Pandas Contract Job Trends

Pandas
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Pandas skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 331 298
Rank change year-on-year -216 -33 +126
Contract jobs citing Pandas 141 233 276
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.70% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 2.70% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 178 240
10th Percentile £329 £401 £500
25th Percentile £425 £500 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -21.88% +28.00%
75th Percentile £681 £825 £888
90th Percentile £741 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £361
% change year-on-year -10.00% +38.50% -30.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - -
75th Percentile £63.50 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £67.40 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 12,011 8,622 9,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.73% 25.99% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,888 5,725 5,976
10th Percentile £380 £357 £355
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 188 169
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.18 £25.56
25th Percentile £50.50 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.90 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +13.04%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pandas relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Pandas job vacancy trend in the UK

Pandas
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in the UK

Pandas
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Pandas
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Pandas over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Pandas in the UK

Pandas
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 October 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
England -192 121 £550 -26.67% 196
London -167 91 £600 -20.00% 161
UK excluding London -125 36 £450 -10.00% 44
Work from Home -159 34 £638 -15.00% 80
East of England -28 8 £425 -15.00% 7
Scotland -33 8 £535 +4.14% 7
North of England -69 8 £613 +44.12% 6
North West -45 7 £613 +44.12% 4
South East -69 7 £358 -15.88% 7
Midlands -52 3 £425 +14.29% 10
East Midlands - 3 £425 - 7
South West -33 2 £500 +8.11% 4
Yorkshire -36 1 - -

Pandas
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 20 (14.18%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.09%) Apache
2 10 (7.09%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.96%) Jupyter
4 5 (3.55%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.13%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (4.26%) CPLEX
2 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.71%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 41 (29.08%) AWS
2 29 (20.57%) Azure
3 21 (14.89%) GCP
4 16 (11.35%) Serverless
5 15 (10.64%) Amazon S3
5 15 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (10.64%) GitHub
5 15 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (8.51%) dbt
7 10 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.38%) SaaS
9 8 (5.67%) Amazon SageMaker
10 7 (4.96%) Amazon Neptune
10 7 (4.96%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (4.96%) Snowflake
11 6 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (4.26%) Power Platform
12 5 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.96%) HTTP
2 6 (4.26%) 5G
2 6 (4.26%) DNS
2 6 (4.26%) SSH
2 6 (4.26%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.55%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.60%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (12.77%) NoSQL
3 14 (9.93%) MongoDB
4 11 (7.80%) Relational Database
5 10 (7.09%) Neo4j
6 9 (6.38%) BigQuery
6 9 (6.38%) MySQL
7 8 (5.67%) Big Data
8 7 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (4.96%) Redis
9 6 (4.26%) Power BI
10 5 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.84%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.84%) DuckDB
11 4 (2.84%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.84%) Metadata
11 4 (2.84%) Power Query
11 4 (2.84%) PowerPivot
11 4 (2.84%) Tableau
12 3 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 49 (34.75%) Git
2 12 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.09%) MLflow
4 8 (5.67%) Selenium
5 7 (4.96%) GitLab
6 5 (3.55%) Postman
7 4 (2.84%) JIRA
7 4 (2.84%) Newman
8 2 (1.42%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.71%) git-flow
9 1 (0.71%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (39.01%) Finance
2 34 (24.11%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (19.86%) Social Skills
4 17 (12.06%) Banking
5 14 (9.93%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.96%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.55%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.84%) Billing
8 4 (2.84%) Front Office
8 4 (2.84%) Publishing
9 3 (2.13%) Legal
10 2 (1.42%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.71%) Advertising
11 1 (0.71%) Automotive
11 1 (0.71%) Marketing
11 1 (0.71%) Military
11 1 (0.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.71%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 51 (36.17%) Developer
2 47 (33.33%) Python Developer
3 26 (18.44%) Data Scientist
4 25 (17.73%) Data Engineer
5 24 (17.02%) Senior
6 16 (11.35%) Python Engineer
7 9 (6.38%) Analyst
7 9 (6.38%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.38%) Senior Python Developer
8 8 (5.67%) Senior Data Scientist
9 7 (4.96%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.26%) Python Data Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (2.84%) Algorithm Engineer
11 4 (2.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (2.84%) Consultant
11 4 (2.84%) Kafka Developer
11 4 (2.84%) Lead
11 4 (2.84%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (56.74%) NumPy
2 44 (31.21%) FastAPI
3 37 (26.24%) scikit-learn
4 35 (24.82%) PySpark
5 34 (24.11%) Flask
6 28 (19.86%) REST
7 23 (16.31%) pytest
8 22 (15.60%) PyTorch
9 19 (13.48%) Kafka
9 19 (13.48%) Polars
10 18 (12.77%) RESTful
11 17 (12.06%) Django
12 15 (10.64%) TensorFlow
13 11 (7.80%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (7.80%) SciPy
13 11 (7.80%) Terraform
14 10 (7.09%) Jinja
15 8 (5.67%) Hugging Face
15 8 (5.67%) Matplotlib
15 8 (5.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.77%) Algorithms
2 17 (12.06%) Data Structures
3 12 (8.51%) Derivative
3 12 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.38%) Market Risk
5 8 (5.67%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.67%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (5.67%) Hedge funds
6 7 (4.96%) Fixed Income
7 6 (4.26%) Public Cloud
8 5 (3.55%) Equities
9 4 (2.84%) IoT
9 4 (2.84%) Life Science
9 4 (2.84%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.84%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.13%) Credit Risk
10 3 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.89%) Linux
2 13 (9.22%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) Android
3 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (45.39%) Analytics
2 54 (38.30%) Data Pipeline
3 53 (37.59%) CI/CD
4 51 (36.17%) Machine Learning
5 49 (34.75%) Data Science
6 46 (32.62%) AI
7 35 (24.82%) Validation
8 29 (20.57%) Agile
8 29 (20.57%) ETL
9 26 (18.44%) Data Analysis
9 26 (18.44%) Data Modelling
10 25 (17.73%) Containerisation
11 24 (17.02%) Data Engineering
11 24 (17.02%) Visualisation
12 23 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (15.60%) Decision-Making
13 22 (15.60%) DevOps
13 22 (15.60%) LLM
14 21 (14.89%) Performance Optimisation
15 19 (13.48%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 141 (100.00%) Python
2 95 (67.38%) SQL
3 18 (12.77%) Shell Script
4 8 (5.67%) Bash
5 7 (4.96%) Cypher
5 7 (4.96%) Gremlin
6 6 (4.26%) C#
7 5 (3.55%) Java
8 4 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (2.84%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.13%) R
10 2 (1.42%) C++
10 2 (1.42%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.71%) Bicep
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) Haskell
11 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.71%) Scala
11 1 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (9.22%) Degree
2 11 (7.80%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.55%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.84%) PhD
7 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.02%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.64%) QA
3 3 (2.13%) EMIR
3 3 (2.13%) MiFID
4 2 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (25.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (17.02%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.96%) Grafana
3 6 (4.26%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.84%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.84%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (14.18%) Databricks
2 7 (4.96%) Google
3 5 (3.55%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.84%) Oracle
5 3 (2.13%) Foundry
5 3 (2.13%) Palantir
6 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.71%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.71%) SAP
6 1 (0.71%) SimCorp