Pandas Contract Job Trends in London

Pandas
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Pandas skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 208 227
Rank change year-on-year -43 +19 +54
Contract jobs citing Pandas 166 140 175
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 1.11% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.92% 4.24% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 113 155
10th Percentile £406 £510 £463
25th Percentile £460 £588 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £863
90th Percentile £813 £888 £888
England median daily rate £540 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -20.00% -6.90% +3.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,232 3,303 4,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.43% 26.11% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,858 2,314 3,343
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.73% -2.86% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 22
10th Percentile £22.79 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.02 £39.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £54.00 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +45.28% -43.68%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.63 £61.25
90th Percentile £77.00 £81.25 £69.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Pandas job vacancy trend in London

Pandas
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Pandas.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Pandas

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas in London over the 6 months to 12 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in London

Pandas
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Pandas.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Pandas

Pandas
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pandas within the London region over the 6 months to 12 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -8 19 £638 +11.84% 17
West London - 9 £511 - 3
Pandas
England

Pandas
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 20 (12.05%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (7.23%) Jupyter
3 11 (6.63%) Apache Spark
4 8 (4.82%) Appian
5 4 (2.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.60%) Luigi
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Actimize
1 1 (0.60%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 67 (40.36%) Azure
2 63 (37.95%) AWS
3 27 (16.27%) Power Platform
4 22 (13.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (11.45%) GCP
6 18 (10.84%) GitHub
7 17 (10.24%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (9.64%) Serverless
9 14 (8.43%) Amazon SageMaker
9 14 (8.43%) Azure AI
10 13 (7.83%) Amazon S3
11 9 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (5.42%) Snowflake
12 8 (4.82%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (4.82%) Azure Machine Learning
12 8 (4.82%) Dagster
12 8 (4.82%) Power Automate
13 7 (4.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (4.22%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.66%) Power BI
2 12 (7.23%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.02%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.02%) Tableau
4 9 (5.42%) Geospatial Data
4 9 (5.42%) Pinecone
5 7 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (4.22%) Big Data
5 7 (4.22%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.01%) Metadata
8 4 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.41%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.41%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.41%) Parquet
8 4 (2.41%) Power Query
9 3 (1.81%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.81%) SQLite
10 2 (1.20%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (18.67%) Git
2 20 (12.05%) MLflow
3 12 (7.23%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.61%) Selenium
5 3 (1.81%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.20%) GitLab
6 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.60%) Poetry
General
1 59 (35.54%) Finance
2 45 (27.11%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (24.70%) Social Skills
4 28 (16.87%) Banking
5 16 (9.64%) Front Office
6 14 (8.43%) Publishing
7 13 (7.83%) Public Sector
8 9 (5.42%) Marketing
9 8 (4.82%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.41%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.81%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Aviation
13 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Electronics
13 1 (0.60%) Legal
13 1 (0.60%) Retail
13 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (31.33%) Developer
2 42 (25.30%) Data Scientist
3 41 (24.70%) Python Developer
3 41 (24.70%) Senior
4 36 (21.69%) Data Engineer
5 16 (9.64%) Senior Developer
6 15 (9.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 14 (8.43%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (7.83%) Analyst
8 13 (7.83%) Senior Python Developer
9 11 (6.63%) Python Engineer
10 10 (6.02%) AWS Developer
11 9 (5.42%) Python Data Engineer
11 9 (5.42%) RAD Developer
12 8 (4.82%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.82%) Data Analyst
12 8 (4.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 7 (4.22%) Senior Data Scientist
14 5 (3.01%) Kafka Developer
14 5 (3.01%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (65.06%) NumPy
2 71 (42.77%) scikit-learn
3 37 (22.29%) REST
4 32 (19.28%) PyTorch
5 27 (16.27%) TensorFlow
6 24 (14.46%) Flask
6 24 (14.46%) Polars
7 23 (13.86%) Matplotlib
8 20 (12.05%) FastAPI
8 20 (12.05%) PySpark
9 18 (10.84%) Django
10 15 (9.04%) Hugging Face
10 15 (9.04%) Seaborn
10 15 (9.04%) Web Services
11 13 (7.83%) SciPy
12 12 (7.23%) RESTful
13 11 (6.63%) Kafka
13 11 (6.63%) LangChain
13 11 (6.63%) pytest
14 10 (6.02%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.46%) Hedge funds
2 23 (13.86%) Equities
3 17 (10.24%) Algorithms
4 12 (7.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.82%) Low-Code
6 7 (4.22%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.22%) Fixed Income
6 7 (4.22%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.61%) Derivative
7 6 (3.61%) Management Information System
8 5 (3.01%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.41%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (2.41%) Multi-touch
9 4 (2.41%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.20%) NHS
10 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.82%) Linux
2 6 (3.61%) Unix
3 2 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (45.18%) Machine Learning
2 70 (42.17%) Data Pipeline
3 62 (37.35%) Data Science
4 60 (36.14%) AI
5 55 (33.13%) Analytics
6 53 (31.93%) CI/CD
7 48 (28.92%) Data Engineering
8 38 (22.89%) Data Analysis
8 38 (22.89%) Visualisation
9 35 (21.08%) ETL
10 33 (19.88%) Decision-Making
10 33 (19.88%) Generative AI
11 29 (17.47%) Containerisation
11 29 (17.47%) LLM
12 27 (16.27%) Data Modelling
13 26 (15.66%) Natural Language Processing
14 23 (13.86%) Data Cleansing
14 23 (13.86%) Validation
15 22 (13.25%) Business Intelligence
16 21 (12.65%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 166 (100.00%) Python
2 102 (61.45%) SQL
3 17 (10.24%) C#
4 12 (7.23%) VBA
5 10 (6.02%) Java
6 9 (5.42%) C++
6 9 (5.42%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.22%) R
8 4 (2.41%) Bicep
8 4 (2.41%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.81%) Rust
10 2 (1.20%) Ada
10 2 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.60%) Bash
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (14.46%) Degree
2 18 (10.84%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.83%) Master's Degree
4 10 (6.02%) PhD
5 8 (4.82%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (25.30%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.81%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) MiFID
System Software
1 43 (25.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) HDFS
3 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (18.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.63%) Terraform
3 6 (3.61%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.25%) Databricks
3 15 (9.04%) OpenAI
4 14 (8.43%) Google
5 8 (4.82%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.82%) UiPath
6 4 (2.41%) Dataiku
6 4 (2.41%) Foundry
7 3 (1.81%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.81%) Cognos
7 3 (1.81%) IBM
7 3 (1.81%) Sage
7 3 (1.81%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.81%) SAP
8 2 (1.20%) Reuters
9 1 (0.60%) Advent
9 1 (0.60%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.60%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Veritas