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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 229 265
Rank change year-on-year +10 +36 +75
Contract jobs citing Pandas 147 132 140
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 0.94% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.94% 3.65% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 116 117
10th Percentile £400 £510 £463
25th Percentile £463 £631 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
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 £65.50
% change year-on-year +107.55% -59.54% +19.09%

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 3,727 3,612 4,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.42% 25.72% 25.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,517 2,366 3,453
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.95% -2.87%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £42.19 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -15.97%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.40 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -8.00% +20.45% -20.17%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -2 15 £650 +13.04% 23
West London - 2 £525 - 6
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 36 (24.49%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (14.29%) Apache
3 9 (6.12%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.12%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.72%) Appian
5 1 (0.68%) Luigi
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 70 (47.62%) AWS
2 40 (27.21%) Azure
3 34 (23.13%) dbt
4 29 (19.73%) Snowflake
5 23 (15.65%) GCP
6 19 (12.93%) Power Platform
7 14 (9.52%) Azure AI
8 9 (6.12%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (6.12%) GitHub
9 8 (5.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (5.44%) Serverless
10 7 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
10 7 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.08%) Amazon Bedrock
11 6 (4.08%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (4.08%) Vertex AI
12 4 (2.72%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (2.72%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.69%) Amazon Athena
1 26 (17.69%) Apache Arrow
1 26 (17.69%) Apache Iceberg
1 26 (17.69%) Dremio
2 25 (17.01%) Data Lake
3 19 (12.93%) Power BI
4 18 (12.24%) Apache Ignite
5 10 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (6.12%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.44%) Big Data
8 7 (4.76%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.76%) Pinecone
9 6 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.08%) Tableau
10 5 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.40%) Metadata
10 5 (3.40%) Parquet
11 4 (2.72%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.72%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (18.37%) Git
2 11 (7.48%) MLflow
3 5 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.68%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) Poetry
General
1 81 (55.10%) Finance
2 53 (36.05%) Banking
3 41 (27.89%) Front Office
4 34 (23.13%) Investment Banking
5 28 (19.05%) Social Skills
6 24 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (7.48%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.40%) Marketing
9 4 (2.72%) Legal
10 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.36%) Retail
11 1 (0.68%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Electronics
11 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (34.69%) Developer
2 45 (30.61%) Python Developer
3 44 (29.93%) Senior
4 35 (23.81%) Python Engineer
5 31 (21.09%) Data Scientist
6 27 (18.37%) AWS Engineer
7 26 (17.69%) AWS Software Engineer
7 26 (17.69%) Python Software Engineer
7 26 (17.69%) Software Engineer
8 19 (12.93%) AWS Developer
9 18 (12.24%) Data Engineer
9 18 (12.24%) Java Engineer
9 18 (12.24%) Java Software Engineer
10 17 (11.56%) Senior Java Engineer
10 17 (11.56%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 17 (11.56%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (7.48%) JavaScript Developer
11 11 (7.48%) Senior Developer
11 11 (7.48%) Senior Python Developer
12 9 (6.12%) RAD Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (78.23%) NumPy
2 47 (31.97%) scikit-learn
3 46 (31.29%) SciPy
4 29 (19.73%) PyTorch
5 28 (19.05%) REST
6 25 (17.01%) TensorFlow
7 20 (13.61%) FastAPI
8 19 (12.93%) AngularJS
8 19 (12.93%) Flask
8 19 (12.93%) React
8 19 (12.93%) Vue
9 18 (12.24%) gRPC
9 18 (12.24%) LangChain
9 18 (12.24%) Protocol Buffers
10 14 (9.52%) PySpark
11 13 (8.84%) Polars
12 12 (8.16%) Hugging Face
12 12 (8.16%) LangGraph
13 11 (7.48%) Matplotlib
14 10 (6.80%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 46 (31.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 40 (27.21%) Equities
2 40 (27.21%) Hedge funds
3 26 (17.69%) Fixed Income
4 21 (14.29%) Derivative
5 18 (12.24%) Pricing Data
6 14 (9.52%) Algorithms
7 7 (4.76%) AI Agents
8 6 (4.08%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.72%) Low-Code
10 3 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.04%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.04%) Reinsurance
11 2 (1.36%) Multi-touch
11 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (38.10%) AI
2 53 (36.05%) Machine Learning
3 49 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 48 (32.65%) Data Science
5 47 (31.97%) Analytics
6 38 (25.85%) Data Engineering
7 35 (23.81%) Agile
7 35 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
8 33 (22.45%) CI/CD
9 32 (21.77%) Generative AI
10 30 (20.41%) Data Analysis
11 27 (18.37%) Asset Management
11 27 (18.37%) LLM
12 26 (17.69%) Investment Management
12 26 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (16.33%) Mathematics
14 23 (15.65%) ETL
14 23 (15.65%) Natural Language Processing
14 23 (15.65%) Visualisation
15 21 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 147 (100.00%) Python
2 53 (36.05%) SQL
3 43 (29.25%) JavaScript
4 32 (21.77%) Java
5 26 (17.69%) TypeScript
6 17 (11.56%) C#
6 17 (11.56%) C++
7 12 (8.16%) Rust
8 10 (6.80%) VBA
9 5 (3.40%) R
10 4 (2.72%) Bicep
11 2 (1.36%) Ada
12 1 (0.68%) Bash
12 1 (0.68%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (9.52%) Degree
2 13 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.12%) MCP
3 9 (6.12%) PhD
4 8 (5.44%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.72%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.88%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.72%) QA
3 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) MiFID
System Software
1 28 (19.05%) Docker
2 3 (2.04%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (17.69%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.76%) Terraform
3 3 (2.04%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.68%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (12.93%) Databricks
2 14 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.84%) Google
4 9 (6.12%) OpenAI
5 6 (4.08%) Foundry
6 5 (3.40%) Dataiku
7 4 (2.72%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.72%) Automation Anywhere
7 4 (2.72%) UiPath
8 3 (2.04%) Bloomberg
8 3 (2.04%) Refinitiv
8 3 (2.04%) SAP
9 2 (1.36%) Cognos
9 2 (1.36%) IBM
9 2 (1.36%) Sage
10 1 (0.68%) Cisco
10 1 (0.68%) DataRobot
10 1 (0.68%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.68%) Veritas