Pandas
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Pandas skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pandas over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 427 480
Rank change year-on-year +48 +53 +61
Contract jobs citing Pandas 218 300 427
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.51% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.44% 2.18% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 204 293
10th Percentile £463 £431 £425
25th Percentile £525 £485 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £875 £825 £675
90th Percentile £888 £1,000 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.32% +23.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £47.65
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £49.75
75th Percentile £66.38 - -
90th Percentile £66.60 - £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - £49.75

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Pandas is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,932 13,763 24,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.23% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,201 10,039 17,650
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Pandas as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Pandas in the UK

Pandas
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pandas.

Daily rate trend for Pandas in the UK

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in the UK

Pandas
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pandas.

Hourly rate trend for Pandas in the UK

Pandas
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pandas within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
England +66 207 £750 +7.14% 99
London +52 188 £800 +14.29% 66
Work from Home +95 106 £800 +14.29% 54
UK excluding London +27 20 £500 - 33
East of England - 9 £458 - 7
Midlands +31 4 £550 +10.00% 7
West Midlands +27 4 £550 +10.00% 5
South East +4 4 £663 +9.28% 7
Scotland +23 2 £488 -1.02% 1
South West +7 1 £275 -44.86% 6

Pandas
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 108 (49.54%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (43.58%) Apache
3 10 (4.59%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.75%) Tornado
5 5 (2.29%) Luigi
6 4 (1.83%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.46%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 128 (58.72%) AWS
2 93 (42.66%) dbt
3 77 (35.32%) GCP
4 68 (31.19%) Snowflake
5 55 (25.23%) Azure
6 16 (7.34%) GitHub
7 13 (5.96%) Serverless
8 12 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.13%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (3.21%) Dagster
11 6 (2.75%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (2.75%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.75%) Vertex AI
12 5 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.29%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.46%) FTP
1 1 (0.46%) HTTP
1 1 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (39.91%) Amazon Athena
2 84 (38.53%) Apache Arrow
2 84 (38.53%) Apache Ignite
2 84 (38.53%) Dremio
3 68 (31.19%) Data Lake
4 20 (9.17%) NoSQL
5 17 (7.80%) Big Data
6 9 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.67%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.75%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.29%) Power BI
10 4 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.83%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.38%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.38%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.38%) Flink
11 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 22 (10.09%) Git
2 7 (3.21%) Mercurial
2 7 (3.21%) MLflow
3 6 (2.75%) GitLab
4 3 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.38%) Poetry
5 2 (0.92%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.92%) JIRA
5 2 (0.92%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.92%) Selenium
5 2 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 124 (56.88%) Finance
2 114 (52.29%) Front Office
3 89 (40.83%) Banking
4 80 (36.70%) Investment Banking
5 20 (9.17%) Social Skills
6 14 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.13%) Marketing
7 9 (4.13%) Multimedia
8 8 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.83%) Retail
10 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.92%) Law
11 2 (0.92%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.92%) Publishing
11 2 (0.92%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (35.78%) Developer
2 68 (31.19%) Software Engineer
3 64 (29.36%) Python Engineer
4 56 (25.69%) Senior
5 55 (25.23%) Python Developer
6 42 (19.27%) Python Software Engineer
7 39 (17.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 35 (16.06%) AWS Engineer
9 32 (14.68%) Lead
10 31 (14.22%) AWS Software Engineer
10 31 (14.22%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (12.84%) Software Developer
12 26 (11.93%) Data Engineer
13 25 (11.47%) Java Engineer
13 25 (11.47%) Java Software Engineer
14 20 (9.17%) Lead Developer
14 20 (9.17%) Lead Software Engineer
14 20 (9.17%) Software Team Leader
14 20 (9.17%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (9.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (76.61%) NumPy
2 122 (55.96%) SciPy
3 94 (43.12%) gRPC
4 90 (41.28%) Protocol Buffers
5 28 (12.84%) React
6 22 (10.09%) scikit-learn
7 18 (8.26%) PySpark
8 16 (7.34%) Flask
9 13 (5.96%) Node.js
9 13 (5.96%) TensorFlow
10 12 (5.50%) AngularJS
11 11 (5.05%) Vue
12 10 (4.59%) Matplotlib
13 9 (4.13%) Django
13 9 (4.13%) Kafka
13 9 (4.13%) pytest
13 9 (4.13%) REST
14 8 (3.67%) Material-UI
15 7 (3.21%) FastAPI
15 7 (3.21%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 97 (44.50%) Derivative
2 89 (40.83%) Fixed Income
3 83 (38.07%) Equities
4 79 (36.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 76 (34.86%) Hedge funds
6 24 (11.01%) Algorithms
7 8 (3.67%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.21%) Multi-touch
9 6 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.75%) Pricing Data
10 5 (2.29%) Social Media
11 4 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.83%) Solar Panel
12 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.67%) Linux
2 7 (3.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (60.55%) Software Engineering
2 109 (50.00%) Agile
3 93 (42.66%) Asset Management
4 75 (34.40%) Investment Management
5 45 (20.64%) Machine Learning
6 44 (20.18%) Data Pipeline
6 44 (20.18%) Data Science
7 43 (19.72%) CI/CD
8 41 (18.81%) Mathematics
9 36 (16.51%) Line Management
10 35 (16.06%) Artificial Intelligence
10 35 (16.06%) DevOps
11 32 (14.68%) Analytics
12 30 (13.76%) Computer Science
13 26 (11.93%) Test Automation
14 25 (11.47%) Greeks
15 23 (10.55%) Visualisation
16 19 (8.72%) Mathematical Modelling
17 18 (8.26%) Data Analysis
18 17 (7.80%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 218 (100.00%) Python
2 104 (47.71%) JavaScript
3 95 (43.58%) TypeScript
4 92 (42.20%) Java
5 66 (30.28%) SQL
6 19 (8.72%) C++
7 17 (7.80%) C#
8 12 (5.50%) Rust
9 9 (4.13%) Scala
10 7 (3.21%) R
10 7 (3.21%) Ruby
11 4 (1.83%) Bicep
12 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.46%) Clojure
13 1 (0.46%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 31 (14.22%) Degree
2 10 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.67%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.29%) PhD
5 2 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.92%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.68%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.46%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.46%) MiFID
3 1 (0.46%) NCSC
3 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (6.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.59%) Terraform
3 6 (2.75%) Kubeflow
4 4 (1.83%) Argo
5 2 (0.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (3.21%) Databricks
2 5 (2.29%) Confluent
2 5 (2.29%) Google
2 5 (2.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg
3 1 (0.46%) Cloudera
3 1 (0.46%) OpenLink
3 1 (0.46%) Palantir
3 1 (0.46%) Reuters
3 1 (0.46%) SAP
3 1 (0.46%) Sun