Pandas Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Pandas
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 240 335
Rank change year-on-year +43 +95 +104
Contract jobs citing Pandas 103 106 138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.04% 0.70% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.99% 2.91% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 95 103
10th Percentile £500 £570 £425
25th Percentile £623 £700 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £880
90th Percentile £888 - £1,025
UK median daily rate £675 £750 £675
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%

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 2,580 3,644 6,476
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.06% 23.92% 25.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,880 2,550 4,822
10th Percentile £368 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.37%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £660
90th Percentile £825 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £43.60
Median hourly rate £66.50 £43.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.65% -31.20% +27.55%
75th Percentile £69.13 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.63 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.84 £65.00
% change year-on-year +38.77% -27.94% +32.65%

Pandas
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Pandas as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Pandas trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Pandas
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Pandas.

Pandas daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Pandas over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Pandas daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Pandas
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Pandas.

Pandas hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pandas
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 68 (66.02%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (41.75%) Apache
3 4 (3.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.97%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 88 (85.44%) AWS
2 68 (66.02%) dbt
3 58 (56.31%) GCP
4 31 (30.10%) Snowflake
5 26 (25.24%) Dagster
6 23 (22.33%) Azure
7 21 (20.39%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (16.50%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (16.50%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (7.77%) Serverless
10 7 (6.80%) Amazon S3
10 7 (6.80%) GitHub
11 6 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (4.85%) Azure AKS
12 5 (4.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (4.85%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (4.85%) Entra ID
13 4 (3.88%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (2.91%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (68.93%) Amazon Athena
2 67 (65.05%) Apache Iceberg
2 67 (65.05%) Dremio
3 58 (56.31%) Apache Arrow
4 41 (39.81%) Apache Ignite
4 41 (39.81%) Data Lake
5 21 (20.39%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.83%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.91%) Big Data
9 3 (2.91%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.91%) Power BI
9 3 (2.91%) Tableau
10 2 (1.94%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.94%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.97%) GIS
11 1 (0.97%) Looker
11 1 (0.97%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Git
2 1 (0.97%) GitLab
2 1 (0.97%) MLflow
2 1 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 77 (74.76%) Finance
2 70 (67.96%) Front Office
3 43 (41.75%) Banking
4 32 (31.07%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.85%) Social Skills
6 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.97%) Advertising
8 1 (0.97%) Legal
8 1 (0.97%) Marketing
8 1 (0.97%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 63 (61.17%) Software Engineer
2 59 (57.28%) Python Engineer
3 58 (56.31%) AWS Engineer
3 58 (56.31%) AWS Software Engineer
4 46 (44.66%) Python Software Engineer
5 34 (33.01%) Developer
6 31 (30.10%) Java Engineer
6 31 (30.10%) Java Software Engineer
7 28 (27.18%) Senior
8 27 (26.21%) AWS Developer
8 27 (26.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 27 (26.21%) Python Developer
9 23 (22.33%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (19.42%) Senior Java Engineer
10 20 (19.42%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 16 (15.53%) Data Engineer
12 10 (9.71%) Python Data Engineer
13 8 (7.77%) Data Scientist
14 6 (5.83%) Java Developer
14 6 (5.83%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (87.38%) NumPy
2 70 (67.96%) SciPy
3 41 (39.81%) gRPC
3 41 (39.81%) Protocol Buffers
4 33 (32.04%) PySpark
5 28 (27.18%) AngularJS
5 28 (27.18%) React
6 27 (26.21%) Node.js
6 27 (26.21%) Vue
7 11 (10.68%) scikit-learn
8 10 (9.71%) Redux
9 6 (5.83%) Kafka
9 6 (5.83%) OAuth
9 6 (5.83%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (5.83%) TensorFlow
10 5 (4.85%) FastAPI
10 5 (4.85%) Matplotlib
10 5 (4.85%) OAuth2
10 5 (4.85%) OpenID
10 5 (4.85%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 58 (56.31%) Fixed Income
2 43 (41.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 42 (40.78%) Equities
4 33 (32.04%) Hedge funds
5 31 (30.10%) Derivative
6 14 (13.59%) Pricing Data
7 2 (1.94%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.97%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.97%) Multi-touch
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (73.79%) Software Engineering
2 75 (72.82%) Agile
3 67 (65.05%) Asset Management
4 50 (48.54%) Investment Management
5 36 (34.95%) Fintech
6 27 (26.21%) Performance Attribution
7 21 (20.39%) Analytics
8 18 (17.48%) Data Science
9 17 (16.50%) Migration
9 17 (16.50%) Order Management
9 17 (16.50%) Risk Management
10 15 (14.56%) Data Engineering
11 14 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (9.71%) Credit Risk Analysis
13 9 (8.74%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (8.74%) Visualisation
14 8 (7.77%) Artificial Intelligence
14 8 (7.77%) CI/CD
15 7 (6.80%) Machine Learning
16 6 (5.83%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 97 (94.17%) Python
2 58 (56.31%) JavaScript
2 58 (56.31%) TypeScript
3 48 (46.60%) Java
4 11 (10.68%) SQL
5 5 (4.85%) C#
6 3 (2.91%) R
7 1 (0.97%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.97%) C++
7 1 (0.97%) Scala
7 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (6.80%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.83%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.85%) Degree
4 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.94%) PhD
5 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.94%) QA
3 1 (0.97%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (3.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (6.80%) Databricks
2 3 (2.91%) Oracle
3 2 (1.94%) Google
4 1 (0.97%) Microsoft