NumPy Contracts in the UK excluding London

NumPy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring NumPy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NumPy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 382 437
Rank change year-on-year +76 +55 +17
Contract jobs citing NumPy 30 17 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.082% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 0.52% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 10 21
10th Percentile £376 £409 £425
25th Percentile £456 £442 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £518
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -5.80% -5.91%
75th Percentile £675 £584 £1,025
90th Percentile - £649 -
UK median daily rate £725 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

NumPy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NumPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NumPy in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NumPy in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for NumPy in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NumPy in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NumPy in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NumPy in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for NumPy in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NumPy within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East of England +39 19 £650 +42.08% 6
South West +48 3 £425 +54.55% 15
South East +46 3 £538 -18.87% 27
Scotland +13 2 £450 -7.69% 9
Midlands +22 1 £475 -13.64% 5
West Midlands +14 1 £475 -13.64% 3
North of England - 1 £550 - 6
North West - 1 £550 - 3
Wales - 1 £575 -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (53.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (16.67%) Apache
3 3 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) AWS
2 20 (66.67%) Azure
3 10 (33.33%) GCP
4 4 (13.33%) GitHub
5 3 (10.00%) dbt
5 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.00%) Vertex AI
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.67%) Prefect
6 2 (6.67%) Serverless
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.33%) IaaS
7 1 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (63.33%) Tableau
2 17 (56.67%) Big Data
3 16 (53.33%) Hadoop
4 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 3 (10.00%) Looker
4 3 (10.00%) Power BI
5 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.33%) Data Mining
6 1 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (3.33%) GIS
6 1 (3.33%) Metadata
6 1 (3.33%) Neo4j
6 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (3.33%) Spatial Data
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) PyCharm
2 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Legal
3 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Developer
2 14 (46.67%) Data Science Developer
3 11 (36.67%) Senior
4 10 (33.33%) Senior Developer
5 5 (16.67%) Data Scientist
6 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Python Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Gen AI Developer
9 1 (3.33%) Data Science Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) DBA
9 1 (3.33%) Python Developer
9 1 (3.33%) Python Software Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Scientist
9 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (90.00%) Pandas
2 21 (70.00%) scikit-learn
3 18 (60.00%) PyTorch
3 18 (60.00%) TensorFlow
4 16 (53.33%) Matplotlib
4 16 (53.33%) Seaborn
5 4 (13.33%) Kafka
6 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (10.00%) Django
6 3 (10.00%) PySpark
6 3 (10.00%) React
7 2 (6.67%) Metaflow
8 1 (3.33%) FastAPI
8 1 (3.33%) Flask
8 1 (3.33%) PostGIS
8 1 (3.33%) Prophet
8 1 (3.33%) pytest
8 1 (3.33%) SciPy
8 1 (3.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 19 (63.33%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.33%) CUDA
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) Data Science
2 23 (76.67%) Machine Learning
3 21 (70.00%) Analytics
3 21 (70.00%) Visualisation
4 20 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 17 (56.67%) Data Analysis
5 17 (56.67%) Data Analytics
5 17 (56.67%) LLM
6 16 (53.33%) Data Munging
6 16 (53.33%) Decision-Making
6 16 (53.33%) Generative AI
6 16 (53.33%) Statistical Modelling
7 15 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
7 15 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
8 14 (46.67%) Predictive Analytics
8 14 (46.67%) Reinforcement Learning
9 12 (40.00%) Computer Science
10 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (20.00%) Data Engineering
12 5 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (56.67%) R
3 7 (23.33%) SQL
4 3 (10.00%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Scala
5 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Degree
1 12 (40.00%) Master's Degree
1 12 (40.00%) PhD
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.33%) OpenAI