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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 328 306
Rank change year-on-year -181 -22 +181
Contract jobs citing NumPy 98 179 261
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.65% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.16% 2.93% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 136 243
10th Percentile £349 £438 £573
25th Percentile £450 £572 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -21.53% -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
UK median daily rate £569 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -24.13% -6.25% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 8,465 6,107 7,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.27% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,558 4,200 5,303
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £746 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 135 248
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -6.96%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -133 77 £675 -10.00% 29
South East -69 13 £374 -14.57% 23
Midlands -44 3 £425 +14.29% 9
North of England -75 2 £575 +4.55% 18
East Midlands - 2 £425 - 6
South West -38 1 £575 +35.29% 8
North West -49 1 £575 +4.55% 10
West Midlands -64 1 £325 -12.61% 3
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 16 (16.33%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.08%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.06%) Appian
5 2 (2.04%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (9.18%) CPLEX
2 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (5.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.69%) Azure
2 33 (33.67%) AWS
3 14 (14.29%) GCP
4 13 (13.27%) Amazon SageMaker
5 9 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.16%) Dagster
6 8 (8.16%) GitHub
6 8 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (6.12%) dbt
8 5 (5.10%) Amazon Neptune
9 4 (4.08%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.08%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.06%) Azure AI
10 3 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (3.06%) Power Automate
10 3 (3.06%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.06%) Serverless
11 2 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.35%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 14 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 13 (13.27%) NoSQL
4 8 (8.16%) Neo4j
5 6 (6.12%) Big Data
6 5 (5.10%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.06%) Pinecone
8 3 (3.06%) Power BI
8 3 (3.06%) Power Query
8 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.04%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.04%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.04%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (2.04%) Tableau
10 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.02%) KDB
Development Applications
1 27 (27.55%) Git
2 16 (16.33%) MLflow
3 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.04%) Selenium
5 1 (1.02%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.02%) GitLab
5 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (42.86%) Finance
2 30 (30.61%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (15.31%) Social Skills
4 11 (11.22%) Banking
5 9 (9.18%) Publishing
6 6 (6.12%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.10%) Front Office
8 4 (4.08%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.06%) Private Banking
10 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.02%) Advertising
11 1 (1.02%) Aviation
11 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.02%) Marketing
11 1 (1.02%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (43.88%) Developer
2 39 (39.80%) Python Developer
3 27 (27.55%) Data Scientist
4 14 (14.29%) Senior
5 9 (9.18%) Kafka Developer
6 8 (8.16%) Analyst
6 8 (8.16%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.12%) Senior Python Developer
8 5 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Python Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Senior Data Scientist
9 4 (4.08%) Lead
10 3 (3.06%) Associate Director
10 3 (3.06%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.06%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (3.06%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
10 3 (3.06%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (95.92%) Pandas
2 42 (42.86%) scikit-learn
3 32 (32.65%) FastAPI
4 27 (27.55%) Flask
5 23 (23.47%) Django
6 22 (22.45%) Kafka
7 20 (20.41%) PyTorch
7 20 (20.41%) REST
8 19 (19.39%) TensorFlow
9 17 (17.35%) Polars
10 14 (14.29%) RESTful
11 13 (13.27%) pytest
12 12 (12.24%) OpenAPI
12 12 (12.24%) Seaborn
12 12 (12.24%) Swagger
13 9 (9.18%) Apache Avro
13 9 (9.18%) SciPy
14 8 (8.16%) PySpark
14 8 (8.16%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (6.12%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.41%) Algorithms
2 15 (15.31%) Equities
3 12 (12.24%) Data Structures
4 10 (10.20%) Derivative
4 10 (10.20%) Hedge funds
5 9 (9.18%) Cloud Native
5 9 (9.18%) Management Information System
6 6 (6.12%) Public Cloud
7 5 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (5.10%) Equity Derivative
7 5 (5.10%) Fixed Income
8 4 (4.08%) Market Risk
8 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
9 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (3.06%) Exotic Derivative
9 3 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (3.06%) Low-Code
10 2 (2.04%) Life Science
10 2 (2.04%) SCADA
10 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (53.06%) Machine Learning
2 46 (46.94%) Data Pipeline
3 44 (44.90%) Data Science
4 39 (39.80%) CI/CD
5 37 (37.76%) Containerisation
6 36 (36.73%) Analytics
7 27 (27.55%) AI
8 22 (22.45%) Visualisation
9 20 (20.41%) Data Engineering
9 20 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (19.39%) Decision-Making
11 18 (18.37%) DevOps
12 17 (17.35%) Data Analysis
13 16 (16.33%) Mathematics
14 15 (15.31%) Feature Engineering
15 14 (14.29%) LLM
15 14 (14.29%) Software Engineering
15 14 (14.29%) Workflow
16 13 (13.27%) MLOps
16 13 (13.27%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 98 (100.00%) Python
2 53 (54.08%) SQL
3 7 (7.14%) C#
4 4 (4.08%) Cypher
4 4 (4.08%) Gremlin
4 4 (4.08%) Java
4 4 (4.08%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.06%) C++
5 3 (3.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.06%) R
6 2 (2.04%) VBA
7 1 (1.02%) Bash
7 1 (1.02%) C
7 1 (1.02%) Haskell
7 1 (1.02%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.02%) SHACL
7 1 (1.02%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (13.27%) Degree
2 11 (11.22%) Master's Degree
3 9 (9.18%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.08%) PhD
6 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.06%) QA
3 1 (1.02%) GDPR
System Software
1 46 (46.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.10%) Kubeflow
3 3 (3.06%) Podman
4 1 (1.02%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (10.20%) Databricks
2 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.14%) OpenAI
4 5 (5.10%) Google
5 3 (3.06%) Automation Anywhere
5 3 (3.06%) UiPath
6 1 (1.02%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.02%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.02%) Reuters