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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 566 556
Rank change year-on-year +147 -10 -32
Contract jobs citing NumPy 174 137 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.23% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.95% 1.00% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 90 218
10th Percentile £463 £461 £425
25th Percentile £613 £553 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £888 £863 £650
90th Percentile - £1,025 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £518 £546
% change year-on-year -5.80% -5.26% +8.17%
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 8,932 13,763 24,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.23% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,201 10,039 17,650
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 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +161 170 £800 +14.29% 79
London +138 154 £800 +10.34% 47
Work from Home +145 83 £800 +10.34% 43
UK excluding London +46 17 £488 -5.80% 33
East of England - 10 £458 - 10
South East +5 3 £663 -17.83% 8
Scotland +36 2 £488 - 2
Midlands +28 1 £550 +10.00% 4
West Midlands +24 1 £550 +10.00% 2
South West +14 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
1 100 (57.47%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (53.45%) Apache
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.57%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 112 (64.37%) AWS
2 87 (50.00%) dbt
3 67 (38.51%) Snowflake
4 62 (35.63%) GCP
5 23 (13.22%) Azure
6 11 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.32%) GitHub
6 11 (6.32%) Serverless
7 6 (3.45%) Vertex AI
8 4 (2.30%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.30%) Dagster
9 3 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (48.28%) Amazon Athena
1 84 (48.28%) Apache Arrow
1 84 (48.28%) Apache Ignite
1 84 (48.28%) Dremio
2 68 (39.08%) Data Lake
3 20 (11.49%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.60%) Big Data
5 4 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.15%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.15%) Power BI
7 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (6.90%) Git
2 7 (4.02%) Mercurial
2 7 (4.02%) MLflow
3 2 (1.15%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 115 (66.09%) Finance
2 107 (61.49%) Front Office
3 81 (46.55%) Banking
4 79 (45.40%) Investment Banking
5 12 (6.90%) Social Skills
6 9 (5.17%) Multimedia
7 5 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.30%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.72%) Marketing
9 3 (1.72%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.15%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.15%) Law
10 2 (1.15%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.57%) Electronics
11 1 (0.57%) Games
11 1 (0.57%) Publishing
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (36.78%) Developer
2 63 (36.21%) Software Engineer
3 55 (31.61%) Python Engineer
4 46 (26.44%) Senior
5 41 (23.56%) Python Developer
6 36 (20.69%) Python Software Engineer
7 35 (20.11%) AWS Engineer
8 33 (18.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 31 (17.82%) AWS Software Engineer
9 31 (17.82%) Lead
10 28 (16.09%) Software Developer
11 26 (14.94%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (14.37%) Java Engineer
12 25 (14.37%) Java Software Engineer
13 20 (11.49%) Lead Developer
13 20 (11.49%) Lead Software Developer
13 20 (11.49%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (11.49%) Software Team Leader
13 20 (11.49%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (11.49%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (95.98%) Pandas
2 120 (68.97%) SciPy
3 88 (50.57%) gRPC
4 84 (48.28%) Protocol Buffers
5 19 (10.92%) React
6 17 (9.77%) PySpark
7 12 (6.90%) scikit-learn
8 9 (5.17%) Matplotlib
8 9 (5.17%) REST
8 9 (5.17%) TensorFlow
9 7 (4.02%) Node.js
9 7 (4.02%) Redux
10 6 (3.45%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.87%) PyTorch
11 5 (2.87%) Vue
12 4 (2.30%) Kafka
13 3 (1.72%) Dask
13 3 (1.72%) HTML
13 3 (1.72%) Lambda Expressions
14 2 (1.15%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 91 (52.30%) Derivative
2 82 (47.13%) Fixed Income
3 77 (44.25%) Equities
4 75 (43.10%) Hedge funds
5 73 (41.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (9.20%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.45%) Pricing Data
8 5 (2.87%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.87%) Social Media
9 4 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.15%) Solar Panel
11 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.02%) Windows
2 1 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (68.39%) Software Engineering
2 96 (55.17%) Agile
3 86 (49.43%) Asset Management
4 72 (41.38%) Investment Management
5 36 (20.69%) Line Management
6 31 (17.82%) Mathematics
7 30 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
8 29 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 27 (15.52%) Artificial Intelligence
10 26 (14.94%) Machine Learning
11 25 (14.37%) Greeks
12 24 (13.79%) Computer Science
12 24 (13.79%) Data Science
13 23 (13.22%) Analytics
14 21 (12.07%) DevOps
14 21 (12.07%) Test Automation
15 19 (10.92%) Mathematical Modelling
16 14 (8.05%) Workflow
17 11 (6.32%) Product Requirements
17 11 (6.32%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 174 (100.00%) Python
2 94 (54.02%) JavaScript
3 92 (52.87%) Java
4 83 (47.70%) TypeScript
5 36 (20.69%) SQL
6 22 (12.64%) C++
7 14 (8.05%) C#
8 12 (6.90%) Rust
9 9 (5.17%) Scala
10 7 (4.02%) Ruby
11 2 (1.15%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.15%) R
12 1 (0.57%) C
12 1 (0.57%) Clojure
12 1 (0.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 28 (16.09%) Degree
2 9 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (5.17%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.30%) PhD
4 2 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (16.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.57%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (4.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.45%) Kubeflow
3 5 (2.87%) Terraform
4 4 (2.30%) Argo
5 2 (1.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (1.15%) ESRI
1 2 (1.15%) SAP
2 1 (0.57%) Bloomberg
2 1 (0.57%) Databricks
2 1 (0.57%) Google
2 1 (0.57%) OpenLink
2 1 (0.57%) Palantir
2 1 (0.57%) Reuters