Pandas Contracts

Pandas
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 387 424
Rank change year-on-year +61 +37 +49
Contract jobs citing Pandas 200 217 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.02% 2.42% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 179 207
10th Percentile £463 £463 £425
25th Percentile £550 £513 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £838 £875 £825
90th Percentile £883 £888 £1,000
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

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 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Pandas as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Pandas in the UK

Pandas
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pandas.

Daily rate trend for Pandas in the UK

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in the UK

Pandas
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pandas.

Hourly rate trend for Pandas in the UK

Pandas
Top 14 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +33 178 £700 -6.67% 179
London +4 143 £750 - 136
Work from Home +43 101 £750 -6.25% 86
UK excluding London +71 37 £550 +10.00% 46
East of England +43 19 £650 +42.08% 1
North of England - 8 £450 - 12
North West - 5 £475 - 5
South East +42 3 £538 -18.87% 8
Scotland +10 3 £463 -5.13% 6
Yorkshire - 3 £410 - 6
Wales - 2 £625 -
South West +45 1 £463 +68.18% 12
Midlands +21 1 £475 -13.64% 7
West Midlands +13 1 £475 -13.64% 5

Pandas
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 71 (35.50%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (23.50%) Apache
3 26 (13.00%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.00%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) CPLEX
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 144 (72.00%) AWS
2 68 (34.00%) GCP
3 67 (33.50%) dbt
4 65 (32.50%) Azure
5 36 (18.00%) Snowflake
6 28 (14.00%) Dagster
7 24 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (11.50%) GitHub
9 19 (9.50%) Amazon S3
9 19 (9.50%) Amazon SageMaker
10 18 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (9.00%) Serverless
11 17 (8.50%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (8.50%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (5.00%) AWS CodeCommit
12 10 (5.00%) Cloud9 IDE
12 10 (5.00%) Power Platform
12 10 (5.00%) Textract
13 9 (4.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (34.50%) Amazon Athena
2 64 (32.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 64 (32.00%) Dremio
3 55 (27.50%) Apache Arrow
4 40 (20.00%) Apache Ignite
5 39 (19.50%) Data Lake
6 31 (15.50%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (12.50%) Tableau
8 19 (9.50%) Big Data
8 19 (9.50%) Hadoop
9 13 (6.50%) SQL Server
10 10 (5.00%) Power BI
11 9 (4.50%) Oracle Database
12 8 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (3.50%) NoSQL
14 5 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (2.00%) Relational Database
16 3 (1.50%) BigQuery
16 3 (1.50%) Data Mining
16 3 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (11.50%) Git
2 5 (2.50%) MLflow
3 2 (1.00%) Selenium
4 1 (0.50%) GitLab
4 1 (0.50%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.50%) JIRA
4 1 (0.50%) Postman
4 1 (0.50%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 107 (53.50%) Finance
2 71 (35.50%) Front Office
3 53 (26.50%) Banking
4 41 (20.50%) Investment Banking
5 27 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (12.00%) Social Skills
7 9 (4.50%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.50%) Back Office
9 4 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.00%) Retail
10 3 (1.50%) Law
10 3 (1.50%) Marketing
10 3 (1.50%) Military
11 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.00%) Police
12 1 (0.50%) Advertising
12 1 (0.50%) Legal
12 1 (0.50%) Social Science
12 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (38.00%) Developer
2 71 (35.50%) Python Engineer
3 64 (32.00%) Software Engineer
4 55 (27.50%) AWS Engineer
4 55 (27.50%) AWS Software Engineer
5 52 (26.00%) Python Developer
6 49 (24.50%) Senior
7 46 (23.00%) Python Software Engineer
8 33 (16.50%) AWS Developer
9 31 (15.50%) Data Scientist
10 28 (14.00%) Java Engineer
10 28 (14.00%) Java Software Engineer
11 26 (13.00%) Data Engineer
11 26 (13.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 22 (11.00%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (9.00%) Senior Java Engineer
13 18 (9.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 17 (8.50%) Senior Developer
15 14 (7.00%) Data Science Developer
16 13 (6.50%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (81.50%) NumPy
2 91 (45.50%) SciPy
3 57 (28.50%) scikit-learn
4 48 (24.00%) PySpark
5 42 (21.00%) React
6 40 (20.00%) gRPC
6 40 (20.00%) Protocol Buffers
7 39 (19.50%) TensorFlow
8 38 (19.00%) AngularJS
8 38 (19.00%) PyTorch
9 35 (17.50%) Vue
10 26 (13.00%) Node.js
11 24 (12.00%) Matplotlib
12 19 (9.50%) FastAPI
13 18 (9.00%) Kafka
14 17 (8.50%) Flask
15 16 (8.00%) LangChain
15 16 (8.00%) Seaborn
16 14 (7.00%) OpenTelemetry
16 14 (7.00%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 57 (28.50%) Fixed Income
2 47 (23.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 44 (22.00%) Hedge funds
4 39 (19.50%) Equities
5 31 (15.50%) Algorithms
5 31 (15.50%) Derivative
6 12 (6.00%) Pricing Data
7 5 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.50%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.50%) Multi-touch
10 2 (1.00%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.00%) Genomics
10 2 (1.00%) Omics
10 2 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.00%) Solar Panel
10 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.50%) Linux
2 5 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (47.50%) Software Engineering
2 81 (40.50%) Agile
3 70 (35.00%) Data Science
4 65 (32.50%) Asset Management
5 60 (30.00%) Machine Learning
6 56 (28.00%) Analytics
7 54 (27.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 50 (25.00%) Investment Management
9 42 (21.00%) Visualisation
10 37 (18.50%) Generative AI
11 36 (18.00%) Fintech
12 35 (17.50%) Data Engineering
13 34 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (16.00%) Data Analysis
15 27 (13.50%) CI/CD
15 27 (13.50%) Computer Science
15 27 (13.50%) Data Pipeline
15 27 (13.50%) Statistical Modelling
16 26 (13.00%) LLM
16 26 (13.00%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 195 (97.50%) Python
2 69 (34.50%) JavaScript
3 58 (29.00%) Java
4 56 (28.00%) TypeScript
5 50 (25.00%) SQL
6 25 (12.50%) R
7 17 (8.50%) C#
8 12 (6.00%) C++
9 10 (5.00%) Rust
10 4 (2.00%) Scala
10 4 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.00%) VBA
12 1 (0.50%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (14.50%) Degree
2 20 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 18 (9.00%) Security Cleared
4 16 (8.00%) PhD
5 15 (7.50%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.00%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (3.50%) QA
4 4 (2.00%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 23 (11.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (15.50%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.00%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) Grafana
3 1 (0.50%) Istio
3 1 (0.50%) linkerd
3 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.50%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 12 (6.00%) Databricks
2 11 (5.50%) Oracle
3 7 (3.50%) Google
4 4 (2.00%) Dataiku
4 4 (2.00%) DataRobot
4 4 (2.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.50%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.50%) Refinitiv
5 3 (1.50%) Reuters
5 3 (1.50%) Talend
6 2 (1.00%) Foundry
7 1 (0.50%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.50%) Informatica
7 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.50%) Sage
7 1 (0.50%) SAP
7 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.50%) Splunk