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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 571 555
Rank change year-on-year +179 -16 -53
Contract jobs citing NumPy 187 131 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.10% 1.00% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 87 211
10th Percentile £463 £458 £425
25th Percentile £619 £538 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £888 £850 £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 8,924 13,155 23,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.95% 23.13% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,602 17,316
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 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 146 238
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.01 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.71
90th Percentile £74.47 £80.25 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

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 17 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 17 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 +163 181 £800 +14.29% 89
London +146 169 £800 +10.34% 65
Work from Home +164 103 £800 +10.34% 42
UK excluding London +49 13 £488 -5.80% 42
East of England - 6 £458 - 8
South East +5 3 £663 -17.83% 20
Scotland +44 2 £488 - 2
Midlands +29 1 £550 +10.00% 4
West Midlands +24 1 £550 +10.00% 2
South West -3 1 £275 -46.86% 5

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
1 117 (62.57%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (58.82%) Apache
3 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 131 (70.05%) AWS
2 105 (56.15%) dbt
3 85 (45.45%) Snowflake
4 71 (37.97%) GCP
5 22 (11.76%) Azure
6 11 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.88%) GitHub
7 9 (4.81%) Serverless
8 6 (3.21%) Vertex AI
9 4 (2.14%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.14%) Dagster
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.07%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.07%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (55.61%) Amazon Athena
1 104 (55.61%) Apache Arrow
1 104 (55.61%) Apache Ignite
1 104 (55.61%) Dremio
2 86 (45.99%) Data Lake
3 17 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.67%) Big Data
5 4 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.07%) Power BI
7 1 (0.53%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (5.88%) Git
2 7 (3.74%) MLflow
3 4 (2.14%) Mercurial
4 2 (1.07%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.07%) webpack
General
1 135 (72.19%) Finance
2 126 (67.38%) Front Office
3 99 (52.94%) Banking
4 97 (51.87%) Investment Banking
5 11 (5.88%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.67%) Multimedia
6 5 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.14%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.60%) Marketing
8 3 (1.60%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.07%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.07%) Law
9 2 (1.07%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.53%) Electronics
10 1 (0.53%) Games
10 1 (0.53%) Publishing
10 1 (0.53%) Retail
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (39.57%) Software Engineer
2 68 (36.36%) Developer
3 62 (33.16%) Python Engineer
4 54 (28.88%) Senior
5 46 (24.60%) AWS Engineer
6 45 (24.06%) Python Software Engineer
7 43 (22.99%) Python Developer
8 41 (21.93%) AWS Software Engineer
9 39 (20.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 37 (19.79%) Lead
11 34 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
12 33 (17.65%) Java Engineer
12 33 (17.65%) Java Software Engineer
13 32 (17.11%) Software Developer
14 24 (12.83%) Architect
14 24 (12.83%) Lead Developer
14 24 (12.83%) Lead Software Engineer
14 24 (12.83%) Software Team Leader
14 24 (12.83%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (12.83%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (94.65%) Pandas
2 137 (73.26%) SciPy
3 108 (57.75%) gRPC
4 104 (55.61%) Protocol Buffers
5 17 (9.09%) React
6 15 (8.02%) PySpark
7 13 (6.95%) scikit-learn
8 11 (5.88%) TensorFlow
9 9 (4.81%) Node.js
9 9 (4.81%) Redux
9 9 (4.81%) REST
10 8 (4.28%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.28%) Matplotlib
11 7 (3.74%) PyTorch
11 7 (3.74%) Vue
12 3 (1.60%) Dask
12 3 (1.60%) HTML
13 2 (1.07%) Kafka
13 2 (1.07%) RESTful
13 2 (1.07%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 109 (58.29%) Derivative
2 102 (54.55%) Fixed Income
3 95 (50.80%) Equities
4 93 (49.73%) Hedge funds
5 91 (48.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (8.02%) Algorithms
7 10 (5.35%) Pricing Data
8 5 (2.67%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.14%) Social Media
10 2 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.07%) Solar Panel
11 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.14%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (72.73%) Software Engineering
2 116 (62.03%) Agile
3 106 (56.68%) Asset Management
4 84 (44.92%) Investment Management
5 44 (23.53%) Line Management
6 31 (16.58%) Greeks
6 31 (16.58%) Mathematics
7 30 (16.04%) CI/CD
8 27 (14.44%) Artificial Intelligence
9 24 (12.83%) Data Pipeline
10 23 (12.30%) Analytics
11 22 (11.76%) Machine Learning
12 21 (11.23%) Computer Science
12 21 (11.23%) DevOps
13 20 (10.70%) Data Science
14 19 (10.16%) Mathematical Modelling
15 18 (9.63%) Test Automation
16 12 (6.42%) Workflow
17 11 (5.88%) Product Requirements
18 10 (5.35%) Backtesting
Programming Languages
1 187 (100.00%) Python
2 111 (59.36%) JavaScript
3 110 (58.82%) Java
4 103 (55.08%) TypeScript
5 32 (17.11%) SQL
6 22 (11.76%) C++
7 12 (6.42%) Rust
8 9 (4.81%) C#
8 9 (4.81%) Scala
9 7 (3.74%) Ruby
10 2 (1.07%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.07%) R
11 1 (0.53%) C
11 1 (0.53%) Clojure
11 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (12.83%) Degree
2 8 (4.28%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.60%) PhD
5 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.53%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (3.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.21%) Kubeflow
3 4 (2.14%) Argo
3 4 (2.14%) Terraform
4 2 (1.07%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (1.07%) ESRI
1 2 (1.07%) SAP
2 1 (0.53%) Bloomberg
2 1 (0.53%) Databricks
2 1 (0.53%) Google
2 1 (0.53%) OpenLink
2 1 (0.53%) Palantir
2 1 (0.53%) Reuters