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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 177 206
Rank change year-on-year +28 +29 +62
Contract jobs citing Pandas 13 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.37% 0.087% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.17% 0.56% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 9
10th Percentile £404 £443 £588
25th Percentile £413 £506 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% -10.71% +43.59%
75th Percentile £485 £694 £750
90th Percentile £509 £728 -
England median daily rate £750 £800 £619
% change year-on-year -6.25% +29.29% +3.13%

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 598 714 855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.13% 15.49% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 477 571
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £375 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £625
90th Percentile £625 £663 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 44
10th Percentile £24.69 £27.00 £50.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £54.89
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.25%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £73.72
90th Percentile £58.75 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.60% +4.88% -5.40%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Pandas as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Pandas 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 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
Thames Valley +20 11 £430 -21.82% 7
Berkshire +21 6 £470 +17.50% 7
Buckinghamshire +11 5 £425 -39.29%
Hampshire - 2 £480 -
Pandas
England

Pandas
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon Bedrock
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon SageMaker
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Step Functions
2 5 (38.46%) ChatGPT
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Textract
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) SSH
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Big Data
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
3 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Neo4j
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Parquet
4 1 (7.69%) Pinecone
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI
4 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) MLflow
3 1 (7.69%) Poetry
3 1 (7.69%) PyCharm
3 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Data Scientist
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) NumPy
2 9 (69.23%) scikit-learn
3 7 (53.85%) PyTorch
4 5 (38.46%) Hugging Face
5 3 (23.08%) Prophet
6 2 (15.38%) SciPy
7 1 (7.69%) Apache Avro
7 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (7.69%) Faiss
7 1 (7.69%) Flask
7 1 (7.69%) Kafka
7 1 (7.69%) Matplotlib
7 1 (7.69%) Plotly
7 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) CUDA
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Data Science
1 10 (76.92%) Machine Learning
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Data Engineering
2 8 (61.54%) LLM
3 7 (53.85%) Use Case
4 6 (46.15%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (46.15%) Time Series Forecasting
5 5 (38.46%) DevOps
5 5 (38.46%) Statistical Analysis
6 4 (30.77%) A/B Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Clean Code
6 4 (30.77%) Data Privacy
6 4 (30.77%) Model Validation
6 4 (30.77%) OCR
6 4 (30.77%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (30.77%) Predictive Analysis
6 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (30.77%) Scrum
7 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Argo
1 1 (7.69%) Istio
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Sage
2 1 (7.69%) Cloudera
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat