NumPy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for NumPy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NumPy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 575 552
Rank change year-on-year +147 -23 -44
Contract jobs citing NumPy 170 144 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.24% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.92% 1.03% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 95 220
10th Percentile £461 £463 £425
25th Percentile £613 £556 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% +5.73%
75th Percentile £888 £875 £650
90th Percentile - £1,025 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - £58.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £61.50
75th Percentile £66.38 - £64.75
90th Percentile £66.60 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

NumPy is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

NumPy
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NumPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NumPy in the UK

NumPy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NumPy.

Daily rate trend for NumPy in the UK

NumPy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NumPy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NumPy in the UK

NumPy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NumPy.

Hourly rate trend for NumPy in the UK

NumPy
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +154 165 £800 +14.29% 73
London +133 149 £800 +12.68% 45
Work from Home +143 80 £800 +10.34% 41
UK excluding London +55 17 £488 -15.22% 29
East of England - 10 £458 - 9
South East +13 3 £663 -33.75% 7
Scotland +32 2 £488 - 2
West Midlands +29 1 £550 +10.00% 1
Midlands +22 1 £550 +10.00% 2
South West +17 1 £275 -46.86% 3

NumPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 94 (55.29%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (51.76%) Apache
3 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.59%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 107 (62.94%) AWS
2 81 (47.65%) dbt
3 61 (35.88%) GCP
4 58 (34.12%) Snowflake
5 23 (13.53%) Azure
6 11 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.47%) GitHub
6 11 (6.47%) Serverless
7 6 (3.53%) Vertex AI
8 5 (2.94%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.35%) Dagster
10 3 (1.76%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.18%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.59%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (45.88%) Amazon Athena
1 78 (45.88%) Apache Arrow
1 78 (45.88%) Apache Ignite
1 78 (45.88%) Dremio
2 59 (34.71%) Data Lake
3 21 (12.35%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.29%) Big Data
5 4 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.18%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.18%) Power BI
6 2 (1.18%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.59%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (7.06%) Git
2 7 (4.12%) Mercurial
2 7 (4.12%) MLflow
3 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.18%) webpack
General
1 109 (64.12%) Finance
2 101 (59.41%) Front Office
3 75 (44.12%) Banking
4 73 (42.94%) Investment Banking
5 12 (7.06%) Social Skills
6 9 (5.29%) Multimedia
7 5 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.76%) Marketing
9 3 (1.76%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.18%) Electronics
10 2 (1.18%) Law
10 2 (1.18%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.59%) Games
11 1 (0.59%) Publishing
11 1 (0.59%) Retail
11 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (39.41%) Developer
2 60 (35.29%) Software Engineer
3 52 (30.59%) Python Engineer
4 43 (25.29%) Python Developer
4 43 (25.29%) Senior
5 34 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (20.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 33 (19.41%) Python Software Engineer
7 30 (17.65%) AWS Software Engineer
8 28 (16.47%) Lead
9 27 (15.88%) Software Developer
10 22 (12.94%) Java Engineer
10 22 (12.94%) Java Software Engineer
10 22 (12.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (10.59%) Architect
11 18 (10.59%) Data Engineer
11 18 (10.59%) Lead Developer
11 18 (10.59%) Lead Software Engineer
11 18 (10.59%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (10.59%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (95.88%) Pandas
2 114 (67.06%) SciPy
3 82 (48.24%) gRPC
4 78 (45.88%) Protocol Buffers
5 19 (11.18%) React
6 18 (10.59%) PySpark
7 13 (7.65%) scikit-learn
8 10 (5.88%) REST
9 9 (5.29%) Matplotlib
9 9 (5.29%) TensorFlow
10 7 (4.12%) Node.js
10 7 (4.12%) Redux
11 6 (3.53%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.94%) Kafka
12 5 (2.94%) PyTorch
12 5 (2.94%) Vue
13 3 (1.76%) Dask
13 3 (1.76%) HTML
13 3 (1.76%) Lambda Expressions
14 2 (1.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 82 (48.24%) Derivative
2 73 (42.94%) Fixed Income
3 69 (40.59%) Equities
4 66 (38.82%) Hedge funds
5 64 (37.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (10.00%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.94%) Social Media
8 4 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.35%) Pricing Data
9 2 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.18%) Solar Panel
10 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.12%) Windows
2 1 (0.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (67.06%) Software Engineering
2 91 (53.53%) Agile
3 80 (47.06%) Asset Management
4 67 (39.41%) Investment Management
5 32 (18.82%) Line Management
5 32 (18.82%) Mathematics
6 31 (18.24%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (17.06%) CI/CD
8 27 (15.88%) Artificial Intelligence
8 27 (15.88%) Machine Learning
9 26 (15.29%) Analytics
10 25 (14.71%) Computer Science
10 25 (14.71%) Data Science
11 22 (12.94%) Greeks
12 21 (12.35%) DevOps
12 21 (12.35%) Test Automation
13 19 (11.18%) Mathematical Modelling
14 14 (8.24%) Workflow
15 12 (7.06%) Data Architecture
16 11 (6.47%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 170 (100.00%) Python
2 88 (51.76%) JavaScript
3 87 (51.18%) Java
4 78 (45.88%) TypeScript
5 39 (22.94%) SQL
6 22 (12.94%) C++
7 14 (8.24%) C#
8 12 (7.06%) Rust
9 10 (5.88%) Scala
10 8 (4.71%) Ruby
11 2 (1.18%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.18%) R
12 1 (0.59%) C
12 1 (0.59%) Clojure
12 1 (0.59%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 29 (17.06%) Degree
2 10 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.29%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.35%) PhD
5 2 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.59%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (4.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.53%) Kubeflow
3 5 (2.94%) Terraform
4 4 (2.35%) Argo
5 2 (1.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (1.18%) ESRI
1 2 (1.18%) SAP
2 1 (0.59%) Bloomberg
2 1 (0.59%) Databricks
2 1 (0.59%) Google
2 1 (0.59%) OpenLink
2 1 (0.59%) Palantir
2 1 (0.59%) Reuters