Pandas Contracts in London

Pandas
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Pandas skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pandas over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 209 272
Rank change year-on-year -1 +63 +46
Contract jobs citing Pandas 144 190 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.15% 1.07% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.40% 4.26% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 166 156
10th Percentile £515 £481 £456
25th Percentile £638 £613 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £860
90th Percentile £888 - £988
England median daily rate £725 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +16.67%

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 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Pandas in London

Pandas
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Pandas in London

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in London

Pandas
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Pandas in London

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 1 May 2025. 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 +7 15 £560 +6.67% 8
Pandas
England

Pandas
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 65 (45.14%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (27.78%) Apache
3 7 (4.86%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.78%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) CPLEX
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 104 (72.22%) AWS
2 65 (45.14%) dbt
3 57 (39.58%) GCP
4 41 (28.47%) Azure
5 35 (24.31%) Snowflake
6 26 (18.06%) Dagster
7 17 (11.81%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (11.81%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (11.81%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (11.81%) GitHub
8 16 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (10.42%) Amazon SageMaker
10 11 (7.64%) Amazon S3
11 10 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (6.94%) Serverless
12 9 (6.25%) AWS CodeCommit
12 9 (6.25%) Azure AKS
12 9 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (6.25%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.47%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (45.14%) Amazon Athena
1 65 (45.14%) Apache Iceberg
1 65 (45.14%) Dremio
2 56 (38.89%) Apache Arrow
3 40 (27.78%) Apache Ignite
4 38 (26.39%) Data Lake
5 30 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (6.94%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.56%) Oracle Database
8 5 (3.47%) Power BI
9 4 (2.78%) Tableau
10 2 (1.39%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.69%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.69%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.69%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 12 (8.33%) Git
2 4 (2.78%) MLflow
3 2 (1.39%) Selenium
4 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) Postman
General
1 103 (71.53%) Finance
2 72 (50.00%) Front Office
3 53 (36.81%) Banking
4 41 (28.47%) Investment Banking
5 13 (9.03%) Social Skills
6 8 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.47%) Back Office
9 4 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.78%) Retail
10 3 (2.08%) Law
10 3 (2.08%) Marketing
10 3 (2.08%) Military
11 2 (1.39%) Police
12 1 (0.69%) Advertising
12 1 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.69%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 65 (45.14%) Software Engineer
2 64 (44.44%) Python Engineer
3 57 (39.58%) Developer
4 56 (38.89%) AWS Engineer
4 56 (38.89%) AWS Software Engineer
5 48 (33.33%) Python Developer
6 46 (31.94%) Python Software Engineer
7 36 (25.00%) Senior
8 34 (23.61%) AWS Developer
9 29 (20.14%) Java Engineer
9 29 (20.14%) Java Software Engineer
10 27 (18.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 22 (15.28%) Senior Software Engineer
12 21 (14.58%) Data Scientist
13 18 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
13 18 (12.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 11 (7.64%) Data Engineer
15 9 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
16 7 (4.86%) JavaScript Developer
16 7 (4.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (89.58%) NumPy
2 88 (61.11%) SciPy
3 40 (27.78%) gRPC
3 40 (27.78%) Protocol Buffers
4 39 (27.08%) React
5 36 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 36 (25.00%) Vue
6 33 (22.92%) PySpark
7 27 (18.75%) Node.js
8 25 (17.36%) scikit-learn
9 15 (10.42%) Flask
9 15 (10.42%) PyTorch
9 15 (10.42%) TensorFlow
10 14 (9.72%) FastAPI
11 13 (9.03%) Kafka
12 12 (8.33%) LangChain
12 12 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (8.33%) pydantic
13 11 (7.64%) Polars
13 11 (7.64%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 58 (40.28%) Fixed Income
2 48 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 44 (30.56%) Hedge funds
4 40 (27.78%) Equities
5 31 (21.53%) Derivative
6 12 (8.33%) Pricing Data
7 9 (6.25%) Algorithms
8 5 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.08%) Multi-touch
10 2 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.39%) Solar Panel
10 2 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (64.58%) Software Engineering
2 78 (54.17%) Agile
3 66 (45.83%) Asset Management
4 51 (35.42%) Investment Management
5 37 (25.69%) Fintech
6 34 (23.61%) Data Science
7 29 (20.14%) Machine Learning
8 27 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
8 27 (18.75%) Performance Attribution
9 25 (17.36%) Analytics
10 24 (16.67%) Risk Management
11 23 (15.97%) Data Engineering
12 19 (13.19%) Mathematics
13 17 (11.81%) Migration
13 17 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (11.11%) CI/CD
14 16 (11.11%) Order Management
15 15 (10.42%) Generative AI
15 15 (10.42%) Test Automation
16 14 (9.72%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 138 (95.83%) Python
2 70 (48.61%) JavaScript
3 56 (38.89%) Java
3 56 (38.89%) TypeScript
4 29 (20.14%) SQL
5 17 (11.81%) C#
6 12 (8.33%) C++
7 10 (6.94%) Rust
8 8 (5.56%) R
9 3 (2.08%) Scala
9 3 (2.08%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (9.72%) Degree
2 10 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 8 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.78%) PhD
5 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.47%) QA
System Software
1 15 (10.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (18.06%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (6.94%) Oracle
2 3 (2.08%) Bloomberg
2 3 (2.08%) Dataiku
2 3 (2.08%) DataRobot
2 3 (2.08%) Refinitiv
2 3 (2.08%) Reuters
2 3 (2.08%) Talend
3 2 (1.39%) Databricks
3 2 (1.39%) Google
4 1 (0.69%) Foundry
4 1 (0.69%) Informatica
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.69%) SAP
4 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow