NumPy Contract Job Trends in the North West

NumPy
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring NumPy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 124 131
Rank change year-on-year -44 +7 +21
Contract jobs citing NumPy 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.027% 0.046% 0.037%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £525 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +5.77% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £530
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +17.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 642 463 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.47% 21.49% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 354 322
10th Percentile £366 £323 £333
25th Percentile £417 £378 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.38% -10.55% -3.85%
75th Percentile £610 £538 £599
90th Percentile £688 £625 £785
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 4 16
10th Percentile £51.45 £42.00 £36.81
25th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £45.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +51.58% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.69 £71.87
90th Percentile £95.00 £83.13 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -8.19%

NumPy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NumPy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

NumPy job vacancy trend in the North West

NumPy
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing NumPy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing NumPy

NumPy
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NumPy within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Manchester -43 1 £575 +4.55% 9
NumPy
England

NumPy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Neptune
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) ArangoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (100.00%) Stardog
1 1 (100.00%) TigerGraph
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) NetworkX
1 1 (100.00%) NLTK
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Graph Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Understanding
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SHACL
1 1 (100.00%) SPARQL