Pandas Contracts in the UK excluding London

Pandas
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 379 413
Rank change year-on-year +78 +34 +31
Contract jobs citing Pandas 35 20 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.096% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% 0.61% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 11 40
10th Percentile £397 £425 £419
25th Percentile £456 £444 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -7.83%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £617
90th Percentile - £638 £1,025
UK median daily rate £675 £750 £675
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Pandas as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Pandas in the UK excluding London

Pandas
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pandas in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Pandas in the UK excluding London

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in the UK excluding London

Pandas
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pandas in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Pandas in the UK excluding London

Pandas
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pandas within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East of England +40 19 £650 +42.08% 1
North of England - 6 £425 - 10
South East +45 3 £538 -18.87% 46
Scotland +14 3 £463 -5.13% 6
North West - 3 £425 - 5
Yorkshire - 3 £410 - 4
Wales - 2 £625 -
South West +46 1 £463 +68.18% 12
Midlands +19 1 £475 -13.64% 7
West Midlands +11 1 £475 -13.64% 5
Pandas
UK

Pandas
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (51.43%) Apache Spark
2 6 (17.14%) Apache
3 4 (11.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.86%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) Azure
2 21 (60.00%) AWS
3 10 (28.57%) GCP
4 5 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 4 (11.43%) GitHub
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (8.57%) dbt
6 3 (8.57%) Vertex AI
7 1 (2.86%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.86%) IaaS
7 1 (2.86%) PaaS
7 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (57.14%) Tableau
2 18 (51.43%) Big Data
3 17 (48.57%) Hadoop
4 5 (14.29%) Power BI
5 3 (8.57%) BigQuery
5 3 (8.57%) Looker
5 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.86%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.86%) GIS
7 1 (2.86%) Metadata
7 1 (2.86%) Neo4j
7 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.86%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) PyCharm
2 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (51.43%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Developer
2 14 (40.00%) Data Science Developer
3 13 (37.14%) Senior
4 10 (28.57%) Senior Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Data Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) Data Scientist
6 5 (14.29%) Python Engineer
7 4 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 3 (8.57%) Python Data Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) GCP Data Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Gen AI Developer
9 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Scientist
10 1 (2.86%) Analyst
10 1 (2.86%) DBA
10 1 (2.86%) Open Source Engineer
10 1 (2.86%) SQL Analyst
10 1 (2.86%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (77.14%) NumPy
2 23 (65.71%) scikit-learn
3 19 (54.29%) TensorFlow
4 18 (51.43%) PyTorch
5 17 (48.57%) Matplotlib
6 16 (45.71%) Seaborn
7 7 (20.00%) PySpark
8 4 (11.43%) Kafka
9 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
9 3 (8.57%) React
10 2 (5.71%) Anaconda
11 1 (2.86%) Great Expectations
11 1 (2.86%) LangChain
11 1 (2.86%) PostGIS
11 1 (2.86%) Prophet
11 1 (2.86%) SciPy
11 1 (2.86%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 20 (57.14%) Algorithms
2 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) CUDA
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (80.00%) Data Science
2 25 (71.43%) Machine Learning
3 24 (68.57%) Analytics
4 22 (62.86%) Visualisation
5 21 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 19 (54.29%) Data Analysis
7 18 (51.43%) LLM
8 17 (48.57%) Data Analytics
8 17 (48.57%) Generative AI
8 17 (48.57%) Time Series Forecasting
9 16 (45.71%) Data Munging
9 16 (45.71%) Decision-Making
9 16 (45.71%) Statistical Modelling
10 15 (42.86%) Feature Engineering
11 14 (40.00%) Predictive Analytics
11 14 (40.00%) Reinforcement Learning
12 12 (34.29%) Computer Science
13 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (22.86%) Data Pipeline
15 7 (20.00%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (48.57%) R
3 12 (34.29%) SQL
4 3 (8.57%) Java
5 1 (2.86%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (2.86%) Scala
5 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Degree
1 12 (34.29%) Master's Degree
1 12 (34.29%) PhD
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (54.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.57%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
1 3 (8.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (5.71%) Databricks
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Checkmarx
3 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.86%) Foundry
3 1 (2.86%) OpenAI