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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 225 258
Rank change year-on-year -4 +33 +75
Contract jobs citing Pandas 154 148 144
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.00% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.04% 3.92% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 132 121
10th Percentile £400 £513 £463
25th Percentile £463 £638 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £773 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +18.85% -
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
England median daily rate £550 £750 £629
% change year-on-year -26.67% +19.28% -3.27%
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 £65.50
% change year-on-year +107.55% -59.54% +19.09%

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 3,815 3,777 4,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.50% 25.62% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,579 2,471 3,487
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 30
10th Percentile £33.07 £34.65 £29.60
25th Percentile £43.75 £38.38 £35.79
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% -21.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £72.80 £78.75
England median hourly rate £59.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -5.60% +20.45% -20.17%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 17 £638 +10.87% 51
West London - 3 £525 -
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 41 (26.62%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (16.88%) Apache
3 11 (7.14%) Apache Spark
4 8 (5.19%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.30%) Appian
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 79 (51.30%) AWS
2 40 (25.97%) Azure
3 39 (25.32%) dbt
4 35 (22.73%) Snowflake
5 27 (17.53%) GCP
6 18 (11.69%) Power Platform
7 12 (7.79%) Azure AI
8 10 (6.49%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (5.84%) Serverless
10 8 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (4.55%) GitHub
12 6 (3.90%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (3.90%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (3.90%) Vertex AI
13 5 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 3 (1.95%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (20.78%) Amazon Athena
2 31 (20.13%) Apache Arrow
2 31 (20.13%) Apache Iceberg
2 31 (20.13%) Dremio
3 27 (17.53%) Data Lake
4 22 (14.29%) Apache Ignite
5 18 (11.69%) Power BI
6 11 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (6.49%) Big Data
8 9 (5.84%) BigQuery
9 8 (5.19%) Tableau
10 7 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (3.25%) Metadata
12 5 (3.25%) Pinecone
12 5 (3.25%) SQL Server
13 4 (2.60%) Hadoop
13 4 (2.60%) NoSQL
13 4 (2.60%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.95%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 31 (20.13%) Git
2 8 (5.19%) MLflow
3 5 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.65%) GitLab
5 1 (0.65%) Poetry
General
1 84 (54.55%) Finance
2 59 (38.31%) Banking
3 46 (29.87%) Front Office
4 40 (25.97%) Investment Banking
5 30 (19.48%) Social Skills
6 25 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (7.79%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.90%) Marketing
9 4 (2.60%) Legal
10 2 (1.30%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.30%) Retail
11 1 (0.65%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Electronics
11 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (34.42%) Developer
2 46 (29.87%) Python Developer
3 43 (27.92%) Senior
4 40 (25.97%) Python Engineer
5 37 (24.03%) Data Scientist
6 32 (20.78%) AWS Engineer
7 31 (20.13%) AWS Software Engineer
7 31 (20.13%) Python Software Engineer
7 31 (20.13%) Software Engineer
8 22 (14.29%) AWS Developer
8 22 (14.29%) Java Engineer
8 22 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
9 21 (13.64%) Senior Java Engineer
9 21 (13.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 21 (13.64%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (9.74%) Data Engineer
11 13 (8.44%) JavaScript Developer
12 9 (5.84%) RAD Developer
12 9 (5.84%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.84%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (77.27%) NumPy
2 53 (34.42%) SciPy
3 47 (30.52%) scikit-learn
4 26 (16.88%) PyTorch
5 24 (15.58%) REST
6 23 (14.94%) TensorFlow
7 22 (14.29%) AngularJS
7 22 (14.29%) gRPC
7 22 (14.29%) Protocol Buffers
7 22 (14.29%) React
7 22 (14.29%) Vue
8 21 (13.64%) Flask
9 20 (12.99%) FastAPI
10 18 (11.69%) LangChain
11 15 (9.74%) Polars
12 14 (9.09%) PySpark
13 12 (7.79%) LangGraph
14 11 (7.14%) Matplotlib
14 11 (7.14%) Node.js
15 10 (6.49%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 53 (34.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 46 (29.87%) Hedge funds
3 45 (29.22%) Equities
4 31 (20.13%) Fixed Income
5 25 (16.23%) Derivative
6 22 (14.29%) Pricing Data
7 15 (9.74%) Algorithms
8 7 (4.55%) AI Agents
9 6 (3.90%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.95%) Equity Derivative
11 3 (1.95%) Multi-touch
11 3 (1.95%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.95%) Reinsurance
12 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.30%) Low-Code
12 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.65%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 55 (35.71%) AI
3 54 (35.06%) Data Science
3 54 (35.06%) Machine Learning
4 47 (30.52%) Analytics
5 42 (27.27%) Agile
6 37 (24.03%) Data Engineering
7 34 (22.08%) Asset Management
8 31 (20.13%) CI/CD
8 31 (20.13%) Data Analysis
8 31 (20.13%) Data Pipeline
8 31 (20.13%) Investment Management
9 30 (19.48%) Generative AI
10 27 (17.53%) Mathematics
10 27 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (16.23%) LLM
11 25 (16.23%) Visualisation
12 22 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
13 20 (12.99%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (12.99%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 154 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (36.36%) SQL
3 50 (32.47%) JavaScript
4 38 (24.68%) Java
5 31 (20.13%) TypeScript
6 19 (12.34%) C#
6 19 (12.34%) C++
7 14 (9.09%) Rust
8 10 (6.49%) VBA
9 6 (3.90%) R
10 2 (1.30%) Ada
10 2 (1.30%) Bicep
11 1 (0.65%) Bash
11 1 (0.65%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (9.74%) Degree
2 13 (8.44%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.49%) PhD
4 9 (5.84%) MCP
5 8 (5.19%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.60%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.95%) QA
3 2 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.65%) MiFID
System Software
1 30 (19.48%) Docker
2 3 (1.95%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (16.23%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.25%) Terraform
3 3 (1.95%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.65%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (11.69%) Databricks
2 15 (9.74%) Google
3 12 (7.79%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.55%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.90%) Foundry
6 5 (3.25%) Bloomberg
6 5 (3.25%) Dataiku
7 4 (2.60%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.95%) Refinitiv
8 3 (1.95%) SAP
9 2 (1.30%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (1.30%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.30%) Cognos
9 2 (1.30%) IBM
9 2 (1.30%) Sage
9 2 (1.30%) UiPath
10 1 (0.65%) DataRobot
10 1 (0.65%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.65%) Veritas