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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 206 161
Rank change year-on-year -126 -45 +109
Contract jobs citing Pandas 112 173 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 1.29% 1.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.11% 4.42% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 130 250
10th Percentile £350 £513 £675
25th Percentile £463 £578 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
England median daily rate £550 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 -

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 5,305 3,918 4,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 29.27% 30.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,537 2,709 3,464
10th Percentile £400 £369 £385
25th Percentile £450 £430 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £817 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -31.82%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% -13.60% -

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 6 September 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 6 September 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
West London -13 7 £575 +9.52% 8
Central London -33 3 £600 +7.14% 6
East London +2 1 - - 2
South London - 1 £300 - 2
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 11 (9.82%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (8.04%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.25%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.68%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.79%) Apache
6 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.93%) AWS
2 25 (22.32%) Azure
3 16 (14.29%) GCP
3 16 (14.29%) Serverless
4 15 (13.39%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (12.50%) GitHub
5 14 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (10.71%) Amazon S3
7 11 (9.82%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (8.04%) Power Platform
9 8 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (6.25%) dbt
11 5 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.46%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (4.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (3.57%) Amazon Neptune
12 4 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (3.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) 4G
1 1 (0.89%) 5G
1 1 (0.89%) DNS
1 1 (0.89%) HTTP
1 1 (0.89%) SSH
1 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.71%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.04%) Big Data
2 9 (8.04%) Power BI
3 7 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (6.25%) Neo4j
3 7 (6.25%) Tableau
4 5 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.46%) Geospatial Data
4 5 (4.46%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.57%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.57%) Metadata
5 4 (3.57%) MySQL
6 3 (2.68%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.68%) SQLite
7 2 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (25.89%) Git
2 12 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.04%) MLflow
4 6 (5.36%) Selenium
5 4 (3.57%) GitLab
5 4 (3.57%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.89%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.89%) Postman
6 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (40.18%) Finance
2 30 (26.79%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (19.64%) Social Skills
4 13 (11.61%) Banking
5 12 (10.71%) Publishing
6 10 (8.93%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.46%) Front Office
7 5 (4.46%) Marketing
8 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Legal
8 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.89%) Advertising
9 1 (0.89%) Aviation
9 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.89%) Military
9 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (37.50%) Developer
2 37 (33.04%) Python Developer
3 25 (22.32%) Data Scientist
4 24 (21.43%) Senior
5 17 (15.18%) Data Engineer
6 12 (10.71%) Analyst
7 11 (9.82%) Senior Developer
8 10 (8.93%) AWS Developer
9 9 (8.04%) Kafka Developer
9 9 (8.04%) Senior Python Developer
10 7 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Python Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) SQL Developer
11 6 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Data Analyst
11 6 (5.36%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Senior Data Scientist
12 5 (4.46%) Python Data Engineer
13 4 (3.57%) Quantitative Developer
13 4 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (58.04%) NumPy
2 36 (32.14%) scikit-learn
3 28 (25.00%) Flask
4 27 (24.11%) FastAPI
5 26 (23.21%) PySpark
5 26 (23.21%) REST
6 25 (22.32%) Polars
7 13 (11.61%) Kafka
8 12 (10.71%) PyTorch
9 11 (9.82%) RESTful
10 9 (8.04%) Apache Avro
10 9 (8.04%) TensorFlow
11 8 (7.14%) Django
11 8 (7.14%) Matplotlib
12 6 (5.36%) .NET
12 6 (5.36%) Terraform
13 5 (4.46%) Great Expectations
13 5 (4.46%) pytest
13 5 (4.46%) SciPy
13 5 (4.46%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.18%) Hedge funds
2 10 (8.93%) Equities
3 9 (8.04%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 7 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (6.25%) Derivative
6 6 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (5.36%) Market Risk
7 5 (4.46%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.68%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.79%) Life Science
10 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.89%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.89%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.89%) Multi-touch
10 1 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.18%) Linux
2 15 (13.39%) Unix
3 1 (0.89%) VMS
3 1 (0.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.43%) Data Pipeline
2 48 (42.86%) Data Science
3 46 (41.07%) Analytics
4 45 (40.18%) CI/CD
5 42 (37.50%) Machine Learning
6 32 (28.57%) AI
7 24 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 24 (21.43%) Data Analysis
8 23 (20.54%) Visualisation
9 22 (19.64%) Agile
9 22 (19.64%) Data Transformation
9 22 (19.64%) Decision-Making
10 21 (18.75%) Code Quality
11 20 (17.86%) Data Engineering
12 18 (16.07%) Validation
13 17 (15.18%) ETL
14 16 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
15 15 (13.39%) Software Engineering
16 14 (12.50%) Use Case
17 13 (11.61%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 112 (100.00%) Python
2 81 (72.32%) SQL
3 15 (13.39%) Shell Script
4 14 (12.50%) C#
5 6 (5.36%) Java
6 4 (3.57%) Cypher
6 4 (3.57%) Gremlin
7 3 (2.68%) Bash
7 3 (2.68%) R
7 3 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.79%) C++
8 2 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.79%) VBA
9 1 (0.89%) C
9 1 (0.89%) Haskell
9 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (14.29%) Degree
2 7 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 7 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.46%) PhD
4 5 (4.46%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.96%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.79%) EMIR
2 2 (1.79%) MiFID
2 2 (1.79%) QA
3 1 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 35 (31.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (16.96%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.46%) Grafana
3 4 (3.57%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.68%) Podman
5 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.04%) Databricks
3 4 (3.57%) Foundry
3 4 (3.57%) Google
4 3 (2.68%) Palantir
4 3 (2.68%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.79%) Oracle
6 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.89%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) SimCorp