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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 327 356
Rank change year-on-year -162 +29 +171
Contract jobs citing NumPy 104 154 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.65% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.30% 2.89% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 121 170
10th Percentile £350 £510 £485
25th Percentile £450 £619 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -21.53% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £749 £875 £888
90th Percentile £885 - -
UK median daily rate £572 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -23.73% -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 7,994 5,328 7,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.25% 22.36% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,285 3,689 5,337
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £792 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 94 234
10th Percentile £30.66 £27.97 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.25 £74.48
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 23 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 23 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 -106 87 £638 -15.00% 35
South East -62 9 £433 -19.53% 16
North of England -72 3 £538 -2.27% 20
Midlands - 2 £450 - 13
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 3
South West -35 1 £575 +35.29% 6
North West -38 1 £575 +4.55% 12
North East - 1 £500 - 4
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 18 (17.31%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (9.62%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.69%) Appian
4 5 (4.81%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.88%) Apache
6 1 (0.96%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.81%) CPLEX
3 5 (4.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 40 (38.46%) Azure
2 38 (36.54%) AWS
3 15 (14.42%) GCP
4 11 (10.58%) Amazon SageMaker
4 11 (10.58%) Azure AI
5 9 (8.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (8.65%) GitHub
5 9 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (7.69%) Anthropic Claude
6 8 (7.69%) Dagster
6 8 (7.69%) Power Automate
7 7 (6.73%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.77%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.77%) dbt
9 5 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.81%) Serverless
10 4 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.92%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 10 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.65%) Big Data
3 9 (8.65%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.69%) Pinecone
4 8 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.73%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.73%) Power BI
6 6 (5.77%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.85%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.85%) Power Query
8 4 (3.85%) Tableau
9 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.92%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.92%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.92%) Metadata
10 2 (1.92%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 22 (21.15%) Git
2 20 (19.23%) MLflow
3 6 (5.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.92%) Selenium
5 1 (0.96%) Poetry
General
1 45 (43.27%) Finance
2 29 (27.88%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.54%) Banking
5 9 (8.65%) Publishing
6 8 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.77%) Front Office
8 4 (3.85%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.85%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Aviation
10 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.96%) Marketing
10 1 (0.96%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (41.35%) Developer
2 35 (33.65%) Python Developer
3 26 (25.00%) Data Scientist
4 19 (18.27%) Senior
5 11 (10.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (8.65%) Kafka Developer
6 9 (8.65%) Senior Developer
6 9 (8.65%) Senior Python Developer
7 8 (7.69%) Analyst
7 8 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Quantitative Developer
10 4 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Senior Data Scientist
11 3 (2.88%) Data Analyst
11 3 (2.88%) Senior Technical Analyst
11 3 (2.88%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (97.12%) Pandas
2 43 (41.35%) scikit-learn
3 26 (25.00%) Flask
3 26 (25.00%) PyTorch
4 25 (24.04%) Django
4 25 (24.04%) FastAPI
4 25 (24.04%) TensorFlow
5 24 (23.08%) REST
6 18 (17.31%) Kafka
7 16 (15.38%) Polars
8 15 (14.42%) pytest
8 15 (14.42%) Seaborn
9 14 (13.46%) Hugging Face
9 14 (13.46%) RESTful
10 13 (12.50%) OpenAPI
10 13 (12.50%) Swagger
11 10 (9.62%) SciPy
12 9 (8.65%) Apache Avro
13 8 (7.69%) OAuth
13 8 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.35%) Equities
2 16 (15.38%) Algorithms
3 10 (9.62%) Hedge funds
3 10 (9.62%) Management Information System
4 9 (8.65%) Data Structures
5 8 (7.69%) Derivative
5 8 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (7.69%) Low-Code
6 6 (5.77%) Fixed Income
7 5 (4.81%) Cloud Native
7 5 (4.81%) Equity Derivative
7 5 (4.81%) Public Cloud
8 4 (3.85%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.88%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.96%) Exotic Derivative
11 1 (0.96%) FPGA
11 1 (0.96%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.88%) Linux
2 1 (0.96%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (51.92%) Data Pipeline
2 53 (50.96%) Machine Learning
3 40 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 40 (38.46%) Data Science
4 34 (32.69%) AI
5 33 (31.73%) Containerisation
6 31 (29.81%) Data Engineering
7 30 (28.85%) Analytics
8 26 (25.00%) Generative AI
9 21 (20.19%) Visualisation
10 20 (19.23%) Decision-Making
10 20 (19.23%) ETL
10 20 (19.23%) LLM
10 20 (19.23%) Workflow
11 18 (17.31%) MLOps
11 18 (17.31%) Natural Language Processing
12 17 (16.35%) Data Cleansing
12 17 (16.35%) Mathematics
13 16 (15.38%) Feature Engineering
13 16 (15.38%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 104 (100.00%) Python
2 58 (55.77%) SQL
3 7 (6.73%) C#
3 7 (6.73%) C++
4 6 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.81%) R
6 4 (3.85%) Java
7 3 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.92%) Ada
8 2 (1.92%) Bash
8 2 (1.92%) C
8 2 (1.92%) VBA
9 1 (0.96%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.96%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.96%) SHACL
9 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.96%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.96%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 17 (16.35%) Degree
2 14 (13.46%) Master's Degree
3 11 (10.58%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.73%) PhD
5 6 (5.77%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 43 (41.35%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) HDFS
3 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (29.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.81%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (14.42%) Databricks
2 14 (13.46%) OpenAI
3 11 (10.58%) Google
4 10 (9.62%) Microsoft
5 8 (7.69%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (7.69%) UiPath
6 2 (1.92%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.92%) Cognos
6 2 (1.92%) IBM
6 2 (1.92%) Reuters
6 2 (1.92%) Sage
6 2 (1.92%) SAP
7 1 (0.96%) Optimizely