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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 208 156
Rank change year-on-year -123 -52 +104
Contract jobs citing Pandas 111 165 280
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 1.23% 1.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.43% 4.73% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 124 256
10th Percentile £405 £516 £638
25th Percentile £508 £613 £725
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% +30.61%

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 4,573 3,487 4,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.78% 25.94% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,032 2,426 3,163
10th Percentile £400 £363 £377
25th Percentile £452 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +3.41% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 23
10th Percentile £26.40 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.13 £49.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £64.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -1.83%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -20 7 £575 +9.52% 6
Central London -24 3 £600 +5.26% 7
East London -1 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 13 (11.71%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.21%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.70%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.80%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.90%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 39 (35.14%) AWS
2 28 (25.23%) Azure
3 16 (14.41%) GCP
3 16 (14.41%) Serverless
4 15 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (11.71%) GitHub
5 13 (11.71%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (10.81%) Amazon S3
7 11 (9.91%) Amazon SageMaker
8 10 (9.01%) Power Platform
9 9 (8.11%) dbt
10 8 (7.21%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (7.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (4.50%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (4.50%) Vertex AI
14 4 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (3.60%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) Relational Database
2 10 (9.01%) Power BI
3 9 (8.11%) Big Data
4 8 (7.21%) Tableau
5 7 (6.31%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (6.31%) Neo4j
6 5 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.60%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.60%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.70%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.70%) Metadata
8 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.70%) Power Query
8 3 (2.70%) SQLite
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.80%) MySQL
9 2 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (20.72%) Git
2 11 (9.91%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.11%) MLflow
4 6 (5.41%) Selenium
5 4 (3.60%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.80%) GitLab
7 1 (0.90%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.90%) Postman
7 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (40.54%) Finance
2 29 (26.13%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (18.92%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.81%) Publishing
5 11 (9.91%) Banking
6 8 (7.21%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.41%) Front Office
8 4 (3.60%) Marketing
9 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Legal
9 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.90%) Advertising
10 1 (0.90%) Aviation
10 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Military
10 1 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.90%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (34.23%) Developer
2 34 (30.63%) Python Developer
3 25 (22.52%) Data Scientist
4 22 (19.82%) Senior
5 18 (16.22%) Data Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) Analyst
7 10 (9.01%) AWS Developer
7 10 (9.01%) Senior Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Kafka Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Python Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Senior Python Developer
10 7 (6.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Data Analyst
10 7 (6.31%) SQL Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Python Data Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Senior Data Scientist
12 5 (4.50%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (3.60%) Business Analyst
13 4 (3.60%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (58.56%) NumPy
2 37 (33.33%) scikit-learn
3 25 (22.52%) FastAPI
4 24 (21.62%) Flask
4 24 (21.62%) PySpark
5 23 (20.72%) Polars
6 22 (19.82%) REST
7 14 (12.61%) PyTorch
8 12 (10.81%) Kafka
9 11 (9.91%) TensorFlow
10 9 (8.11%) Apache Avro
10 9 (8.11%) Matplotlib
10 9 (8.11%) RESTful
11 8 (7.21%) Django
12 7 (6.31%) .NET
13 6 (5.41%) SciPy
14 5 (4.50%) Great Expectations
14 5 (4.50%) Seaborn
15 4 (3.60%) pytest
15 4 (3.60%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.32%) Hedge funds
2 12 (10.81%) Equities
3 9 (8.11%) Derivative
3 9 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.21%) Algorithms
4 8 (7.21%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.41%) Fixed Income
5 6 (5.41%) Market Risk
6 5 (4.50%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.60%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.60%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.80%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.80%) Life Science
10 1 (0.90%) Credit Derivative
10 1 (0.90%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.90%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.51%) Unix
2 14 (12.61%) Linux
3 2 (1.80%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (45.05%) Data Pipeline
2 48 (43.24%) Data Science
3 46 (41.44%) Machine Learning
4 43 (38.74%) CI/CD
5 42 (37.84%) Analytics
6 32 (28.83%) AI
7 25 (22.52%) Containerisation
8 23 (20.72%) Visualisation
9 22 (19.82%) Data Transformation
9 22 (19.82%) Decision-Making
10 21 (18.92%) Agile
10 21 (18.92%) Code Quality
10 21 (18.92%) Data Analysis
10 21 (18.92%) Data Engineering
11 17 (15.32%) ETL
11 17 (15.32%) Performance Optimisation
12 15 (13.51%) Validation
13 14 (12.61%) Software Engineering
13 14 (12.61%) Use Case
14 13 (11.71%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 111 (100.00%) Python
2 78 (70.27%) SQL
3 15 (13.51%) C#
4 13 (11.71%) Shell Script
5 7 (6.31%) Java
6 4 (3.60%) Cypher
6 4 (3.60%) Gremlin
7 3 (2.70%) C++
7 3 (2.70%) R
7 3 (2.70%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.70%) VBA
8 2 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.90%) Bash
9 1 (0.90%) C
9 1 (0.90%) Haskell
9 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (13.51%) Degree
2 8 (7.21%) Master's Degree
2 8 (7.21%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.50%) PhD
5 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.02%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.90%) GDPR
3 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 37 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.41%) Kubeflow
2 6 (5.41%) Terraform
3 4 (3.60%) Grafana
4 3 (2.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (9.91%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.01%) Databricks
3 5 (4.50%) Foundry
4 4 (3.60%) Google
5 3 (2.70%) Palantir
5 3 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.90%) Advent
6 1 (0.90%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.90%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.90%) Reuters
6 1 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) SimCorp