7 9 (7.96%) Analyst
7 9 (7.96%) Senior Developer
7 9 (7.96%) Senior Python Developer
8 8 (7.08%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Kafka Developer
9 7 (6.19%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Quantitative Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Business Analyst
11 5 (4.42%) Senior Data Scientist
12 4 (3.54%) Python Data Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) Senior Data Engineer
13 3 (2.65%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 3 (2.65%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (97.35%) Pandas
2 49 (43.36%) scikit-learn
3 29 (25.66%) PyTorch
4 28 (24.78%) REST
4 28 (24.78%) TensorFlow
5 27 (23.89%) Flask
6 25 (22.12%) FastAPI
7 23 (20.35%) Django
8 16 (14.16%) Kafka
8 16 (14.16%) Seaborn
9 15 (13.27%) pytest
10 14 (12.39%) Hugging Face
10 14 (12.39%) Polars
11 13 (11.50%) OpenAPI
11 13 (11.50%) RESTful
11 13 (11.50%) Swagger
12 11 (9.73%) SciPy
13 8 (7.08%) Matplotlib
13 8 (7.08%) OAuth
13 8 (7.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.81%) Equities
2 17 (15.04%) Algorithms
3 13 (11.50%) Hedge funds
4 9 (7.96%) Management Information System
5 8 (7.08%) Data Structures
5 8 (7.08%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (7.08%) Low-Code
6 7 (6.19%) Product Ownership
7 6 (5.31%) Derivative
7 6 (5.31%) Fixed Income
7 6 (5.31%) Public Cloud
8 5 (4.42%) Cloud Native
9 4 (3.54%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (2.65%) AI Agents
10 3 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.88%) Credit Derivative
12 1 (0.88%) FPGA
12 1 (0.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.77%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (52.21%) Machine Learning
2 55 (48.67%) Data Pipeline
3 44 (38.94%) Data Science
4 39 (34.51%) Analytics
4 39 (34.51%) CI/CD
5 38 (33.63%) AI
6 33 (29.20%) Containerisation
7 32 (28.32%) Data Engineering
8 29 (25.66%) Generative AI
9 24 (21.24%) Decision-Making
10 23 (20.35%) Visualisation
11 22 (19.47%) LLM
12 20 (17.70%) ETL
12 20 (17.70%) MLOps
12 20 (17.70%) Natural Language Processing
12 20 (17.70%) Workflow
13 18 (15.93%) Data Analysis
13 18 (15.93%) Data Cleansing
14 17 (15.04%) Mathematics
14 17 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 113 (100.00%) Python
2 62 (54.87%) SQL
3 8 (7.08%) C#
3 8 (7.08%) C++
4 6 (5.31%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.42%) R
5 5 (4.42%) VBA
6 4 (3.54%) Java
7 3 (2.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.77%) Ada
9 1 (0.88%) Bash
9 1 (0.88%) C
9 1 (0.88%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.88%) SHACL
9 1 (0.88%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.88%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 19 (16.81%) Degree
2 17 (15.04%) Security Cleared
3 14 (12.39%) Master's Degree
4 10 (8.85%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.19%) PhD
6 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.77%) QA
System Software
1 42 (37.17%) Docker
2 2 (1.77%) HDFS
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (27.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.31%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (14.16%) Databricks
2 15 (13.27%) Microsoft
3 14 (12.39%) OpenAI
4 13 (11.50%) Google
5 8 (7.08%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (7.08%) UiPath
6 3 (2.65%) Cognos
6 3 (2.65%) IBM
6 3 (2.65%) Sage
7 2 (1.77%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.77%) Reuters
7 2 (1.77%) SAP