NumPy Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

NumPy
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring NumPy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 - 115
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NumPy 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.20% - 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% - 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £272 - £520
25th Percentile £305 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 - £573
75th Percentile £392 - £626
90th Percentile £398 - £643
England median daily rate £750 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 411 340 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.43% 18.01% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 183 214
10th Percentile £368 £375 £325
25th Percentile £440 £463 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £735 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 3
10th Percentile £27.21 £19.33 £17.20
25th Percentile £33.91 £26.94 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% +141.43% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £59.94 £30.63
90th Percentile - £68.98 £38.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

NumPy
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NumPy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

NumPy job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

NumPy
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NumPy in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NumPy in the West Midlands

NumPy
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NumPy within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Birmingham - 4 £372 - 1
NumPy
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SSH
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Parquet
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) MLflow
2 2 (50.00%) Poetry
2 2 (50.00%) PyCharm
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Pandas
2 3 (75.00%) Flask
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Avro
3 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) Groovy
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Argo
1 2 (50.00%) Istio
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cloudera
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft