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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 199 154
Rank change year-on-year -139 -45 +110
Contract jobs citing Pandas 111 168 278
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 1.26% 1.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.10% 4.31% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 126 256
10th Percentile £388 £513 £675
25th Percentile £485 £613 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
England median daily rate £550 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +29.29%
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 5,289 3,897 4,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 29.15% 30.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,713 3,491
10th Percentile £400 £368 £383
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £823 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 18
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.61 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.87 £24.48
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +21.04% -36.57%
75th Percentile £61.50 £61.88 £50.56
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £68.02
England median hourly rate £67.24 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.71% -13.04% -3.85%

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 28 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 28 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 -16 7 £575 +9.52% 5
Central London -35 3 £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 12 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.21%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.70%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.80%) Apache
6 1 (0.90%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 38 (34.23%) AWS
2 26 (23.42%) Azure
3 16 (14.41%) Serverless
4 15 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (13.51%) GCP
5 13 (11.71%) GitHub
5 13 (11.71%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (10.81%) Amazon S3
7 11 (9.91%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (8.11%) Power Platform
9 8 (7.21%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (7.21%) dbt
10 7 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.50%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (4.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (4.50%) Vertex AI
12 4 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (3.60%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) 4G
1 1 (0.90%) 5G
1 1 (0.90%) DNS
1 1 (0.90%) HTTP
1 1 (0.90%) SSH
1 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.11%) Big Data
2 9 (8.11%) Power BI
3 7 (6.31%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (6.31%) Neo4j
3 7 (6.31%) Tableau
4 5 (4.50%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.60%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.60%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (3.60%) MySQL
6 3 (2.70%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.70%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.70%) Metadata
6 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.70%) SQLite
7 2 (1.80%) Power Query
7 2 (1.80%) Redis
7 2 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (23.42%) Git
2 13 (11.71%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.11%) MLflow
4 6 (5.41%) Selenium
5 4 (3.60%) GitLab
5 4 (3.60%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.90%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.90%) Postman
6 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (40.54%) Finance
2 29 (26.13%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (18.92%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.81%) Banking
4 12 (10.81%) Publishing
5 9 (8.11%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.50%) Front Office
7 4 (3.60%) Marketing
8 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Legal
8 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.90%) Advertising
9 1 (0.90%) Aviation
9 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.90%) Military
9 1 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (36.94%) Developer
2 37 (33.33%) Python Developer
3 25 (22.52%) Data Scientist
4 22 (19.82%) Senior
5 17 (15.32%) Data Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) Analyst
7 10 (9.01%) AWS Developer
7 10 (9.01%) Senior Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Kafka Developer
9 8 (7.21%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Senior Python Developer
10 7 (6.31%) Python Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) SQL Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Data Analyst
11 6 (5.41%) Senior Data Scientist
12 5 (4.50%) Python Data Engineer
12 5 (4.50%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (3.60%) Business Analyst
13 4 (3.60%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (57.66%) NumPy
2 36 (32.43%) scikit-learn
3 27 (24.32%) FastAPI
3 27 (24.32%) Flask
4 24 (21.62%) Polars
4 24 (21.62%) PySpark
4 24 (21.62%) REST
5 13 (11.71%) Kafka
6 12 (10.81%) PyTorch
7 11 (9.91%) RESTful
8 9 (8.11%) Apache Avro
8 9 (8.11%) Matplotlib
8 9 (8.11%) TensorFlow
9 8 (7.21%) Django
10 6 (5.41%) .NET
10 6 (5.41%) SciPy
10 6 (5.41%) Terraform
11 5 (4.50%) Great Expectations
11 5 (4.50%) pytest
11 5 (4.50%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.32%) Hedge funds
2 11 (9.91%) Equities
3 9 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.21%) Algorithms
4 8 (7.21%) Derivative
4 8 (7.21%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (5.41%) Market Risk
6 5 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.50%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.60%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.70%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.80%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.80%) Life Science
10 1 (0.90%) Credit Derivative
10 1 (0.90%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.90%) Smart Home
10 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.41%) Linux
2 14 (12.61%) Unix
3 1 (0.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (45.05%) Data Pipeline
2 48 (43.24%) Data Science
3 44 (39.64%) CI/CD
4 43 (38.74%) Analytics
4 43 (38.74%) Machine Learning
5 32 (28.83%) AI
6 24 (21.62%) Containerisation
7 23 (20.72%) Visualisation
8 22 (19.82%) Agile
8 22 (19.82%) Data Analysis
8 22 (19.82%) Data Transformation
8 22 (19.82%) Decision-Making
9 21 (18.92%) Code Quality
10 20 (18.02%) Data Engineering
11 18 (16.22%) Validation
12 17 (15.32%) ETL
13 16 (14.41%) Performance Optimisation
14 14 (12.61%) Computer Science
14 14 (12.61%) Use Case
15 13 (11.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 111 (100.00%) Python
2 80 (72.07%) SQL
3 15 (13.51%) Shell Script
4 14 (12.61%) C#
5 7 (6.31%) Java
6 4 (3.60%) Cypher
6 4 (3.60%) Gremlin
7 3 (2.70%) Bash
7 3 (2.70%) C++
7 3 (2.70%) R
7 3 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.80%) VBA
9 1 (0.90%) C
9 1 (0.90%) Haskell
9 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (15.32%) Degree
2 8 (7.21%) Master's Degree
3 7 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.31%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.50%) PhD
4 5 (4.50%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.12%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.80%) QA
3 1 (0.90%) EMIR
3 1 (0.90%) GDPR
3 1 (0.90%) MiFID
System Software
1 36 (32.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (17.12%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.50%) Grafana
2 5 (4.50%) Kubeflow
3 3 (2.70%) Podman
4 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (9.01%) Databricks
1 10 (9.01%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.60%) Foundry
3 3 (2.70%) Google
3 3 (2.70%) Palantir
3 3 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.90%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.90%) Optimizely
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle
4 1 (0.90%) Reuters
4 1 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (0.90%) SimCorp