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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 356 417
Rank change year-on-year -32 +61 +126
Contract jobs citing NumPy 149 132 125
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.49% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.14% 2.23% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 122 112
10th Percentile £397 £510 £463
25th Percentile £461 £616 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £738 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +5.36% +12.00%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -21.43% - +12.00%
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 6,965 5,923 7,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.19% 21.87% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,654 3,782 5,530
10th Percentile £356 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £637 £662 £671
90th Percentile £738 £787 £753
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 68 162
10th Percentile £32.44 £26.25 £29.87
25th Percentile £44.75 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -4.00% +19.74% -19.70%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -7 121 £700 -6.67% 58
South East - 9 £500 - 66
West Midlands -27 8 £451 -5.05% 7
Midlands -32 8 £451 -5.05% 31
North of England - 7 £508 - 46
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 23
East of England -29 2 £450 -29.41% 33
North East - 1 £500 - 7
South West - 1 £550 - 28
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 37 (24.83%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (16.78%) Apache
3 15 (10.07%) Apache Spark
4 10 (6.71%) Jupyter
5 4 (2.68%) Appian
6 1 (0.67%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (5.37%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 77 (51.68%) AWS
2 38 (25.50%) Azure
3 33 (22.15%) dbt
4 29 (19.46%) GCP
5 22 (14.77%) Snowflake
6 16 (10.74%) Power Platform
7 11 (7.38%) Azure AI
7 11 (7.38%) GitHub
8 9 (6.04%) Serverless
9 8 (5.37%) Amazon S3
9 8 (5.37%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (4.70%) Amazon SageMaker
10 7 (4.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (4.70%) Power Automate
11 6 (4.03%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.68%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (2.01%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.68%) Internet
2 3 (2.01%) SSH
2 3 (2.01%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.34%) DNS
3 2 (1.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.45%) Amazon Athena
1 26 (17.45%) Apache Arrow
1 26 (17.45%) Apache Iceberg
1 26 (17.45%) Dremio
2 21 (14.09%) Data Lake
3 20 (13.42%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (12.08%) Apache Ignite
5 15 (10.07%) Relational Database
6 13 (8.72%) Power BI
7 12 (8.05%) NoSQL
8 11 (7.38%) Big Data
9 9 (6.04%) Hadoop
10 7 (4.70%) BigQuery
11 6 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (4.03%) MySQL
11 6 (4.03%) Pinecone
11 6 (4.03%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.68%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.68%) Parquet
12 4 (2.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (24.16%) Git
2 14 (9.40%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.05%) MLflow
4 9 (6.04%) PyCharm
5 4 (2.68%) Poetry
5 4 (2.68%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (54.36%) Finance
2 52 (34.90%) Banking
3 42 (28.19%) Front Office
4 34 (22.82%) Social Skills
5 30 (20.13%) Investment Banking
6 19 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (7.38%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.68%) Legal
9 3 (2.01%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.01%) Marketing
10 2 (1.34%) Electronics
10 2 (1.34%) Retail
10 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.67%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.67%) Law
11 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (37.58%) Developer
2 49 (32.89%) Python Developer
3 41 (27.52%) Senior
4 35 (23.49%) Python Engineer
5 28 (18.79%) Software Engineer
6 27 (18.12%) AWS Engineer
7 26 (17.45%) AWS Software Engineer
7 26 (17.45%) Python Software Engineer
8 24 (16.11%) Data Scientist
9 20 (13.42%) AWS Developer
10 18 (12.08%) Java Engineer
10 18 (12.08%) Java Software Engineer
10 18 (12.08%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (11.41%) Senior Java Engineer
11 17 (11.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 16 (10.74%) Data Engineer
13 13 (8.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (8.05%) JavaScript Developer
14 12 (8.05%) Senior Developer
14 12 (8.05%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (95.30%) Pandas
2 51 (34.23%) SciPy
3 43 (28.86%) scikit-learn
4 29 (19.46%) TensorFlow
5 27 (18.12%) Flask
5 27 (18.12%) PyTorch
6 26 (17.45%) FastAPI
7 25 (16.78%) REST
8 21 (14.09%) React
9 20 (13.42%) AngularJS
9 20 (13.42%) Vue
10 18 (12.08%) gRPC
10 18 (12.08%) Protocol Buffers
11 14 (9.40%) Polars
12 13 (8.72%) LangChain
13 10 (6.71%) Django
13 10 (6.71%) Hugging Face
13 10 (6.71%) LangGraph
13 10 (6.71%) Node.js
13 10 (6.71%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 47 (31.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (28.19%) Hedge funds
3 40 (26.85%) Equities
4 26 (17.45%) Fixed Income
5 22 (14.77%) Algorithms
6 21 (14.09%) Derivative
7 18 (12.08%) Pricing Data
8 4 (2.68%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.68%) Clustering
8 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.68%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.68%) Online Banking
8 4 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.68%) Reinsurance
9 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.01%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (2.01%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.34%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.75%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (35.57%) Machine Learning
1 53 (35.57%) Software Engineering
2 49 (32.89%) Data Science
3 46 (30.87%) AI
4 45 (30.20%) Agile
5 42 (28.19%) Analytics
6 40 (26.85%) Data Engineering
7 33 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (19.46%) CI/CD
8 29 (19.46%) LLM
9 28 (18.79%) Asset Management
9 28 (18.79%) Data Pipeline
9 28 (18.79%) Generative AI
10 27 (18.12%) Investment Management
11 26 (17.45%) Data Analysis
11 26 (17.45%) Visualisation
12 25 (16.78%) Natural Language Processing
13 24 (16.11%) Mathematics
14 21 (14.09%) ETL
15 19 (12.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 149 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (37.58%) SQL
3 44 (29.53%) JavaScript
4 34 (22.82%) Java
5 26 (17.45%) TypeScript
6 20 (13.42%) C++
7 19 (12.75%) C#
8 13 (8.72%) Rust
9 9 (6.04%) VBA
10 5 (3.36%) Bash
11 4 (2.68%) Groovy
12 3 (2.01%) R
13 2 (1.34%) Ada
14 1 (0.67%) C
14 1 (0.67%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.67%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 23 (15.44%) Degree
2 19 (12.75%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.72%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.04%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.70%) MCP
5 7 (4.70%) PhD
6 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.01%) QA
3 2 (1.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (19.46%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (20.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.01%) Argo
2 3 (2.01%) Istio
2 3 (2.01%) Kubeflow
2 3 (2.01%) Terraform
3 1 (0.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (8.05%) Databricks
1 12 (8.05%) Google
1 12 (8.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.70%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.36%) Dataiku
3 5 (3.36%) Foundry
4 4 (2.68%) Alteryx
4 4 (2.68%) Automation Anywhere
4 4 (2.68%) SAP
4 4 (2.68%) UiPath
5 3 (2.01%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.01%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.34%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.34%) Cognos
6 2 (1.34%) IBM
6 2 (1.34%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.34%) Sage
7 1 (0.67%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.67%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle