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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 157 178
Rank change year-on-year -61 +21 +27
Contract jobs citing Pandas 10 13 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.37% 0.084%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 2.03% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 3
10th Percentile £325 £404 £443
25th Percentile £349 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £438 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £465 £500 £694
90th Percentile £725 £509 £728
England median daily rate £550 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +29.29%

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 1,010 640 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.24% 18.13% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 438 559
10th Percentile £325 £300 £325
25th Percentile £427 £395 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £558 £619
90th Percentile £722 £625 £672
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 20 33
10th Percentile £38.25 £20.09 £27.15
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.42 £54.85
Median hourly rate £68.22 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +36.43% -18.83% +3.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.17 £58.69 £73.89
England median hourly rate £67.24 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.71% -13.04% -3.85%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -26 8 £358 -28.50% 1
Thames Valley -43 8 £358 -18.29% 4
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 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) dbt
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) MongoDB
1 8 (80.00%) NoSQL
1 8 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (20.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
1 8 (80.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) NumPy
2 8 (80.00%) Django
2 8 (80.00%) FastAPI
2 8 (80.00%) Flask
2 8 (80.00%) OpenAPI
2 8 (80.00%) RESTful
2 8 (80.00%) Swagger
3 7 (70.00%) Kafka
3 7 (70.00%) pytest
3 7 (70.00%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (50.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Algorithms
1 8 (80.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (60.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (80.00%) Analytics
2 8 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (80.00%) Mathematics
2 8 (80.00%) OOP
3 7 (70.00%) Data Analytics
3 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 7 (70.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 7 (70.00%) TDD
4 4 (40.00%) API Development
4 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (40.00%) Linear Programming
4 4 (40.00%) Mathematical Modelling
4 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google