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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 202 155
Rank change year-on-year -138 -47 +133
Contract jobs citing Pandas 107 171 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 1.29% 1.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.01% 4.42% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 127 242
10th Percentile £350 £513 £663
25th Percentile £450 £581 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% -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 5,315 3,873 4,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.24% 29.25% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,550 2,671 3,436
10th Percentile £400 £365 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.02% -5.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 32 21
10th Percentile £26.60 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.13 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +22.28% -33.59%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.81 £61.43
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -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 15 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 15 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 -16 4 £500 -4.76% 8
Central London -34 2 £653 +18.75% 12
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 11 (10.28%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (9.35%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.48%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.80%) Apache
4 3 (2.80%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.51%) AWS
2 22 (20.56%) Azure
3 18 (16.82%) Serverless
4 17 (15.89%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (14.02%) GCP
6 14 (13.08%) GitHub
6 14 (13.08%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (12.15%) Amazon S3
8 10 (9.35%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (8.41%) dbt
10 8 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (7.48%) Power Platform
11 6 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (4.67%) Amazon Neptune
12 5 (4.67%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (4.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (3.74%) Azure Databricks
13 4 (3.74%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.74%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) 4G
1 1 (0.93%) 5G
1 1 (0.93%) DNS
1 1 (0.93%) HTTP
1 1 (0.93%) SSH
1 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.28%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.41%) Big Data
3 8 (7.48%) Neo4j
3 8 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.48%) Power BI
4 7 (6.54%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.61%) Tableau
6 5 (4.67%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.74%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.74%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.80%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.80%) Metadata
8 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.80%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.80%) SQLite
9 2 (1.87%) MySQL
9 2 (1.87%) Redis
9 2 (1.87%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (29.91%) Git
2 12 (11.21%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.54%) MLflow
4 6 (5.61%) Selenium
5 4 (3.74%) GitLab
5 4 (3.74%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.93%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.93%) Postman
6 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (42.06%) Finance
2 25 (23.36%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (19.63%) Social Skills
4 14 (13.08%) Banking
5 11 (10.28%) Investment Banking
6 8 (7.48%) Publishing
7 5 (4.67%) Marketing
8 4 (3.74%) Front Office
9 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Legal
10 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.93%) Advertising
11 1 (0.93%) Automotive
11 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.93%) Military
11 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.93%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 40 (37.38%) Developer
2 35 (32.71%) Python Developer
3 25 (23.36%) Senior
4 23 (21.50%) Data Scientist
5 14 (13.08%) Data Engineer
6 11 (10.28%) Analyst
6 11 (10.28%) Senior Developer
7 10 (9.35%) AWS Developer
8 9 (8.41%) Senior Python Developer
9 8 (7.48%) Kafka Developer
9 8 (7.48%) Python Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) SQL Developer
11 6 (5.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Senior Data Scientist
12 5 (4.67%) Data Analyst
13 4 (3.74%) Business Analyst
13 4 (3.74%) Quantitative Developer
13 4 (3.74%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (57.94%) NumPy
2 30 (28.04%) scikit-learn
3 28 (26.17%) FastAPI
3 28 (26.17%) Flask
3 28 (26.17%) PySpark
4 24 (22.43%) REST
5 20 (18.69%) Polars
6 12 (11.21%) Kafka
6 12 (11.21%) PyTorch
6 12 (11.21%) RESTful
7 10 (9.35%) Terraform
8 9 (8.41%) TensorFlow
9 8 (7.48%) Apache Avro
9 8 (7.48%) Django
10 6 (5.61%) .NET
10 6 (5.61%) Matplotlib
10 6 (5.61%) pytest
11 5 (4.67%) Great Expectations
11 5 (4.67%) SciPy
11 5 (4.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.02%) Hedge funds
2 8 (7.48%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (7.48%) Equities
2 8 (7.48%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.54%) Derivative
4 6 (5.61%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.61%) Market Risk
5 4 (3.74%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.74%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.74%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.80%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.87%) Life Science
8 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.93%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.93%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.93%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.89%) Linux
2 15 (14.02%) Unix
3 1 (0.93%) VMS
3 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (46.73%) Data Pipeline
2 45 (42.06%) CI/CD
2 45 (42.06%) Data Science
3 43 (40.19%) Analytics
4 42 (39.25%) Machine Learning
5 34 (31.78%) AI
6 25 (23.36%) Data Analysis
7 24 (22.43%) Containerisation
8 23 (21.50%) Agile
9 21 (19.63%) Validation
9 21 (19.63%) Visualisation
10 20 (18.69%) Code Quality
10 20 (18.69%) Decision-Making
11 18 (16.82%) Data Transformation
12 17 (15.89%) Data Engineering
12 17 (15.89%) ETL
13 16 (14.95%) Performance Optimisation
13 16 (14.95%) Software Engineering
14 14 (13.08%) LLM
15 13 (12.15%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 107 (100.00%) Python
2 77 (71.96%) SQL
3 15 (14.02%) Shell Script
4 14 (13.08%) C#
5 8 (7.48%) Java
6 5 (4.67%) Cypher
6 5 (4.67%) Gremlin
7 4 (3.74%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.80%) Bash
8 3 (2.80%) R
9 2 (1.87%) C++
9 2 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.87%) VBA
10 1 (0.93%) C
10 1 (0.93%) Haskell
10 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (13.08%) Degree
2 8 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.67%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.67%) PhD
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.15%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.80%) EMIR
2 3 (2.80%) MiFID
2 3 (2.80%) QA
3 2 (1.87%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (33.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (20.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.61%) Grafana
3 4 (3.74%) Kubeflow
3 4 (3.74%) Podman
4 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (9.35%) Databricks
1 10 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.74%) Foundry
2 4 (3.74%) Google
2 4 (3.74%) Oracle
3 3 (2.80%) Palantir
3 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.93%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.93%) Optimizely
4 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (0.93%) SimCorp