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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 231 257
Rank change year-on-year -8 +26 +89
Contract jobs citing Pandas 148 130 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 0.94% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.80% 3.58% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 113 125
10th Percentile £400 £510 £463
25th Percentile £463 £613 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -8.93%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 -
England median daily rate £550 £675 £638
% change year-on-year -18.52% +5.88% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +107.55% -57.60% -

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 3,895 3,632 4,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 26.15% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,630 2,359 3,476
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £667 £700 £688
90th Percentile £769 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 21 30
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £29.60
25th Percentile £41.56 £38.50 £35.79
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +7.69% -25.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £69.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.00 £76.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +2 15 £650 +13.04% 16
West London - 4 £524 - 8
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 28 (18.92%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (9.46%) Apache
3 10 (6.76%) Apache Spark
4 9 (6.08%) Jupyter
5 6 (4.05%) Appian
6 1 (0.68%) Luigi
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.35%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 66 (44.59%) AWS
2 44 (29.73%) Azure
3 24 (16.22%) dbt
3 24 (16.22%) Power Platform
4 21 (14.19%) Snowflake
5 20 (13.51%) GCP
6 16 (10.81%) Azure AI
7 11 (7.43%) GitHub
8 10 (6.76%) Amazon SageMaker
8 10 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (6.08%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.41%) Serverless
11 7 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (4.73%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (4.05%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (4.05%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.05%) Anthropic Claude
12 6 (4.05%) Power Automate
12 6 (4.05%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.22%) Power BI
2 18 (12.16%) Data Lake
3 16 (10.81%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (10.81%) Apache Arrow
3 16 (10.81%) Apache Iceberg
3 16 (10.81%) Dremio
4 11 (7.43%) Apache Ignite
4 11 (7.43%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.08%) Pinecone
5 9 (6.08%) Tableau
6 7 (4.73%) Big Data
6 7 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.05%) BigQuery
8 5 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.38%) Metadata
8 5 (3.38%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.38%) Parquet
9 4 (2.70%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 28 (18.92%) Git
2 16 (10.81%) MLflow
3 5 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.68%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) Poetry
General
1 75 (50.68%) Finance
2 48 (32.43%) Banking
3 32 (21.62%) Front Office
4 31 (20.95%) Social Skills
5 28 (18.92%) Investment Banking
6 24 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (7.43%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.05%) Marketing
9 4 (2.70%) Legal
10 3 (2.03%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.35%) Retail
12 1 (0.68%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Electronics
12 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (33.78%) Developer
2 42 (28.38%) Python Developer
3 41 (27.70%) Senior
4 36 (24.32%) Data Scientist
5 26 (17.57%) Python Engineer
6 23 (15.54%) Data Engineer
7 18 (12.16%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (10.81%) AWS Software Engineer
8 16 (10.81%) Python Software Engineer
8 16 (10.81%) Software Engineer
9 15 (10.14%) AWS Developer
10 13 (8.78%) Senior Developer
11 12 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (8.11%) Senior Python Developer
12 11 (7.43%) Java Engineer
12 11 (7.43%) Java Software Engineer
13 10 (6.76%) JavaScript Developer
13 10 (6.76%) Senior Java Engineer
13 10 (6.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 10 (6.76%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (76.35%) NumPy
2 51 (34.46%) scikit-learn
3 35 (23.65%) SciPy
4 31 (20.95%) PyTorch
5 30 (20.27%) REST
6 25 (16.89%) TensorFlow
7 21 (14.19%) FastAPI
7 21 (14.19%) Flask
8 19 (12.84%) LangChain
9 16 (10.81%) PySpark
10 15 (10.14%) AngularJS
10 15 (10.14%) Hugging Face
10 15 (10.14%) React
10 15 (10.14%) Vue
11 14 (9.46%) Django
12 12 (8.11%) LangGraph
12 12 (8.11%) Polars
13 11 (7.43%) gRPC
13 11 (7.43%) Matplotlib
13 11 (7.43%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 35 (23.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 32 (21.62%) Hedge funds
3 31 (20.95%) Equities
4 19 (12.84%) Fixed Income
5 15 (10.14%) Algorithms
5 15 (10.14%) Derivative
6 11 (7.43%) Pricing Data
7 6 (4.05%) AI Agents
7 6 (4.05%) Data Structures
7 6 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (4.05%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.03%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (2.03%) Multi-touch
8 3 (2.03%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.03%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (40.54%) Machine Learning
2 59 (39.86%) AI
3 53 (35.81%) Data Science
4 47 (31.76%) Analytics
5 44 (29.73%) Data Engineering
5 44 (29.73%) Data Pipeline
6 38 (25.68%) CI/CD
6 38 (25.68%) Software Engineering
7 34 (22.97%) Generative AI
8 31 (20.95%) Data Analysis
9 30 (20.27%) LLM
10 29 (19.59%) ETL
11 28 (18.92%) Visualisation
12 26 (17.57%) Agile
12 26 (17.57%) Natural Language Processing
13 25 (16.89%) Mathematics
14 24 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (15.54%) Data Modelling
16 22 (14.86%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 148 (100.00%) Python
2 66 (44.59%) SQL
3 32 (21.62%) JavaScript
4 25 (16.89%) Java
5 16 (10.81%) C#
5 16 (10.81%) C++
5 16 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.43%) Rust
7 10 (6.76%) VBA
8 5 (3.38%) R
9 4 (2.70%) Bicep
10 2 (1.35%) Ada
11 1 (0.68%) Bash
11 1 (0.68%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (10.81%) Degree
2 12 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.08%) PhD
4 8 (5.41%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.70%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.84%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.70%) QA
3 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) MiFID
System Software
1 31 (20.95%) Docker
2 3 (2.03%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.41%) Terraform
3 3 (2.03%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.68%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (13.51%) Databricks
2 17 (11.49%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.78%) Google
4 12 (8.11%) OpenAI
5 6 (4.05%) Automation Anywhere
5 6 (4.05%) Foundry
5 6 (4.05%) UiPath
6 5 (3.38%) Dataiku
7 4 (2.70%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.70%) Bloomberg
8 3 (2.03%) Cognos
8 3 (2.03%) IBM
8 3 (2.03%) Refinitiv
8 3 (2.03%) Sage
8 3 (2.03%) SAP
9 1 (0.68%) Cisco
9 1 (0.68%) DataRobot
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle
9 1 (0.68%) Reuters
9 1 (0.68%) Salesforce