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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 339 297
Rank change year-on-year -195 -42 +191
Contract jobs citing NumPy 97 182 259
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.66% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 2.97% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 139 242
10th Percentile £349 £439 £563
25th Percentile £450 £581 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +17.00%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -23.33% -6.25% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
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 8,459 6,129 7,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.79% 22.20% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,555 4,226 5,157
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £430 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £803
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 142 233
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £79.87 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.45% +4.52% -12.50%

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 27 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 27 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 -125 76 £700 -6.67% 34
South East -73 12 £358 -18.29% 20
Midlands -53 3 £425 +14.29% 9
North of England -72 3 £613 +11.36% 15
North West -47 2 £613 +11.36% 8
East Midlands - 2 £425 - 6
South West -42 1 £575 +35.29% 8
West Midlands -54 1 £325 -12.61% 3
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
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 14 (14.43%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.25%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.12%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.09%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (2.06%) Apache
5 2 (2.06%) Appian
Applications
1 9 (9.28%) CPLEX
2 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.99%) Azure
2 30 (30.93%) AWS
3 13 (13.40%) GCP
4 11 (11.34%) Amazon SageMaker
5 9 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.19%) Dagster
6 6 (6.19%) dbt
6 6 (6.19%) GitHub
6 6 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.15%) Amazon Neptune
7 5 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.12%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.09%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.09%) Serverless
10 2 (2.06%) Azure AI
10 2 (2.06%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (2.06%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.53%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (14.43%) MongoDB
2 14 (14.43%) Relational Database
3 11 (11.34%) NoSQL
4 8 (8.25%) Neo4j
5 7 (7.22%) Big Data
6 5 (5.15%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.09%) Power BI
8 3 (3.09%) Power Query
9 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.06%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.06%) Pinecone
9 2 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.06%) Tableau
10 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.03%) KDB
10 1 (1.03%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 25 (25.77%) Git
2 13 (13.40%) MLflow
3 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.06%) Selenium
5 1 (1.03%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.03%) GitLab
5 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (43.30%) Finance
2 29 (29.90%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.43%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.37%) Banking
5 9 (9.28%) Publishing
6 7 (7.22%) Investment Banking
7 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.15%) Front Office
9 4 (4.12%) Financial Institution
10 3 (3.09%) Private Banking
11 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.03%) Advertising
12 1 (1.03%) Aviation
12 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.03%) Marketing
12 1 (1.03%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (44.33%) Developer
2 39 (40.21%) Python Developer
3 24 (24.74%) Data Scientist
4 14 (14.43%) Senior
5 9 (9.28%) Kafka Developer
6 8 (8.25%) Analyst
6 8 (8.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.19%) Senior Python Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Python Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Senior Data Scientist
9 4 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Lead
10 3 (3.09%) Associate Director
10 3 (3.09%) Data Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (95.88%) Pandas
2 38 (39.18%) scikit-learn
3 32 (32.99%) FastAPI
4 27 (27.84%) Flask
5 22 (22.68%) Django
5 22 (22.68%) Kafka
6 20 (20.62%) REST
7 18 (18.56%) PyTorch
8 17 (17.53%) Polars
8 17 (17.53%) TensorFlow
9 13 (13.40%) RESTful
10 12 (12.37%) PySpark
10 12 (12.37%) pytest
11 11 (11.34%) OpenAPI
11 11 (11.34%) Seaborn
11 11 (11.34%) Swagger
12 9 (9.28%) Apache Avro
12 9 (9.28%) SciPy
13 8 (8.25%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (6.19%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.49%) Algorithms
2 15 (15.46%) Equities
3 12 (12.37%) Data Structures
4 11 (11.34%) Derivative
5 10 (10.31%) Hedge funds
6 9 (9.28%) Cloud Native
6 9 (9.28%) Management Information System
7 8 (8.25%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (6.19%) Fixed Income
8 6 (6.19%) Public Cloud
9 5 (5.15%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (5.15%) Market Risk
10 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
11 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (3.09%) Exotic Derivative
12 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (2.06%) Life Science
12 2 (2.06%) Low-Code
12 2 (2.06%) SCADA
12 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.19%) Linux
2 5 (5.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (49.48%) Machine Learning
2 42 (43.30%) Data Pipeline
3 41 (42.27%) Analytics
3 41 (42.27%) Data Science
4 34 (35.05%) CI/CD
4 34 (35.05%) Containerisation
5 27 (27.84%) AI
6 22 (22.68%) Visualisation
7 20 (20.62%) Data Engineering
7 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (19.59%) Decision-Making
9 18 (18.56%) DevOps
10 16 (16.49%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (15.46%) Data Transformation
11 15 (15.46%) Mathematics
12 14 (14.43%) Data Analysis
12 14 (14.43%) Software Engineering
12 14 (14.43%) Workflow
13 13 (13.40%) ETL
13 13 (13.40%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 97 (100.00%) Python
2 51 (52.58%) SQL
3 7 (7.22%) C#
4 5 (5.15%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.12%) Cypher
5 4 (4.12%) Gremlin
5 4 (4.12%) Java
6 3 (3.09%) C++
6 3 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.09%) R
7 2 (2.06%) VBA
8 1 (1.03%) Bash
8 1 (1.03%) C
8 1 (1.03%) Haskell
8 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.03%) SHACL
8 1 (1.03%) SPARQL
8 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) Degree
2 11 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.31%) Master's Degree
4 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.12%) PhD
6 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.09%) QA
3 1 (1.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 41 (42.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (25.77%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.15%) Kubeflow
3 3 (3.09%) Podman
4 1 (1.03%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (10.31%) Databricks
2 6 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.15%) Google
3 5 (5.15%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.09%) Foundry
4 3 (3.09%) Palantir
5 2 (2.06%) Automation Anywhere
5 2 (2.06%) UiPath
6 1 (1.03%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.03%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.03%) Reuters