NumPy Contracts in England

NumPy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring NumPy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NumPy over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 306 508
Rank change year-on-year -34 +202 -11
Contract jobs citing NumPy 160 263 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.70% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.73% 3.31% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 244 95
10th Percentile £500 £563 £469
25th Percentile £625 £725 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £693
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +15.52% +15.42%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £825
90th Percentile - - £950
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £675
% change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
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 5,868 7,952 10,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.48% 21.28% 22.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,045 5,540 7,925
10th Percentile £355 £350 £385
25th Percentile £413 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 264 138
10th Percentile £30.50 £23.80 £30.53
25th Percentile £43.44 £43.00 £50.31
Median hourly rate £57.63 £58.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -10.54% +22.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.48 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

NumPy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing NumPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for NumPy in England

NumPy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NumPy in England.

Daily rate trend for NumPy in England

NumPy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NumPy in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NumPy in England

NumPy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NumPy in England.

Hourly rate trend for NumPy in England

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 3 July 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 -44 134 £750 -6.25% 168
East of England +35 17 £650 +42.08% 2
South East +42 4 £500 -24.53% 11
South West +34 3 £425 +54.55% 3
North West +7 1 £550 +5.77% 4
North of England +6 1 £550 +19.57% 12
NumPy
UK

NumPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 78 (48.75%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (27.50%) Apache
3 13 (8.13%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.75%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 124 (77.50%) AWS
2 76 (47.50%) dbt
3 53 (33.13%) GCP
4 39 (24.38%) Azure
5 36 (22.50%) Snowflake
6 17 (10.63%) GitHub
7 13 (8.13%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (6.25%) Dagster
9 8 (5.00%) Azure AKS
9 8 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (5.00%) Entra ID
10 7 (4.38%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (3.13%) Power Platform
12 5 (3.13%) Vertex AI
13 4 (2.50%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (45.63%) Amazon Athena
1 73 (45.63%) Apache Iceberg
1 73 (45.63%) Dremio
2 69 (43.13%) Apache Arrow
3 39 (24.38%) Data Lake
4 38 (23.75%) Apache Ignite
4 38 (23.75%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (12.50%) Tableau
6 14 (8.75%) Big Data
7 13 (8.13%) Hadoop
8 9 (5.63%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.13%) Power BI
10 4 (2.50%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.88%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.88%) KDB
11 3 (1.88%) Looker
11 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (1.25%) GIS
13 1 (0.63%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 19 (11.88%) Git
2 5 (3.13%) MLflow
3 1 (0.63%) JIRA
3 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 115 (71.88%) Finance
2 80 (50.00%) Front Office
3 59 (36.88%) Banking
4 53 (33.13%) Investment Banking
5 18 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (7.50%) Social Skills
7 5 (3.13%) Back Office
8 3 (1.88%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.88%) Retail
9 2 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Law
10 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Social Science
10 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (55.00%) Developer
2 77 (48.13%) Software Engineer
3 71 (44.38%) Python Engineer
4 69 (43.13%) AWS Engineer
4 69 (43.13%) AWS Software Engineer
5 60 (37.50%) Python Developer
6 59 (36.88%) Python Software Engineer
7 47 (29.38%) AWS Developer
7 47 (29.38%) Java Engineer
7 47 (29.38%) Java Software Engineer
8 46 (28.75%) Senior
9 34 (21.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 33 (20.63%) Senior Java Engineer
10 33 (20.63%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 33 (20.63%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (8.13%) JavaScript Developer
12 12 (7.50%) Data Science Developer
12 12 (7.50%) Java Developer
12 12 (7.50%) Java Software Developer
13 10 (6.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (96.88%) Pandas
2 93 (58.13%) SciPy
3 55 (34.38%) React
4 52 (32.50%) AngularJS
5 49 (30.63%) Vue
6 38 (23.75%) gRPC
6 38 (23.75%) Protocol Buffers
7 34 (21.25%) Node.js
8 25 (15.63%) Flask
9 23 (14.38%) scikit-learn
10 22 (13.75%) FastAPI
11 20 (12.50%) PyTorch
11 20 (12.50%) TensorFlow
12 17 (10.63%) Matplotlib
12 17 (10.63%) Polars
13 15 (9.38%) Kafka
13 15 (9.38%) PySpark
14 14 (8.75%) Seaborn
15 12 (7.50%) OpenTelemetry
16 11 (6.88%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 75 (46.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 74 (46.25%) Fixed Income
3 63 (39.38%) Equities
4 54 (33.75%) Hedge funds
5 37 (23.13%) Derivative
6 30 (18.75%) Pricing Data
7 18 (11.25%) Algorithms
8 5 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.50%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.88%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.25%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.63%) Genomics
12 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.63%) IoT
12 1 (0.63%) Omics
12 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.63%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (63.75%) Software Engineering
2 87 (54.38%) Agile
3 75 (46.88%) Asset Management
4 71 (44.38%) Investment Management
5 41 (25.63%) Data Science
6 39 (24.38%) Fintech
7 38 (23.75%) Risk Management
8 34 (21.25%) Performance Attribution
9 33 (20.63%) Machine Learning
10 31 (19.38%) Analytics
10 31 (19.38%) Order Management
11 29 (18.13%) Data Engineering
12 27 (16.88%) Artificial Intelligence
13 24 (15.00%) Generative AI
13 24 (15.00%) Visualisation
14 20 (12.50%) CI/CD
15 19 (11.88%) Computer Science
16 18 (11.25%) Decision-Making
16 18 (11.25%) Mathematics
17 16 (10.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 148 (92.50%) Python
2 86 (53.75%) JavaScript
3 71 (44.38%) Java
4 69 (43.13%) TypeScript
5 21 (13.13%) C#
6 17 (10.63%) SQL
7 15 (9.38%) C++
7 15 (9.38%) Rust
8 14 (8.75%) R
9 2 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (11.25%) Degree
2 16 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.63%) PhD
4 5 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.63%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (3.75%) QA
4 3 (1.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (3.75%) Google
2 4 (2.50%) Dataiku
2 4 (2.50%) DataRobot
3 2 (1.25%) Bloomberg
3 2 (1.25%) Reuters
4 1 (0.63%) Checkmarx
4 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle
4 1 (0.63%) Refinitiv
4 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow