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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 233 259
Rank change year-on-year -6 +26 +87
Contract jobs citing Pandas 144 127 137
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 0.93% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.73% 3.57% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 111 122
10th Percentile £400 £510 £463
25th Percentile £463 £594 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £725 £638
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.73% -8.93%
75th Percentile £759 £859 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 -
England median daily rate £550 £675 £638
% change year-on-year -18.52% +5.88% -1.92%
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 £62.50
% change year-on-year +107.55% -57.60% -

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 3,861 3,558 4,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.16% 26.19% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,603 2,306 3,491
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -5.93%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £688
90th Percentile £769 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 29
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £29.48
25th Percentile £39.75 £38.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £50.75 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 February 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 3 February 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
Central London -4 15 £650 +13.04% 21
West London - 4 £524 - 8
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 24 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (7.64%) Apache
3 10 (6.94%) Apache Spark
4 9 (6.25%) Jupyter
5 7 (4.86%) Appian
6 1 (0.69%) Luigi
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.39%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 61 (42.36%) AWS
2 45 (31.25%) Azure
3 24 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 20 (13.89%) dbt
5 19 (13.19%) GCP
6 18 (12.50%) Snowflake
7 17 (11.81%) Azure AI
8 11 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (7.64%) GitHub
9 10 (6.94%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
10 9 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (5.56%) Serverless
12 7 (4.86%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.86%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (4.86%) Power Automate
13 6 (4.17%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (4.17%) Amazon S3
13 6 (4.17%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.67%) Power BI
2 15 (10.42%) Data Lake
3 12 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (8.33%) Apache Arrow
3 12 (8.33%) Apache Iceberg
3 12 (8.33%) Dremio
3 12 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.94%) Pinecone
5 9 (6.25%) Tableau
6 8 (5.56%) Apache Ignite
7 7 (4.86%) Big Data
8 6 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.17%) BigQuery
8 6 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.47%) Metadata
9 5 (3.47%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.47%) Parquet
10 4 (2.78%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 27 (18.75%) Git
2 17 (11.81%) MLflow
3 5 (3.47%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.69%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) Poetry
General
1 71 (49.31%) Finance
2 44 (30.56%) Banking
3 32 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 28 (19.44%) Front Office
5 24 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (16.67%) Investment Banking
6 11 (7.64%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.17%) Marketing
8 4 (2.78%) Legal
9 3 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.39%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.39%) Retail
11 1 (0.69%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Electronics
11 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (33.33%) Developer
2 40 (27.78%) Python Developer
3 38 (26.39%) Senior
4 36 (25.00%) Data Scientist
5 23 (15.97%) Data Engineer
6 22 (15.28%) Python Engineer
7 14 (9.72%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (9.03%) AWS Developer
8 13 (9.03%) Senior Developer
9 12 (8.33%) AWS Software Engineer
9 12 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
9 12 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
9 12 (8.33%) Software Engineer
10 11 (7.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (6.25%) JavaScript Developer
11 9 (6.25%) RAD Developer
12 8 (5.56%) Java Engineer
12 8 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (4.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (75.69%) NumPy
2 52 (36.11%) scikit-learn
3 32 (22.22%) PyTorch
4 31 (21.53%) REST
5 30 (20.83%) SciPy
6 26 (18.06%) TensorFlow
7 21 (14.58%) FastAPI
7 21 (14.58%) Flask
8 19 (13.19%) LangChain
9 16 (11.11%) Hugging Face
9 16 (11.11%) PySpark
10 15 (10.42%) Django
11 13 (9.03%) AngularJS
11 13 (9.03%) React
11 13 (9.03%) Vue
12 12 (8.33%) LangGraph
13 11 (7.64%) Matplotlib
13 11 (7.64%) Polars
13 11 (7.64%) Web Services
14 9 (6.25%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (19.44%) Hedge funds
3 27 (18.75%) Equities
4 15 (10.42%) Algorithms
4 15 (10.42%) Fixed Income
5 12 (8.33%) Derivative
6 8 (5.56%) Pricing Data
7 7 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (4.86%) Low-Code
8 6 (4.17%) AI Agents
8 6 (4.17%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.08%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (2.08%) Multi-touch
9 3 (2.08%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.08%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (42.36%) Machine Learning
2 60 (41.67%) AI
3 53 (36.81%) Data Science
4 47 (32.64%) Analytics
5 45 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
6 44 (30.56%) Data Engineering
7 38 (26.39%) CI/CD
8 35 (24.31%) Generative AI
9 33 (22.92%) Software Engineering
10 31 (21.53%) Data Analysis
10 31 (21.53%) LLM
11 30 (20.83%) ETL
12 28 (19.44%) Visualisation
13 27 (18.75%) Natural Language Processing
14 24 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (16.67%) Data Modelling
14 24 (16.67%) Mathematics
14 24 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (15.97%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 22 (15.28%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 144 (100.00%) Python
2 67 (46.53%) SQL
3 27 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 21 (14.58%) Java
5 15 (10.42%) C#
5 15 (10.42%) C++
6 12 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.94%) Rust
7 10 (6.94%) VBA
8 5 (3.47%) R
9 4 (2.78%) Bicep
10 2 (1.39%) Ada
11 1 (0.69%) Bash
11 1 (0.69%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (11.11%) Degree
2 12 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.25%) PhD
4 8 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.78%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.78%) QA
3 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.69%) MiFID
System Software
1 31 (21.53%) Docker
2 3 (2.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.56%) Terraform
3 3 (2.08%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (13.89%) Databricks
2 17 (11.81%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.03%) Google
3 13 (9.03%) OpenAI
4 7 (4.86%) Automation Anywhere
4 7 (4.86%) UiPath
5 6 (4.17%) Foundry
6 5 (3.47%) Dataiku
7 4 (2.78%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.78%) Bloomberg
8 3 (2.08%) Cognos
8 3 (2.08%) IBM
8 3 (2.08%) Refinitiv
8 3 (2.08%) Sage
8 3 (2.08%) SAP
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco
9 1 (0.69%) DataRobot
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle
9 1 (0.69%) Reuters
9 1 (0.69%) Salesforce