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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 208 149
Rank change year-on-year -108 -59 +102
Contract jobs citing Pandas 124 177 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 1.30% 1.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.75% 4.99% 6.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 133 254
10th Percentile £406 £525 £633
25th Percentile £466 £638 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +25.49%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £806 - -
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 4,515 3,550 4,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.57% 26.06% 27.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,999 2,485 3,206
10th Percentile £388 £371 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £782 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 25 25
10th Percentile £25.13 £31.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.31 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.41% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £60.75 £62.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.70 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%

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 4 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 4 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 -14 8 £500 -4.76% 5
Central London -20 8 £600 +5.26% 7
East London +3 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 14 (11.29%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.26%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.65%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.42%) Apache
4 3 (2.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.81%) Appian
Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 45 (36.29%) AWS
2 39 (31.45%) Azure
3 17 (13.71%) GCP
4 16 (12.90%) Serverless
5 15 (12.10%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (12.10%) GitHub
5 15 (12.10%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (11.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (10.48%) Amazon S3
7 13 (10.48%) Amazon SageMaker
8 11 (8.87%) Power Platform
9 8 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.65%) dbt
11 6 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (4.84%) Dagster
12 5 (4.03%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (3.23%) Amazon Neptune
13 4 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (3.23%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.68%) Relational Database
2 10 (8.06%) Power BI
3 9 (7.26%) Big Data
3 9 (7.26%) Geospatial Data
4 8 (6.45%) Tableau
5 7 (5.65%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.65%) Neo4j
6 4 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.42%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.42%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.42%) Metadata
7 3 (2.42%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.42%) Power Query
7 3 (2.42%) SQLite
8 2 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.61%) MySQL
8 2 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.61%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 26 (20.97%) Git
2 12 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.68%) MLflow
3 7 (5.65%) Selenium
4 4 (3.23%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.61%) GitLab
6 1 (0.81%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.81%) Postman
6 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (39.52%) Finance
2 39 (31.45%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (22.58%) Social Skills
4 18 (14.52%) Publishing
5 11 (8.87%) Banking
6 8 (6.45%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.84%) Front Office
7 6 (4.84%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.23%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.23%) Marketing
9 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.61%) Legal
9 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Advertising
10 1 (0.81%) Aviation
10 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Military
10 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.81%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (31.45%) Developer
2 34 (27.42%) Python Developer
3 29 (23.39%) Data Scientist
4 24 (19.35%) Data Engineer
5 23 (18.55%) Senior
6 14 (11.29%) Analyst
7 10 (8.06%) AWS Developer
7 10 (8.06%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.26%) Data Analyst
8 9 (7.26%) Kafka Developer
9 8 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) Senior Python Developer
10 7 (5.65%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Python Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Senior Data Scientist
10 7 (5.65%) SQL Developer
11 5 (4.03%) Business Analyst
11 5 (4.03%) Python Data Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (58.87%) NumPy
2 48 (38.71%) scikit-learn
3 29 (23.39%) Polars
4 26 (20.97%) FastAPI
5 25 (20.16%) Flask
6 23 (18.55%) PySpark
6 23 (18.55%) REST
7 15 (12.10%) PyTorch
8 14 (11.29%) Kafka
8 14 (11.29%) Matplotlib
9 12 (9.68%) TensorFlow
10 10 (8.06%) RESTful
11 9 (7.26%) Apache Avro
11 9 (7.26%) Django
11 9 (7.26%) GeoJSON
12 7 (5.65%) .NET
12 7 (5.65%) Seaborn
13 6 (4.84%) SciPy
14 5 (4.03%) pytest
15 4 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.71%) Hedge funds
2 12 (9.68%) Equities
3 9 (7.26%) Algorithms
3 9 (7.26%) Derivative
3 9 (7.26%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.45%) Fixed Income
5 7 (5.65%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.84%) Market Risk
7 5 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.23%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.42%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.61%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.61%) Life Science
10 2 (1.61%) NHS
10 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.81%) Credit Derivative
11 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.10%) Unix
2 14 (11.29%) Linux
3 2 (1.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (45.97%) Data Pipeline
2 52 (41.94%) Data Science
3 51 (41.13%) Machine Learning
4 46 (37.10%) Analytics
4 46 (37.10%) CI/CD
5 37 (29.84%) AI
6 28 (22.58%) Decision-Making
6 28 (22.58%) Visualisation
7 27 (21.77%) Containerisation
7 27 (21.77%) Data Engineering
8 26 (20.97%) Data Transformation
9 23 (18.55%) Data Analysis
10 21 (16.94%) Agile
10 21 (16.94%) Code Quality
11 20 (16.13%) ETL
12 17 (13.71%) Anomaly Detection
12 17 (13.71%) Performance Optimisation
12 17 (13.71%) Validation
13 16 (12.90%) LLM
14 15 (12.10%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 124 (100.00%) Python
2 90 (72.58%) SQL
3 15 (12.10%) C#
4 13 (10.48%) Shell Script
5 7 (5.65%) Java
6 4 (3.23%) Cypher
6 4 (3.23%) Gremlin
7 3 (2.42%) C++
7 3 (2.42%) R
7 3 (2.42%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.42%) VBA
8 2 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.81%) Bash
9 1 (0.81%) C
9 1 (0.81%) Haskell
9 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (12.10%) Degree
2 12 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.26%) Master's Degree
4 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.03%) PhD
6 4 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (23.39%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.81%) GDPR
3 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 39 (31.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (16.94%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.03%) Terraform
3 4 (3.23%) Grafana
3 4 (3.23%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.42%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (10.48%) Databricks
2 12 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.03%) Foundry
4 4 (3.23%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.42%) Google
5 3 (2.42%) Palantir
5 3 (2.42%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.81%) Advent
6 1 (0.81%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.81%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.81%) Reuters
6 1 (0.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) SimCorp
6 1 (0.81%) UiPath