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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 354 284
Rank change year-on-year -186 -70 +193
Contract jobs citing NumPy 89 166 261
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.60% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.91% 2.43% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 127 249
10th Percentile £349 £431 £673
25th Percentile £431 £544 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +28.00%

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 9,769 6,838 8,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.82% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,433 4,701 5,588
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 164 190
10th Percentile £29.26 £31.25 £26.84
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.79 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -11.35% -4.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £77.59 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -2.22%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -137 70 £700 -6.67% 19
South East -68 11 £374 -14.57% 20
Midlands -63 3 £425 +14.29% 12
East Midlands - 3 £425 - 9
North of England - 2 £650 - 19
South West -44 1 £575 +35.29% 12
North West - 1 £650 - 10
Yorkshire - 1 - - 5
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 13 (14.61%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (10.11%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.62%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.37%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.12%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (8.99%) CPLEX
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.21%) AWS
1 26 (29.21%) Azure
2 13 (14.61%) GCP
3 9 (10.11%) Amazon SageMaker
4 7 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.87%) dbt
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon Neptune
5 4 (4.49%) Dagster
5 4 (4.49%) GitHub
5 4 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.37%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.37%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.37%) Serverless
6 3 (3.37%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.25%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.25%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (2.25%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.85%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (14.61%) MongoDB
2 13 (14.61%) Relational Database
3 11 (12.36%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.87%) Big Data
4 7 (7.87%) Neo4j
5 6 (6.74%) BigQuery
6 4 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.37%) Power BI
7 3 (3.37%) Tableau
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.25%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.25%) Power Query
8 2 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.12%) KDB
9 1 (1.12%) Kdb+
9 1 (1.12%) Looker
Development Applications
1 23 (25.84%) Git
2 9 (10.11%) MLflow
3 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.12%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.12%) GitLab
4 1 (1.12%) JIRA
4 1 (1.12%) Selenium
4 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (41.57%) Finance
2 24 (26.97%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.61%) Banking
3 13 (14.61%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.11%) Publishing
5 8 (8.99%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.62%) Front Office
7 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.37%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Advertising
10 1 (1.12%) Aviation
10 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.12%) Marketing
10 1 (1.12%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 42 (47.19%) Developer
2 40 (44.94%) Python Developer
3 22 (24.72%) Data Scientist
4 13 (14.61%) Senior
5 9 (10.11%) Kafka Developer
5 9 (10.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.87%) Senior Python Developer
7 6 (6.74%) Analyst
8 5 (5.62%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Python Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Data Scientist
10 3 (3.37%) Quantitative Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (94.38%) Pandas
2 32 (35.96%) scikit-learn
3 30 (33.71%) FastAPI
4 25 (28.09%) Flask
5 20 (22.47%) Django
6 19 (21.35%) Kafka
6 19 (21.35%) REST
7 18 (20.22%) Polars
8 16 (17.98%) PyTorch
9 15 (16.85%) TensorFlow
10 14 (15.73%) PySpark
11 11 (12.36%) SciPy
12 10 (11.24%) pytest
12 10 (11.24%) RESTful
13 9 (10.11%) Apache Avro
14 8 (8.99%) OpenAPI
14 8 (8.99%) Seaborn
14 8 (8.99%) Swagger
15 7 (7.87%) RabbitMQ
16 6 (6.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.85%) Equities
2 14 (15.73%) Algorithms
3 12 (13.48%) Data Structures
3 12 (13.48%) Derivative
4 10 (11.24%) Hedge funds
5 9 (10.11%) Management Information System
6 8 (8.99%) Cloud Native
6 8 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (7.87%) Public Cloud
8 6 (6.74%) Market Risk
9 5 (5.62%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (5.62%) Fixed Income
10 4 (4.49%) Product Ownership
11 3 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (3.37%) Exotic Derivative
12 2 (2.25%) Life Science
12 2 (2.25%) SCADA
13 1 (1.12%) Credit Derivative
13 1 (1.12%) Credit Risk
13 1 (1.12%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.87%) Linux
2 6 (6.74%) Unix
3 1 (1.12%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (47.19%) Machine Learning
2 39 (43.82%) Data Science
3 38 (42.70%) Analytics
4 37 (41.57%) Data Pipeline
5 30 (33.71%) Containerisation
6 29 (32.58%) CI/CD
7 23 (25.84%) AI
8 20 (22.47%) Visualisation
9 19 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (17.98%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (16.85%) Data Engineering
11 15 (16.85%) Data Transformation
11 15 (16.85%) DevOps
12 14 (15.73%) Data Analysis
12 14 (15.73%) Mathematics
12 14 (15.73%) Software Engineering
13 13 (14.61%) Decision-Making
14 12 (13.48%) Feature Engineering
15 11 (12.36%) Agile
15 11 (12.36%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 89 (100.00%) Python
2 46 (51.69%) SQL
3 7 (7.87%) C#
4 6 (6.74%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.49%) Cypher
5 4 (4.49%) Gremlin
5 4 (4.49%) Java
6 3 (3.37%) C++
6 3 (3.37%) R
7 2 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.25%) VBA
8 1 (1.12%) Bash
8 1 (1.12%) C
8 1 (1.12%) Haskell
8 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (11.24%) Degree
2 9 (10.11%) Master's Degree
3 8 (8.99%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.49%) PhD
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.37%) QA
2 1 (1.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (40.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (25.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.74%) Kubeflow
3 3 (3.37%) Podman
4 1 (1.12%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (8.99%) Databricks
2 7 (7.87%) Google
3 5 (5.62%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.37%) Foundry
4 3 (3.37%) Palantir
5 1 (1.12%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.12%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.12%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.12%) Reuters