Pandas Contract Job Trends in the South East

Pandas
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Pandas skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 164 188
Rank change year-on-year -12 +24 +46
Contract jobs citing Pandas 10 1 14
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.23% 0.029% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.49% 0.18% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 12
10th Percentile £396 - £585
25th Percentile £419 - £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £400 £700
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -42.86% -15.15%
75th Percentile £500 - £750
90th Percentile £613 - -
England median daily rate £550 £675 £644
% change year-on-year -18.52% +4.85% -0.96%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 672 551 764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.44% 15.93% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 347 426
10th Percentile £285 £336 £314
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £612
90th Percentile £660 £675 £678
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 33
10th Percentile £40.00 £49.25 £51.90
25th Percentile £46.25 £59.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £76.53
90th Percentile £81.00 £65.97 £78.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Pandas job vacancy trend in the South East

Pandas
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Pandas

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas in the South East over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in the South East

Pandas
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Pandas.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Pandas

Pandas
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pandas within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 January 2026. 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
Berkshire -1 8 £470 +17.50% 22
Thames Valley -3 8 £470 +17.50% 28
Hampshire - 1 £384 - 2
Pandas
England

Pandas
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (30.00%) Apache
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (10.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) dbt
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) SSH
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (40.00%) Big Data
2 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (20.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Neo4j
4 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Parquet
4 1 (10.00%) Pinecone
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) MLflow
2 1 (10.00%) Poetry
2 1 (10.00%) PyCharm
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) NumPy
2 6 (60.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (20.00%) Plotly
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Avro
4 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (10.00%) Faiss
4 1 (10.00%) Flask
4 1 (10.00%) Matplotlib
4 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) SciPy
4 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (30.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (70.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (60.00%) Data Science
3 6 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (60.00%) Model Validation
3 6 (60.00%) Predictive Analysis
3 6 (60.00%) Visualisation
4 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 5 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
4 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 5 (50.00%) LLM
4 5 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
4 5 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
4 5 (50.00%) Time Series Analysis
4 5 (50.00%) Use Case
5 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (40.00%) Statistics
5 4 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Argo
1 1 (10.00%) Istio
1 1 (10.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat