NumPy Job Trends

NumPy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring NumPy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 413 582
Rank change year-on-year -142 +169 +182
Permanent jobs citing NumPy 96 319 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.60% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 2.78% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 69 250 119
10th Percentile £56,000 £64,800 £54,900
25th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -6.67% +40.63%
75th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £141,250
90th Percentile - £147,500 £155,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% -23.08% +4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,029 11,479 13,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 21.52% 24.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,224 6,737 11,320
10th Percentile £35,575 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

NumPy
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NumPy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

NumPy job vacancy trend in the UK

NumPy
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NumPy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NumPy

NumPy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NumPy over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for NumPy in the UK

NumPy
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NumPy within the UK over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -114 95 £115,000 +9.52% 115
London -102 82 £130,000 +20.93% 55
Work from Home -74 62 £130,000 +20.93% 27
UK excluding London +30 13 £46,250 -7.50% 94
East of England +26 5 £61,250 - 9
South East +15 4 £46,250 -40.32% 34
South West +3 3 £42,500 -5.56% 5
North of England +27 1 £71,000 +67.06% 22
Yorkshire - 1 £71,000 - 10

NumPy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 55 (57.29%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (33.33%) Apache
3 9 (9.38%) Appian
4 7 (7.29%) Apache Spark
5 4 (4.17%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (72.92%) AWS
2 57 (59.38%) dbt
3 39 (40.63%) GCP
4 34 (35.42%) Snowflake
5 28 (29.17%) Azure
6 10 (10.42%) Azure AI
7 9 (9.38%) Anthropic Claude
7 9 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (9.38%) Power Automate
8 6 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (5.21%) Power Platform
10 4 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (4.17%) Fivetran
10 4 (4.17%) GitHub
10 4 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.17%) Google Data Studio
10 4 (4.17%) SaaS
11 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) LTE
1 1 (1.04%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (55.21%) Amazon Athena
2 52 (54.17%) Apache Arrow
2 52 (54.17%) Apache Iceberg
2 52 (54.17%) Dremio
3 31 (32.29%) Data Lake
4 29 (30.21%) Apache Ignite
5 24 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (13.54%) SQL Server
7 10 (10.42%) Tableau
8 9 (9.38%) Pinecone
9 7 (7.29%) Big Data
10 6 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (5.21%) Power BI
12 4 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (4.17%) BigQuery
12 4 (4.17%) Hadoop
12 4 (4.17%) Looker
12 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
13 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
14 2 (2.08%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (9.38%) MLflow
2 6 (6.25%) Git
General
1 74 (77.08%) Finance
2 54 (56.25%) Front Office
3 30 (31.25%) Banking
3 30 (31.25%) Investment Banking
4 22 (22.92%) Social Skills
5 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.33%) Retail
7 7 (7.29%) Marketing
8 6 (6.25%) Manufacturing
9 5 (5.21%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.08%) Electronics
10 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.04%) Law
11 1 (1.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 54 (56.25%) Python Engineer
2 52 (54.17%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (54.17%) AWS Software Engineer
2 52 (54.17%) Python Software Engineer
2 52 (54.17%) Software Engineer
3 37 (38.54%) Senior
4 34 (35.42%) Developer
5 29 (30.21%) Java Engineer
5 29 (30.21%) Java Software Engineer
6 27 (28.13%) Python Developer
6 27 (28.13%) Senior Java Engineer
6 27 (28.13%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 27 (28.13%) Senior Software Engineer
7 23 (23.96%) AWS Developer
7 23 (23.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 13 (13.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (8.33%) Data Scientist
11 5 (5.21%) Data Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (98.96%) Pandas
2 55 (57.29%) SciPy
3 30 (31.25%) scikit-learn
4 29 (30.21%) gRPC
4 29 (30.21%) Protocol Buffers
5 26 (27.08%) PyTorch
6 23 (23.96%) AngularJS
6 23 (23.96%) Node.js
6 23 (23.96%) React
6 23 (23.96%) Vue
7 18 (18.75%) TensorFlow
8 14 (14.58%) Hugging Face
9 12 (12.50%) FastAPI
9 12 (12.50%) Flask
9 12 (12.50%) pytest
9 12 (12.50%) REST
10 9 (9.38%) Django
10 9 (9.38%) OAuth
10 9 (9.38%) RESTful
10 9 (9.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (54.17%) Equities
1 52 (54.17%) Fixed Income
1 52 (54.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 31 (32.29%) Hedge funds
3 29 (30.21%) Derivative
3 29 (30.21%) Pricing Data
4 10 (10.42%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (9.38%) Low-Code
6 7 (7.29%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.04%) Blockchain
9 1 (1.04%) FPGA
9 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.08%) Unix
2 1 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (60.42%) Software Engineering
2 55 (57.29%) Agile
3 53 (55.21%) Asset Management
4 52 (54.17%) Investment Management
5 38 (39.58%) Machine Learning
6 31 (32.29%) AI
7 25 (26.04%) Risk Management
8 24 (25.00%) Fintech
9 23 (23.96%) Order Management
9 23 (23.96%) Performance Attribution
10 22 (22.92%) CI/CD
10 22 (22.92%) Data Science
10 22 (22.92%) LLM
11 21 (21.88%) ETL
11 21 (21.88%) MLOps
12 17 (17.71%) Analytics
13 16 (16.67%) Containerisation
13 16 (16.67%) Data Engineering
13 16 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
14 15 (15.63%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 96 (100.00%) Python
2 52 (54.17%) JavaScript
2 52 (54.17%) TypeScript
3 30 (31.25%) SQL
4 29 (30.21%) Java
5 7 (7.29%) R
6 4 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (3.13%) Bicep
8 2 (2.08%) Bash
9 1 (1.04%) C
9 1 (1.04%) C++
9 1 (1.04%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 10 (10.42%) Degree
2 8 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.17%) PhD
4 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.04%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.58%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (19.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (13.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (16.67%) OpenAI
2 9 (9.38%) Automation Anywhere
2 9 (9.38%) Google
2 9 (9.38%) UiPath
3 5 (5.21%) Alteryx
4 4 (4.17%) HubSpot
4 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.17%) Talend
4 4 (4.17%) Zoho
5 2 (2.08%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.08%) SAP
6 1 (1.04%) Databricks
6 1 (1.04%) Foundry