Pandas Contracts in London

Pandas
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Pandas skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pandas over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 164 265
Rank change year-on-year -38 +101 +51
Contract jobs citing Pandas 159 271 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.22% 1.54% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.66% 5.74% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 248 165
10th Percentile £525 £563 £405
25th Percentile £638 £700 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £800
90th Percentile - - £911
England median daily rate £750 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -6.25% +28.00% +4.17%

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 3,415 4,724 6,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 26.82% 26.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,383 3,481 5,061
10th Percentile £375 £375 £413
25th Percentile £428 £460 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £711 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 42
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £33.56 £23.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -36.80% +41.58%
75th Percentile £61.63 £61.97 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.63 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £58.88 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.99% -10.31% +22.64%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Pandas as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Pandas in London

Pandas
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pandas in London.

Daily rate trend for Pandas in London

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in London

Pandas
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pandas in London.

Hourly rate trend for Pandas in London

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 2 July 2025. 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 +7 15 £550 -12.00% 58
East London +14 1 £550 -31.25% 3
Pandas
England

Pandas
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (46.54%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (25.16%) Apache
3 14 (8.81%) Apache Spark
4 7 (4.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 109 (68.55%) AWS
2 73 (45.91%) dbt
3 49 (30.82%) GCP
4 40 (25.16%) Snowflake
5 39 (24.53%) Azure
6 14 (8.81%) GitHub
6 14 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (5.66%) Dagster
8 8 (5.03%) Azure AKS
8 8 (5.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (5.03%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (5.03%) Entra ID
9 7 (4.40%) Amazon SageMaker
9 7 (4.40%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.52%) Amazon Bedrock
12 3 (1.89%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.89%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.52%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (45.91%) Amazon Athena
1 73 (45.91%) Apache Iceberg
1 73 (45.91%) Dremio
2 69 (43.40%) Apache Arrow
3 39 (24.53%) Data Lake
4 38 (23.90%) Apache Ignite
5 37 (23.27%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (6.29%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.03%) Tableau
8 7 (4.40%) Power BI
9 3 (1.89%) KDB
9 3 (1.89%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.63%) SAP Data Services
11 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (12.58%) Git
2 8 (5.03%) MLflow
3 2 (1.26%) Selenium
4 1 (0.63%) Postman
General
1 118 (74.21%) Finance
2 80 (50.31%) Front Office
3 60 (37.74%) Banking
4 54 (33.96%) Investment Banking
5 15 (9.43%) Social Skills
6 10 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.03%) Marketing
8 7 (4.40%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.14%) Back Office
9 5 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.14%) Retail
10 4 (2.52%) Police
11 2 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.26%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Advertising
12 1 (0.63%) Law
12 1 (0.63%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 76 (47.80%) Software Engineer
2 74 (46.54%) Developer
3 69 (43.40%) AWS Engineer
3 69 (43.40%) AWS Software Engineer
3 69 (43.40%) Python Engineer
4 59 (37.11%) Python Developer
5 58 (36.48%) Python Software Engineer
6 47 (29.56%) AWS Developer
6 47 (29.56%) Java Engineer
6 47 (29.56%) Java Software Engineer
6 47 (29.56%) Senior
7 34 (21.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 33 (20.75%) Senior Java Engineer
8 33 (20.75%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 33 (20.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 20 (12.58%) Data Scientist
10 13 (8.18%) JavaScript Developer
11 12 (7.55%) Java Developer
11 12 (7.55%) Java Software Developer
12 7 (4.40%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (83.02%) NumPy
2 90 (56.60%) SciPy
3 52 (32.70%) React
4 49 (30.82%) AngularJS
4 49 (30.82%) Vue
5 38 (23.90%) gRPC
5 38 (23.90%) Protocol Buffers
6 34 (21.38%) Node.js
7 25 (15.72%) Flask
8 23 (14.47%) FastAPI
9 19 (11.95%) scikit-learn
10 18 (11.32%) Polars
11 14 (8.81%) PySpark
12 12 (7.55%) OpenTelemetry
13 11 (6.92%) Kafka
13 11 (6.92%) LangChain
13 11 (6.92%) TensorFlow
14 10 (6.29%) PyTorch
14 10 (6.29%) REST
15 9 (5.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 75 (47.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 73 (45.91%) Fixed Income
3 63 (39.62%) Equities
4 54 (33.96%) Hedge funds
5 37 (23.27%) Derivative
6 30 (18.87%) Pricing Data
7 10 (6.29%) Algorithms
8 6 (3.77%) Multi-touch
9 5 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.52%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 2 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.26%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.63%) Equity Derivative
13 1 (0.63%) FMCG
13 1 (0.63%) IoT
13 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
13 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.63%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (64.15%) Software Engineering
2 86 (54.09%) Agile
3 76 (47.80%) Asset Management
4 71 (44.65%) Investment Management
5 39 (24.53%) Fintech
6 37 (23.27%) Risk Management
7 36 (22.64%) Machine Learning
8 35 (22.01%) Data Science
9 34 (21.38%) Performance Attribution
10 31 (19.50%) Order Management
11 26 (16.35%) Mathematics
12 24 (15.09%) Data Engineering
13 21 (13.21%) Analytics
13 21 (13.21%) Artificial Intelligence
14 19 (11.95%) CI/CD
14 19 (11.95%) Computer Science
15 17 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (10.06%) Clean Code
17 15 (9.43%) Statistical Modelling
17 15 (9.43%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 147 (92.45%) Python
2 90 (56.60%) JavaScript
3 69 (43.40%) TypeScript
4 68 (42.77%) Java
5 32 (20.13%) SQL
6 22 (13.84%) C#
7 15 (9.43%) C++
7 15 (9.43%) Rust
8 14 (8.81%) R
9 3 (1.89%) Scala
9 3 (1.89%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.26%) VBA
11 1 (0.63%) Bash
11 1 (0.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (11.95%) Degree
2 10 (6.29%) PhD
3 8 (5.03%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.14%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.14%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 6 (3.77%) QA
3 5 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (15.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (19.50%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.18%) Terraform
3 2 (1.26%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 4 (2.52%) Dataiku
1 4 (2.52%) DataRobot
2 3 (1.89%) Google
2 3 (1.89%) Talend
3 2 (1.26%) Bloomberg
3 2 (1.26%) Databricks
3 2 (1.26%) Foundry
4 1 (0.63%) Cloudera
4 1 (0.63%) Informatica
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle
4 1 (0.63%) Refinitiv
4 1 (0.63%) Reuters
4 1 (0.63%) SAP
4 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow