Pandas Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 416 485
Rank change year-on-year +68 +69 +53
Contract jobs citing Pandas 240 288 411
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.65% 2.24% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 197 294
10th Percentile £477 £425 £425
25th Percentile £617 £485 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +12.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £888 £825 £684
90th Percentile - £985 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £495 £520
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.81% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £50.99
25th Percentile £58.75 - £52.84
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £57.18
75th Percentile £66.25 - £61.59
90th Percentile - - £63.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - £53.47

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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +61 226 £800 +14.29% 91
London +83 212 £800 +14.29% 72
Work from Home +108 137 £800 +18.52% 26
UK excluding London +15 17 £488 -1.52% 17
East of England - 5 £458 - 3
Scotland +25 4 £475 -3.55% 2
Midlands +25 4 £550 +10.00% 1
West Midlands +16 4 £550 +10.00%
South East +2 3 £663 +9.28% 7
South West -3 1 £275 -42.40% 4

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
1 143 (59.58%) Apache Airflow
2 128 (53.33%) Apache
3 6 (2.50%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.67%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (2.08%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 165 (68.75%) AWS
2 127 (52.92%) dbt
3 107 (44.58%) Snowflake
4 97 (40.42%) GCP
5 49 (20.42%) Azure
6 14 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (5.00%) GitHub
8 8 (3.33%) Serverless
9 7 (2.92%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.50%) Dagster
11 5 (2.08%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.08%) Vertex AI
12 4 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
14 2 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 1 (0.42%) Amazon SQS
15 1 (0.42%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) Firewall
1 1 (0.42%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (51.25%) Amazon Athena
1 123 (51.25%) Dremio
2 121 (50.42%) Apache Arrow
2 121 (50.42%) Apache Ignite
3 106 (44.17%) Data Lake
4 16 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.75%) Big Data
6 8 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.92%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.08%) Power BI
9 4 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.83%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.83%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.83%) Tableau
12 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.42%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 19 (7.92%) Git
2 9 (3.75%) GitLab
3 7 (2.92%) Selenium
4 6 (2.50%) MLflow
5 5 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.08%) Robot Framework
6 4 (1.67%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.83%) webpack
8 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 164 (68.33%) Finance
2 151 (62.92%) Front Office
3 122 (50.83%) Banking
4 113 (47.08%) Investment Banking
5 20 (8.33%) Social Skills
6 16 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.92%) Marketing
8 5 (2.08%) Multimedia
8 5 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.67%) Retail
10 3 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.83%) Law
11 2 (0.83%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.83%) Publishing
11 2 (0.83%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 84 (35.00%) Developer
3 80 (33.33%) Python Engineer
4 73 (30.42%) Senior
5 60 (25.00%) Python Software Engineer
6 59 (24.58%) Python Developer
7 53 (22.08%) AWS Engineer
8 48 (20.00%) AWS Software Engineer
8 48 (20.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 47 (19.58%) Senior Software Engineer
10 44 (18.33%) Lead
11 40 (16.67%) Java Engineer
11 40 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
12 35 (14.58%) Software Developer
13 28 (11.67%) Architect
13 28 (11.67%) Lead Developer
13 28 (11.67%) Lead Software Engineer
13 28 (11.67%) Software Team Leader
13 28 (11.67%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (11.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (81.67%) NumPy
2 155 (64.58%) SciPy
3 131 (54.58%) gRPC
4 127 (52.92%) Protocol Buffers
5 23 (9.58%) React
6 17 (7.08%) scikit-learn
7 16 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 16 (6.67%) PySpark
8 15 (6.25%) Vue
9 13 (5.42%) Flask
10 11 (4.58%) Matplotlib
10 11 (4.58%) Node.js
10 11 (4.58%) Redux
10 11 (4.58%) TensorFlow
11 10 (4.17%) pytest
12 9 (3.75%) REST
13 8 (3.33%) Material-UI
14 6 (2.50%) Django
15 5 (2.08%) PyTorch
16 3 (1.25%) Dask
Miscellaneous
1 133 (55.42%) Derivative
2 129 (53.75%) Fixed Income
3 119 (49.58%) Equities
4 115 (47.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 112 (46.67%) Hedge funds
6 21 (8.75%) Algorithms
7 14 (5.83%) Pricing Data
8 8 (3.33%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.67%) Social Media
11 3 (1.25%) Multi-touch
12 2 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.83%) Solar Panel
13 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.42%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.92%) Linux
2 6 (2.50%) Windows
3 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (68.33%) Software Engineering
2 146 (60.83%) Agile
3 133 (55.42%) Asset Management
4 101 (42.08%) Investment Management
5 52 (21.67%) Line Management
6 40 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 37 (15.42%) Greeks
8 35 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
8 35 (14.58%) Mathematics
9 34 (14.17%) Analytics
10 33 (13.75%) Data Science
11 32 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
11 32 (13.33%) Machine Learning
12 31 (12.92%) Computer Science
13 29 (12.08%) DevOps
14 23 (9.58%) Test Automation
15 19 (7.92%) Mathematical Modelling
16 17 (7.08%) Visualisation
17 16 (6.67%) Data Modelling
18 14 (5.83%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 240 (100.00%) Python
2 132 (55.00%) JavaScript
3 127 (52.92%) Java
4 126 (52.50%) TypeScript
5 52 (21.67%) SQL
6 19 (7.92%) C++
7 12 (5.00%) Rust
8 11 (4.58%) C#
9 8 (3.33%) Scala
10 6 (2.50%) Ruby
11 4 (1.67%) Bicep
12 3 (1.25%) R
13 2 (0.83%) Bash
14 1 (0.42%) Clojure
14 1 (0.42%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 29 (12.08%) Degree
2 10 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.92%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.67%) PhD
5 2 (0.83%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (17.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.42%) MiFID
3 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (5.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.08%) Kubeflow
3 4 (1.67%) Argo
3 4 (1.67%) Terraform
4 2 (0.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (3.75%) Google
2 5 (2.08%) Databricks
3 4 (1.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.83%) Cloudera
4 2 (0.83%) Splunk
5 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.42%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.42%) Palantir
5 1 (0.42%) Reuters
5 1 (0.42%) SAP