NumPy Contracts

NumPy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 405 566
Rank change year-on-year +60 +161 -20
Contract jobs citing NumPy 174 178 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.61% 2.00% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 158 91
10th Percentile £463 £463 £463
25th Percentile £581 £619 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £850
90th Percentile £888 - £1,025
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £488 £518
% change year-on-year +15.38% -5.80% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,673 8,920 13,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.65% 20.74% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,582 6,180 9,816
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 244 155
10th Percentile £29.55 £21.25 £30.30
25th Percentile £50.27 £43.00 £50.03
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.85 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.36% +25.24%

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 11 May 2025.

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

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Top 13 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 11 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
England +70 163 £750 -6.25% 184
London +9 134 £750 -6.25% 142
Work from Home +49 95 £750 -6.25% 77
UK excluding London +71 30 £563 +15.38% 74
East of England +38 19 £650 +42.08% 8
South East +45 3 £538 -18.87% 29
South West +43 3 £425 +54.55% 16
Scotland +9 2 £450 -7.69% 10
Midlands +21 1 £475 -13.64% 4
West Midlands +20 1 £475 -13.64% 4
North West - 1 £550 - 2
North of England - 1 £550 - 8
Wales - 1 £575 -

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 75 (43.10%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (27.59%) Apache
3 17 (9.77%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.45%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) CPLEX
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 136 (78.16%) AWS
2 72 (41.38%) dbt
3 66 (37.93%) GCP
4 53 (30.46%) Azure
5 36 (20.69%) Snowflake
6 27 (15.52%) Dagster
7 21 (12.07%) GitHub
8 19 (10.92%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (9.77%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (9.77%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (9.77%) Amazon SageMaker
10 16 (9.20%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (8.62%) Serverless
12 14 (8.05%) Amazon S3
13 10 (5.75%) AWS CodeCommit
13 10 (5.75%) Cloud9 IDE
13 10 (5.75%) Textract
14 9 (5.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.87%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (39.66%) Amazon Athena
1 69 (39.66%) Apache Iceberg
1 69 (39.66%) Dremio
2 61 (35.06%) Apache Arrow
3 42 (24.14%) Apache Ignite
3 42 (24.14%) Data Lake
4 36 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (12.64%) Tableau
6 18 (10.34%) Big Data
7 17 (9.77%) Hadoop
8 10 (5.75%) SQL Server
9 9 (5.17%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.87%) NoSQL
10 5 (2.87%) Power BI
11 3 (1.72%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.72%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.72%) Looker
11 3 (1.72%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 18 (10.34%) Git
2 5 (2.87%) MLflow
3 1 (0.57%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.57%) JIRA
3 1 (0.57%) PyCharm
3 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 103 (59.20%) Finance
2 74 (42.53%) Front Office
3 55 (31.61%) Banking
4 46 (26.44%) Investment Banking
5 19 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (9.77%) Social Skills
7 6 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.87%) Back Office
9 3 (1.72%) Law
9 3 (1.72%) Military
9 3 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.15%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Advertising
11 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.57%) Legal
11 1 (0.57%) Social Science
11 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (45.40%) Developer
2 70 (40.23%) Python Engineer
2 70 (40.23%) Software Engineer
3 61 (35.06%) AWS Engineer
3 61 (35.06%) AWS Software Engineer
4 53 (30.46%) Python Developer
5 50 (28.74%) Python Software Engineer
6 44 (25.29%) Senior
7 36 (20.69%) AWS Developer
8 34 (19.54%) Java Engineer
8 34 (19.54%) Java Software Engineer
9 28 (16.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 25 (14.37%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (12.64%) Senior Java Engineer
11 22 (12.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 20 (11.49%) Data Scientist
13 16 (9.20%) Senior Developer
14 14 (8.05%) Data Science Developer
15 13 (7.47%) Data Engineer
16 8 (4.60%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (97.13%) Pandas
2 96 (55.17%) SciPy
3 45 (25.86%) React
4 42 (24.14%) gRPC
4 42 (24.14%) Protocol Buffers
4 42 (24.14%) scikit-learn
5 41 (23.56%) AngularJS
6 38 (21.84%) Vue
7 35 (20.11%) PySpark
8 34 (19.54%) PyTorch
9 33 (18.97%) TensorFlow
10 28 (16.09%) Node.js
11 21 (12.07%) Matplotlib
12 20 (11.49%) FastAPI
13 18 (10.34%) Flask
13 18 (10.34%) Kafka
14 16 (9.20%) Seaborn
15 14 (8.05%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (8.05%) pydantic
16 13 (7.47%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 63 (36.21%) Fixed Income
2 56 (32.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 49 (28.16%) Hedge funds
4 47 (27.01%) Equities
5 36 (20.69%) Derivative
6 23 (13.22%) Algorithms
7 16 (9.20%) Pricing Data
8 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.30%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.15%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.15%) Genomics
11 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.15%) Omics
11 2 (1.15%) Solar Panel
11 2 (1.15%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.90%) Linux
2 3 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (56.90%) Software Engineering
2 84 (48.28%) Agile
3 70 (40.23%) Asset Management
4 57 (32.76%) Data Science
5 55 (31.61%) Investment Management
6 44 (25.29%) Machine Learning
7 43 (24.71%) Analytics
7 43 (24.71%) Artificial Intelligence
8 37 (21.26%) Fintech
8 37 (21.26%) Visualisation
9 32 (18.39%) Data Engineering
10 29 (16.67%) Generative AI
11 28 (16.09%) Performance Attribution
12 27 (15.52%) Data Munging
12 27 (15.52%) Risk Management
13 22 (12.64%) Computer Science
13 22 (12.64%) Decision-Making
14 21 (12.07%) Data Analysis
14 21 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (11.49%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 167 (95.98%) Python
2 73 (41.95%) JavaScript
3 63 (36.21%) Java
4 62 (35.63%) TypeScript
5 29 (16.67%) SQL
6 17 (9.77%) C#
6 17 (9.77%) R
7 13 (7.47%) C++
8 12 (6.90%) Rust
9 2 (1.15%) VBA
10 1 (0.57%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.57%) Scala
10 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (13.79%) Degree
2 20 (11.49%) Master's Degree
3 12 (6.90%) PhD
4 10 (5.75%) Security Cleared
5 9 (5.17%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.64%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.87%) QA
4 4 (2.30%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (10.92%) Docker
2 2 (1.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.34%) Terraform
3 1 (0.57%) Grafana
3 1 (0.57%) Istio
3 1 (0.57%) linkerd
3 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.57%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 11 (6.32%) Oracle
2 7 (4.02%) Google
3 4 (2.30%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.30%) DataRobot
4 3 (1.72%) Bloomberg
4 3 (1.72%) Refinitiv
4 3 (1.72%) Reuters
5 2 (1.15%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.57%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.57%) Databricks
6 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.57%) Sage
6 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.57%) Splunk