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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 345 302
Rank change year-on-year -213 -43 +175
Contract jobs citing NumPy 80 177 245
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.64% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.81% 2.50% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 137 238
10th Percentile £349 £425 £630
25th Percentile £413 £538 £741
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% -6.25% +20.75%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £811 - -
UK median daily rate £582 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -22.43% -6.25% +23.08%

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 9,837 7,066 8,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.44% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,807 5,471
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £441 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -5.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £664
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 170 180
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.57 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.97 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.60% -0.12%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%

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 September 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 September 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 -157 66 £625 -16.67% 165
South East -65 8 £358 -17.82% 32
Midlands -52 3 £425 +14.29% 13
East Midlands - 3 £425 - 10
North West - 2 £650 - 15
North of England - 2 £650 - 25
South West -37 1 £575 +35.29% 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 10 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 9 (11.25%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (7.50%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.75%) Apache
4 3 (3.75%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) CPLEX
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.75%) Azure
2 21 (26.25%) AWS
3 11 (13.75%) GCP
4 7 (8.75%) Amazon SageMaker
4 7 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.50%) dbt
6 5 (6.25%) Amazon Neptune
6 5 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.25%) Azure Databricks
7 4 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.00%) Serverless
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (3.75%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.25%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 9 (11.25%) NoSQL
3 9 (11.25%) Relational Database
4 8 (10.00%) Neo4j
5 7 (8.75%) Big Data
6 4 (5.00%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.50%) Power BI
8 2 (2.50%) Power Query
8 2 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (2.50%) Tableau
9 1 (1.25%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.25%) KDB
9 1 (1.25%) Kdb+
9 1 (1.25%) Looker
Development Applications
1 23 (28.75%) Git
2 6 (7.50%) MLflow
3 3 (3.75%) Selenium
4 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.25%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.25%) GitLab
5 1 (1.25%) JIRA
5 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (41.25%) Finance
2 21 (26.25%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 13 (16.25%) Banking
5 8 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 7 (8.75%) Publishing
7 5 (6.25%) Front Office
8 3 (3.75%) Private Banking
8 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Advertising
10 1 (1.25%) Automotive
10 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.25%) Marketing
10 1 (1.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (41.25%) Developer
2 31 (38.75%) Python Developer
3 18 (22.50%) Data Scientist
4 16 (20.00%) Senior
5 7 (8.75%) Analyst
5 7 (8.75%) Data Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Kafka Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Python Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Senior Python Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Quantitative Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (93.75%) Pandas
2 27 (33.75%) FastAPI
2 27 (33.75%) scikit-learn
3 21 (26.25%) Flask
4 17 (21.25%) Django
4 17 (21.25%) REST
5 16 (20.00%) Kafka
5 16 (20.00%) Polars
5 16 (20.00%) PySpark
6 15 (18.75%) PyTorch
7 14 (17.50%) TensorFlow
8 10 (12.50%) pytest
9 9 (11.25%) SciPy
10 8 (10.00%) RESTful
11 7 (8.75%) Apache Avro
12 6 (7.50%) OpenAPI
12 6 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (7.50%) React
12 6 (7.50%) Swagger
13 4 (5.00%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Derivative
1 10 (12.50%) Equities
2 9 (11.25%) Algorithms
2 9 (11.25%) Data Structures
3 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (8.75%) Hedge funds
4 7 (8.75%) Management Information System
5 6 (7.50%) Market Risk
6 5 (6.25%) Public Cloud
7 4 (5.00%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (5.00%) Fixed Income
7 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
8 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (3.75%) Exotic Derivative
9 2 (2.50%) Life Science
9 2 (2.50%) Robotics
9 2 (2.50%) SCADA
9 2 (2.50%) Self-Driving Car
10 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Linux
2 7 (8.75%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) Machine Learning
2 37 (46.25%) Analytics
3 34 (42.50%) Data Pipeline
3 34 (42.50%) Data Science
4 30 (37.50%) AI
5 23 (28.75%) CI/CD
5 23 (28.75%) Containerisation
6 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (20.00%) Visualisation
8 15 (18.75%) DevOps
9 14 (17.50%) Data Analysis
9 14 (17.50%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (16.25%) Data Transformation
11 12 (15.00%) Data Engineering
11 12 (15.00%) Decision-Making
11 12 (15.00%) Feature Engineering
11 12 (15.00%) LLM
11 12 (15.00%) Software Engineering
12 11 (13.75%) Agile
12 11 (13.75%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 80 (100.00%) Python
2 43 (53.75%) SQL
3 7 (8.75%) C#
4 6 (7.50%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.25%) Cypher
5 5 (6.25%) Gremlin
6 4 (5.00%) Java
7 2 (2.50%) C++
7 2 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.50%) R
7 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.50%) VBA
8 1 (1.25%) Bash
8 1 (1.25%) C
8 1 (1.25%) Haskell
8 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (8.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) Degree
4 4 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Kubeflow
2 4 (5.00%) Podman
3 2 (2.50%) Grafana
4 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Databricks
2 4 (5.00%) Google
3 3 (3.75%) Foundry
3 3 (3.75%) Palantir
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.25%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle