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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 199 175
Rank change year-on-year -152 -24 +109
Contract jobs citing Pandas 96 169 246
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 1.25% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.80% 4.21% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 126 228
10th Percentile £296 £506 £638
25th Percentile £450 £553 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% -6.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile £728 £875 £888
90th Percentile £804 - -
England median daily rate £540 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -28.00% -6.25% +28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £57.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - -
England median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +15.45% - -

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 5,329 4,012 4,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.72% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,593 2,741 3,331
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £700
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 22
10th Percentile £28.00 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +22.28% -32.54%
75th Percentile £66.06 £61.56 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 October 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 October 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 -23 2 - - 5
Central London -33 2 £706 +28.30% 11
East London +4 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 12 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (10.42%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.25%) Jupyter
4 4 (4.17%) Apache
5 3 (3.13%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (2.08%) OpenStack
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Cloudability
2 1 (1.04%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 32 (33.33%) AWS
2 19 (19.79%) Azure
3 14 (14.58%) GCP
4 12 (12.50%) Serverless
5 11 (11.46%) Amazon S3
5 11 (11.46%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (11.46%) dbt
6 10 (10.42%) GitHub
6 10 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (5.21%) Amazon Neptune
9 5 (5.21%) Snowflake
10 4 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (4.17%) Power Platform
10 4 (4.17%) Vertex AI
11 3 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (3.13%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) 4G
1 2 (2.08%) 5G
1 2 (2.08%) DNS
1 2 (2.08%) HTTP
1 2 (2.08%) SSH
1 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.42%) Relational Database
3 8 (8.33%) Neo4j
4 7 (7.29%) Big Data
5 6 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.25%) Tableau
6 5 (5.21%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.17%) Power BI
7 4 (4.17%) Power Query
8 3 (3.13%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (3.13%) Metadata
8 3 (3.13%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.13%) PowerPivot
8 3 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (35.42%) Git
2 10 (10.42%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.21%) MLflow
3 5 (5.21%) Selenium
4 4 (4.17%) GitLab
5 2 (2.08%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.04%) Postman
6 1 (1.04%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (46.88%) Finance
2 25 (26.04%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 13 (13.54%) Banking
5 12 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.21%) Front Office
6 5 (5.21%) Publishing
7 3 (3.13%) Billing
7 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Legal
8 2 (2.08%) Marketing
8 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.04%) Advertising
9 1 (1.04%) Automotive
9 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.04%) Military
9 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (38.54%) Developer
2 33 (34.38%) Python Developer
3 20 (20.83%) Data Scientist
4 19 (19.79%) Senior
5 14 (14.58%) Data Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Analyst
6 9 (9.38%) Python Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
8 7 (7.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Senior Data Scientist
9 5 (5.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Data Analyst
9 5 (5.21%) Kafka Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Python Data Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) AWS Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Quantitative Developer
10 4 (4.17%) SQL Developer
11 3 (3.13%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (60.42%) NumPy
2 28 (29.17%) scikit-learn
3 26 (27.08%) FastAPI
4 24 (25.00%) Flask
4 24 (25.00%) PySpark
5 22 (22.92%) REST
6 17 (17.71%) Polars
7 12 (12.50%) PyTorch
8 10 (10.42%) Kafka
8 10 (10.42%) RESTful
9 9 (9.38%) Django
9 9 (9.38%) TensorFlow
9 9 (9.38%) Terraform
10 7 (7.29%) pytest
11 5 (5.21%) Apache Avro
11 5 (5.21%) Matplotlib
11 5 (5.21%) SciPy
12 4 (4.17%) CSS
12 4 (4.17%) HTML
13 3 (3.13%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Hedge funds
2 9 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (8.33%) Derivative
4 7 (7.29%) Data Structures
4 7 (7.29%) Market Risk
5 6 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (6.25%) Equities
6 5 (5.21%) Algorithms
6 5 (5.21%) Fixed Income
6 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.21%) Public Cloud
7 4 (4.17%) Product Ownership
8 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (2.08%) Life Science
9 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.04%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.04%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (1.04%) Reference Data
10 1 (1.04%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.67%) Linux
2 12 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (45.83%) Analytics
2 42 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
3 39 (40.63%) CI/CD
3 39 (40.63%) Data Science
4 37 (38.54%) Machine Learning
5 34 (35.42%) AI
6 22 (22.92%) Agile
6 22 (22.92%) Data Analysis
7 20 (20.83%) Decision-Making
7 20 (20.83%) Validation
8 19 (19.79%) Data Engineering
8 19 (19.79%) ETL
8 19 (19.79%) Visualisation
9 17 (17.71%) Containerisation
10 15 (15.63%) Data Modelling
10 15 (15.63%) LLM
11 14 (14.58%) Code Quality
11 14 (14.58%) Data Transformation
11 14 (14.58%) Performance Optimisation
12 13 (13.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 96 (100.00%) Python
2 69 (71.88%) SQL
3 14 (14.58%) Shell Script
4 8 (8.33%) C#
5 5 (5.21%) Cypher
5 5 (5.21%) Gremlin
5 5 (5.21%) Java
6 4 (4.17%) Bash
6 4 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.13%) R
8 2 (2.08%) C++
8 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.04%) Bicep
9 1 (1.04%) C
9 1 (1.04%) Haskell
9 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.04%) Scala
9 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Degree
2 7 (7.29%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.21%) Master's Degree
4 5 (5.21%) PhD
4 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.13%) EMIR
2 3 (3.13%) MiFID
2 3 (3.13%) QA
3 2 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (30.21%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (19.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.17%) Grafana
2 4 (4.17%) Kubeflow
2 4 (4.17%) Podman
3 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (10.42%) Databricks
2 4 (4.17%) Oracle
3 3 (3.13%) Foundry
3 3 (3.13%) Google
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.13%) Palantir
4 2 (2.08%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.04%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.04%) SimCorp