Pandas Contracts in the South East

Pandas
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 199 204
Rank change year-on-year +41 +5 +38
Contract jobs citing Pandas 4 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.12% 0.052% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% 0.38% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile - £616 £463
25th Percentile - £622 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £663 £625
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +6.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £544 £722 £1,025
90th Percentile £570 £739 -
England median daily rate £750 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -6.25% +28.00% +4.17%

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 563 795 974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.32% 13.90% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 532 681
10th Percentile £318 £325 £325
25th Percentile £402 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £582 £620 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 42
10th Percentile £22.73 £35.00 £50.00
25th Percentile £36.42 £56.65 £52.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -2.61% +33.16%
75th Percentile £58.70 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £61.79 £75.00 £79.19
England median hourly rate £57.63 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.90% -10.54% +22.64%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pandas in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Pandas in the South East

Pandas
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pandas in the South East.

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 4 July 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 +30 3 £500 -28.57% 36
Berkshire +25 3 £500 - 24
Hampshire - 1 £575 - 5
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 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) NumPy
2 2 (50.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Prophet
3 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (25.00%) SciPy
3 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (25.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (25.00%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Predictive Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Time Series Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Linear Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Operations Research
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Signal Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Time Series Forecasting
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google