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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 328 444
Rank change year-on-year -46 +116 +68
Contract jobs citing NumPy 169 198 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.64% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.49% 2.92% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 195 117
10th Percentile £413 £555 £465
25th Percentile £500 £675 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK median daily rate £638 £800 £688
% change year-on-year -20.31% +16.36% +14.58%

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 6,787 6,781 8,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.80% 21.77% 22.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,590 4,326 6,483
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £733 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 100 179
10th Percentile £30.08 £26.48 £37.29
25th Percentile £42.50 £45.51 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £73.78 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £63.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.29% +15.91% -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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 -34 136 £750 -6.25% 250
South East - 15 £438 - 182
Yorkshire -27 6 £516 +29.06% 4
North of England -27 6 £516 +12.23% 28
West Midlands - 6 £387 - 4
Midlands - 6 £387 - 4
East of England -10 4 £475 +48.90% 4
South West - 1 £550 - 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 65 (38.46%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (25.44%) Apache
3 12 (7.10%) Apache Spark
4 11 (6.51%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (4.73%) Chatbot
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.18%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 114 (67.46%) AWS
2 63 (37.28%) dbt
3 42 (24.85%) GCP
4 39 (23.08%) Snowflake
5 34 (20.12%) Azure
6 13 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 11 (6.51%) Amazon SageMaker
7 11 (6.51%) GitHub
8 8 (4.73%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.73%) Serverless
9 6 (3.55%) Amazon Bedrock
10 5 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.96%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (2.96%) ChatGPT
10 5 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.37%) Azure AI
11 4 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.78%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (1.78%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) Internet
2 3 (1.78%) SSH
2 3 (1.78%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.18%) DNS
3 2 (1.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (37.28%) Amazon Athena
2 58 (34.32%) Apache Arrow
2 58 (34.32%) Apache Iceberg
2 58 (34.32%) Dremio
3 36 (21.30%) Apache Ignite
3 36 (21.30%) Data Lake
4 35 (20.71%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (10.06%) Relational Database
6 14 (8.28%) NoSQL
7 13 (7.69%) Big Data
8 11 (6.51%) Power BI
9 8 (4.73%) Hadoop
10 6 (3.55%) MySQL
10 6 (3.55%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.96%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.37%) Parquet
12 4 (2.37%) Tableau
13 3 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.78%) Delta Lake
14 2 (1.18%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 38 (22.49%) Git
2 10 (5.92%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.33%) PyCharm
4 7 (4.14%) MLflow
5 4 (2.37%) JIRA
5 4 (2.37%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.78%) Poetry
6 3 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 108 (63.91%) Finance
2 71 (42.01%) Banking
2 71 (42.01%) Front Office
3 55 (32.54%) Investment Banking
4 25 (14.79%) Social Skills
5 16 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.92%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.37%) Legal
8 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.78%) Marketing
8 3 (1.78%) Retail
9 2 (1.18%) Electronics
9 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.59%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.59%) Law
10 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (43.79%) Developer
2 63 (37.28%) Python Developer
3 61 (36.09%) Python Engineer
4 60 (35.50%) Software Engineer
5 58 (34.32%) AWS Engineer
5 58 (34.32%) AWS Software Engineer
6 53 (31.36%) Python Software Engineer
7 48 (28.40%) Senior
8 41 (24.26%) Java Engineer
8 41 (24.26%) Java Software Engineer
9 40 (23.67%) AWS Developer
10 36 (21.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 35 (20.71%) Senior Java Engineer
11 35 (20.71%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 22 (13.02%) Data Scientist
12 22 (13.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 18 (10.65%) JavaScript Developer
14 10 (5.92%) Data Engineer
15 7 (4.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 7 (4.14%) RAD Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (95.27%) Pandas
2 85 (50.30%) SciPy
3 41 (24.26%) React
4 40 (23.67%) AngularJS
4 40 (23.67%) Vue
5 36 (21.30%) gRPC
5 36 (21.30%) Protocol Buffers
6 35 (20.71%) scikit-learn
7 32 (18.93%) Flask
8 29 (17.16%) FastAPI
9 22 (13.02%) Node.js
10 20 (11.83%) PyTorch
11 19 (11.24%) Polars
12 18 (10.65%) TensorFlow
13 15 (8.88%) REST
14 8 (4.73%) Hugging Face
14 8 (4.73%) LangChain
15 7 (4.14%) COM
15 7 (4.14%) Matplotlib
15 7 (4.14%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 83 (49.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 68 (40.24%) Equities
3 63 (37.28%) Hedge funds
4 61 (36.09%) Fixed Income
5 36 (21.30%) Derivative
5 36 (21.30%) Pricing Data
6 25 (14.79%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.37%) Clustering
7 4 (2.37%) Online Banking
8 3 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.78%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.78%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.59%) CUDA
10 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.59%) Industry 4.0
10 1 (0.59%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (52.66%) Software Engineering
2 83 (49.11%) Agile
3 61 (36.09%) Asset Management
3 61 (36.09%) Investment Management
4 48 (28.40%) Data Science
5 47 (27.81%) Machine Learning
6 40 (23.67%) Data Engineering
7 34 (20.12%) AI
8 30 (17.75%) Analytics
8 30 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (17.75%) Risk Management
9 26 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 26 (15.38%) Clean Code
10 25 (14.79%) LLM
10 25 (14.79%) Mathematics
10 25 (14.79%) Visualisation
11 22 (13.02%) Fintech
11 22 (13.02%) Order Management
11 22 (13.02%) Performance Attribution
12 21 (12.43%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 164 (97.04%) Python
2 76 (44.97%) JavaScript
3 62 (36.69%) Java
4 58 (34.32%) TypeScript
5 48 (28.40%) SQL
6 19 (11.24%) C#
6 19 (11.24%) C++
6 19 (11.24%) Rust
7 7 (4.14%) VBA
8 4 (2.37%) Bash
8 4 (2.37%) Groovy
9 3 (1.78%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (10.65%) Degree
2 13 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.92%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.55%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.18%) PhD
7 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.37%) GDPR
3 3 (1.78%) QA
4 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (15.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (16.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.37%) Terraform
3 3 (1.78%) Argo
3 3 (1.78%) Istio
4 2 (1.18%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.59%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (4.14%) Google
1 7 (4.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.55%) Dataiku
3 5 (2.96%) Foundry
4 4 (2.37%) Alteryx
4 4 (2.37%) Databricks
4 4 (2.37%) Sage
5 3 (1.78%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.78%) Cloudera
5 3 (1.78%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.18%) DataRobot
6 2 (1.18%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.18%) SAP
7 1 (0.59%) Cognos
7 1 (0.59%) IBM
7 1 (0.59%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.59%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle
7 1 (0.59%) Reuters