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 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 378 418
Rank change year-on-year +43 +40 +59
Contract jobs citing NumPy 33 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.067% 0.086%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.21% 0.41% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 10 15
10th Percentile £319 £386 £425
25th Percentile £411 £431 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £613
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -20.41% +25.64%
75th Percentile £588 £583 £1,025
90th Percentile £675 £649 -
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £675
% change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 2,728 3,395 4,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.43% 16.37% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,856 2,203 3,026
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 240 95
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.44 £22.34
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -1.24% +7.33%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.61 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.75
% change year-on-year - -12.35% +17.84%

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

NumPy
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

NumPy
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 14 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NumPy in the UK excluding London

NumPy
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

NumPy
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 14 July 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 +26 16 £600 +31.15% 3
South East +47 9 £468 -29.43% 15
South West +40 3 £425 +54.55% 1
West Midlands +8 3 £372 -32.39% 4
Midlands +5 3 £372 -32.39% 6
North West +5 1 £550 +5.77% 5
North of England +3 1 £550 +19.57% 10
Wales - 1 £575 -
NumPy
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 13 (39.39%) Apache Spark
2 5 (15.15%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (12.12%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 21 (63.64%) AWS
2 17 (51.52%) Azure
3 10 (30.30%) GCP
4 7 (21.21%) Amazon S3
4 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (21.21%) Serverless
5 6 (18.18%) GitHub
6 5 (15.15%) Amazon Bedrock
6 5 (15.15%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (15.15%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (15.15%) ChatGPT
7 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
8 3 (9.09%) dbt
8 3 (9.09%) Vertex AI
9 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (6.06%) Prefect
9 2 (6.06%) Textract
10 1 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) SSH
1 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) SSL
2 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (54.55%) Big Data
2 16 (48.48%) Tableau
3 13 (39.39%) Hadoop
4 5 (15.15%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (12.12%) Power BI
6 3 (9.09%) BigQuery
6 3 (9.09%) Looker
6 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (6.06%) Delta Lake
7 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
7 2 (6.06%) Parquet
8 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (3.03%) GIS
8 1 (3.03%) Metadata
8 1 (3.03%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) JIRA
2 3 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 2 (6.06%) Git
3 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) MLflow
3 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.03%) Poetry
4 1 (3.03%) PyCharm
4 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (39.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Developer
2 11 (33.33%) Data Science Developer
3 8 (24.24%) Data Scientist
4 7 (21.21%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior
6 4 (12.12%) Data Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Python Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Gen AI Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Data Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) Data Cleansing Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) Data Science Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) DBA
8 1 (3.03%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (90.91%) Pandas
2 20 (60.61%) PyTorch
2 20 (60.61%) scikit-learn
3 14 (42.42%) TensorFlow
4 13 (39.39%) Matplotlib
4 13 (39.39%) Seaborn
5 5 (15.15%) Hugging Face
6 4 (12.12%) Kafka
7 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 3 (9.09%) Django
7 3 (9.09%) Flask
7 3 (9.09%) Prophet
7 3 (9.09%) PySpark
7 3 (9.09%) React
7 3 (9.09%) SciPy
8 2 (6.06%) Apache Avro
8 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (6.06%) Metaflow
9 1 (3.03%) PostGIS
9 1 (3.03%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (48.48%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) CUDA
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (81.82%) Data Science
2 22 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 18 (54.55%) LLM
3 18 (54.55%) Visualisation
4 16 (48.48%) Time Series Forecasting
5 15 (45.45%) Analytics
5 15 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence
6 13 (39.39%) Data Analysis
6 13 (39.39%) Data Munging
6 13 (39.39%) Generative AI
7 12 (36.36%) Data Analytics
7 12 (36.36%) Statistical Modelling
8 11 (33.33%) Decision-Making
8 11 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
9 10 (30.30%) Data Engineering
9 10 (30.30%) Feature Engineering
9 10 (30.30%) Reinforcement Learning
10 8 (24.24%) Computer Science
11 7 (21.21%) Agile
11 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (39.39%) R
3 10 (30.30%) SQL
4 3 (9.09%) Java
5 2 (6.06%) Bash
5 2 (6.06%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Degree
1 8 (24.24%) Master's Degree
1 8 (24.24%) PhD
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (42.42%) Data Quality
2 7 (21.21%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) Argo
2 2 (6.06%) Istio
2 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Google
2 3 (9.09%) Sage
3 2 (6.06%) Cloudera
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.03%) Checkmarx
4 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat