Pandas Contracts in Scotland

Pandas
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 113 127 145
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 +22
Contract jobs citing Pandas 3 2 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.090% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 0.43% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 13
10th Percentile £426 £464 £425
25th Percentile £438 £466 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -1.52% -34.00%
75th Percentile £469 £516 £500
90th Percentile - £521 £698
UK median daily rate £675 £750 £675
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Pandas in Scotland

Pandas
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Pandas in Scotland

Pandas
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pandas within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 2 £463 - 5
Glasgow +2 1 £438 -10.26%
Pandas
UK

Pandas
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (33.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) Neo4j
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) PyCharm
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
2 1 (33.33%) Great Expectations
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Graph Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Semantic Search
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes