Pandas Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Pandas
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Pandas skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 96 129
Rank change year-on-year -15 +33 -11
Contract jobs citing Pandas 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.29% 0.077% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.52% 0.37% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £362 - £590
25th Percentile £381 - £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.01%
75th Percentile £469 - £631
90th Percentile £488 - £635
South East median daily rate £475 - £700
% change year-on-year - - -30.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

Pandas 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 in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 329 268 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.32% 20.68% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 184 150
10th Percentile £363 £387 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £608
90th Percentile £648 £652 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £526 £500
% change year-on-year -4.99% +5.25% -8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 15
10th Percentile £56.01 - £56.50
25th Percentile £73.25 - £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £77.19 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +25.31% -21.53%
75th Percentile - - £62.00
90th Percentile £81.50 - £90.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% -4.62%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pandas relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Pandas job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Pandas
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Pandas.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Pandas

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas in Berkshire over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in Berkshire

Pandas
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pandas within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham -34 3 £391 - 1
Reading - 1 - - 2
Pandas
South East

Pandas
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) NumPy
2 3 (60.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (40.00%) Plotly
4 1 (20.00%) Django
4 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (20.00%) Flask
4 1 (20.00%) Kafka
4 1 (20.00%) Matplotlib
4 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (20.00%) pytest
4 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) Swagger
4 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (80.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Data Science
3 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (60.00%) Model Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Predictive Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) Statistics
4 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Feature Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) LLM
4 2 (40.00%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Time Series Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google