Pandas Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Pandas
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Pandas skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 155 178
Rank change year-on-year -47 +23 +67
Contract jobs citing Pandas 8 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.80% 0.87% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile - £403 £400
25th Percentile £413 £405 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £448 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% -8.57% -23.88%
75th Percentile £518 £519 £530
90th Percentile £530 £538 £531
England median daily rate £600 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -25.00% +28.00% -0.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,003 692 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 21.80% 18.21% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 733 431 762
10th Percentile £338 £356 £363
25th Percentile £388 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -4.81% -2.12%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 37
10th Percentile £31.45 £28.40 £42.55
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £69.38 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.24% - +2.62%
75th Percentile £74.26 £87.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £80.78 £100.93 £69.25
England median hourly rate £59.75 £65.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -8.08% +22.64% -18.46%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Pandas job vacancy trend in the North of England

Pandas
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Pandas.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Pandas

Pandas
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Yorkshire -30 7 £508 +23.78% 3
North West -26 1 £425 -18.27%
Pandas
England

Pandas
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) MySQL
1 6 (75.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (75.00%) RDBMS
1 6 (75.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (75.00%) PyCharm
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 6 (75.00%) NumPy
3 2 (25.00%) pytest
3 2 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (25.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Algorithms
2 4 (50.00%) Clustering
2 4 (50.00%) Online Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Data Science
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) AI
3 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (75.00%) Data Munging
3 6 (75.00%) Deep Learning
3 6 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
4 5 (62.50%) Conversational UI
4 5 (62.50%) Data Security
4 5 (62.50%) Microservices
5 4 (50.00%) Application Security
5 4 (50.00%) Computer Vision
5 4 (50.00%) Image Processing
5 4 (50.00%) Pattern Matching
5 4 (50.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (37.50%) LLM
6 3 (37.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Postgraduate
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared