Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 10 December 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Pandas skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pandas over the 6 months to 10 December 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Pandas
England > South East
6 months to
10 Dec 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 378 334 358
Rank change year-on-year -44 +24 +46
Contract jobs citing Pandas 8 32 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 0.047% 0.19% 0.074%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.68% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 3
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +23.53% -15.00%
10th Percentile £375 £325 £383
90th Percentile £675 £575 £448
England median daily rate £550 £534 £500
% change year-on-year +3.04% +6.75% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
South East median hourly rate £8.00 £24.00 -
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -66.67% - -
England median hourly rate £8.00 £24.00 -
% change year-on-year -66.67% - -

Pandas is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East
Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,628 4,686 4,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 33.15% 28.14% 27.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,650 2,870 2,692
South East median daily rate £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +3.23%
10th Percentile £313 £303 £275
90th Percentile £575 £570 £538
England median daily rate £475 £468 £425
% change year-on-year +1.60% +10.00% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 87 126
South East median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £41.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -5.56% +9.76% +9.33%
10th Percentile £26.53 £15.99 £14.50
90th Percentile £53.50 £48.75 £53.75
England median hourly rate £41.50 £40.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year +3.75% +1.01% +5.60%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Pandas in the South East

Pandas
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Pandas in the South East.

Contractor daily rate trend for Pandas in the South East

Pandas
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Pandas in the South East over the 6 months to 10 December 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Pandas in the South East

Pandas
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pandas in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Pandas in the South East

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 10 December 2018. 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
Job
Vacancies
Hampshire -29 5 £650 +23.81%
Thames Valley -3 3 £400 - 1
Berkshire -17 3 £400 +33.33%
Pandas
England

For the 6 months to 10 December 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Pandas also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region with a requirement for Pandas.

1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) NumPy
2 6 (75.00%) Data Science
3 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
4 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Statistics
5 3 (37.50%) Mathematics
5 3 (37.50%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
5 3 (37.50%) Open Source
5 3 (37.50%) Data Mining
5 3 (37.50%) Games
5 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) Analytics
5 3 (37.50%) D3.js
5 3 (37.50%) Trend Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) R
5 3 (37.50%) Matplotlib
5 3 (37.50%) Tableau
5 3 (37.50%) SciPy
5 3 (37.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 3 (37.50%) Unreal Engine
5 3 (37.50%) Jupyter
5 3 (37.50%) Predictive Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) Sentiment Analysis
6 2 (25.00%) PySpark
6 2 (25.00%) Dask
6 2 (25.00%) TensorFlow
6 2 (25.00%) Deep Learning
6 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence

Pandas
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Jupyter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Mining
General
1 3 (37.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Data Scientist
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Python Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning Scientist
4 1 (12.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) NumPy
2 3 (37.50%) D3.js
2 3 (37.50%) Matplotlib
2 3 (37.50%) SciPy
2 3 (37.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (37.50%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (25.00%) Dask
3 2 (25.00%) PySpark
3 2 (25.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (12.50%) Anaconda
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Science
2 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Data Cleansing
4 3 (37.50%) Mathematics
4 3 (37.50%) Open Source
4 3 (37.50%) Predictive Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Sentiment Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Statistics
4 3 (37.50%) Trend Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
5 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Deep Learning
6 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
6 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 1 (12.50%) Quantitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) R
3 1 (12.50%) Cython
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Tableau