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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 212 163
Rank change year-on-year -88 -49 +101
Contract jobs citing Pandas 134 161 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 1.22% 1.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.04% 4.62% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 122 256
10th Percentile £411 £525 £563
25th Percentile £485 £638 £719
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £749 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
England median daily rate £550 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +28.00%

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 4,404 3,488 4,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.76% 26.39% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,916 2,428 3,483
10th Percentile £381 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 27
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.01 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +5.88% -36.80%
75th Percentile £73.50 £60.75 £61.97
90th Percentile £93.13 £83.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £58.15
% change year-on-year +12.80% -0.90% -10.54%

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 July 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 July 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 -9 11 £511 -2.62% 5
Central London -26 9 £600 +9.09% 10
East London 0 1 - - 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 17 (12.69%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (6.72%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.97%) Jupyter
4 5 (3.73%) Appian
5 3 (2.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.75%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 52 (38.81%) AWS
2 48 (35.82%) Azure
3 19 (14.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (13.43%) GCP
5 17 (12.69%) GitHub
5 17 (12.69%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (11.94%) Power Platform
7 15 (11.19%) Amazon SageMaker
8 14 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (10.45%) Serverless
9 12 (8.96%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (5.97%) Dagster
12 7 (5.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (5.22%) dbt
13 6 (4.48%) Anthropic Claude
14 5 (3.73%) Azure AI
14 5 (3.73%) Power Automate
15 4 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.19%) Power BI
2 12 (8.96%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.21%) Tableau
4 9 (6.72%) Geospatial Data
5 7 (5.22%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.22%) Big Data
5 7 (5.22%) Neo4j
6 6 (4.48%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.73%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.73%) Pinecone
8 4 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.99%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.99%) Power Query
9 3 (2.24%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.24%) Metadata
9 3 (2.24%) SQLite
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.49%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.49%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 28 (20.90%) Git
2 19 (14.18%) MLflow
3 12 (8.96%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.22%) Selenium
5 4 (2.99%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.49%) GitLab
7 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.75%) Postman
7 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (40.30%) Finance
2 40 (29.85%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (23.13%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.43%) Publishing
5 11 (8.21%) Banking
6 7 (5.22%) Front Office
6 7 (5.22%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.48%) Marketing
7 6 (4.48%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.73%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.49%) Legal
10 2 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Advertising
11 1 (0.75%) Aviation
11 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.75%) Military
11 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (29.85%) Developer
2 34 (25.37%) Data Scientist
3 32 (23.88%) Python Developer
4 27 (20.15%) Data Engineer
4 27 (20.15%) Senior
5 15 (11.19%) Analyst
6 12 (8.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) AWS Developer
7 10 (7.46%) Data Analyst
7 10 (7.46%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Kafka Developer
8 9 (6.72%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.97%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Senior Data Scientist
10 7 (5.22%) SQL Developer
11 6 (4.48%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) Python Data Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) Senior Python Developer
12 5 (3.73%) Automation Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (58.21%) NumPy
2 58 (43.28%) scikit-learn
3 29 (21.64%) Polars
4 26 (19.40%) FastAPI
4 26 (19.40%) Flask
5 24 (17.91%) REST
6 20 (14.93%) PyTorch
7 17 (12.69%) PySpark
7 17 (12.69%) TensorFlow
8 16 (11.94%) Kafka
8 16 (11.94%) Matplotlib
9 14 (10.45%) RESTful
10 12 (8.96%) Django
11 10 (7.46%) Seaborn
12 9 (6.72%) Apache Avro
12 9 (6.72%) GeoJSON
12 9 (6.72%) pytest
13 8 (5.97%) Web Services
14 7 (5.22%) .NET
15 6 (4.48%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.69%) Hedge funds
2 13 (9.70%) Equities
3 12 (8.96%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.72%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.97%) Product Ownership
6 7 (5.22%) Fixed Income
7 6 (4.48%) Derivative
8 5 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.73%) Low-Code
9 4 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.99%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.24%) Multi-touch
10 3 (2.24%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.49%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (1.49%) Life Science
11 2 (1.49%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.49%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.21%) Unix
2 10 (7.46%) Linux
3 2 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 63 (47.01%) Machine Learning
3 57 (42.54%) Data Science
4 53 (39.55%) CI/CD
5 43 (32.09%) AI
6 41 (30.60%) Analytics
7 34 (25.37%) Data Engineering
8 32 (23.88%) Containerisation
9 31 (23.13%) Visualisation
10 29 (21.64%) Data Analysis
11 27 (20.15%) Decision-Making
12 26 (19.40%) ETL
13 24 (17.91%) Data Transformation
14 21 (15.67%) Validation
15 20 (14.93%) Data Modelling
15 20 (14.93%) LLM
16 19 (14.18%) Agile
16 19 (14.18%) Use Case
17 18 (13.43%) Feature Engineering
17 18 (13.43%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 134 (100.00%) Python
2 95 (70.90%) SQL
3 15 (11.19%) C#
4 9 (6.72%) Shell Script
5 5 (3.73%) Java
5 5 (3.73%) R
6 4 (2.99%) Cypher
6 4 (2.99%) Gremlin
7 3 (2.24%) C++
7 3 (2.24%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.24%) VBA
8 2 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.75%) Bash
9 1 (0.75%) Bicep
9 1 (0.75%) C
9 1 (0.75%) Haskell
9 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (14.18%) Degree
2 12 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.46%) Master's Degree
4 8 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.22%) PhD
6 5 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (26.87%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.49%) QA
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 45 (33.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (20.15%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.22%) Terraform
3 4 (2.99%) Grafana
3 4 (2.99%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (11.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.70%) Databricks
3 9 (6.72%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.73%) Automation Anywhere
4 5 (3.73%) UiPath
5 3 (2.24%) Google
5 3 (2.24%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.49%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.49%) Foundry
6 2 (1.49%) Reuters
7 1 (0.75%) Advent
7 1 (0.75%) Cognos
7 1 (0.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.75%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.75%) Sage
7 1 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) SimCorp