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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 155 206
Rank change year-on-year -37 +51 +2
Contract jobs citing Pandas 10 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.18% 0.10% 0.089%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 0.61% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile £378 £506 £624
25th Percentile £463 £516 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -23.21% -30.00%
75th Percentile £725 £566 £750
90th Percentile - £579 -
England median daily rate £540 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -20.00% -6.90% +3.57%

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 876 494 768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.53% 16.54% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 324 466
10th Percentile £350 £350 £314
25th Percentile £416 £412 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £502 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +0.30% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £619
90th Percentile £688 £663 £675
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 13 33
10th Percentile £40.00 £27.73 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.80 £54.85
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% -5.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.50 £74.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -32 5 £445 -11.00% 6
Thames Valley -42 5 £445 -11.00% 14
Middlesex - 1 £475 - 3
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 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) dbt
4 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Python Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) NumPy
2 3 (30.00%) Django
2 3 (30.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (30.00%) Flask
2 3 (30.00%) OpenAPI
2 3 (30.00%) pytest
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) Swagger
3 2 (20.00%) Jinja
3 2 (20.00%) Kafka
3 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) Keras
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (10.00%) SOAP
4 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (40.00%) OOP
3 4 (40.00%) Workflow
4 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
5 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) TDD
5 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) AI
6 1 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubeflow
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Google