Pandas Job Trends in the South East

Pandas
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Pandas skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 278 325
Rank change year-on-year +5 +47 +62
Permanent jobs citing Pandas 3 13 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.027% 0.15% 0.025%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.30% 0.69% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 3
10th Percentile £51,000 £47,813 £85,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £77,500 £117,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% -34.04% +23.68%
75th Percentile £57,500 £78,750 £133,750
90th Percentile £59,000 - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £92,778
% change year-on-year -28.57% +13.17% +12.46%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Pandas falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,005 1,880 2,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.16% 21.90% 20.03%
Number of salaries quoted 814 1,071 1,992
10th Percentile £34,225 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,085 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Pandas relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Pandas job vacancy trend in the South East

Pandas
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Pandas.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Pandas

Pandas
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pandas within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +8 2 £57,500 -25.81% 6
Berkshire - 1 £60,000 - 5
Buckinghamshire - 1 £55,000 - 1
Surrey - 1 £50,000 - 3
Pandas
England

Pandas
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) NumPy
2 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
2 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
3 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
3 1 (33.33%) LangChain
3 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Vision
2 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (33.33%) Signal Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree