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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 202 210
Rank change year-on-year -57 +8 +56
Contract jobs citing Pandas 148 152 200
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.21% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.57% 4.66% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 117 176
10th Percentile £401 £510 £513
25th Percentile £450 £588 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £869 £888 -
England median daily rate £550 £725 £800
% change year-on-year -24.14% -9.38% +14.29%

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 4,151 3,262 4,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.13% 26.07% 25.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,758 2,285 3,356
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% -1.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 24
10th Percentile £23.00 - £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +21.25% -41.82%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.63 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.25 £72.60
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 18 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 18 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 -16 16 £613 +11.36% 10
West London - 10 £511 - 5
East London -7 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 19 (12.84%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.76%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.41%) Appian
3 8 (5.41%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.03%) Apache
5 1 (0.68%) Luigi
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Actimize
1 1 (0.68%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.68%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 57 (38.51%) AWS
2 56 (37.84%) Azure
3 23 (15.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 22 (14.86%) GitHub
5 21 (14.19%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (12.84%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (12.84%) Power Platform
6 19 (12.84%) Serverless
7 17 (11.49%) Amazon S3
7 17 (11.49%) GCP
8 13 (8.78%) Amazon SageMaker
9 11 (7.43%) Azure AI
9 11 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.41%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (5.41%) Dagster
10 8 (5.41%) Power Automate
11 7 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (4.73%) dbt
12 5 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.16%) Power BI
2 12 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.43%) Relational Database
3 11 (7.43%) Tableau
4 9 (6.08%) Geospatial Data
5 8 (5.41%) Big Data
5 8 (5.41%) Data Lake
5 8 (5.41%) Pinecone
6 7 (4.73%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.38%) Metadata
9 4 (2.70%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.70%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.70%) Parquet
9 4 (2.70%) Power Query
10 3 (2.03%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.03%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 27 (18.24%) Git
2 21 (14.19%) MLflow
3 17 (11.49%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.73%) Selenium
5 4 (2.70%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.35%) GitLab
7 1 (0.68%) Poetry
7 1 (0.68%) Postman
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (37.84%) Finance
2 39 (26.35%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.16%) Publishing
5 14 (9.46%) Banking
6 8 (5.41%) Front Office
6 8 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.05%) Marketing
8 5 (3.38%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.70%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Aviation
12 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Legal
12 1 (0.68%) Military
12 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (29.73%) Developer
2 35 (23.65%) Data Scientist
3 34 (22.97%) Data Engineer
3 34 (22.97%) Python Developer
4 33 (22.30%) Senior
5 15 (10.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 14 (9.46%) Analyst
7 13 (8.78%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (8.11%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.76%) AWS Developer
10 9 (6.08%) Kafka Developer
10 9 (6.08%) Senior Python Developer
11 8 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Data Analyst
11 8 (5.41%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) SQL Developer
13 6 (4.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Python Data Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Senior Data Scientist
14 5 (3.38%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (59.46%) NumPy
2 59 (39.86%) scikit-learn
3 30 (20.27%) Polars
3 30 (20.27%) REST
4 29 (19.59%) Flask
5 28 (18.92%) PyTorch
6 25 (16.89%) FastAPI
7 23 (15.54%) TensorFlow
8 22 (14.86%) PySpark
9 19 (12.84%) Django
9 19 (12.84%) Matplotlib
10 16 (10.81%) RESTful
11 15 (10.14%) Kafka
12 13 (8.78%) Hugging Face
13 12 (8.11%) pytest
13 12 (8.11%) Seaborn
14 11 (7.43%) Web Services
15 9 (6.08%) Apache Avro
15 9 (6.08%) GeoJSON
15 9 (6.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.49%) Equities
1 17 (11.49%) Hedge funds
2 12 (8.11%) Algorithms
3 10 (6.76%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (5.41%) Low-Code
4 8 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.73%) Derivative
5 7 (4.73%) Fixed Income
6 6 (4.05%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.70%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (2.03%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.03%) Multi-touch
8 3 (2.03%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.35%) NHS
9 2 (1.35%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.68%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.76%) Unix
2 9 (6.08%) Linux
3 2 (1.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (52.70%) Data Pipeline
2 66 (44.59%) Machine Learning
3 59 (39.86%) CI/CD
4 53 (35.81%) AI
4 53 (35.81%) Data Science
5 42 (28.38%) Analytics
6 41 (27.70%) Data Engineering
7 34 (22.97%) ETL
8 32 (21.62%) Containerisation
9 31 (20.95%) Decision-Making
10 30 (20.27%) Visualisation
11 29 (19.59%) Generative AI
12 25 (16.89%) Data Analysis
12 25 (16.89%) Data Modelling
12 25 (16.89%) Data Transformation
13 24 (16.22%) LLM
13 24 (16.22%) Validation
14 23 (15.54%) Natural Language Processing
15 22 (14.86%) Data Cleansing
16 18 (12.16%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 148 (100.00%) Python
2 95 (64.19%) SQL
3 17 (11.49%) C#
4 8 (5.41%) Shell Script
5 7 (4.73%) Java
5 7 (4.73%) R
6 6 (4.05%) C++
6 6 (4.05%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.70%) Bicep
8 3 (2.03%) VBA
9 2 (1.35%) Ada
9 2 (1.35%) Bash
9 2 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.68%) C
10 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (15.54%) Degree
2 13 (8.78%) Master's Degree
2 13 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.76%) PhD
4 6 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (29.73%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.35%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (31.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.35%) HDFS
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (20.95%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.43%) Terraform
3 5 (3.38%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (14.86%) Databricks
2 21 (14.19%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.46%) OpenAI
4 9 (6.08%) Google
5 8 (5.41%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (5.41%) UiPath
6 3 (2.03%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.35%) Cognos
7 2 (1.35%) Foundry
7 2 (1.35%) IBM
7 2 (1.35%) Reuters
7 2 (1.35%) Sage
7 2 (1.35%) SAP
8 1 (0.68%) Advent
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco
8 1 (0.68%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.68%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Veritas