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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 180 198
Rank change year-on-year +21 +18 +58
Contract jobs citing Pandas 15 1 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.40% 0.024% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.36% 0.14% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 14
10th Percentile £404 - £586
25th Percentile £413 - £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £400 £700
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -42.86% -30.00%
75th Percentile £485 - £750
90th Percentile £500 - -
England median daily rate £650 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -18.75% +28.00% -3.85%

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 636 690 888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.84% 16.56% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 452 540
10th Percentile £280 £325 £313
25th Percentile £380 £407 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £625 £671 £680
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 23 37
10th Percentile £20.38 £33.13 £50.00
25th Percentile £42.77 £59.55 £54.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £60.63 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.00 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

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 2 November 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 2 November 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 +24 14 £435 +8.75% 31
Berkshire +17 9 £500 +25.00% 28
Buckinghamshire - 5 £425 -
Hampshire - 1 £384 -
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 (26.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (33.33%) ChatGPT
4 5 (33.33%) GCP
4 5 (33.33%) Serverless
5 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
6 2 (13.33%) Textract
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) SSH
1 1 (6.67%) SSL
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Big Data
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (26.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (13.33%) Power BI
5 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
5 1 (6.67%) Neo4j
5 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (6.67%) Parquet
5 1 (6.67%) Pinecone
5 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) MLflow
3 1 (6.67%) Poetry
3 1 (6.67%) PyCharm
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (93.33%) NumPy
2 11 (73.33%) scikit-learn
3 6 (40.00%) PyTorch
4 5 (33.33%) Hugging Face
5 3 (20.00%) Prophet
6 2 (13.33%) Plotly
6 2 (13.33%) SciPy
7 1 (6.67%) Apache Avro
7 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (6.67%) Faiss
7 1 (6.67%) Flask
7 1 (6.67%) Matplotlib
7 1 (6.67%) REST
7 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
7 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Algorithms
2 3 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Data Science
1 11 (73.33%) Machine Learning
2 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 10 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 10 (66.67%) LLM
3 9 (60.00%) Use Case
4 7 (46.67%) Actionable Insight
4 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
5 6 (40.00%) Model Validation
5 6 (40.00%) Predictive Analysis
5 6 (40.00%) Time Series Forecasting
5 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 5 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
6 5 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (33.33%) DevOps
6 5 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
6 5 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
6 5 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
6 5 (33.33%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (73.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Argo
1 1 (6.67%) Istio
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google
1 3 (20.00%) Sage
2 1 (6.67%) Cloudera
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat