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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 150 183
Rank change year-on-year -71 +33 +18
Contract jobs citing Pandas 12 13 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.18% 0.37% 0.081%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 2.23% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 3
10th Percentile £325 £404 £443
25th Percentile £349 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £438 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £500 £694
90th Percentile £725 £509 £728
England median daily rate £550 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +30.61%

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 947 583 754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.07% 16.56% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 398 510
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £426 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £625 £575 £625
90th Percentile £725 £625 £670
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 22 36
10th Percentile £32.74 £21.48 £27.38
25th Percentile £51.25 £33.68 £54.85
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.83% +5.14%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £58.74 £74.93
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £57.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.93% -6.53%

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 14 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 14 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 -19 9 £358 -28.50% 1
Thames Valley -44 9 £358 -18.29% 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 3 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (66.67%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) dbt
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 8 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 8 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (25.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 8 (66.67%) Python Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) NumPy
2 8 (66.67%) Django
2 8 (66.67%) FastAPI
2 8 (66.67%) Flask
2 8 (66.67%) OpenAPI
2 8 (66.67%) pytest
2 8 (66.67%) RESTful
2 8 (66.67%) Swagger
3 7 (58.33%) Kafka
3 7 (58.33%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (41.67%) Jinja
5 1 (8.33%) JWT
5 1 (8.33%) OAuth
5 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
5 1 (8.33%) REST
5 1 (8.33%) SOAP
5 1 (8.33%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 8 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 6 (50.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (66.67%) Analytics
2 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 8 (66.67%) OOP
3 7 (58.33%) Data Analytics
3 7 (58.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 7 (58.33%) TDD
4 4 (33.33%) API Development
4 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (33.33%) Linear Programming
4 4 (33.33%) Mathematical Modelling
4 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (25.00%) Microservices
5 3 (25.00%) Workflow
6 1 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Google