NumPy Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

NumPy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 214 259 413
Rank change year-on-year +45 +154 +97
Contract jobs citing NumPy 90 86 64
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.91% 0.56% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.51% 2.35% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 83 45
10th Percentile £512 £663 £483
25th Percentile £638 £738 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £725
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +28.89%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £1,025
90th Percentile £888 - -
UK median daily rate £725 £800 £700
% change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

NumPy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing NumPy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NumPy trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

NumPy
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NumPy.

NumPy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NumPy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing NumPy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

NumPy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NumPy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 66 (73.33%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (46.67%) Apache
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 76 (84.44%) AWS
2 66 (73.33%) dbt
3 57 (63.33%) GCP
4 29 (32.22%) Snowflake
5 26 (28.89%) Dagster
6 20 (22.22%) Azure
7 17 (18.89%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (18.89%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (18.89%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (7.78%) GitHub
9 6 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (5.56%) Azure AKS
10 5 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (5.56%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.44%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.44%) Serverless
12 3 (3.33%) AWS CodeCommit
12 3 (3.33%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (72.22%) Amazon Athena
1 65 (72.22%) Apache Iceberg
1 65 (72.22%) Dremio
2 56 (62.22%) Apache Arrow
3 40 (44.44%) Apache Ignite
4 39 (43.33%) Data Lake
5 20 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (6.67%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.33%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.22%) Big Data
8 2 (2.22%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.22%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.22%) Tableau
9 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.11%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.11%) GIS
9 1 (1.11%) Neo4j
9 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (1.11%) MLflow
General
1 73 (81.11%) Finance
2 68 (75.56%) Front Office
3 40 (44.44%) Banking
4 30 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.44%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.11%) Advertising
7 1 (1.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 61 (67.78%) Software Engineer
2 56 (62.22%) AWS Engineer
2 56 (62.22%) AWS Software Engineer
2 56 (62.22%) Python Engineer
3 44 (48.89%) Python Software Engineer
4 34 (37.78%) Developer
5 29 (32.22%) Java Engineer
5 29 (32.22%) Java Software Engineer
6 27 (30.00%) AWS Developer
6 27 (30.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 27 (30.00%) Python Developer
7 25 (27.78%) Senior
8 21 (23.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 18 (20.00%) Senior Java Engineer
9 18 (20.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 11 (12.22%) Data Engineer
11 9 (10.00%) Python Data Engineer
12 6 (6.67%) Data Scientist
12 6 (6.67%) Java Developer
12 6 (6.67%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (97.78%) Pandas
2 68 (75.56%) SciPy
3 40 (44.44%) gRPC
3 40 (44.44%) Protocol Buffers
4 29 (32.22%) PySpark
5 28 (31.11%) AngularJS
5 28 (31.11%) React
6 27 (30.00%) Node.js
6 27 (30.00%) Vue
7 11 (12.22%) Redux
8 9 (10.00%) scikit-learn
9 6 (6.67%) Kafka
9 6 (6.67%) OAuth
9 6 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (5.56%) OAuth2
10 5 (5.56%) OpenID
10 5 (5.56%) PyTorch
10 5 (5.56%) TensorFlow
11 4 (4.44%) FastAPI
11 4 (4.44%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 56 (62.22%) Fixed Income
2 40 (44.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 39 (43.33%) Equities
4 31 (34.44%) Hedge funds
5 29 (32.22%) Derivative
6 12 (13.33%) Pricing Data
7 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (82.22%) Software Engineering
2 72 (80.00%) Agile
3 65 (72.22%) Asset Management
4 48 (53.33%) Investment Management
5 36 (40.00%) Fintech
6 27 (30.00%) Performance Attribution
7 18 (20.00%) Analytics
8 17 (18.89%) Migration
9 16 (17.78%) Data Science
9 16 (17.78%) Order Management
9 16 (17.78%) Risk Management
10 14 (15.56%) Data Engineering
11 11 (12.22%) Credit Risk Analysis
12 9 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (8.89%) Artificial Intelligence
14 7 (7.78%) Visualisation
15 5 (5.56%) Continuous Delivery
15 5 (5.56%) Data Visualisation
15 5 (5.56%) Machine Learning
15 5 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (93.33%) Python
2 56 (62.22%) JavaScript
2 56 (62.22%) TypeScript
3 46 (51.11%) Java
4 6 (6.67%) SQL
5 5 (5.56%) C#
6 2 (2.22%) R
7 1 (1.11%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (1.11%) C++
7 1 (1.11%) Scala
7 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (4.44%) Degree
2 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (3.33%) Oracle
2 2 (2.22%) Google
3 1 (1.11%) Databricks
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft