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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 204 211
Rank change year-on-year -54 +7 +58
Contract jobs citing Pandas 147 146 196
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.18% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.57% 4.53% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 113 173
10th Percentile £401 £510 £488
25th Percentile £450 £638 £619
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 £863 £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 4,118 3,223 4,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.13% 26.07% 25.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,729 2,261 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -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 30 16 24
10th Percentile £22.79 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £34.56 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +31.25% -40.52%
75th Percentile £60.12 £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 14 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 14 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 -12 16 £613 +11.36% 13
West London - 10 £511 - 8
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 19 (12.93%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.80%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.44%) Appian
3 8 (5.44%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.04%) Apache
5 1 (0.68%) Luigi
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.40%) 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
Cloud Services
1 56 (38.10%) AWS
2 55 (37.41%) Azure
3 22 (14.97%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (14.29%) GitHub
5 20 (13.61%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (12.93%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (12.93%) Power Platform
6 19 (12.93%) Serverless
7 17 (11.56%) Amazon S3
7 17 (11.56%) GCP
8 13 (8.84%) Amazon SageMaker
9 11 (7.48%) Azure AI
10 10 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (5.44%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (5.44%) Dagster
11 8 (5.44%) Power Automate
12 7 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (4.08%) dbt
14 5 (3.40%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.24%) Power BI
2 12 (8.16%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.48%) Relational Database
3 11 (7.48%) Tableau
4 9 (6.12%) Geospatial Data
5 8 (5.44%) Big Data
5 8 (5.44%) Pinecone
6 7 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.40%) Metadata
9 4 (2.72%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.72%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.72%) Parquet
9 4 (2.72%) Power Query
10 3 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.04%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.04%) SQLite
11 2 (1.36%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 27 (18.37%) Git
2 21 (14.29%) MLflow
3 16 (10.88%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.76%) Selenium
5 3 (2.04%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.36%) GitLab
7 1 (0.68%) Poetry
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (38.10%) Finance
2 38 (25.85%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (25.17%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.24%) Publishing
5 15 (10.20%) Banking
6 9 (6.12%) Front Office
7 8 (5.44%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.08%) Marketing
9 5 (3.40%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.72%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.68%) Aviation
13 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.68%) Legal
13 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (30.61%) Developer
2 35 (23.81%) Data Scientist
2 35 (23.81%) Python Developer
3 33 (22.45%) Data Engineer
3 33 (22.45%) Senior
4 15 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 14 (9.52%) Analyst
6 13 (8.84%) Senior Data Engineer
7 12 (8.16%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.80%) AWS Developer
9 9 (6.12%) Kafka Developer
9 9 (6.12%) Senior Python Developer
10 8 (5.44%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.76%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) SQL Developer
12 6 (4.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 6 (4.08%) Python Data Engineer
12 6 (4.08%) Senior Data Scientist
13 5 (3.40%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (60.54%) NumPy
2 59 (40.14%) scikit-learn
3 31 (21.09%) REST
4 30 (20.41%) Polars
5 29 (19.73%) Flask
6 28 (19.05%) PyTorch
7 25 (17.01%) FastAPI
8 23 (15.65%) TensorFlow
9 21 (14.29%) PySpark
10 19 (12.93%) Django
10 19 (12.93%) Matplotlib
11 16 (10.88%) RESTful
12 15 (10.20%) Kafka
13 13 (8.84%) Hugging Face
14 12 (8.16%) Seaborn
15 11 (7.48%) pytest
15 11 (7.48%) Web Services
16 9 (6.12%) Apache Avro
16 9 (6.12%) GeoJSON
17 8 (5.44%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Equities
1 18 (12.24%) Hedge funds
2 12 (8.16%) Algorithms
3 10 (6.80%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (5.44%) Low-Code
4 8 (5.44%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.76%) Derivative
5 7 (4.76%) Fixed Income
6 6 (4.08%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.72%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (2.04%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.04%) Multi-touch
8 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.36%) NHS
9 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.80%) Unix
2 9 (6.12%) Linux
3 2 (1.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (52.38%) Data Pipeline
2 66 (44.90%) Machine Learning
3 58 (39.46%) CI/CD
4 53 (36.05%) AI
4 53 (36.05%) Data Science
5 43 (29.25%) Analytics
6 41 (27.89%) Data Engineering
7 33 (22.45%) ETL
8 32 (21.77%) Containerisation
9 31 (21.09%) Decision-Making
10 30 (20.41%) Visualisation
11 29 (19.73%) Generative AI
12 26 (17.69%) Data Analysis
13 25 (17.01%) Data Modelling
13 25 (17.01%) Data Transformation
14 24 (16.33%) LLM
15 23 (15.65%) Natural Language Processing
15 23 (15.65%) Validation
16 22 (14.97%) Data Cleansing
17 18 (12.24%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 147 (100.00%) Python
2 95 (64.63%) SQL
3 17 (11.56%) C#
4 8 (5.44%) Shell Script
5 7 (4.76%) Java
5 7 (4.76%) R
6 6 (4.08%) C++
6 6 (4.08%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.72%) Bicep
7 4 (2.72%) VBA
8 2 (1.36%) Ada
8 2 (1.36%) Bash
8 2 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.68%) C
9 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (15.65%) Degree
2 13 (8.84%) Master's Degree
2 13 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.80%) PhD
4 6 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (29.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.36%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (31.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) HDFS
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (21.09%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.48%) Terraform
3 5 (3.40%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.72%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (14.29%) Databricks
1 21 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.52%) OpenAI
3 9 (6.12%) Google
4 8 (5.44%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (5.44%) UiPath
5 3 (2.04%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.36%) Cognos
6 2 (1.36%) Foundry
6 2 (1.36%) IBM
6 2 (1.36%) Reuters
6 2 (1.36%) Sage
6 2 (1.36%) SAP
7 1 (0.68%) Advent
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco
7 1 (0.68%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.68%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Veritas