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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 207 159
Rank change year-on-year -132 -48 +117
Contract jobs citing Pandas 110 173 262
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 1.28% 1.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.06% 4.39% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 129 244
10th Percentile £350 £513 £675
25th Percentile £450 £588 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -6.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £800 - -
England median daily rate £545 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -27.33% -6.25% +28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 -

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 5,333 3,942 4,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.24% 29.22% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,555 2,725 3,472
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £821 £850
England median daily rate £530 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 32 20
10th Percentile £26.60 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.13 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +15.49% -28.57%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.14% -13.04% -0.79%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 6 £575 +9.52% 7
Central London -31 2 £653 +18.75% 7
East London +2 1 - - 2
South London - 1 £300 - 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 (11.82%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.27%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.73%) Apache
4 3 (2.73%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.91%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 39 (35.45%) AWS
2 23 (20.91%) Azure
3 18 (16.36%) Serverless
4 17 (15.45%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (13.64%) GCP
5 15 (13.64%) GitHub
5 15 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (11.82%) Amazon S3
7 12 (10.91%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (8.18%) dbt
9 8 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (7.27%) Power Platform
10 6 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.55%) Amazon Neptune
11 5 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (4.55%) Dagster
12 4 (3.64%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) 4G
1 1 (0.91%) 5G
1 1 (0.91%) DNS
1 1 (0.91%) HTTP
1 1 (0.91%) SSH
1 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.18%) Big Data
3 8 (7.27%) Neo4j
3 8 (7.27%) Power BI
4 7 (6.36%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.45%) Tableau
6 5 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.64%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.64%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.73%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.73%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.73%) Metadata
8 3 (2.73%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.73%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.73%) SQLite
9 2 (1.82%) MySQL
9 2 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (30.00%) Git
2 12 (10.91%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.18%) MLflow
4 6 (5.45%) Selenium
5 4 (3.64%) GitLab
5 4 (3.64%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.91%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.91%) Postman
6 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (40.91%) Finance
2 27 (24.55%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (19.09%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.73%) Banking
5 11 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 9 (8.18%) Publishing
7 5 (4.55%) Front Office
7 5 (4.55%) Marketing
8 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Legal
9 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.91%) Advertising
10 1 (0.91%) Automotive
10 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.91%) Military
10 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.91%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 41 (37.27%) Developer
2 36 (32.73%) Python Developer
3 25 (22.73%) Data Scientist
3 25 (22.73%) Senior
4 15 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 11 (10.00%) Analyst
5 11 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 10 (9.09%) AWS Developer
7 9 (8.18%) Senior Python Developer
8 8 (7.27%) Kafka Developer
8 8 (7.27%) Python Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) SQL Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Senior Data Scientist
11 5 (4.55%) Data Analyst
11 5 (4.55%) Python Data Engineer
12 4 (3.64%) Quantitative Developer
12 4 (3.64%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (58.18%) NumPy
2 33 (30.00%) scikit-learn
3 28 (25.45%) Flask
3 28 (25.45%) PySpark
4 27 (24.55%) FastAPI
5 25 (22.73%) REST
6 21 (19.09%) Polars
7 12 (10.91%) Kafka
7 12 (10.91%) PyTorch
7 12 (10.91%) RESTful
8 9 (8.18%) TensorFlow
8 9 (8.18%) Terraform
9 8 (7.27%) Apache Avro
9 8 (7.27%) Django
10 7 (6.36%) Matplotlib
11 6 (5.45%) .NET
11 6 (5.45%) pytest
12 5 (4.55%) Great Expectations
12 5 (4.55%) SciPy
12 5 (4.55%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.64%) Hedge funds
2 8 (7.27%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (7.27%) Equities
2 8 (7.27%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.27%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.36%) Algorithms
3 7 (6.36%) Derivative
4 6 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.45%) Market Risk
5 4 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.64%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.73%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.73%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.82%) Life Science
8 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.91%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.91%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.91%) Robotics
8 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.45%) Linux
2 15 (13.64%) Unix
3 1 (0.91%) VMS
3 1 (0.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (46.36%) Data Pipeline
2 47 (42.73%) CI/CD
2 47 (42.73%) Data Science
3 44 (40.00%) Analytics
4 43 (39.09%) Machine Learning
5 33 (30.00%) AI
6 26 (23.64%) Containerisation
7 25 (22.73%) Data Analysis
8 23 (20.91%) Agile
9 22 (20.00%) Visualisation
10 21 (19.09%) Code Quality
10 21 (19.09%) Validation
11 20 (18.18%) Decision-Making
12 19 (17.27%) Data Engineering
12 19 (17.27%) Data Transformation
13 17 (15.45%) ETL
13 17 (15.45%) Software Engineering
14 16 (14.55%) Performance Optimisation
15 14 (12.73%) LLM
16 13 (11.82%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 110 (100.00%) Python
2 80 (72.73%) SQL
3 15 (13.64%) Shell Script
4 14 (12.73%) C#
5 8 (7.27%) Java
6 5 (4.55%) Cypher
6 5 (4.55%) Gremlin
7 4 (3.64%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.73%) Bash
8 3 (2.73%) R
9 2 (1.82%) C++
9 2 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.82%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.82%) VBA
10 1 (0.91%) C
10 1 (0.91%) Haskell
10 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.91%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (14.55%) Degree
2 8 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.36%) Master's Degree
4 6 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.45%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.55%) PhD
6 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.73%) EMIR
2 3 (2.73%) MiFID
2 3 (2.73%) QA
3 2 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.91%) GDPR
System Software
1 37 (33.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (19.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.45%) Grafana
3 4 (3.64%) Kubeflow
3 4 (3.64%) Podman
4 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.09%) Databricks
3 4 (3.64%) Foundry
3 4 (3.64%) Google
3 4 (3.64%) Oracle
4 3 (2.73%) Palantir
4 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.91%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) SimCorp