Pandas Contracts in England

Pandas
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Pandas skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pandas over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 335 396
Rank change year-on-year +23 +61 +36
Contract jobs citing Pandas 177 209 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.56% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.25% 2.78% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 176 189
10th Percentile £493 £463 £441
25th Percentile £561 £547 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £853 £878 £860
90th Percentile £888 £888 £1,025
UK median daily rate £675 £750 £675
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Pandas as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Pandas in England

Pandas
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pandas in England.

Daily rate trend for Pandas in England

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in England

Pandas
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pandas in England.

Hourly rate trend for Pandas in England

Pandas
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pandas within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London -1 144 £750 - 175
East of England +40 19 £650 +42.08% 1
North of England - 6 £425 - 10
South East +45 3 £538 -18.87% 46
Yorkshire - 3 £410 - 4
North West - 3 £425 - 5
South West +46 1 £463 +68.18% 12
Midlands +19 1 £475 -13.64% 7
West Midlands +11 1 £475 -13.64% 5
Pandas
UK

Pandas
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 70 (39.55%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (25.42%) Apache
3 24 (13.56%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.13%) CPLEX
1 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 124 (70.06%) AWS
2 68 (38.42%) dbt
3 64 (36.16%) GCP
4 59 (33.33%) Azure
5 35 (19.77%) Snowflake
6 28 (15.82%) Dagster
7 21 (11.86%) GitHub
8 19 (10.73%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (9.60%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (9.60%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (9.04%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (8.47%) Amazon SageMaker
12 13 (7.34%) Amazon S3
13 12 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (6.78%) Serverless
14 10 (5.65%) Power Platform
15 9 (5.08%) AWS CodeCommit
15 9 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (5.08%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.82%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (36.72%) Amazon Athena
1 65 (36.72%) Apache Iceberg
1 65 (36.72%) Dremio
2 56 (31.64%) Apache Arrow
3 40 (22.60%) Apache Ignite
4 39 (22.03%) Data Lake
5 30 (16.95%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (13.56%) Tableau
7 17 (9.60%) Big Data
7 17 (9.60%) Hadoop
8 13 (7.34%) SQL Server
9 10 (5.65%) Power BI
10 8 (4.52%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.26%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.69%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.69%) Looker
12 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (1.13%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 17 (9.60%) Git
2 4 (2.26%) MLflow
3 2 (1.13%) Selenium
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.56%) JIRA
4 1 (0.56%) Postman
4 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 106 (59.89%) Finance
2 72 (40.68%) Front Office
3 53 (29.94%) Banking
4 41 (23.16%) Investment Banking
5 24 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (10.17%) Social Skills
7 9 (5.08%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.82%) Back Office
9 4 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.26%) Retail
10 3 (1.69%) Law
10 3 (1.69%) Marketing
10 3 (1.69%) Military
11 2 (1.13%) Police
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Social Science
12 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (41.81%) Developer
2 67 (37.85%) Python Engineer
3 65 (36.72%) Software Engineer
4 56 (31.64%) AWS Engineer
4 56 (31.64%) AWS Software Engineer
5 49 (27.68%) Python Developer
6 48 (27.12%) Senior
7 46 (25.99%) Python Software Engineer
8 34 (19.21%) AWS Developer
9 29 (16.38%) Java Engineer
9 29 (16.38%) Java Software Engineer
10 27 (15.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 25 (14.12%) Data Scientist
12 22 (12.43%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (10.17%) Data Engineer
13 18 (10.17%) Senior Java Engineer
13 18 (10.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 17 (9.60%) Senior Developer
15 14 (7.91%) Data Science Developer
16 11 (6.21%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (87.57%) NumPy
2 90 (50.85%) SciPy
3 44 (24.86%) scikit-learn
4 42 (23.73%) React
5 40 (22.60%) gRPC
5 40 (22.60%) Protocol Buffers
6 39 (22.03%) AngularJS
7 38 (21.47%) PySpark
8 36 (20.34%) Vue
9 33 (18.64%) TensorFlow
10 32 (18.08%) PyTorch
11 27 (15.25%) Node.js
12 19 (10.73%) Matplotlib
13 17 (9.60%) Kafka
14 16 (9.04%) Seaborn
15 15 (8.47%) Flask
16 14 (7.91%) FastAPI
17 13 (7.34%) Polars
18 12 (6.78%) LangChain
18 12 (6.78%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 58 (32.77%) Fixed Income
2 48 (27.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 44 (24.86%) Hedge funds
4 40 (22.60%) Equities
5 31 (17.51%) Derivative
6 27 (15.25%) Algorithms
7 12 (6.78%) Pricing Data
8 5 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.69%) Multi-touch
11 2 (1.13%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.13%) Genomics
11 2 (1.13%) Omics
11 2 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (1.13%) Solar Panel
11 2 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.21%) Linux
2 5 (2.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (53.11%) Software Engineering
2 82 (46.33%) Agile
3 66 (37.29%) Asset Management
4 60 (33.90%) Data Science
5 51 (28.81%) Investment Management
6 50 (28.25%) Machine Learning
7 46 (25.99%) Analytics
8 44 (24.86%) Artificial Intelligence
9 39 (22.03%) Visualisation
10 37 (20.90%) Fintech
11 31 (17.51%) Data Engineering
11 31 (17.51%) Generative AI
12 29 (16.38%) Data Analysis
13 27 (15.25%) Performance Attribution
14 26 (14.69%) Statistical Modelling
15 25 (14.12%) Data Munging
16 24 (13.56%) Computer Science
16 24 (13.56%) Decision-Making
16 24 (13.56%) Risk Management
17 23 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 171 (96.61%) Python
2 70 (39.55%) JavaScript
3 59 (33.33%) Java
4 56 (31.64%) TypeScript
5 41 (23.16%) SQL
6 25 (14.12%) R
7 17 (9.60%) C#
8 12 (6.78%) C++
9 10 (5.65%) Rust
10 4 (2.26%) Scala
10 4 (2.26%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.13%) VBA
12 1 (0.56%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (14.69%) Degree
2 20 (11.30%) Master's Degree
3 16 (9.04%) PhD
4 12 (6.78%) Security Cleared
5 10 (5.65%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.26%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.99%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (3.39%) QA
4 3 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (9.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (15.82%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (5.65%) Oracle
2 6 (3.39%) Google
3 4 (2.26%) Databricks
4 3 (1.69%) Bloomberg
4 3 (1.69%) Dataiku
4 3 (1.69%) DataRobot
4 3 (1.69%) Refinitiv
4 3 (1.69%) Reuters
4 3 (1.69%) Talend
5 2 (1.13%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.56%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.56%) Foundry
6 1 (0.56%) Informatica
6 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.56%) SAP
6 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow