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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 208 161
Rank change year-on-year -91 -47 +98
Contract jobs citing Pandas 132 167 283
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 1.24% 1.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.94% 4.73% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 127 260
10th Percentile £410 £525 £563
25th Percentile £482 £616 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £749 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
England median daily rate £545 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -27.33% -6.25% +28.00%

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 4,495 3,534 4,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.75% 26.15% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,982 2,458 3,483
10th Percentile £385 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 26
10th Percentile £24.63 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £70.69 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £91.88 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -6 11 £511 -2.62% 5
Central London -16 9 £600 +5.26% 2
East London 0 1 - - 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 16 (12.12%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (6.82%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.30%) Jupyter
4 4 (3.03%) Appian
5 3 (2.27%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.76%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 52 (39.39%) AWS
2 46 (34.85%) Azure
3 18 (13.64%) GCP
4 17 (12.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (12.12%) GitHub
5 16 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (11.36%) Amazon SageMaker
6 15 (11.36%) Power Platform
7 14 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (10.61%) Serverless
8 12 (9.09%) Amazon S3
9 8 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (6.06%) Dagster
10 7 (5.30%) dbt
11 6 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (3.79%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (3.03%) Azure AI
13 4 (3.03%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.61%) Power BI
2 12 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.33%) Tableau
4 9 (6.82%) Geospatial Data
5 7 (5.30%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.30%) Big Data
5 7 (5.30%) Neo4j
6 4 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.03%) Pinecone
6 4 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.03%) Power Query
6 4 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.27%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.27%) Metadata
7 3 (2.27%) SQLite
8 2 (1.52%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.52%) MySQL
8 2 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (20.45%) Git
2 17 (12.88%) MLflow
3 12 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.30%) Selenium
5 4 (3.03%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.52%) GitLab
7 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.76%) Postman
7 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (40.15%) Finance
2 41 (31.06%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (23.48%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.64%) Publishing
5 12 (9.09%) Banking
6 8 (6.06%) Investment Banking
7 7 (5.30%) Front Office
8 6 (4.55%) Marketing
8 6 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.79%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.52%) Legal
11 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Advertising
12 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.76%) Military
12 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.76%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 40 (30.30%) Developer
2 35 (26.52%) Data Scientist
3 32 (24.24%) Python Developer
4 25 (18.94%) Data Engineer
4 25 (18.94%) Senior
5 15 (11.36%) Analyst
6 11 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 10 (7.58%) AWS Developer
7 10 (7.58%) Data Analyst
8 9 (6.82%) Kafka Developer
8 9 (6.82%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.06%) Python Engineer
9 8 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (6.06%) Senior Data Scientist
10 7 (5.30%) SQL Developer
11 6 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) Python Data Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) Senior Python Developer
12 5 (3.79%) Business Analyst
13 4 (3.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (57.58%) NumPy
2 56 (42.42%) scikit-learn
3 29 (21.97%) Polars
4 26 (19.70%) FastAPI
4 26 (19.70%) Flask
5 23 (17.42%) REST
6 18 (13.64%) PyTorch
7 17 (12.88%) PySpark
8 16 (12.12%) Kafka
9 15 (11.36%) Matplotlib
9 15 (11.36%) TensorFlow
10 13 (9.85%) RESTful
11 11 (8.33%) Django
12 10 (7.58%) Seaborn
13 9 (6.82%) Apache Avro
13 9 (6.82%) GeoJSON
14 8 (6.06%) pytest
15 7 (5.30%) .NET
15 7 (5.30%) Web Services
16 5 (3.79%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.88%) Hedge funds
2 13 (9.85%) Equities
3 12 (9.09%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.82%) Management Information System
5 8 (6.06%) Fixed Income
5 8 (6.06%) Product Ownership
6 7 (5.30%) Derivative
7 4 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.03%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.03%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.27%) Market Risk
8 3 (2.27%) Multi-touch
8 3 (2.27%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.52%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.52%) Life Science
9 2 (1.52%) NHS
9 2 (1.52%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.09%) Unix
2 11 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (1.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (49.24%) Data Pipeline
2 61 (46.21%) Machine Learning
3 58 (43.94%) Data Science
4 51 (38.64%) CI/CD
5 41 (31.06%) AI
5 41 (31.06%) Analytics
6 32 (24.24%) Data Engineering
7 31 (23.48%) Containerisation
7 31 (23.48%) Visualisation
8 29 (21.97%) Data Analysis
9 27 (20.45%) Decision-Making
10 24 (18.18%) Data Transformation
10 24 (18.18%) ETL
11 20 (15.15%) Agile
11 20 (15.15%) Validation
12 19 (14.39%) Code Quality
12 19 (14.39%) LLM
12 19 (14.39%) Use Case
13 18 (13.64%) Data Modelling
14 17 (12.88%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 132 (100.00%) Python
2 96 (72.73%) SQL
3 15 (11.36%) C#
4 10 (7.58%) Shell Script
5 6 (4.55%) Java
6 5 (3.79%) R
7 4 (3.03%) Cypher
7 4 (3.03%) Gremlin
8 3 (2.27%) C++
8 3 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.27%) VBA
9 2 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.76%) Bash
10 1 (0.76%) C
10 1 (0.76%) Haskell
10 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (14.39%) Degree
2 11 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.58%) Master's Degree
4 7 (5.30%) PhD
4 7 (5.30%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (25.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.76%) GDPR
2 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 44 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (18.94%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.55%) Terraform
3 4 (3.03%) Grafana
3 4 (3.03%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.09%) Databricks
3 8 (6.06%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.03%) Automation Anywhere
4 4 (3.03%) UiPath
5 3 (2.27%) Google
5 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.52%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.52%) Foundry
6 2 (1.52%) Reuters
7 1 (0.76%) Advent
7 1 (0.76%) Cognos
7 1 (0.76%) IBM
7 1 (0.76%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.76%) Sage
7 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) SimCorp