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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 571 558
Rank change year-on-year +213 -13 -32
Contract jobs citing NumPy 233 126 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.53% 0.99% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 86 219
10th Percentile £488 £469 £425
25th Percentile £675 £553 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £888 £825 £650
90th Percentile - £1,025 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £518 £543
% change year-on-year -5.80% -4.61% +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - £58.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £61.50
75th Percentile £66.25 - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +187 225 £800 +14.29% 75
London +184 213 £800 +10.34% 58
Work from Home +191 147 £800 +10.34% 37
UK excluding London +23 13 £488 -5.80% 20
East of England - 6 £458 - 2
South East +6 3 £663 +9.28% 6
Scotland +48 2 £488 - 1
West Midlands +17 1 £550 +10.00% 5
Midlands +16 1 £550 +10.00% 5
South West +1 1 £275 -43.15% 4

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
1 163 (69.96%) Apache Airflow
2 154 (66.09%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 178 (76.39%) AWS
2 151 (64.81%) dbt
3 129 (55.36%) Snowflake
4 98 (42.06%) GCP
5 29 (12.45%) Azure
6 14 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.72%) GitHub
8 10 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.43%) Dagster
9 8 (3.43%) Serverless
10 6 (2.58%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.72%) Vertex AI
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.86%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.86%) Power Platform
14 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (64.38%) Amazon Athena
1 150 (64.38%) Dremio
2 146 (62.66%) Apache Arrow
2 146 (62.66%) Apache Ignite
3 132 (56.65%) Data Lake
4 16 (6.87%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.72%) Big Data
6 3 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.86%) Power BI
8 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.43%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (6.01%) Git
2 5 (2.15%) MLflow
3 4 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.72%) Mercurial
4 2 (0.86%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.86%) Selenium
4 2 (0.86%) webpack
General
1 183 (78.54%) Finance
2 173 (74.25%) Front Office
3 142 (60.94%) Banking
4 136 (58.37%) Investment Banking
5 13 (5.58%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.15%) Multimedia
6 5 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.29%) Marketing
8 3 (1.29%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.86%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.86%) Law
9 2 (0.86%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.43%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Publishing
10 1 (0.43%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (42.92%) Software Engineer
2 83 (35.62%) Developer
2 83 (35.62%) Python Engineer
3 70 (30.04%) Senior
4 64 (27.47%) AWS Engineer
5 63 (27.04%) Python Software Engineer
6 59 (25.32%) AWS Software Engineer
7 54 (23.18%) Python Developer
8 53 (22.75%) Lead
9 51 (21.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 48 (20.60%) Java Engineer
10 48 (20.60%) Java Software Engineer
10 48 (20.60%) Senior Software Engineer
11 43 (18.45%) Software Developer
12 36 (15.45%) Architect
12 36 (15.45%) Lead Developer
12 36 (15.45%) Lead Software Engineer
12 36 (15.45%) Software Team Leader
12 36 (15.45%) Solutions Architect
12 36 (15.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (96.57%) Pandas
2 186 (79.83%) SciPy
3 150 (64.38%) gRPC
4 146 (62.66%) Protocol Buffers
5 24 (10.30%) PySpark
6 18 (7.73%) React
7 12 (5.15%) AngularJS
7 12 (5.15%) Node.js
7 12 (5.15%) Redux
8 10 (4.29%) Vue
9 9 (3.86%) REST
9 9 (3.86%) scikit-learn
10 7 (3.00%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.58%) Matplotlib
12 5 (2.15%) PyTorch
13 4 (1.72%) Dask
14 3 (1.29%) pytest
15 2 (0.86%) Beautiful Soup
15 2 (0.86%) Material-UI
15 2 (0.86%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 151 (64.81%) Derivative
2 148 (63.52%) Fixed Income
3 137 (58.80%) Equities
4 136 (58.37%) Hedge funds
5 133 (57.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (6.87%) Algorithms
6 16 (6.87%) Pricing Data
7 5 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.72%) Social Media
9 2 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.86%) Solar Panel
10 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.72%) Windows
2 3 (1.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (77.25%) Software Engineering
2 164 (70.39%) Agile
3 152 (65.24%) Asset Management
4 109 (46.78%) Investment Management
5 68 (29.18%) Line Management
6 43 (18.45%) Greeks
7 31 (13.30%) Mathematics
8 30 (12.88%) CI/CD
9 25 (10.73%) Artificial Intelligence
10 24 (10.30%) Analytics
10 24 (10.30%) Data Pipeline
11 22 (9.44%) DevOps
12 21 (9.01%) Computer Science
13 19 (8.15%) Mathematical Modelling
14 18 (7.73%) Test Automation
15 17 (7.30%) Machine Learning
16 15 (6.44%) Data Science
17 14 (6.01%) Fintech
18 11 (4.72%) Product Requirements
19 10 (4.29%) Backtesting
Programming Languages
1 233 (100.00%) Python
2 153 (65.67%) Java
3 152 (65.24%) JavaScript
4 145 (62.23%) TypeScript
5 39 (16.74%) SQL
6 22 (9.44%) C++
7 12 (5.15%) Rust
8 9 (3.86%) C#
9 8 (3.43%) Scala
10 6 (2.58%) Ruby
11 2 (0.86%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.43%) C
12 1 (0.43%) Clojure
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (10.30%) Degree
2 8 (3.43%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.29%) PhD
5 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (19.31%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (3.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.72%) Argo
2 4 (1.72%) Kubeflow
3 3 (1.29%) Terraform
4 2 (0.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (3.86%) Bloomberg
1 9 (3.86%) Reuters
2 3 (1.29%) Databricks
3 2 (0.86%) Google
3 2 (0.86%) SAP
4 1 (0.43%) OpenLink
4 1 (0.43%) Palantir