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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 338 388
Rank change year-on-year -110 +50 +130
Contract jobs citing NumPy 134 151 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.68% 2.75% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 122 134
10th Percentile £373 £510 £463
25th Percentile £450 £591 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -17.04% -6.90% +2.84%
75th Percentile £738 £860 £875
90th Percentile £875 £888 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -18.52% -6.90% +2.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.38
90th Percentile - - £66.60
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 7,965 5,484 7,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.29% 22.47% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,337 3,806 5,331
10th Percentile £358 £365 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 89 176
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.42 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £36.82
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.93 £83.17 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -61 110 £613 -18.33% 48
South East -46 10 £500 -6.98% 21
West Midlands -54 5 £503 +5.89% 3
Midlands -63 5 £503 +5.89% 7
North of England -67 5 £538 -2.27% 11
Yorkshire - 3 - - 3
South West -26 2 £563 +32.35% 4
North West -35 1 £575 +4.55% 5
North East - 1 £500 - 3
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 22 (16.42%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (8.21%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.72%) Jupyter
4 8 (5.97%) Appian
5 6 (4.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.75%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.99%) CPLEX
5 2 (1.49%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 54 (40.30%) Azure
2 53 (39.55%) AWS
3 21 (15.67%) GCP
4 18 (13.43%) Power Platform
5 12 (8.96%) Amazon SageMaker
5 12 (8.96%) Azure AI
5 12 (8.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (8.21%) GitHub
6 11 (8.21%) Power Automate
7 9 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (6.72%) Serverless
8 8 (5.97%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (5.97%) Azure Machine Learning
8 8 (5.97%) Dagster
8 8 (5.97%) dbt
9 7 (5.22%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.22%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.99%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.94%) Relational Database
2 15 (11.19%) Power BI
3 10 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.72%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.72%) Pinecone
5 8 (5.97%) Big Data
5 8 (5.97%) BigQuery
5 8 (5.97%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.73%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.99%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.99%) Power Query
8 4 (2.99%) Tableau
9 3 (2.24%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.49%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.49%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.49%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.49%) Metadata
10 2 (1.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (23.13%) Git
2 19 (14.18%) MLflow
3 9 (6.72%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.49%) PyCharm
4 2 (1.49%) Selenium
5 1 (0.75%) Poetry
General
1 56 (41.79%) Finance
2 37 (27.61%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (26.12%) Social Skills
4 24 (17.91%) Banking
5 14 (10.45%) Front Office
5 14 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.48%) Publishing
7 4 (2.99%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.99%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.99%) Marketing
8 2 (1.49%) Electronics
8 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.75%) Aviation
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (42.54%) Developer
2 47 (35.07%) Python Developer
3 33 (24.63%) Data Scientist
4 28 (20.90%) Senior
5 14 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 14 (10.45%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.45%) Senior Python Developer
6 11 (8.21%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.72%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 9 (6.72%) Python Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) Analyst
8 8 (5.97%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) RAD Developer
9 7 (5.22%) Quantitative Developer
10 6 (4.48%) Kafka Developer
10 6 (4.48%) Senior Data Scientist
11 5 (3.73%) Python Data Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) Business Analyst
12 4 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
13 3 (2.24%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (97.01%) Pandas
2 56 (41.79%) scikit-learn
3 36 (26.87%) REST
4 32 (23.88%) TensorFlow
5 31 (23.13%) PyTorch
6 26 (19.40%) Flask
7 24 (17.91%) FastAPI
8 22 (16.42%) Django
9 17 (12.69%) SciPy
10 16 (11.94%) Seaborn
11 14 (10.45%) Hugging Face
11 14 (10.45%) Polars
11 14 (10.45%) pytest
12 13 (9.70%) Kafka
12 13 (9.70%) Web Services
13 12 (8.96%) OpenAPI
13 12 (8.96%) Plotly
13 12 (8.96%) RESTful
13 12 (8.96%) Swagger
14 9 (6.72%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.16%) Equities
2 22 (16.42%) Algorithms
3 20 (14.93%) Hedge funds
4 10 (7.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (5.97%) Data Structures
5 8 (5.97%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (5.97%) Low-Code
5 8 (5.97%) Public Cloud
6 7 (5.22%) Management Information System
7 6 (4.48%) Derivative
7 6 (4.48%) Fixed Income
7 6 (4.48%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.73%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.99%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.99%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.49%) Clustering
10 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.49%) Online Banking
10 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.73%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (50.75%) Machine Learning
2 55 (41.04%) Data Pipeline
3 53 (39.55%) Data Science
4 51 (38.06%) Analytics
5 46 (34.33%) AI
6 40 (29.85%) CI/CD
7 35 (26.12%) Data Engineering
8 32 (23.88%) Generative AI
9 31 (23.13%) Containerisation
9 31 (23.13%) Visualisation
10 29 (21.64%) Data Analysis
11 28 (20.90%) Decision-Making
11 28 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (18.66%) LLM
13 23 (17.16%) ETL
13 23 (17.16%) Natural Language Processing
14 22 (16.42%) Mathematics
15 21 (15.67%) Workflow
16 19 (14.18%) Data Cleansing
16 19 (14.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 134 (100.00%) Python
2 71 (52.99%) SQL
3 10 (7.46%) C#
3 10 (7.46%) C++
3 10 (7.46%) VBA
4 8 (5.97%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.48%) Java
6 4 (2.99%) R
7 3 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.49%) Ada
8 2 (1.49%) Rust
9 1 (0.75%) Bash
9 1 (0.75%) C
9 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.75%) SHACL
9 1 (0.75%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.75%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 22 (16.42%) Degree
1 22 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.45%) Master's Degree
3 12 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.48%) PhD
5 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 41 (30.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) HDFS
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (23.13%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.97%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (12.69%) Databricks
1 17 (12.69%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.19%) Google
2 15 (11.19%) OpenAI
3 8 (5.97%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (5.97%) UiPath
4 4 (2.99%) Dataiku
4 4 (2.99%) SAP
5 3 (2.24%) Cognos
5 3 (2.24%) IBM
5 3 (2.24%) Sage
6 2 (1.49%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.49%) Foundry
6 2 (1.49%) Reuters
7 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.75%) NVIDIA