NumPy Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 557 557
Rank change year-on-year +180 0 -33
Contract jobs citing NumPy 205 125 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.22% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.26% 0.97% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 82 216
10th Percentile £464 £464 £438
25th Percentile £620 £563 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £888 £862 £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 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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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 1 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 1 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 +163 198 £800 +14.29% 71
London +174 186 £800 +10.34% 51
Work from Home +170 121 £800 +10.34% 26
UK excluding London +32 13 £488 -5.80% 18
East of England - 6 £458 - 3
South East +2 3 £663 +9.28% 8
Scotland +36 2 £488 - 1
Midlands +22 1 £550 +10.00% 1
West Midlands +13 1 £550 +10.00% 1
South West +5 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
1 137 (66.83%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (62.93%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 151 (73.66%) AWS
2 124 (60.49%) dbt
3 104 (50.73%) Snowflake
4 80 (39.02%) GCP
5 26 (12.68%) Azure
6 13 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (5.37%) GitHub
8 8 (3.90%) Serverless
9 6 (2.93%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.93%) Dagster
10 5 (2.44%) Vertex AI
11 3 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.98%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.98%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.49%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (60.00%) Amazon Athena
1 123 (60.00%) Dremio
2 121 (59.02%) Apache Arrow
2 121 (59.02%) Apache Ignite
3 106 (51.71%) Data Lake
4 16 (7.80%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.95%) Big Data
6 3 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.98%) Power BI
8 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.49%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (6.34%) Git
2 6 (2.93%) MLflow
3 4 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.95%) Mercurial
4 2 (0.98%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.98%) Selenium
4 2 (0.98%) webpack
General
1 154 (75.12%) Finance
2 144 (70.24%) Front Office
3 116 (56.59%) Banking
4 112 (54.63%) Investment Banking
5 13 (6.34%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.44%) Multimedia
6 5 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.95%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.46%) Marketing
8 3 (1.46%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.98%) Law
9 2 (0.98%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.49%) Electronics
10 1 (0.49%) Games
10 1 (0.49%) Publishing
10 1 (0.49%) Retail
10 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (41.46%) Software Engineer
2 72 (35.12%) Python Engineer
3 71 (34.63%) Developer
4 62 (30.24%) Senior
5 54 (26.34%) Python Software Engineer
6 53 (25.85%) AWS Engineer
7 48 (23.41%) AWS Software Engineer
8 46 (22.44%) Python Developer
9 43 (20.98%) Lead
10 42 (20.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 42 (20.49%) Senior Software Engineer
11 40 (19.51%) Java Engineer
11 40 (19.51%) Java Software Engineer
12 35 (17.07%) Software Developer
13 28 (13.66%) Architect
13 28 (13.66%) Lead Developer
13 28 (13.66%) Lead Software Engineer
13 28 (13.66%) Software Team Leader
13 28 (13.66%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (13.66%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (95.61%) Pandas
2 156 (76.10%) SciPy
3 125 (60.98%) gRPC
4 121 (59.02%) Protocol Buffers
5 18 (8.78%) React
6 16 (7.80%) PySpark
7 11 (5.37%) Node.js
7 11 (5.37%) Redux
7 11 (5.37%) scikit-learn
8 10 (4.88%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.39%) REST
9 9 (4.39%) TensorFlow
9 9 (4.39%) Vue
10 7 (3.41%) Matplotlib
11 6 (2.93%) PyTorch
12 3 (1.46%) Dask
13 2 (0.98%) Beautiful Soup
13 2 (0.98%) pytest
13 2 (0.98%) RESTful
13 2 (0.98%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 127 (61.95%) Derivative
2 122 (59.51%) Fixed Income
3 113 (55.12%) Equities
4 111 (54.15%) Hedge funds
5 109 (53.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (7.80%) Algorithms
7 14 (6.83%) Pricing Data
8 5 (2.44%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.95%) Social Media
10 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.98%) Solar Panel
11 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.95%) Windows
2 1 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (75.12%) Software Engineering
2 137 (66.83%) Agile
3 125 (60.98%) Asset Management
4 98 (47.80%) Investment Management
5 52 (25.37%) Line Management
6 37 (18.05%) Greeks
7 31 (15.12%) CI/CD
7 31 (15.12%) Mathematics
8 26 (12.68%) Artificial Intelligence
9 24 (11.71%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (10.73%) Analytics
10 22 (10.73%) DevOps
11 21 (10.24%) Computer Science
12 19 (9.27%) Machine Learning
12 19 (9.27%) Mathematical Modelling
13 18 (8.78%) Test Automation
14 17 (8.29%) Data Science
15 11 (5.37%) Fintech
15 11 (5.37%) Product Requirements
16 10 (4.88%) Backtesting
Programming Languages
1 205 (100.00%) Python
2 127 (61.95%) Java
2 127 (61.95%) JavaScript
3 120 (58.54%) TypeScript
4 31 (15.12%) SQL
5 22 (10.73%) C++
6 12 (5.85%) Rust
7 8 (3.90%) C#
7 8 (3.90%) Scala
8 6 (2.93%) Ruby
9 2 (0.98%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.49%) C
10 1 (0.49%) Clojure
10 1 (0.49%) Groovy
10 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (11.71%) Degree
2 8 (3.90%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.46%) PhD
5 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (19.02%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (3.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.44%) Kubeflow
3 4 (1.95%) Argo
4 3 (1.46%) Terraform
5 2 (0.98%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (1.46%) Databricks
2 2 (0.98%) Google
2 2 (0.98%) SAP
3 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg
3 1 (0.49%) ESRI
3 1 (0.49%) OpenLink
3 1 (0.49%) Palantir
3 1 (0.49%) Reuters