Pandas Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Pandas
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Pandas skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 107 113
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 -
Contract jobs citing Pandas 7 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.32% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.59% 0.91% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £294 £470 -
25th Percentile £361 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% - -
75th Percentile £500 - £578
90th Percentile £504 - £624
England median daily rate £600 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -25.00% +28.00% -3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 441 328 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.95% 18.14% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 189 184
10th Percentile £368 £388 £316
25th Percentile £450 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £604 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £740 £688
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 3
10th Percentile £22.34 - £17.20
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +57.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £30.63
90th Percentile - - £38.50
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Pandas job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Pandas
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Pandas

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in the West Midlands

Pandas
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pandas within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Birmingham -4 4 £372 -21.71% 3
Shropshire - 3 £503 - 4
Pandas
England

Pandas
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Functions
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (42.86%) Power Automate
2 3 (42.86%) PowerApps
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SSH
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) Delta Lake
1 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Parquet
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
2 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (28.57%) MLflow
3 2 (28.57%) Poetry
3 2 (28.57%) PyCharm
3 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Power Apps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Cleansing Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) NumPy
2 6 (85.71%) Flask
3 3 (42.86%) FastAPI
3 3 (42.86%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) Apache Avro
4 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
2 3 (42.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Dependency Management
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) DataOps
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 3 (42.86%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Argo
1 2 (28.57%) Istio
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Cloudera
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat