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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 329 316
Rank change year-on-year -174 -13 +198
Contract jobs citing NumPy 103 160 225
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.65% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 2.89% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 127 206
10th Percentile £349 £506 £513
25th Percentile £450 £622 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £875 £888
90th Percentile £888 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -23.33% -6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - - -
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 8,184 5,528 7,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.19% 22.55% 20.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,400 3,838 5,503
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £745 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £536
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.94% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 105 248
10th Percentile £31.18 £31.07 £22.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%
75th Percentile £73.34 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.22 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £49.50
% change year-on-year +10.40% +18.94% -23.85%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -117 84 £675 -10.00% 23
South East -64 11 £374 -30.47% 18
North of England -69 3 £538 -2.27% 18
Midlands - 2 £375 - 11
South West -25 1 £575 +35.29% 9
North West -31 1 £575 +4.55% 10
Yorkshire - 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £500 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £425 - 8
West Midlands - 1 £325 - 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 17 (16.50%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (8.74%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.77%) Appian
4 5 (4.85%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.94%) Apache
6 1 (0.97%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.80%) CPLEX
3 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 39 (37.86%) Azure
2 37 (35.92%) AWS
3 15 (14.56%) GCP
4 11 (10.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (9.71%) Amazon SageMaker
6 8 (7.77%) Anthropic Claude
6 8 (7.77%) Azure AI
6 8 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.77%) Dagster
6 8 (7.77%) GitHub
6 8 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (7.77%) Power Automate
7 6 (5.83%) dbt
8 5 (4.85%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.88%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.91%) Serverless
11 2 (1.94%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.94%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.62%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (12.62%) Relational Database
2 11 (10.68%) NoSQL
3 10 (9.71%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.77%) Big Data
4 8 (7.77%) Pinecone
4 8 (7.77%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.83%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.85%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.85%) Power BI
7 4 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.88%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.88%) Neo4j
7 4 (3.88%) Power Query
8 3 (2.91%) Tableau
9 2 (1.94%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.94%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.94%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.94%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (21.36%) Git
1 22 (21.36%) MLflow
2 3 (2.91%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.94%) Selenium
4 1 (0.97%) GitLab
4 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (45.63%) Finance
2 29 (28.16%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (20.39%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.65%) Banking
5 9 (8.74%) Publishing
6 6 (5.83%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.85%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.85%) Front Office
8 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.97%) Advertising
9 1 (0.97%) Aviation
9 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (43.69%) Developer
2 39 (37.86%) Python Developer
3 22 (21.36%) Data Scientist
4 19 (18.45%) Senior
5 11 (10.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) Kafka Developer
6 9 (8.74%) Senior Developer
6 9 (8.74%) Senior Python Developer
7 8 (7.77%) Analyst
7 8 (7.77%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.85%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (2.91%) Associate Director
11 3 (2.91%) Data Analyst
11 3 (2.91%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 3 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (2.91%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (97.09%) Pandas
2 44 (42.72%) scikit-learn
3 30 (29.13%) FastAPI
4 29 (28.16%) Django
5 28 (27.18%) Flask
6 25 (24.27%) PyTorch
6 25 (24.27%) TensorFlow
7 24 (23.30%) REST
8 20 (19.42%) Kafka
9 17 (16.50%) RESTful
10 16 (15.53%) Polars
10 16 (15.53%) pytest
11 15 (14.56%) OpenAPI
11 15 (14.56%) Seaborn
11 15 (14.56%) Swagger
12 10 (9.71%) Hugging Face
13 9 (8.74%) Apache Avro
14 8 (7.77%) OAuth
14 8 (7.77%) SciPy
14 8 (7.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.50%) Algorithms
2 15 (14.56%) Equities
3 12 (11.65%) Data Structures
4 10 (9.71%) Hedge funds
4 10 (9.71%) Management Information System
5 8 (7.77%) Cloud Native
5 8 (7.77%) Derivative
5 8 (7.77%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (7.77%) Low-Code
6 6 (5.83%) Fixed Income
6 6 (5.83%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.88%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (3.88%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.94%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.94%) Exotic Derivative
9 2 (1.94%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.97%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.94%) Linux
1 2 (1.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (52.43%) Machine Learning
2 53 (51.46%) Data Pipeline
3 43 (41.75%) CI/CD
4 40 (38.83%) Data Science
5 34 (33.01%) Containerisation
6 31 (30.10%) AI
7 28 (27.18%) Analytics
7 28 (27.18%) Data Engineering
8 21 (20.39%) Visualisation
9 20 (19.42%) Workflow
10 19 (18.45%) ETL
10 19 (18.45%) Generative AI
10 19 (18.45%) Natural Language Processing
11 18 (17.48%) Decision-Making
12 17 (16.50%) Feature Engineering
12 17 (16.50%) LLM
12 17 (16.50%) MLOps
12 17 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (15.53%) Data Cleansing
14 15 (14.56%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 103 (100.00%) Python
2 58 (56.31%) SQL
3 7 (6.80%) C#
4 6 (5.83%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.85%) Java
5 5 (4.85%) R
6 4 (3.88%) C++
7 3 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.94%) Ada
8 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.94%) VBA
9 1 (0.97%) Bash
9 1 (0.97%) C
9 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.97%) SHACL
9 1 (0.97%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 14 (13.59%) Degree
2 11 (10.68%) Master's Degree
3 10 (9.71%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.80%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.88%) PhD
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.42%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.91%) QA
System Software
1 45 (43.69%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) HDFS
3 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (29.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.85%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.97%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (13.59%) OpenAI
2 12 (11.65%) Databricks
3 8 (7.77%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (7.77%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.77%) UiPath
4 6 (5.83%) Google
5 2 (1.94%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.94%) Reuters
5 2 (1.94%) SAP
6 1 (0.97%) Cognos
6 1 (0.97%) IBM
6 1 (0.97%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.97%) Sage