Pandas Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Pandas
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Pandas skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 121 130
Rank change year-on-year -34 +9 +66
Contract jobs citing Pandas 9 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.29% 0.44% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 2.53% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 3
10th Percentile £305 £310 -
25th Percentile £361 £322 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.67% -10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £476 £488 £578
90th Percentile £503 £500 £624
England median daily rate £600 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -25.00% +28.00% -3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 629 435 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.35% 17.34% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 276 293
10th Percentile £358 £350 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +9.79% -8.92%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £569
90th Percentile £686 £725 £685
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 7
10th Percentile £20.25 - £17.35
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.25 £19.16
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -9.84% +55.10%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £49.88
90th Percentile - - £59.60
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Pandas job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Pandas
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Pandas.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Pandas

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in the Midlands

Pandas
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pandas within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West Midlands -22 7 £402 -19.60% 15
East Midlands -23 2 £375 +16.46% 12
Pandas
England

Pandas
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (44.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 3 (33.33%) PowerApps
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SSH
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Big Data
2 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 2 (22.22%) Delta Lake
2 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
2 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Parquet
2 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 3 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (22.22%) MLflow
3 2 (22.22%) Poetry
3 2 (22.22%) PyCharm
3 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Scientist
2 2 (22.22%) Power Apps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) NumPy
2 6 (66.67%) Flask
3 3 (33.33%) FastAPI
3 3 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) Apache Avro
4 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (22.22%) scikit-learn
4 2 (22.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Exploratory Data Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Fintech
5 2 (22.22%) Fraud Detection
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) Groovy
4 2 (22.22%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Argo
1 2 (22.22%) Istio
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cloudera
2 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat