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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 406 483
Rank change year-on-year +39 +77 +27
Contract jobs citing Pandas 225 295 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.53% 2.23% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 202 288
10th Percentile £484 £425 £425
25th Percentile £613 £484 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £888 £825 £675
90th Percentile - £1,000 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £528
% change year-on-year - -5.21% +21.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £48.00
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £49.75
75th Percentile £66.25 - £56.26
90th Percentile - - £61.59
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 8,897 13,217 23,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.91% 23.20% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 9,648 17,304
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +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 - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 149 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.15 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £74.70 £81.25 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

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 16 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 16 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 +70 214 £800 +14.29% 92
London +76 199 £800 +14.29% 68
Work from Home +103 120 £800 +14.29% 50
UK excluding London +25 16 £500 - 27
East of England - 5 £458 - 4
Midlands +29 4 £550 +10.00% 7
West Midlands +28 4 £550 +10.00% 5
South East +3 4 £663 -17.83% 4
Scotland +21 2 £488 -1.02% 2
South West -3 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
1 124 (55.11%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (48.89%) Apache
3 7 (3.11%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.67%) Tornado
5 4 (1.78%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.78%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (1.78%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 143 (63.56%) AWS
2 109 (48.44%) dbt
3 87 (38.67%) GCP
4 86 (38.22%) Snowflake
5 53 (23.56%) Azure
6 14 (6.22%) GitHub
7 12 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.00%) Serverless
9 7 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.67%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.67%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.67%) Vertex AI
11 5 (2.22%) Dagster
11 5 (2.22%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) FTP
1 1 (0.44%) HTTP
1 1 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (46.67%) Amazon Athena
2 104 (46.22%) Apache Arrow
2 104 (46.22%) Apache Ignite
2 104 (46.22%) Dremio
3 86 (38.22%) Data Lake
4 17 (7.56%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.33%) Big Data
6 8 (3.56%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.67%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.22%) Power BI
10 4 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.89%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.89%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.44%) Flink
13 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (7.56%) Git
2 8 (3.56%) GitLab
3 7 (3.11%) MLflow
4 4 (1.78%) Mercurial
4 4 (1.78%) Robot Framework
4 4 (1.78%) Selenium
5 3 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.89%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.89%) JIRA
6 2 (0.89%) webpack
7 1 (0.44%) Poetry
General
1 146 (64.89%) Finance
2 133 (59.11%) Front Office
3 109 (48.44%) Banking
4 98 (43.56%) Investment Banking
5 19 (8.44%) Social Skills
6 14 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.11%) Marketing
9 5 (2.22%) Multimedia
10 4 (1.78%) Retail
11 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.89%) Law
12 2 (0.89%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.89%) Publishing
12 2 (0.89%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (37.33%) Developer
2 79 (35.11%) Software Engineer
3 71 (31.56%) Python Engineer
4 64 (28.44%) Senior
5 59 (26.22%) Python Developer
6 51 (22.67%) Python Software Engineer
7 46 (20.44%) AWS Engineer
8 45 (20.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 41 (18.22%) AWS Software Engineer
10 39 (17.33%) Senior Software Engineer
11 38 (16.89%) Lead
12 33 (14.67%) Java Engineer
12 33 (14.67%) Java Software Engineer
13 32 (14.22%) Software Developer
14 24 (10.67%) Architect
14 24 (10.67%) Lead Software Developer
14 24 (10.67%) Lead Software Engineer
14 24 (10.67%) Software Team Leader
14 24 (10.67%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (10.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (78.67%) NumPy
2 137 (60.89%) SciPy
3 114 (50.67%) gRPC
4 110 (48.89%) Protocol Buffers
5 26 (11.56%) React
6 18 (8.00%) Flask
7 17 (7.56%) scikit-learn
8 15 (6.67%) Node.js
8 15 (6.67%) PySpark
9 14 (6.22%) AngularJS
10 13 (5.78%) Vue
11 12 (5.33%) TensorFlow
12 11 (4.89%) Django
12 11 (4.89%) pytest
13 9 (4.00%) Matplotlib
13 9 (4.00%) Redux
13 9 (4.00%) REST
14 8 (3.56%) Kafka
14 8 (3.56%) Material-UI
15 7 (3.11%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 115 (51.11%) Derivative
2 109 (48.44%) Fixed Income
3 101 (44.89%) Equities
4 97 (43.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 94 (41.78%) Hedge funds
6 20 (8.89%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.44%) Pricing Data
8 8 (3.56%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.22%) Multi-touch
11 4 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.78%) Social Media
11 4 (1.78%) Solar Panel
12 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.67%) Linux
2 4 (1.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (67.11%) Software Engineering
2 130 (57.78%) Agile
3 113 (50.22%) Asset Management
4 86 (38.22%) Investment Management
5 44 (19.56%) CI/CD
5 44 (19.56%) Line Management
6 37 (16.44%) Data Pipeline
7 36 (16.00%) Mathematics
8 35 (15.56%) Data Science
8 35 (15.56%) Machine Learning
9 34 (15.11%) Analytics
9 34 (15.11%) DevOps
10 33 (14.67%) Artificial Intelligence
11 31 (13.78%) Greeks
12 28 (12.44%) Computer Science
13 23 (10.22%) Test Automation
14 22 (9.78%) Visualisation
15 19 (8.44%) Mathematical Modelling
16 15 (6.67%) Data Analysis
16 15 (6.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 225 (100.00%) Python
2 121 (53.78%) JavaScript
3 115 (51.11%) TypeScript
4 110 (48.89%) Java
5 58 (25.78%) SQL
6 19 (8.44%) C++
7 12 (5.33%) C#
7 12 (5.33%) Rust
8 9 (4.00%) Scala
9 7 (3.11%) Ruby
10 5 (2.22%) R
11 4 (1.78%) Bicep
12 1 (0.44%) Clojure
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (12.44%) Degree
2 9 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.11%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.78%) PhD
5 2 (0.89%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.44%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.44%) MiFID
3 1 (0.44%) NCSC
3 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (5.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (7.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.11%) Terraform
3 6 (2.67%) Kubeflow
4 4 (1.78%) Argo
5 2 (0.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (3.11%) Databricks
1 7 (3.11%) Google
2 5 (2.22%) Confluent
2 5 (2.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
3 1 (0.44%) Cloudera
3 1 (0.44%) OpenLink
3 1 (0.44%) Palantir
3 1 (0.44%) Reuters
3 1 (0.44%) SAP
3 1 (0.44%) Sun