Hybrid/Remote Pandas Contract Job Trends

Pandas
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 211 173 290
Rank change year-on-year -38 +117 +181
Contract jobs citing Pandas 107 149 102
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.05% 1.23% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.01% 4.99% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 138 84
10th Percentile £490 £550 £443
25th Percentile £525 £675 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £725
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -31.25% +28.00% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +107.55% -59.54% +19.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,671 2,983 4,341
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.23% 24.59% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 1,962 3,140
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 28 48
10th Percentile £31.00 £21.78 £40.22
25th Percentile £40.56 £32.88 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -7.55% +1.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - £89.38 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pandas and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Pandas job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Pandas
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Pandas.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Pandas

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Pandas over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Pandas daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Pandas
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Pandas.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Pandas

Pandas
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 53 (49.53%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (32.71%) Apache
3 16 (14.95%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.87%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 74 (69.16%) AWS
2 48 (44.86%) dbt
3 33 (30.84%) Snowflake
4 31 (28.97%) GCP
5 28 (26.17%) Azure
6 12 (11.21%) Serverless
7 10 (9.35%) Amazon S3
7 10 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (7.48%) Amazon SageMaker
8 8 (7.48%) Power Platform
9 6 (5.61%) GitHub
10 5 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.74%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.80%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.80%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.87%) DNS
1 2 (1.87%) HTTP
1 2 (1.87%) Internet
1 2 (1.87%) SSH
1 2 (1.87%) SSL
1 2 (1.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (42.06%) Amazon Athena
2 43 (40.19%) Apache Arrow
2 43 (40.19%) Apache Iceberg
2 43 (40.19%) Dremio
3 30 (28.04%) Data Lake
4 28 (26.17%) Apache Ignite
5 23 (21.50%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (9.35%) Big Data
7 9 (8.41%) Tableau
8 8 (7.48%) Relational Database
9 7 (6.54%) Power BI
10 6 (5.61%) Hadoop
10 6 (5.61%) NoSQL
11 5 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (3.74%) BigQuery
13 3 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (2.80%) MySQL
13 3 (2.80%) Parquet
13 3 (2.80%) RDBMS
14 2 (1.87%) KDB
Development Applications
1 17 (15.89%) Git
2 5 (4.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.67%) MLflow
2 5 (4.67%) PyCharm
3 3 (2.80%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.87%) JIRA
4 2 (1.87%) Poetry
4 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.93%) GitLab
5 1 (0.93%) Postman
5 1 (0.93%) Pylint
5 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (51.40%) Finance
2 44 (41.12%) Front Office
3 35 (32.71%) Banking
4 29 (27.10%) Investment Banking
5 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
6 8 (7.48%) Public Sector
7 7 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (5.61%) Marketing
9 3 (2.80%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Billing
10 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Electronics
10 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (46.73%) Python Engineer
2 43 (40.19%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (40.19%) AWS Software Engineer
2 43 (40.19%) Software Engineer
3 41 (38.32%) Python Software Engineer
4 32 (29.91%) Senior
5 30 (28.04%) Java Engineer
5 30 (28.04%) Java Software Engineer
6 27 (25.23%) Developer
6 27 (25.23%) Senior Java Engineer
6 27 (25.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 27 (25.23%) Senior Software Engineer
7 18 (16.82%) Python Developer
8 17 (15.89%) Data Scientist
9 15 (14.02%) AWS Developer
9 15 (14.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 9 (8.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 9 (8.41%) Data Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (81.31%) NumPy
2 49 (45.79%) SciPy
3 28 (26.17%) gRPC
3 28 (26.17%) Protocol Buffers
4 24 (22.43%) scikit-learn
5 19 (17.76%) PyTorch
6 16 (14.95%) AngularJS
6 16 (14.95%) React
7 15 (14.02%) Node.js
7 15 (14.02%) Vue
8 13 (12.15%) TensorFlow
9 10 (9.35%) FastAPI
10 9 (8.41%) Flask
10 9 (8.41%) Hugging Face
11 8 (7.48%) REST
12 7 (6.54%) Matplotlib
12 7 (6.54%) OpenCV
12 7 (6.54%) SQLAlchemy
13 6 (5.61%) Plotly
13 6 (5.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 45 (42.06%) Equities
2 43 (40.19%) Fixed Income
2 43 (40.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 30 (28.04%) Hedge funds
4 28 (26.17%) Derivative
4 28 (26.17%) Pricing Data
5 19 (17.76%) Algorithms
6 5 (4.67%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.67%) Multi-touch
7 3 (2.80%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.87%) Clustering
8 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.87%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) IoT
9 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (61.68%) Agile
2 54 (50.47%) Software Engineering
3 48 (44.86%) Asset Management
4 44 (41.12%) Investment Management
5 43 (40.19%) Machine Learning
6 33 (30.84%) AI
7 31 (28.97%) Data Science
8 20 (18.69%) LLM
9 18 (16.82%) Visualisation
10 17 (15.89%) Analytics
11 16 (14.95%) Fintech
12 15 (14.02%) Order Management
12 15 (14.02%) Performance Attribution
12 15 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (14.02%) Risk Management
13 14 (13.08%) CI/CD
13 14 (13.08%) Computer Science
13 14 (13.08%) Data Analysis
14 13 (12.15%) Data Engineering
14 13 (12.15%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 105 (98.13%) Python
2 47 (43.93%) JavaScript
3 44 (41.12%) TypeScript
4 36 (33.64%) SQL
5 32 (29.91%) Java
6 9 (8.41%) R
7 3 (2.80%) Bash
8 2 (1.87%) Groovy
9 1 (0.93%) C#
9 1 (0.93%) C++
9 1 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (13.08%) Degree
2 7 (6.54%) PhD
3 6 (5.61%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.80%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.80%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.21%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.87%) QA
4 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (9.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.80%) Grafana
2 3 (2.80%) Kubeflow
2 3 (2.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.87%) Argo
3 2 (1.87%) Istio
Vendors
1 10 (9.35%) Google
2 5 (4.67%) Cloudera
2 5 (4.67%) Databricks
3 3 (2.80%) Bloomberg
3 3 (2.80%) Sage
3 3 (2.80%) SAP
4 2 (1.87%) Cognos
4 2 (1.87%) Dataiku
4 2 (1.87%) IBM
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.93%) Foundry
5 1 (0.93%) Progress