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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 191 255
Rank change year-on-year -33 +64 +75
Contract jobs citing Pandas 159 198 164
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.12% 1.27% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.27% 4.89% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 183 137
10th Percentile £423 £550 £450
25th Percentile £500 £675 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £800 £633
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +26.48% -2.69%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
England median daily rate £600 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -25.00% +28.00% -3.85%
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 3,721 4,050 5,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.10% 25.90% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,522 2,649 3,785
10th Percentile £356 £376 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £653 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 31
10th Percentile £34.16 £36.13 £32.00
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.44 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -15.22% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.13 £72.83
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.90 £86.56
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +19.27% -16.15%

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 3 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 3 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 +16 16 £625 - 9
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 54 (33.96%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (21.38%) Apache
3 10 (6.29%) Apache Spark
4 9 (5.66%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 90 (56.60%) AWS
2 53 (33.33%) dbt
3 44 (27.67%) Snowflake
4 37 (23.27%) Azure
5 33 (20.75%) GCP
6 16 (10.06%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.66%) Azure AI
7 9 (5.66%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (3.77%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.77%) Serverless
8 6 (3.77%) Vertex AI
9 5 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.14%) GitHub
10 4 (2.52%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (1.89%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.89%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.26%) Dialogflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (28.93%) Amazon Athena
2 45 (28.30%) Apache Arrow
2 45 (28.30%) Apache Iceberg
2 45 (28.30%) Dremio
3 30 (18.87%) Apache Ignite
3 30 (18.87%) Data Lake
4 17 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (10.06%) Power BI
6 9 (5.66%) BigQuery
6 9 (5.66%) Tableau
7 8 (5.03%) Big Data
8 5 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.14%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.52%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.89%) Metadata
10 3 (1.89%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.26%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.26%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 35 (22.01%) Git
2 5 (3.14%) MLflow
3 4 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.63%) GitLab
5 1 (0.63%) Poetry
General
1 96 (60.38%) Finance
2 69 (43.40%) Banking
3 60 (37.74%) Front Office
4 52 (32.70%) Investment Banking
5 28 (17.61%) Social Skills
6 24 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (7.55%) Public Sector
8 9 (5.66%) Marketing
9 4 (2.52%) Legal
10 3 (1.89%) Retail
11 2 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.26%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Electronics
12 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (37.11%) Developer
2 52 (32.70%) Python Engineer
3 51 (32.08%) Python Developer
4 45 (28.30%) AWS Engineer
4 45 (28.30%) AWS Software Engineer
4 45 (28.30%) Software Engineer
5 44 (27.67%) Senior
6 43 (27.04%) Python Software Engineer
7 35 (22.01%) Data Scientist
8 32 (20.13%) Java Engineer
8 32 (20.13%) Java Software Engineer
9 31 (19.50%) AWS Developer
10 29 (18.24%) Senior Java Engineer
10 29 (18.24%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 29 (18.24%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (10.06%) JavaScript Developer
12 15 (9.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 11 (6.92%) Data Engineer
14 9 (5.66%) RAD Developer
15 6 (3.77%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (77.99%) NumPy
2 67 (42.14%) SciPy
3 40 (25.16%) scikit-learn
4 31 (19.50%) AngularJS
4 31 (19.50%) React
4 31 (19.50%) Vue
5 30 (18.87%) gRPC
5 30 (18.87%) Protocol Buffers
6 24 (15.09%) Flask
7 22 (13.84%) FastAPI
8 20 (12.58%) PyTorch
9 18 (11.32%) Polars
9 18 (11.32%) REST
10 17 (10.69%) TensorFlow
11 15 (9.43%) LangChain
11 15 (9.43%) Node.js
12 9 (5.66%) COM
13 8 (5.03%) LangGraph
13 8 (5.03%) Matplotlib
14 7 (4.40%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 70 (44.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 59 (37.11%) Equities
3 57 (35.85%) Hedge funds
4 46 (28.93%) Fixed Income
5 32 (20.13%) Derivative
6 30 (18.87%) Pricing Data
7 15 (9.43%) Algorithms
8 5 (3.14%) AI Agents
8 5 (3.14%) Multi-touch
9 4 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.52%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.89%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.89%) Reinsurance
11 2 (1.26%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (45.91%) Software Engineering
2 57 (35.85%) Agile
3 51 (32.08%) Data Science
4 50 (31.45%) Asset Management
4 50 (31.45%) Machine Learning
5 47 (29.56%) AI
6 46 (28.93%) Investment Management
7 43 (27.04%) Analytics
8 34 (21.38%) Data Engineering
9 31 (19.50%) Data Analysis
10 29 (18.24%) Mathematics
11 27 (16.98%) CI/CD
11 27 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (15.09%) Generative AI
12 24 (15.09%) Risk Management
13 23 (14.47%) Data Pipeline
14 22 (13.84%) Clean Code
14 22 (13.84%) LLM
14 22 (13.84%) Visualisation
15 19 (11.95%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 157 (98.74%) Python
2 64 (40.25%) JavaScript
3 53 (33.33%) SQL
4 50 (31.45%) Java
5 45 (28.30%) TypeScript
6 19 (11.95%) C#
6 19 (11.95%) C++
7 17 (10.69%) Rust
8 10 (6.29%) VBA
9 6 (3.77%) R
10 2 (1.26%) Bash
11 1 (0.63%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (9.43%) Degree
2 13 (8.18%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.66%) PhD
4 6 (3.77%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.14%) MCP
6 4 (2.52%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.89%) QA
3 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) MiFID
System Software
1 31 (19.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (15.72%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.89%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.89%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (8.18%) Google
2 10 (6.29%) Databricks
3 9 (5.66%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.40%) Foundry
5 6 (3.77%) Bloomberg
6 5 (3.14%) Dataiku
7 4 (2.52%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.89%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.89%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.89%) Refinitiv
9 2 (1.26%) Cognos
9 2 (1.26%) IBM
9 2 (1.26%) Sage
10 1 (0.63%) Cisco
10 1 (0.63%) DataRobot
10 1 (0.63%) Oracle
10 1 (0.63%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.63%) SAP
10 1 (0.63%) Veritas