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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 220 255
Rank change year-on-year -15 +35 +87
Contract jobs citing Pandas 145 134 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 0.97% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.83% 3.73% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 117 120
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% -5.56%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
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 £64.00
% change year-on-year +107.55% -58.59% -

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 3,782 3,594 4,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.22% 26.05% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,565 2,354 3,485
10th Percentile £363 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £576
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% -0.17% -5.57%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £758 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £41.25 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +14.68% -16.15%

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 20 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 20 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 +9 16 £650 +13.04% 19
West London - 2 £525 - 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 30 (20.69%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (11.72%) Apache
3 9 (6.21%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.21%) Jupyter
4 5 (3.45%) Appian
5 1 (0.69%) Luigi
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 65 (44.83%) AWS
2 43 (29.66%) Azure
3 28 (19.31%) dbt
4 25 (17.24%) Snowflake
5 22 (15.17%) GCP
6 21 (14.48%) Power Platform
7 15 (10.34%) Azure AI
8 9 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (6.21%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (6.21%) GitHub
9 8 (5.52%) Amazon SageMaker
9 8 (5.52%) Serverless
10 7 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.83%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.14%) Amazon Bedrock
11 6 (4.14%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.14%) Vertex AI
12 5 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (3.45%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.48%) Data Lake
1 21 (14.48%) Power BI
2 20 (13.79%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (13.79%) Apache Arrow
2 20 (13.79%) Apache Iceberg
2 20 (13.79%) Dremio
3 14 (9.66%) Apache Ignite
4 10 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.52%) Pinecone
5 8 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.83%) Big Data
6 7 (4.83%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.14%) Tableau
8 5 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.45%) Metadata
8 5 (3.45%) Parquet
9 4 (2.76%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.76%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (17.93%) Git
2 13 (8.97%) MLflow
3 5 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.69%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) Poetry
General
1 78 (53.79%) Finance
2 50 (34.48%) Banking
3 36 (24.83%) Front Office
4 30 (20.69%) Investment Banking
4 30 (20.69%) Social Skills
5 24 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.59%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.14%) Marketing
8 4 (2.76%) Legal
9 3 (2.07%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.38%) Retail
11 1 (0.69%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Electronics
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (33.79%) Developer
2 42 (28.97%) Python Developer
2 42 (28.97%) Senior
3 35 (24.14%) Data Scientist
4 30 (20.69%) Python Engineer
5 21 (14.48%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (13.79%) AWS Software Engineer
6 20 (13.79%) Data Engineer
6 20 (13.79%) Python Software Engineer
6 20 (13.79%) Software Engineer
7 16 (11.03%) AWS Developer
8 14 (9.66%) Java Engineer
8 14 (9.66%) Java Software Engineer
9 13 (8.97%) Senior Java Engineer
9 13 (8.97%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 13 (8.97%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (7.59%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (7.59%) Senior Developer
10 11 (7.59%) Senior Python Developer
11 10 (6.90%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (77.24%) NumPy
2 49 (33.79%) scikit-learn
3 39 (26.90%) SciPy
4 29 (20.00%) PyTorch
4 29 (20.00%) REST
5 24 (16.55%) TensorFlow
6 20 (13.79%) FastAPI
7 19 (13.10%) Flask
8 18 (12.41%) LangChain
9 16 (11.03%) AngularJS
9 16 (11.03%) PySpark
9 16 (11.03%) React
9 16 (11.03%) Vue
10 14 (9.66%) gRPC
10 14 (9.66%) Protocol Buffers
11 13 (8.97%) Hugging Face
12 12 (8.28%) LangGraph
12 12 (8.28%) Polars
13 11 (7.59%) Django
13 11 (7.59%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 35 (24.14%) Equities
2 35 (24.14%) Hedge funds
3 23 (15.86%) Fixed Income
4 18 (12.41%) Derivative
5 14 (9.66%) Algorithms
5 14 (9.66%) Pricing Data
6 6 (4.14%) AI Agents
6 6 (4.14%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.45%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.07%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (2.07%) Multi-touch
9 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.07%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (39.31%) Machine Learning
2 56 (38.62%) AI
3 52 (35.86%) Data Science
4 48 (33.10%) Analytics
5 42 (28.97%) Software Engineering
6 41 (28.28%) Data Engineering
7 39 (26.90%) Data Pipeline
8 34 (23.45%) CI/CD
9 33 (22.76%) Generative AI
10 30 (20.69%) Data Analysis
11 29 (20.00%) Agile
12 28 (19.31%) LLM
13 25 (17.24%) ETL
13 25 (17.24%) Natural Language Processing
13 25 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (16.55%) Mathematics
14 24 (16.55%) Visualisation
15 23 (15.86%) Business Intelligence
16 21 (14.48%) Asset Management
16 21 (14.48%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 145 (100.00%) Python
2 59 (40.69%) SQL
3 36 (24.83%) JavaScript
4 27 (18.62%) Java
5 20 (13.79%) TypeScript
6 16 (11.03%) C#
6 16 (11.03%) C++
7 11 (7.59%) Rust
8 10 (6.90%) VBA
9 5 (3.45%) R
10 4 (2.76%) Bicep
11 2 (1.38%) Ada
12 1 (0.69%) Bash
12 1 (0.69%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (10.34%) Degree
2 12 (8.28%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.21%) MCP
3 9 (6.21%) PhD
4 7 (4.83%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.76%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.76%) QA
3 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.69%) MiFID
System Software
1 27 (18.62%) Docker
2 3 (2.07%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (17.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.52%) Terraform
3 3 (2.07%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (13.79%) Databricks
2 14 (9.66%) Google
2 14 (9.66%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.90%) OpenAI
4 6 (4.14%) Foundry
5 5 (3.45%) Automation Anywhere
5 5 (3.45%) Dataiku
5 5 (3.45%) UiPath
6 4 (2.76%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.76%) Bloomberg
7 3 (2.07%) Cognos
7 3 (2.07%) IBM
7 3 (2.07%) Refinitiv
7 3 (2.07%) Sage
7 3 (2.07%) SAP
8 1 (0.69%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle
8 1 (0.69%) Reuters
8 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.69%) Veritas