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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 187 268
Rank change year-on-year -31 +81 +54
Contract jobs citing Pandas 162 213 159
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 1.37% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.46% 5.24% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 198 133
10th Percentile £440 £559 £415
25th Percentile £513 £675 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +28.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
England median daily rate £625 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -21.88% +28.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +107.55% -59.54% +19.09%

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 3,630 4,066 5,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.43% 26.21% 25.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,475 2,657 3,977
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £710 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 18 37
10th Percentile £31.52 £32.99 £33.80
25th Percentile £37.06 £38.31 £36.84
Median hourly rate £52.72 £47.25 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -18.53% -1.28%
75th Percentile £62.19 £60.76 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £73.70 £87.94
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 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 +9 13 £625 - 127
West London - 3 £525 - 4
East London - 1 £550 - 5
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 62 (38.27%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (24.07%) Apache
3 12 (7.41%) Apache Spark
4 11 (6.79%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.23%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 97 (59.88%) AWS
2 62 (38.27%) dbt
3 46 (28.40%) Snowflake
4 38 (23.46%) GCP
5 31 (19.14%) Azure
6 13 (8.02%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.94%) Azure AI
8 6 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (3.70%) Vertex AI
9 5 (3.09%) Amazon Bedrock
9 5 (3.09%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.47%) GitHub
11 3 (1.85%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.85%) Serverless
12 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.23%) Dialogflow
13 1 (0.62%) Amazon EMR
13 1 (0.62%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (34.57%) Amazon Athena
2 55 (33.95%) Apache Arrow
2 55 (33.95%) Apache Iceberg
2 55 (33.95%) Dremio
3 34 (20.99%) Apache Ignite
3 34 (20.99%) Data Lake
4 24 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (8.02%) Power BI
6 8 (4.94%) BigQuery
6 8 (4.94%) Tableau
7 7 (4.32%) Big Data
8 6 (3.70%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.70%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.85%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.23%) KDB
11 2 (1.23%) Metadata
11 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (21.60%) Git
2 8 (4.94%) MLflow
3 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 105 (64.81%) Finance
2 68 (41.98%) Banking
3 67 (41.36%) Front Office
4 57 (35.19%) Investment Banking
5 25 (15.43%) Social Skills
6 19 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.56%) Marketing
7 9 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.47%) Legal
9 3 (1.85%) Retail
10 2 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.23%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.62%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Electronics
11 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (42.59%) Developer
2 59 (36.42%) Python Developer
3 57 (35.19%) Python Engineer
4 55 (33.95%) AWS Engineer
4 55 (33.95%) AWS Software Engineer
4 55 (33.95%) Software Engineer
5 50 (30.86%) Python Software Engineer
6 47 (29.01%) Senior
7 39 (24.07%) AWS Developer
7 39 (24.07%) Java Engineer
7 39 (24.07%) Java Software Engineer
8 33 (20.37%) Senior Java Engineer
8 33 (20.37%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 33 (20.37%) Senior Software Engineer
9 28 (17.28%) Data Scientist
10 21 (12.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 18 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
12 8 (4.94%) Data Engineer
13 7 (4.32%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 7 (4.32%) RAD Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (77.78%) NumPy
2 77 (47.53%) SciPy
3 39 (24.07%) AngularJS
3 39 (24.07%) React
3 39 (24.07%) Vue
4 35 (21.60%) scikit-learn
5 34 (20.99%) gRPC
5 34 (20.99%) Protocol Buffers
6 28 (17.28%) Flask
7 27 (16.67%) FastAPI
8 21 (12.96%) Node.js
9 20 (12.35%) Polars
10 19 (11.73%) PyTorch
11 17 (10.49%) REST
12 16 (9.88%) TensorFlow
13 14 (8.64%) LangChain
14 7 (4.32%) COM
14 7 (4.32%) Matplotlib
14 7 (4.32%) PySpark
15 6 (3.70%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 80 (49.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 65 (40.12%) Equities
3 61 (37.65%) Hedge funds
4 57 (35.19%) Fixed Income
5 34 (20.99%) Derivative
5 34 (20.99%) Pricing Data
6 16 (9.88%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.09%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.09%) Multi-touch
8 4 (2.47%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.85%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.62%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.62%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (53.09%) Software Engineering
2 68 (41.98%) Agile
3 61 (37.65%) Asset Management
4 57 (35.19%) Investment Management
5 46 (28.40%) Data Science
6 45 (27.78%) Machine Learning
7 41 (25.31%) AI
8 34 (20.99%) Analytics
9 31 (19.14%) Data Engineering
10 30 (18.52%) Mathematics
11 28 (17.28%) Data Analysis
11 28 (17.28%) Risk Management
12 24 (14.81%) CI/CD
13 23 (14.20%) Clean Code
13 23 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (13.58%) Fintech
15 21 (12.96%) Order Management
15 21 (12.96%) Performance Attribution
16 19 (11.73%) Generative AI
16 19 (11.73%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 157 (96.91%) Python
2 76 (46.91%) JavaScript
3 60 (37.04%) Java
4 55 (33.95%) TypeScript
5 51 (31.48%) SQL
6 19 (11.73%) C#
6 19 (11.73%) C++
6 19 (11.73%) Rust
7 8 (4.94%) VBA
8 6 (3.70%) R
9 1 (0.62%) Bash
9 1 (0.62%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (9.26%) Degree
2 8 (4.94%) PhD
2 8 (4.94%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.09%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.85%) MCP
4 3 (1.85%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.47%) QA
3 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (19.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.47%) Kubeflow
3 3 (1.85%) Terraform
4 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.62%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (6.17%) Google
2 7 (4.32%) Databricks
2 7 (4.32%) Foundry
3 6 (3.70%) Dataiku
4 5 (3.09%) Bloomberg
4 5 (3.09%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.47%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.85%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.23%) DataRobot
7 2 (1.23%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.62%) Cognos
8 1 (0.62%) IBM
8 1 (0.62%) Oracle
8 1 (0.62%) Sage
8 1 (0.62%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.62%) SAP