Pandas
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Pandas skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pandas over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 427 478
Rank change year-on-year +36 +51 +48
Contract jobs citing Pandas 213 311 427
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.52% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.40% 2.23% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 212 295
10th Percentile £463 £427 £425
25th Percentile £513 £485 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £875 £825 £675
90th Percentile £888 £1,023 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.32% +23.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £47.65
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £49.75
75th Percentile £66.38 - -
90th Percentile £66.60 - £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - £49.75

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Pandas is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

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 27 April 2024.

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 10 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 27 April 2024. 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 +59 202 £750 +7.14% 94
London +49 183 £750 +7.14% 69
Work from Home +88 103 £800 +14.29% 50
UK excluding London +34 20 £500 - 26
East of England - 9 £458 - 6
West Midlands +32 4 £550 +10.00% 2
Midlands +25 4 £550 +10.00% 3
South East +12 4 £663 -17.83% 7
Scotland +17 2 £488 -1.52% 1
South West +10 1 £275 -44.86% 3

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
1 104 (48.83%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (42.72%) Apache
3 11 (5.16%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.82%) Tornado
5 5 (2.35%) Luigi
6 3 (1.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.47%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 123 (57.75%) AWS
2 87 (40.85%) dbt
3 75 (35.21%) GCP
4 59 (27.70%) Snowflake
5 54 (25.35%) Azure
6 16 (7.51%) GitHub
7 13 (6.10%) Serverless
8 12 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (4.69%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (3.29%) Dagster
11 6 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (2.82%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.82%) Vertex AI
12 5 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.35%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) FTP
1 1 (0.47%) HTTP
1 1 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (38.03%) Amazon Athena
2 78 (36.62%) Apache Arrow
2 78 (36.62%) Apache Ignite
2 78 (36.62%) Dremio
3 59 (27.70%) Data Lake
4 21 (9.86%) NoSQL
5 18 (8.45%) Big Data
6 10 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.23%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.82%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.35%) Power BI
10 4 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.88%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.88%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.41%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.41%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.41%) Flink
12 2 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (10.80%) Git
2 8 (3.76%) MLflow
3 7 (3.29%) Mercurial
4 5 (2.35%) GitLab
5 3 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.41%) Poetry
6 2 (0.94%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.94%) JIRA
6 2 (0.94%) webpack
7 1 (0.47%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 118 (55.40%) Finance
2 109 (51.17%) Front Office
3 82 (38.50%) Banking
4 74 (34.74%) Investment Banking
5 21 (9.86%) Social Skills
6 14 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.23%) Marketing
7 9 (4.23%) Multimedia
7 9 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.41%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.41%) Retail
9 2 (0.94%) Law
9 2 (0.94%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.94%) Publishing
9 2 (0.94%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Electronics
10 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (37.56%) Developer
2 66 (30.99%) Software Engineer
3 62 (29.11%) Python Engineer
4 56 (26.29%) Python Developer
5 53 (24.88%) Senior
6 41 (19.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 40 (18.78%) Python Software Engineer
8 34 (15.96%) AWS Engineer
9 30 (14.08%) AWS Software Engineer
10 29 (13.62%) Lead
11 28 (13.15%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (12.68%) Data Engineer
12 27 (12.68%) Software Developer
13 22 (10.33%) Java Engineer
13 22 (10.33%) Java Software Engineer
14 19 (8.92%) Data Scientist
14 19 (8.92%) Senior Developer
15 18 (8.45%) Architect
15 18 (8.45%) Lead Developer
15 18 (8.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (76.53%) NumPy
2 116 (54.46%) SciPy
3 89 (41.78%) gRPC
4 85 (39.91%) Protocol Buffers
5 29 (13.62%) React
6 22 (10.33%) scikit-learn
7 19 (8.92%) PySpark
8 15 (7.04%) Flask
9 13 (6.10%) AngularJS
9 13 (6.10%) Node.js
9 13 (6.10%) TensorFlow
10 12 (5.63%) Vue
11 10 (4.69%) Kafka
11 10 (4.69%) Matplotlib
11 10 (4.69%) REST
12 9 (4.23%) Material-UI
13 8 (3.76%) pytest
14 7 (3.29%) Django
14 7 (3.29%) FastAPI
14 7 (3.29%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 89 (41.78%) Derivative
2 81 (38.03%) Fixed Income
3 76 (35.68%) Equities
4 71 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 67 (31.46%) Hedge funds
6 25 (11.74%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.29%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.29%) Multi-touch
8 6 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.35%) Social Media
10 4 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.88%) Pricing Data
10 4 (1.88%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.88%) Solar Panel
11 3 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.47%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.76%) Linux
2 7 (3.29%) Windows
3 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (59.62%) Software Engineering
2 103 (48.36%) Agile
3 88 (41.31%) Asset Management
4 70 (32.86%) Investment Management
5 46 (21.60%) Data Pipeline
5 46 (21.60%) Machine Learning
6 44 (20.66%) Data Science
7 43 (20.19%) Mathematics
8 42 (19.72%) CI/CD
9 35 (16.43%) Analytics
10 34 (15.96%) Artificial Intelligence
11 33 (15.49%) DevOps
12 32 (15.02%) Line Management
13 29 (13.62%) Computer Science
14 25 (11.74%) Test Automation
15 24 (11.27%) Visualisation
16 22 (10.33%) Greeks
17 19 (8.92%) Mathematical Modelling
18 17 (7.98%) Data Analysis
19 16 (7.51%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 213 (100.00%) Python
2 99 (46.48%) JavaScript
3 91 (42.72%) TypeScript
4 87 (40.85%) Java
5 69 (32.39%) SQL
6 19 (8.92%) C++
7 17 (7.98%) C#
8 12 (5.63%) Rust
9 10 (4.69%) Scala
10 8 (3.76%) Ruby
11 7 (3.29%) R
12 4 (1.88%) Bicep
13 3 (1.41%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.47%) Clojure
14 1 (0.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 32 (15.02%) Degree
2 10 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.76%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.35%) PhD
5 3 (1.41%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.94%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.62%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.47%) MiFID
3 1 (0.47%) NCSC
3 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (7.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (8.92%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.69%) Terraform
3 6 (2.82%) Kubeflow
4 4 (1.88%) Argo
5 2 (0.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (3.29%) Databricks
2 5 (2.35%) Confluent
2 5 (2.35%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.41%) Google
4 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.47%) Cloudera
4 1 (0.47%) OpenLink
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle
4 1 (0.47%) Palantir
4 1 (0.47%) Reuters
4 1 (0.47%) SAP
4 1 (0.47%) Sun