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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 212 212
Rank change year-on-year -45 0 +58
Contract jobs citing Pandas 153 147 187
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 1.17% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.68% 4.48% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 116 165
10th Percentile £406 £521 £480
25th Percentile £460 £638 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £825 £888 -
England median daily rate £550 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -24.14% -3.33% +7.72%

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 4,161 3,281 4,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.55% 26.10% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 2,301 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 27
10th Percentile £23.00 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £23.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.24%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £68.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -13 19 £638 +15.91% 18
West London - 10 £511 - 6
East London - 1 - - 4
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 20 (13.07%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (7.19%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.23%) Appian
3 8 (5.23%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.96%) Apache
5 1 (0.65%) Luigi
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Actimize
1 1 (0.65%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 62 (40.52%) Azure
2 57 (37.25%) AWS
3 22 (14.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 22 (14.38%) Power Platform
4 20 (13.07%) GitHub
5 19 (12.42%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (11.76%) GCP
6 18 (11.76%) Serverless
7 16 (10.46%) Amazon S3
8 14 (9.15%) Amazon SageMaker
9 13 (8.50%) Azure AI
10 10 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (5.23%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (5.23%) Dagster
11 8 (5.23%) Power Automate
12 7 (4.58%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (4.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (3.92%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.73%) Power BI
2 12 (7.84%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.19%) Tableau
4 10 (6.54%) Relational Database
5 9 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (5.23%) Big Data
6 8 (5.23%) Pinecone
7 7 (4.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.58%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (3.27%) Metadata
10 4 (2.61%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.61%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.61%) Parquet
10 4 (2.61%) Power Query
11 3 (1.96%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.96%) SQLite
12 2 (1.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (16.99%) Git
2 21 (13.73%) MLflow
3 15 (9.80%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.58%) Selenium
5 3 (1.96%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.31%) GitLab
7 1 (0.65%) Poetry
7 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (37.25%) Finance
2 40 (26.14%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (24.84%) Social Skills
4 18 (11.76%) Banking
5 17 (11.11%) Publishing
6 12 (7.84%) Front Office
7 11 (7.19%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.58%) Marketing
9 4 (2.61%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.61%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.31%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Aviation
12 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (29.41%) Developer
2 38 (24.84%) Data Scientist
3 35 (22.88%) Data Engineer
3 35 (22.88%) Python Developer
4 34 (22.22%) Senior
5 15 (9.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 14 (9.15%) Analyst
7 13 (8.50%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (7.84%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.88%) AWS Developer
9 9 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
10 8 (5.23%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Data Analyst
10 8 (5.23%) Kafka Developer
10 8 (5.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Python Data Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Senior Data Scientist
12 6 (3.92%) SQL Developer
13 5 (3.27%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (61.44%) NumPy
2 65 (42.48%) scikit-learn
3 32 (20.92%) PyTorch
3 32 (20.92%) REST
4 28 (18.30%) Polars
5 27 (17.65%) TensorFlow
6 26 (16.99%) Flask
7 22 (14.38%) FastAPI
8 20 (13.07%) Matplotlib
8 20 (13.07%) PySpark
9 18 (11.76%) Django
10 15 (9.80%) Hugging Face
11 14 (9.15%) Kafka
11 14 (9.15%) RESTful
12 13 (8.50%) Seaborn
13 11 (7.19%) pytest
13 11 (7.19%) Web Services
14 10 (6.54%) LangChain
15 9 (5.88%) GeoJSON
16 8 (5.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.07%) Equities
2 19 (12.42%) Hedge funds
3 13 (8.50%) Algorithms
4 9 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (5.23%) Low-Code
5 8 (5.23%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.58%) Fixed Income
7 6 (3.92%) Derivative
8 4 (2.61%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.61%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.61%) Multi-touch
8 4 (2.61%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.31%) NHS
10 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.65%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.23%) Unix
2 7 (4.58%) Linux
3 2 (1.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (49.67%) Data Pipeline
2 72 (47.06%) Machine Learning
3 58 (37.91%) AI
4 56 (36.60%) CI/CD
4 56 (36.60%) Data Science
5 46 (30.07%) Analytics
6 42 (27.45%) Data Engineering
7 33 (21.57%) ETL
7 33 (21.57%) Generative AI
8 32 (20.92%) Containerisation
8 32 (20.92%) Visualisation
9 29 (18.95%) Data Analysis
9 29 (18.95%) Decision-Making
10 28 (18.30%) LLM
11 25 (16.34%) Data Modelling
12 24 (15.69%) Data Transformation
12 24 (15.69%) Natural Language Processing
12 24 (15.69%) Validation
13 22 (14.38%) Data Cleansing
14 19 (12.42%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 153 (100.00%) Python
2 96 (62.75%) SQL
3 16 (10.46%) C#
4 8 (5.23%) R
5 7 (4.58%) Java
5 7 (4.58%) VBA
6 6 (3.92%) C++
6 6 (3.92%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.92%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.61%) Bicep
8 2 (1.31%) Ada
8 2 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.65%) Bash
9 1 (0.65%) C
9 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (15.03%) Degree
2 15 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.50%) Master's Degree
4 11 (7.19%) PhD
5 7 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.58%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (26.80%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.31%) QA
3 1 (0.65%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (30.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.31%) HDFS
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (20.26%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.19%) Terraform
3 6 (3.92%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.38%) Databricks
3 14 (9.15%) OpenAI
4 13 (8.50%) Google
5 8 (5.23%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (5.23%) UiPath
6 3 (1.96%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.96%) Cognos
6 3 (1.96%) IBM
6 3 (1.96%) Sage
6 3 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.31%) Foundry
7 2 (1.31%) Reuters
7 2 (1.31%) SAP
8 1 (0.65%) Advent
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco
8 1 (0.65%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.65%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Veritas