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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 368 409
Rank change year-on-year +37 +41 +77
Contract jobs citing Pandas 203 224 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.52% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.07% 2.51% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 185 206
10th Percentile £463 £463 £425
25th Percentile £550 £550 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £838 £888 £825
90th Percentile £888 - £1,000
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
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 6,605 8,912 13,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.69% 20.66% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,522 6,184 9,928
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 241 153
10th Percentile £29.45 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £51.06 £40.31 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.79 £75.00 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +29.29%

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 8 May 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 8 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
England +43 181 £725 -9.38% 251
London +17 148 £750 -6.25% 189
Work from Home +34 104 £750 -6.25% 105
UK excluding London +69 35 £550 +10.00% 111
East of England +43 19 £650 +42.08% 9
North of England - 6 £425 - 13
South East +41 3 £538 -18.87% 54
Scotland +18 3 £463 -5.13% 7
Yorkshire - 3 £410 - 7
North West - 3 £425 - 5
Wales - 2 £625 -
South West +39 1 £463 +68.18% 22
Midlands +16 1 £475 -13.64% 8
West Midlands +10 1 £475 -13.64% 7

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 73 (35.96%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (23.15%) Apache
3 27 (13.30%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.96%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) CPLEX
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 146 (71.92%) AWS
2 69 (33.99%) dbt
2 69 (33.99%) GCP
3 66 (32.51%) Azure
4 38 (18.72%) Snowflake
5 27 (13.30%) Dagster
6 24 (11.82%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (11.33%) GitHub
8 19 (9.36%) Amazon S3
9 18 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (8.87%) Serverless
10 17 (8.37%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (8.37%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (8.37%) Amazon SageMaker
10 17 (8.37%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (5.42%) Power Platform
12 10 (4.93%) AWS CodeCommit
12 10 (4.93%) Cloud9 IDE
12 10 (4.93%) Textract
13 9 (4.43%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.46%) DNS
2 1 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (34.98%) Amazon Athena
2 66 (32.51%) Apache Iceberg
2 66 (32.51%) Dremio
3 58 (28.57%) Apache Arrow
4 40 (19.70%) Apache Ignite
4 40 (19.70%) Data Lake
5 34 (16.75%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (13.30%) Tableau
7 19 (9.36%) Big Data
7 19 (9.36%) Hadoop
8 13 (6.40%) SQL Server
9 11 (5.42%) Power BI
10 9 (4.43%) Oracle Database
11 8 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.46%) NoSQL
13 4 (1.97%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.97%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.48%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (11.82%) Git
2 5 (2.46%) MLflow
3 2 (0.99%) Selenium
4 1 (0.49%) GitLab
4 1 (0.49%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.49%) JIRA
4 1 (0.49%) Postman
4 1 (0.49%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 108 (53.20%) Finance
2 71 (34.98%) Front Office
3 55 (27.09%) Banking
4 45 (22.17%) Investment Banking
5 27 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (11.33%) Social Skills
7 10 (4.93%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.46%) Back Office
8 5 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.97%) Marketing
9 4 (1.97%) Retail
10 3 (1.48%) Law
10 3 (1.48%) Military
10 3 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.48%) Police
11 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.49%) Advertising
12 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.49%) Legal
12 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (38.92%) Developer
2 70 (34.48%) Python Engineer
3 66 (32.51%) Software Engineer
4 58 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
4 58 (28.57%) AWS Software Engineer
5 53 (26.11%) Python Developer
6 49 (24.14%) Senior
7 46 (22.66%) Python Software Engineer
8 35 (17.24%) AWS Developer
9 32 (15.76%) Data Scientist
9 32 (15.76%) Java Engineer
9 32 (15.76%) Java Software Engineer
10 27 (13.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 25 (12.32%) Data Engineer
12 23 (11.33%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (9.85%) Senior Java Engineer
13 20 (9.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 16 (7.88%) Senior Developer
15 14 (6.90%) Data Science Developer
16 12 (5.91%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (81.77%) NumPy
2 93 (45.81%) SciPy
3 56 (27.59%) scikit-learn
4 47 (23.15%) PySpark
5 44 (21.67%) React
6 40 (19.70%) AngularJS
6 40 (19.70%) gRPC
6 40 (19.70%) Protocol Buffers
7 38 (18.72%) TensorFlow
8 37 (18.23%) Vue
9 36 (17.73%) PyTorch
10 27 (13.30%) Node.js
11 25 (12.32%) Matplotlib
12 20 (9.85%) FastAPI
13 18 (8.87%) Kafka
14 17 (8.37%) Flask
15 16 (7.88%) Seaborn
16 14 (6.90%) OpenTelemetry
16 14 (6.90%) Polars
16 14 (6.90%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 60 (29.56%) Fixed Income
2 53 (26.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 47 (23.15%) Hedge funds
4 44 (21.67%) Equities
5 34 (16.75%) Derivative
6 30 (14.78%) Algorithms
7 14 (6.90%) Pricing Data
8 5 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.48%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.48%) Multi-touch
11 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.99%) Genomics
11 2 (0.99%) Omics
11 2 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.99%) Solar Panel
11 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.91%) Linux
2 5 (2.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (47.29%) Software Engineering
2 83 (40.89%) Agile
3 71 (34.98%) Data Science
4 67 (33.00%) Asset Management
5 61 (30.05%) Machine Learning
6 55 (27.09%) Analytics
7 52 (25.62%) Investment Management
8 51 (25.12%) Artificial Intelligence
9 44 (21.67%) Visualisation
10 36 (17.73%) Fintech
11 35 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (16.75%) Data Engineering
13 33 (16.26%) Generative AI
14 31 (15.27%) Data Analysis
15 29 (14.29%) Statistical Modelling
16 28 (13.79%) CI/CD
17 27 (13.30%) Computer Science
17 27 (13.30%) Data Munging
17 27 (13.30%) Data Pipeline
17 27 (13.30%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 196 (96.55%) Python
2 73 (35.96%) JavaScript
3 61 (30.05%) Java
4 59 (29.06%) TypeScript
5 50 (24.63%) SQL
6 27 (13.30%) R
7 18 (8.87%) C#
8 13 (6.40%) C++
9 12 (5.91%) Rust
10 4 (1.97%) Scala
10 4 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.99%) VBA
12 1 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (14.78%) Degree
2 20 (9.85%) Master's Degree
3 19 (9.36%) Security Cleared
4 17 (8.37%) PhD
5 15 (7.39%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.96%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.81%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (3.45%) QA
4 4 (1.97%) GDPR
5 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (11.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.99%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (15.76%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.87%) Terraform
3 1 (0.49%) Grafana
3 1 (0.49%) Istio
3 1 (0.49%) linkerd
3 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.49%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 12 (5.91%) Databricks
2 11 (5.42%) Oracle
3 7 (3.45%) Google
4 4 (1.97%) Dataiku
4 4 (1.97%) DataRobot
5 3 (1.48%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.48%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.48%) Refinitiv
5 3 (1.48%) Reuters
5 3 (1.48%) Talend
6 2 (0.99%) Foundry
7 1 (0.49%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.49%) Informatica
7 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.49%) Sage
7 1 (0.49%) SAP
7 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.49%) Splunk