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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 345 425
Rank change year-on-year -32 +80 +115
Contract jobs citing NumPy 159 160 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.55% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.27% 2.53% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 150 123
10th Percentile £401 £510 £463
25th Percentile £463 £638 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £800 £675
% change year-on-year -31.25% +18.52% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £64.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £66.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £65.50
% change year-on-year - - +19.09%

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 7,011 6,325 8,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.83% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,678 4,051 5,940
10th Percentile £352 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £631 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £770
UK median daily rate £505 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -7.68% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 81 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.77 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 -32 124 £725 -9.38% 28
South East - 15 £438 - 32
West Midlands -25 8 £451 -5.05% 10
Midlands -33 8 £451 -5.05% 21
North of England - 6 £516 - 20
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 8
East of England -23 4 £475 -24.00% 26
South West - 1 £550 - 15
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 44 (27.67%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (19.50%) Apache
3 14 (8.81%) Apache Spark
4 9 (5.66%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.63%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (5.03%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.26%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 92 (57.86%) AWS
2 43 (27.04%) Azure
3 41 (25.79%) dbt
4 33 (20.75%) GCP
5 28 (17.61%) Snowflake
6 17 (10.69%) Power Platform
7 12 (7.55%) Serverless
8 11 (6.92%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.92%) Amazon SageMaker
8 11 (6.92%) GitHub
9 9 (5.66%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (5.03%) Azure AI
11 6 (3.77%) Amazon Bedrock
11 6 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (3.14%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (3.14%) ChatGPT
13 4 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.52%) Internet
2 3 (1.89%) SSH
2 3 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.26%) DNS
3 2 (1.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (25.16%) Amazon Athena
2 35 (22.01%) Apache Arrow
2 35 (22.01%) Apache Iceberg
2 35 (22.01%) Dremio
3 25 (15.72%) Data Lake
4 24 (15.09%) Apache Ignite
5 23 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (9.43%) Big Data
6 15 (9.43%) Relational Database
7 14 (8.81%) Power BI
8 12 (7.55%) NoSQL
9 9 (5.66%) Hadoop
10 6 (3.77%) BigQuery
10 6 (3.77%) MySQL
10 6 (3.77%) RDBMS
11 5 (3.14%) Tableau
12 4 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.52%) Parquet
13 3 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 38 (23.90%) Git
2 14 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.66%) PyCharm
4 7 (4.40%) MLflow
5 4 (2.52%) JIRA
5 4 (2.52%) Poetry
5 4 (2.52%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 84 (52.83%) Finance
2 59 (37.11%) Banking
3 51 (32.08%) Front Office
4 38 (23.90%) Investment Banking
5 32 (20.13%) Social Skills
6 20 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (8.18%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.52%) Legal
9 3 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.89%) Marketing
10 2 (1.26%) Electronics
10 2 (1.26%) Retail
10 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Law
11 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (38.36%) Developer
2 52 (32.70%) Python Developer
3 44 (27.67%) Python Engineer
4 42 (26.42%) Senior
5 37 (23.27%) Software Engineer
6 35 (22.01%) AWS Engineer
6 35 (22.01%) AWS Software Engineer
6 35 (22.01%) Python Software Engineer
7 31 (19.50%) Data Scientist
8 25 (15.72%) AWS Developer
9 24 (15.09%) Java Engineer
9 24 (15.09%) Java Software Engineer
9 24 (15.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 23 (14.47%) Senior Java Engineer
10 23 (14.47%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 14 (8.81%) JavaScript Developer
12 12 (7.55%) Data Engineer
13 11 (6.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 9 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 9 (5.66%) RAD Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (94.97%) Pandas
2 62 (38.99%) SciPy
3 46 (28.93%) scikit-learn
4 28 (17.61%) PyTorch
5 27 (16.98%) Flask
6 26 (16.35%) React
6 26 (16.35%) TensorFlow
7 25 (15.72%) AngularJS
7 25 (15.72%) FastAPI
7 25 (15.72%) Vue
8 24 (15.09%) gRPC
8 24 (15.09%) Protocol Buffers
9 20 (12.58%) REST
10 16 (10.06%) Polars
11 12 (7.55%) Hugging Face
11 12 (7.55%) LangChain
11 12 (7.55%) Node.js
12 9 (5.66%) COM
12 9 (5.66%) Matplotlib
12 9 (5.66%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 58 (36.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 50 (31.45%) Hedge funds
3 49 (30.82%) Equities
4 35 (22.01%) Fixed Income
5 27 (16.98%) Derivative
6 25 (15.72%) Algorithms
7 24 (15.09%) Pricing Data
8 4 (2.52%) Clustering
8 4 (2.52%) Online Banking
8 4 (2.52%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.89%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.89%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.63%) CUDA
10 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.63%) FPGA
10 1 (0.63%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.21%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (40.88%) Software Engineering
2 60 (37.74%) Agile
3 57 (35.85%) Data Science
3 57 (35.85%) Machine Learning
4 44 (27.67%) Analytics
5 43 (27.04%) AI
6 42 (26.42%) Data Engineering
7 36 (22.64%) Asset Management
7 36 (22.64%) Investment Management
8 34 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (20.13%) LLM
10 28 (17.61%) CI/CD
10 28 (17.61%) Visualisation
11 26 (16.35%) Data Analysis
11 26 (16.35%) Mathematics
12 25 (15.72%) Generative AI
13 22 (13.84%) Clean Code
13 22 (13.84%) DevOps
14 21 (13.21%) Natural Language Processing
15 20 (12.58%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 159 (100.00%) Python
2 52 (32.70%) JavaScript
2 52 (32.70%) SQL
3 41 (25.79%) Java
4 35 (22.01%) TypeScript
5 21 (13.21%) C++
6 20 (12.58%) C#
7 15 (9.43%) Rust
8 9 (5.66%) VBA
9 5 (3.14%) Bash
10 4 (2.52%) Groovy
10 4 (2.52%) R
11 1 (0.63%) Ada
11 1 (0.63%) C
11 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.63%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 23 (14.47%) Degree
2 20 (12.58%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.81%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.66%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.03%) PhD
6 6 (3.77%) MCP
7 4 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.77%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.52%) GDPR
3 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.26%) QA
System Software
1 28 (17.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (18.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.89%) Argo
2 3 (1.89%) Istio
2 3 (1.89%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.89%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (8.18%) Google
2 12 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.29%) Databricks
4 5 (3.14%) Dataiku
4 5 (3.14%) Foundry
4 5 (3.14%) Sage
5 4 (2.52%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.89%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.26%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.26%) Cognos
7 2 (1.26%) IBM
7 2 (1.26%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.26%) SAP
8 1 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.63%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.63%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle
8 1 (0.63%) UiPath