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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 331 403
Rank change year-on-year +27 +72 +31
Contract jobs citing Pandas 179 216 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.75% 0.59% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.36% 2.88% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 190 182
10th Percentile £485 £488 £446
25th Percentile £550 £619 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £838 £888 £851
90th Percentile £875 - £1,000
UK median daily rate £675 £800 £675
% change year-on-year -15.63% +18.52% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 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 5,325 7,506 10,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.34% 20.66% 22.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,690 5,336 8,145
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £791 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 234 129
10th Percentile £27.97 £22.50 £25.75
25th Percentile £43.70 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £74.48 £80.40
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +30.00%

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 23 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 23 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 +15 147 £750 -6.25% 252
East of England +44 19 £650 +42.08% 89
North of England - 6 £425 - 130
South East +51 3 £538 -18.87% 218
Yorkshire - 3 £410 - 55
North West - 3 £425 - 59
South West +38 1 £463 +68.18% 91
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 66 (36.87%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (22.35%) Apache
3 28 (15.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.79%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 122 (68.16%) AWS
2 64 (35.75%) dbt
3 57 (31.84%) Azure
4 56 (31.28%) GCP
5 32 (17.88%) Snowflake
6 22 (12.29%) GitHub
7 17 (9.50%) Dagster
7 17 (9.50%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (8.38%) Amazon SageMaker
9 12 (6.70%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.70%) Power Platform
10 11 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (6.15%) Serverless
11 9 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (5.03%) Azure AKS
11 9 (5.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (5.03%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (5.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.79%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (34.08%) Amazon Athena
1 61 (34.08%) Apache Iceberg
1 61 (34.08%) Dremio
2 55 (30.73%) Apache Arrow
3 35 (19.55%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (18.99%) Apache Ignite
5 33 (18.44%) Data Lake
6 27 (15.08%) Tableau
7 17 (9.50%) Big Data
7 17 (9.50%) Hadoop
8 12 (6.70%) Power BI
8 12 (6.70%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.91%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.79%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.23%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.68%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.68%) Looker
12 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (1.12%) Data Mining
13 2 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 20 (11.17%) Git
2 7 (3.91%) MLflow
3 2 (1.12%) 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
1 105 (58.66%) Finance
2 66 (36.87%) Front Office
3 50 (27.93%) Banking
4 42 (23.46%) Investment Banking
5 26 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (11.17%) Social Skills
7 11 (6.15%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.79%) Back Office
10 4 (2.23%) Marketing
10 4 (2.23%) Police
10 4 (2.23%) Retail
11 2 (1.12%) Law
11 2 (1.12%) Military
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (45.81%) Developer
2 64 (35.75%) Python Engineer
3 63 (35.20%) Software Engineer
4 55 (30.73%) AWS Engineer
4 55 (30.73%) AWS Software Engineer
5 54 (30.17%) Python Developer
6 50 (27.93%) Senior
7 46 (25.70%) Python Software Engineer
8 37 (20.67%) AWS Developer
9 33 (18.44%) Java Engineer
9 33 (18.44%) Java Software Engineer
10 28 (15.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 27 (15.08%) Data Scientist
12 23 (12.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 22 (12.29%) Senior Java Engineer
13 22 (12.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 16 (8.94%) Senior Developer
15 14 (7.82%) Data Engineer
15 14 (7.82%) Data Science Developer
16 9 (5.03%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (84.36%) NumPy
2 86 (48.04%) SciPy
3 45 (25.14%) React
3 45 (25.14%) scikit-learn
4 42 (23.46%) AngularJS
5 39 (21.79%) Vue
6 37 (20.67%) TensorFlow
7 34 (18.99%) gRPC
7 34 (18.99%) Protocol Buffers
8 33 (18.44%) PyTorch
9 28 (15.64%) Node.js
10 26 (14.53%) PySpark
11 20 (11.17%) Matplotlib
12 18 (10.06%) FastAPI
12 18 (10.06%) Flask
13 17 (9.50%) Kafka
14 16 (8.94%) Polars
14 16 (8.94%) Seaborn
15 13 (7.26%) OpenTelemetry
16 12 (6.70%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 57 (31.84%) Fixed Income
2 53 (29.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 43 (24.02%) Equities
3 43 (24.02%) Hedge funds
4 30 (16.76%) Algorithms
4 30 (16.76%) Derivative
5 18 (10.06%) Pricing Data
6 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.68%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.68%) Multi-touch
8 2 (1.12%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.12%) Genomics
8 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Omics
8 2 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.12%) Solar Panel
8 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.26%) Linux
2 5 (2.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (51.96%) Software Engineering
2 77 (43.02%) Agile
3 63 (35.20%) Asset Management
4 62 (34.64%) Data Science
5 55 (30.73%) Investment Management
6 54 (30.17%) Machine Learning
7 43 (24.02%) Analytics
7 43 (24.02%) Artificial Intelligence
8 41 (22.91%) Visualisation
9 35 (19.55%) Fintech
10 30 (16.76%) Data Analysis
11 29 (16.20%) Computer Science
11 29 (16.20%) Generative AI
11 29 (16.20%) Risk Management
11 29 (16.20%) Statistical Modelling
12 28 (15.64%) Data Engineering
12 28 (15.64%) Performance Attribution
13 26 (14.53%) Decision-Making
13 26 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (13.97%) Data Munging
Programming Languages
1 171 (95.53%) Python
2 71 (39.66%) JavaScript
3 57 (31.84%) Java
4 55 (30.73%) TypeScript
5 44 (24.58%) SQL
6 27 (15.08%) R
7 19 (10.61%) C#
8 14 (7.82%) C++
9 13 (7.26%) Rust
10 3 (1.68%) Scala
10 3 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.12%) VBA
12 1 (0.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (17.32%) Degree
2 22 (12.29%) Master's Degree
3 19 (10.61%) PhD
4 12 (6.70%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.47%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.79%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.85%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (3.91%) QA
4 3 (1.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (12.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (17.88%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.61%) Terraform
3 2 (1.12%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 9 (5.03%) Oracle
2 7 (3.91%) Google
3 4 (2.23%) Dataiku
3 4 (2.23%) DataRobot
4 3 (1.68%) Databricks
4 3 (1.68%) Talend
5 2 (1.12%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.12%) Refinitiv
5 2 (1.12%) Reuters
6 1 (0.56%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.56%) Foundry
6 1 (0.56%) Informatica
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.56%) SAP
6 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow