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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 203 190
Rank change year-on-year -76 -13 +77
Contract jobs citing Pandas 140 153 225
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.26% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.30% 4.79% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 116 204
10th Percentile £402 £510 £513
25th Percentile £466 £611 £659
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £749 £875 £888
90th Percentile £865 - -
England median daily rate £550 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +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 4,246 3,197 4,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.01% 26.42% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,824 2,232 3,394
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £447 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £721 £700
90th Percentile £775 £831 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 18 28
10th Percentile £22.26 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -35.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.69 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -15 11 £498 -9.55% 9
West London - 11 £511 - 4
East London -5 1 - - 1
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 (12.14%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.71%) Appian
3 8 (5.71%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.71%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.71%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 54 (38.57%) AWS
1 54 (38.57%) Azure
2 25 (17.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 20 (14.29%) GitHub
3 20 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 19 (13.57%) Power Platform
5 17 (12.14%) GCP
6 15 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (10.71%) Serverless
7 13 (9.29%) Amazon S3
8 12 (8.57%) Amazon SageMaker
8 12 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (6.43%) Azure AI
11 8 (5.71%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (5.71%) Dagster
11 8 (5.71%) Power Automate
12 7 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (4.29%) dbt
14 5 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.86%) Power BI
2 12 (8.57%) Relational Database
2 12 (8.57%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.86%) Tableau
4 10 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 9 (6.43%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (5.71%) Big Data
6 8 (5.71%) Pinecone
7 7 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.57%) Metadata
9 4 (2.86%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.86%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.86%) Parquet
9 4 (2.86%) Power Query
10 3 (2.14%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.14%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 24 (17.14%) Git
2 22 (15.71%) MLflow
3 12 (8.57%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.00%) Selenium
5 4 (2.86%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.43%) GitLab
7 1 (0.71%) Postman
7 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (37.86%) Finance
2 38 (27.14%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.86%) Publishing
5 10 (7.14%) Banking
6 6 (4.29%) Front Office
6 6 (4.29%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.29%) Marketing
6 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.57%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Advertising
10 1 (0.71%) Aviation
10 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
10 1 (0.71%) Military
10 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (30.00%) Developer
2 34 (24.29%) Python Developer
3 32 (22.86%) Data Engineer
3 32 (22.86%) Senior
4 30 (21.43%) Data Scientist
5 15 (10.71%) Analyst
5 15 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 12 (8.57%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (8.57%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.14%) AWS Developer
7 10 (7.14%) Data Analyst
8 9 (6.43%) Kafka Developer
8 9 (6.43%) Senior Python Developer
9 8 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) SQL Developer
11 6 (4.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Python Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) Business Analyst
12 5 (3.57%) Python Data Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (57.14%) NumPy
2 57 (40.71%) scikit-learn
3 29 (20.71%) Polars
3 29 (20.71%) REST
4 28 (20.00%) Flask
5 26 (18.57%) FastAPI
5 26 (18.57%) PyTorch
6 23 (16.43%) PySpark
7 22 (15.71%) TensorFlow
8 19 (13.57%) Django
8 19 (13.57%) Matplotlib
9 16 (11.43%) RESTful
10 15 (10.71%) Kafka
11 12 (8.57%) Seaborn
12 11 (7.86%) pytest
12 11 (7.86%) Web Services
13 10 (7.14%) Hugging Face
14 9 (6.43%) Apache Avro
14 9 (6.43%) GeoJSON
14 9 (6.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.14%) Hedge funds
2 13 (9.29%) Equities
3 11 (7.86%) Algorithms
4 10 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (5.71%) Low-Code
5 8 (5.71%) Product Ownership
6 7 (5.00%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.57%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.57%) Derivative
8 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.14%) Multi-touch
8 3 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.43%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.43%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.43%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.43%) NHS
9 2 (1.43%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.14%) Unix
2 8 (5.71%) Linux
3 2 (1.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (53.57%) Data Pipeline
2 63 (45.00%) Machine Learning
3 58 (41.43%) CI/CD
4 52 (37.14%) Data Science
5 48 (34.29%) AI
6 40 (28.57%) Data Engineering
7 38 (27.14%) Analytics
8 34 (24.29%) ETL
9 30 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 30 (21.43%) Visualisation
10 28 (20.00%) Decision-Making
11 27 (19.29%) Data Modelling
12 25 (17.86%) Data Analysis
12 25 (17.86%) Data Transformation
13 23 (16.43%) Generative AI
13 23 (16.43%) Validation
14 22 (15.71%) Natural Language Processing
15 20 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
15 20 (14.29%) LLM
16 19 (13.57%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 140 (100.00%) Python
2 96 (68.57%) SQL
3 15 (10.71%) C#
4 8 (5.71%) Shell Script
5 7 (5.00%) Java
5 7 (5.00%) R
6 6 (4.29%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.86%) Bicep
7 4 (2.86%) C++
8 3 (2.14%) VBA
9 2 (1.43%) Ada
9 2 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.71%) Bash
10 1 (0.71%) C
10 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (13.57%) Degree
2 12 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 8 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.00%) PhD
6 6 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (31.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 44 (31.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.43%) HDFS
3 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (19.29%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.14%) Terraform
3 4 (2.86%) Grafana
3 4 (2.86%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 20 (14.29%) Databricks
2 18 (12.86%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.00%) OpenAI
4 8 (5.71%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (5.71%) UiPath
5 4 (2.86%) Google
6 3 (2.14%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.43%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.43%) Foundry
7 2 (1.43%) Reuters
7 2 (1.43%) SAP
8 1 (0.71%) Advent
8 1 (0.71%) Cognos
8 1 (0.71%) IBM
8 1 (0.71%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.71%) Sage
8 1 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) SimCorp