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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 225 253
Rank change year-on-year -22 +28 +76
Contract jobs citing Pandas 146 129 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 0.96% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.73% 3.64% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 112 121
10th Percentile £400 £510 £463
25th Percentile £463 £609 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £725 £638
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.73% -8.93%
75th Percentile £759 £854 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 -
England median daily rate £550 £675 £638
% change year-on-year -18.52% +5.88% -5.56%
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 £62.50
% change year-on-year +107.55% -57.60% -

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 3,909 3,541 4,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.06% 26.31% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,634 2,318 3,454
10th Percentile £363 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 21 29
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £28.18
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +10.53% -26.92%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £66.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £73.92
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 February 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 February 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 +2 17 £650 +13.04% 16
West London - 4 £524 - 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 25 (17.12%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (8.22%) Apache
3 10 (6.85%) Apache Spark
4 9 (6.16%) Jupyter
5 8 (5.48%) Appian
6 1 (0.68%) Luigi
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.37%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 60 (41.10%) AWS
2 49 (33.56%) Azure
3 24 (16.44%) Power Platform
4 20 (13.70%) dbt
5 18 (12.33%) Azure AI
5 18 (12.33%) GCP
5 18 (12.33%) Snowflake
6 15 (10.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (7.53%) GitHub
8 10 (6.85%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (6.16%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.48%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (5.48%) Power Automate
10 8 (5.48%) Serverless
11 7 (4.79%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (4.79%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (4.11%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (4.11%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.75%) Power BI
2 15 (10.27%) Data Lake
3 12 (8.22%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (8.22%) Apache Arrow
3 12 (8.22%) Apache Iceberg
3 12 (8.22%) Dremio
3 12 (8.22%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.53%) Pinecone
5 8 (5.48%) Apache Ignite
5 8 (5.48%) Tableau
6 7 (4.79%) Big Data
6 7 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.11%) BigQuery
8 5 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.42%) Metadata
8 5 (3.42%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.42%) Parquet
9 4 (2.74%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (17.81%) Git
2 17 (11.64%) MLflow
3 6 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.68%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) Poetry
5 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 71 (48.63%) Finance
2 43 (29.45%) Banking
3 35 (23.97%) Social Skills
4 28 (19.18%) Front Office
5 25 (17.12%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (15.75%) Investment Banking
7 11 (7.53%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.11%) Marketing
9 4 (2.74%) Legal
10 3 (2.05%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.05%) Publishing
11 2 (1.37%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.37%) Retail
12 1 (0.68%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Electronics
12 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (32.19%) Developer
2 39 (26.71%) Python Developer
2 39 (26.71%) Senior
3 36 (24.66%) Data Scientist
4 27 (18.49%) Data Engineer
5 21 (14.38%) Python Engineer
6 14 (9.59%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (8.90%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (8.90%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.22%) AWS Developer
8 12 (8.22%) AWS Software Engineer
8 12 (8.22%) Python Software Engineer
8 12 (8.22%) Senior Python Developer
8 12 (8.22%) Software Engineer
9 11 (7.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) RAD Developer
11 8 (5.48%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.48%) Java Engineer
11 8 (5.48%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (5.48%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (74.66%) NumPy
2 55 (37.67%) scikit-learn
3 32 (21.92%) PyTorch
3 32 (21.92%) REST
4 29 (19.86%) SciPy
5 26 (17.81%) TensorFlow
6 21 (14.38%) FastAPI
6 21 (14.38%) Flask
7 18 (12.33%) LangChain
8 16 (10.96%) Django
8 16 (10.96%) Hugging Face
8 16 (10.96%) PySpark
9 14 (9.59%) Matplotlib
10 13 (8.90%) Polars
11 12 (8.22%) AngularJS
11 12 (8.22%) LangGraph
11 12 (8.22%) React
11 12 (8.22%) Vue
11 12 (8.22%) Web Services
12 10 (6.85%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 27 (18.49%) Equities
2 27 (18.49%) Hedge funds
3 16 (10.96%) Algorithms
4 15 (10.27%) Fixed Income
5 12 (8.22%) Derivative
6 8 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (5.48%) Low-Code
6 8 (5.48%) Pricing Data
7 6 (4.11%) AI Agents
7 6 (4.11%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.05%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (2.05%) Multi-touch
8 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.05%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (41.78%) AI
1 61 (41.78%) Machine Learning
2 53 (36.30%) Data Science
3 47 (32.19%) Analytics
4 46 (31.51%) Data Pipeline
5 44 (30.14%) Data Engineering
6 39 (26.71%) CI/CD
7 35 (23.97%) Generative AI
8 31 (21.23%) Data Analysis
8 31 (21.23%) LLM
8 31 (21.23%) Software Engineering
9 30 (20.55%) ETL
10 29 (19.86%) Visualisation
11 27 (18.49%) Data Modelling
11 27 (18.49%) Natural Language Processing
12 24 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (15.75%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (15.75%) Mathematics
13 23 (15.75%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 22 (15.07%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 146 (100.00%) Python
2 71 (48.63%) SQL
3 26 (17.81%) JavaScript
4 20 (13.70%) Java
5 14 (9.59%) C#
5 14 (9.59%) C++
6 12 (8.22%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.85%) VBA
8 9 (6.16%) Rust
9 5 (3.42%) R
10 4 (2.74%) Bicep
11 2 (1.37%) Ada
12 1 (0.68%) Bash
12 1 (0.68%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (10.96%) Degree
2 14 (9.59%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.16%) PhD
4 8 (5.48%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.74%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.75%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.74%) QA
3 2 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) MiFID
System Software
1 30 (20.55%) Docker
2 3 (2.05%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (18.49%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.48%) Terraform
3 3 (2.05%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.68%) Podman
Vendors
1 21 (14.38%) Databricks
2 16 (10.96%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.59%) OpenAI
4 13 (8.90%) Google
5 8 (5.48%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (5.48%) UiPath
6 6 (4.11%) Foundry
7 5 (3.42%) Dataiku
8 4 (2.74%) Alteryx
8 4 (2.74%) Bloomberg
9 3 (2.05%) Cognos
9 3 (2.05%) IBM
9 3 (2.05%) Refinitiv
9 3 (2.05%) Sage
9 3 (2.05%) SAP
10 1 (0.68%) Cisco
10 1 (0.68%) DataRobot
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle
10 1 (0.68%) Reuters
10 1 (0.68%) Salesforce