NumPy Contract Job Trends in the South West

NumPy
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring NumPy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 142 152
Rank change year-on-year +28 +10 +7
Contract jobs citing NumPy 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.15% 0.038% 0.092%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.07% 0.23% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - £341
25th Percentile £413 £263 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £275 £413
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% -33.33% -25.84%
75th Percentile £453 £288 £597
90th Percentile £463 - £704
England median daily rate £750 £800 £663
% change year-on-year -6.25% +20.75% +10.42%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 281 439 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.36% 16.55% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 246 410
10th Percentile £308 £350 £362
25th Percentile £413 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £608 £630 £650
90th Percentile £669 £690 £725
England median daily rate £512 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -6.86% -0.90% -3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 51 34
10th Percentile £62.15 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile £65.00 - £63.13
Median hourly rate £66.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £77.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.19% +5.59% -5.40%

NumPy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing NumPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for NumPy in the South West

NumPy
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

NumPy
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Somerset - 3 £425 -
NumPy
England

NumPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Prefect
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (33.33%) GIS
1 1 (33.33%) Spatial Data
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Django
1 2 (66.67%) Metaflow
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) PostGIS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Spatial Data Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA