Pandas Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Pandas
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Pandas skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 114 144
Rank change year-on-year +16 +30 +26
Contract jobs citing Pandas 17 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.06% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.33% 0.51% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 2
10th Percentile £313 - £410
25th Percentile £481 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.44% -11.11% -30.77%
75th Percentile £539 - £475
90th Percentile £552 - £490
UK median daily rate £675 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -15.63% +33.33% -

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 393 389 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 24.61% 20.67% 22.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 258 396
10th Percentile £371 £356 £388
25th Percentile £425 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.84% -1.74%
75th Percentile £545 £573 £538
90th Percentile £613 £700 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £27.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £51.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -6.83% -1.09%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £66.39
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.70 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.20% +2.67% -4.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Pandas.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Pandas

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 20 September 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 - 12 £525 - 9
Glasgow -11 5 £325 -18.75% 2
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 5 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (17.65%) Apache
3 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) Serverless
3 9 (52.94%) Amazon S3
3 9 (52.94%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (47.06%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (47.06%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (41.18%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (35.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (17.65%) Azure
7 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
8 2 (11.76%) Dagster
9 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Relational Database
2 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
2 4 (23.53%) RDBMS
3 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MLflow
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 4 (23.53%) Banking
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Python Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Data Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Open Source Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (88.24%) NumPy
2 11 (64.71%) PyTorch
2 11 (64.71%) SQLAlchemy
3 10 (58.82%) Hugging Face
3 10 (58.82%) OpenCV
4 9 (52.94%) AWS CDK
4 9 (52.94%) FastAPI
5 8 (47.06%) boto
6 5 (29.41%) JWT
6 5 (29.41%) OAuth
6 5 (29.41%) PySpark
7 4 (23.53%) REST
8 1 (5.88%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Data Structures
2 5 (29.41%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Agile
1 12 (70.59%) Artificial Intelligence
1 12 (70.59%) LLM
1 12 (70.59%) Machine Learning
2 10 (58.82%) OCR
2 10 (58.82%) OOP
3 8 (47.06%) Async-Await
3 8 (47.06%) Software Engineering
4 7 (41.18%) API Development
4 7 (41.18%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (41.18%) ETL
4 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (41.18%) Pair Programming
4 7 (41.18%) TDD
5 6 (35.29%) Computer Vision
5 6 (35.29%) OO
6 5 (29.41%) Community of Practice
6 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
6 5 (29.41%) Deep Learning
6 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (11.76%) QA
3 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Grafana
2 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Cloudera
1 2 (11.76%) Databricks