Pandas Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Pandas
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Pandas skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 350 393
Rank change year-on-year +17 +43 +86
Contract jobs citing Pandas 52 19 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 0.62% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 15 27
10th Percentile £317 £310 £395
25th Percentile £413 £317 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -20.00% -10.11%
75th Percentile £538 £463 £650
90th Percentile £575 £500 £750
UK median daily rate £650 £800 £613
% change year-on-year -18.75% +30.61% +2.08%

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 2,996 3,048 3,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.19% 17.21% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,972 1,849 2,761
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £649 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 162 137
10th Percentile £32.79 £27.00 £45.88
25th Percentile £45.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £65.81 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.63 £74.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.70 £61.60 £58.59
% change year-on-year -11.20% +5.14% -7.18%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pandas.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pandas

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 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in the UK excluding London

Pandas
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pandas.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pandas

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 27 September 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
Scotland +16 18 £514 +28.44% 9
South East +35 13 £430 +7.50% 77
East of England +6 11 £550 +73.78% 2
West Midlands -8 4 £372 -25.63% 3
North of England -18 4 £425 -7.61% 6
Midlands -25 4 £372 -3.66% 3
North West 0 3 £425 -18.27% 1
South West +20 1 £463 +68.18% 4
Yorkshire -9 1 £425 +6.25% 5
Wales - 1 £675 -
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 13 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 8 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (7.69%) Apache
4 1 (1.92%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 29 (55.77%) AWS
2 19 (36.54%) Azure
3 17 (32.69%) Amazon S3
4 16 (30.77%) Serverless
5 14 (26.92%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (13.46%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (13.46%) GCP
8 6 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (11.54%) GitHub
9 5 (9.62%) Amazon Bedrock
9 5 (9.62%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (9.62%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (9.62%) ChatGPT
10 4 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
11 3 (5.77%) Snowflake
12 2 (3.85%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) HTTP
1 3 (5.77%) SSH
1 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.85%) DNS
2 2 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (30.77%) Big Data
2 11 (21.15%) Hadoop
2 11 (21.15%) Tableau
3 7 (13.46%) NoSQL
3 7 (13.46%) Relational Database
4 5 (9.62%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (7.69%) Delta Lake
5 4 (7.69%) RDBMS
6 3 (5.77%) Parquet
6 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.77%) Power BI
7 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.92%) GIS
8 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.92%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.92%) Spatial Data
8 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Git
1 6 (11.54%) MLflow
2 5 (9.62%) JIRA
3 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.77%) Poetry
4 3 (5.77%) PyCharm
4 3 (5.77%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.92%) GitLab
General
1 8 (15.38%) Finance
2 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Data Scientist
2 11 (21.15%) Data Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Python Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) Developer
4 7 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 7 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Data Science Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Python Data Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior
7 2 (3.85%) Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Data Scientist
8 1 (1.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Open Source Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Python Developer
8 1 (1.92%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (82.69%) NumPy
2 29 (55.77%) PyTorch
3 24 (46.15%) scikit-learn
4 15 (28.85%) Hugging Face
5 14 (26.92%) TensorFlow
6 11 (21.15%) Matplotlib
6 11 (21.15%) SQLAlchemy
7 10 (19.23%) OpenCV
8 9 (17.31%) AWS CDK
8 9 (17.31%) FastAPI
8 9 (17.31%) Seaborn
9 8 (15.38%) boto
10 7 (13.46%) PySpark
11 5 (9.62%) Flask
11 5 (9.62%) JWT
11 5 (9.62%) OAuth
12 4 (7.69%) REST
13 3 (5.77%) Apache Avro
13 3 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
13 3 (5.77%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 21 (40.38%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.54%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.92%) CUDA
4 1 (1.92%) Genomics
4 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (71.15%) Machine Learning
2 30 (57.69%) LLM
3 26 (50.00%) Data Science
4 24 (46.15%) Agile
4 24 (46.15%) Artificial Intelligence
5 16 (30.77%) Analytics
6 15 (28.85%) Data Engineering
6 15 (28.85%) Time Series Forecasting
7 14 (26.92%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (26.92%) OCR
7 14 (26.92%) Visualisation
8 13 (25.00%) Data Analysis
8 13 (25.00%) Decision-Making
8 13 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 12 (23.08%) DevOps
10 11 (21.15%) CI/CD
10 11 (21.15%) ETL
11 10 (19.23%) Actionable Insight
11 10 (19.23%) OOP
11 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 52 (100.00%) Python
2 21 (40.38%) SQL
3 9 (17.31%) R
4 4 (7.69%) Bash
4 4 (7.69%) Groovy
4 4 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Degree
2 5 (9.62%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.69%) PhD
4 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.92%) MCP
6 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.31%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.69%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.85%) QA
4 1 (1.92%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.54%) Grafana
3 3 (5.77%) Argo
3 3 (5.77%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Cloudera
2 3 (5.77%) Databricks
2 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.77%) Sage
3 2 (3.85%) Foundry
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.92%) Google