Pandas
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Pandas skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 366 341
Rank change year-on-year -244 -25 +229
Permanent jobs citing Pandas 164 355 765
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.72% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 3.95% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 124 236 630
10th Percentile - £52,500 £72,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £97,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £110,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year -55.91% -8.33% +49.73%
75th Percentile £63,619 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £137,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £53,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -30.23% -23.21% +21.74%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,174 8,984 20,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.30% 18.25% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,613 5,946 15,166
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Pandas job vacancy trend in the UK

Pandas
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Pandas.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Pandas

Pandas
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pandas over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Pandas in the UK

Pandas
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pandas within the UK over the 6 months to 13 July 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
England -212 155 £50,000 -54.55% 161
UK excluding London -71 97 £37,500 -30.23% 109
London -191 58 £76,250 -30.68% 83
North of England -2 41 £37,500 -31.82% 25
Work from Home -200 31 £62,500 -43.18% 27
North West 0 22 £37,500 -42.31% 14
Midlands -25 20 £37,500 +7.14% 11
South East -42 14 £60,000 +14.29% 26
Yorkshire -28 13 £37,500 -11.76% 6
South West -56 11 £37,500 -36.17% 33
West Midlands -19 10 £37,500 +7.14% 3
East Midlands -25 10 £42,500 - 8
Scotland +3 6 £37,500 - 4
North East -46 6 £37,500 - 7
East of England -31 4 - - 12
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 1

Pandas
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 55 (33.54%) Jupyter
2 26 (15.85%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (13.41%) Apache
4 20 (12.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.83%) Appian
Applications
1 55 (33.54%) Chatbot
2 13 (7.93%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.61%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 105 (64.02%) AWS
2 55 (33.54%) Cloud Computing
3 34 (20.73%) Azure
4 17 (10.37%) Amazon S3
5 16 (9.76%) OpenShift
6 12 (7.32%) Power Platform
7 11 (6.71%) GCP
8 7 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.27%) SaaS
9 6 (3.66%) Serverless
10 5 (3.05%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.05%) dbt
10 5 (3.05%) Prefect
11 4 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.83%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.83%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.15%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (8.54%) Tableau
3 13 (7.93%) Apache Hive
3 13 (7.93%) Impala
3 13 (7.93%) Oracle Database
3 13 (7.93%) Parquet
3 13 (7.93%) Spark SQL
4 11 (6.71%) Power BI
5 8 (4.88%) Star Schema
6 7 (4.27%) Pinecone
7 5 (3.05%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.44%) Flink
9 3 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.83%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.83%) MySQL
9 3 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.83%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.22%) Power Query
10 2 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 54 (32.93%) Visual Studio Code
2 34 (20.73%) Git
3 13 (7.93%) IBM UrbanCode
4 4 (2.44%) MLflow
5 3 (1.83%) GitLab
5 3 (1.83%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.61%) JIRA
General
1 96 (58.54%) Finance
2 60 (36.59%) Retail
3 56 (34.15%) Manufacturing
4 33 (20.12%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (14.63%) Social Skills
6 20 (12.20%) Banking
7 15 (9.15%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.44%) Front Office
9 4 (2.44%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.44%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.83%) Law
10 3 (1.83%) Marketing
11 1 (0.61%) Advertising
11 1 (0.61%) Back Office
11 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (31.10%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 51 (31.10%) Programmer
1 51 (31.10%) Trainee
1 51 (31.10%) Trainee Programmer
2 36 (21.95%) Developer
3 27 (16.46%) Python Developer
4 19 (11.59%) Data Scientist
5 17 (10.37%) Data Engineer
5 17 (10.37%) Lead
6 16 (9.76%) Analyst
7 15 (9.15%) Senior
8 13 (7.93%) Business Analyst
9 12 (7.32%) Data Business Analyst
9 12 (7.32%) Transformation Analyst
10 11 (6.71%) Banking Analyst
10 11 (6.71%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 9 (5.49%) Senior Data Scientist
12 7 (4.27%) Lead Data Scientist
12 7 (4.27%) Senior Data Engineer
13 6 (3.66%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (68.29%) NumPy
2 86 (52.44%) scikit-learn
3 60 (36.59%) Hugging Face
4 57 (34.76%) Matplotlib
5 54 (32.93%) Streamlit
6 28 (17.07%) PySpark
7 22 (13.41%) PyTorch
8 14 (8.54%) TensorFlow
9 11 (6.71%) FastAPI
10 10 (6.10%) Flask
10 10 (6.10%) Kafka
10 10 (6.10%) RESTful
11 9 (5.49%) Django
12 8 (4.88%) SciPy
13 7 (4.27%) LangChain
13 7 (4.27%) OpenCV
13 7 (4.27%) REST
14 6 (3.66%) React
14 6 (3.66%) Seaborn
15 5 (3.05%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 77 (46.95%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.49%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.44%) Credit Risk
4 4 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.83%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.83%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.22%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.22%) Derivative
6 2 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.22%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.22%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.61%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.61%) Clustering
7 1 (0.61%) Life Science
7 1 (0.61%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.49%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (58.54%) AI
2 84 (51.22%) Machine Learning
3 68 (41.46%) Visualisation
4 63 (38.41%) LLM
4 63 (38.41%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 61 (37.20%) Prompt Engineering
6 60 (36.59%) Workflow
7 59 (35.98%) OO
8 56 (34.15%) Neural Network
8 56 (34.15%) OOP
9 55 (33.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 55 (33.54%) Conversational UI
10 54 (32.93%) Customer Service
10 54 (32.93%) Data Privacy
10 54 (32.93%) Sentiment Analysis
11 52 (31.71%) Analytics
12 47 (28.66%) Data Pipeline
13 44 (26.83%) CI/CD
14 34 (20.73%) Data Science
15 33 (20.12%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 164 (100.00%) Python
2 63 (38.41%) SQL
3 7 (4.27%) Java
4 6 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.44%) Bash
6 3 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.22%) R
7 2 (1.22%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.22%) VBA
8 1 (0.61%) C
8 1 (0.61%) C#
8 1 (0.61%) C++
8 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (32.93%) AWS Certification
1 54 (32.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 23 (14.02%) Degree
3 6 (3.66%) Azure Certification
3 6 (3.66%) DBS Check
3 6 (3.66%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.05%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.22%) PhD
6 2 (1.22%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.68%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.44%) GDPR
3 3 (1.83%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (14.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.37%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.32%) Terraform
3 2 (1.22%) Argo
4 1 (0.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 59 (35.98%) Microsoft
2 24 (14.63%) Databricks
3 13 (7.93%) Oracle
3 13 (7.93%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.10%) Google
5 6 (3.66%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.83%) Automation Anywhere
6 3 (1.83%) UiPath
7 1 (0.61%) Cognizant