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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 179 266
Rank change year-on-year -54 +87 +58
Contract jobs citing Pandas 159 211 159
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.12% 1.34% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.25% 5.15% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 197 135
10th Percentile £435 £550 £431
25th Percentile £513 £675 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £800 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +28.00% -3.85%
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 3,737 4,094 5,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.43% 26.03% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,544 2,689 3,886
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £670 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £507 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.82% - -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 37
10th Percentile £31.77 £35.00 £33.80
25th Percentile £42.50 £38.25 £36.84
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -22.41% -6.83%
75th Percentile £63.19 £61.43 £72.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £71.00 £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 20 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 20 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 +11 13 £625 - 68
West London - 3 £525 - 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 61 (38.36%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (23.90%) Apache
3 11 (6.92%) Apache Spark
4 10 (6.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.26%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 94 (59.12%) AWS
2 61 (38.36%) dbt
3 47 (29.56%) Snowflake
4 36 (22.64%) GCP
5 34 (21.38%) Azure
6 14 (8.81%) Power Platform
7 8 (5.03%) Azure AI
8 7 (4.40%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (3.77%) Vertex AI
10 5 (3.14%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.52%) Amazon Bedrock
12 3 (1.89%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (1.89%) GitHub
12 3 (1.89%) Serverless
13 2 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.26%) Dialogflow
13 2 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
14 1 (0.63%) IBM Watson
14 1 (0.63%) n8n
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (33.96%) Amazon Athena
2 53 (33.33%) Apache Arrow
2 53 (33.33%) Apache Iceberg
2 53 (33.33%) Dremio
3 34 (21.38%) Apache Ignite
3 34 (21.38%) Data Lake
4 21 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (8.81%) Power BI
6 9 (5.66%) BigQuery
7 8 (5.03%) Tableau
8 7 (4.40%) Big Data
9 5 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.14%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.14%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.89%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.26%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.26%) KDB
11 2 (1.26%) Metadata
11 2 (1.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (20.75%) Git
2 6 (3.77%) MLflow
3 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (63.52%) Finance
2 69 (43.40%) Banking
3 67 (42.14%) Front Office
4 56 (35.22%) Investment Banking
5 25 (15.72%) Social Skills
6 20 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (6.29%) Marketing
7 10 (6.29%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.52%) Legal
9 3 (1.89%) Retail
10 2 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.26%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Electronics
11 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (39.62%) Developer
2 57 (35.85%) Python Engineer
3 55 (34.59%) Python Developer
4 53 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
4 53 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
4 53 (33.33%) Software Engineer
5 49 (30.82%) Python Software Engineer
6 47 (29.56%) Senior
7 38 (23.90%) Java Engineer
7 38 (23.90%) Java Software Engineer
8 36 (22.64%) AWS Developer
9 33 (20.75%) Senior Java Engineer
9 33 (20.75%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 33 (20.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 31 (19.50%) Data Scientist
11 19 (11.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 17 (10.69%) JavaScript Developer
13 9 (5.66%) Data Engineer
13 9 (5.66%) RAD Developer
14 7 (4.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (77.99%) NumPy
2 74 (46.54%) SciPy
3 36 (22.64%) AngularJS
3 36 (22.64%) React
3 36 (22.64%) scikit-learn
3 36 (22.64%) Vue
4 34 (21.38%) gRPC
4 34 (21.38%) Protocol Buffers
5 25 (15.72%) Flask
6 24 (15.09%) FastAPI
7 19 (11.95%) Node.js
7 19 (11.95%) PyTorch
8 18 (11.32%) Polars
8 18 (11.32%) REST
9 16 (10.06%) TensorFlow
10 13 (8.18%) LangChain
11 9 (5.66%) COM
12 7 (4.40%) Matplotlib
12 7 (4.40%) PySpark
13 6 (3.77%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 79 (49.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 65 (40.88%) Equities
3 62 (38.99%) Hedge funds
4 55 (34.59%) Fixed Income
5 34 (21.38%) Derivative
5 34 (21.38%) Pricing Data
6 15 (9.43%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.77%) Multi-touch
8 4 (2.52%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.52%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.89%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.89%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.89%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (51.57%) Software Engineering
2 66 (41.51%) Agile
3 58 (36.48%) Asset Management
4 54 (33.96%) Investment Management
5 47 (29.56%) Data Science
6 46 (28.93%) Machine Learning
7 41 (25.79%) AI
8 36 (22.64%) Analytics
9 31 (19.50%) Data Engineering
10 30 (18.87%) Data Analysis
11 29 (18.24%) Mathematics
12 28 (17.61%) Risk Management
13 25 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (15.09%) CI/CD
15 22 (13.84%) Clean Code
16 20 (12.58%) Fintech
16 20 (12.58%) Generative AI
16 20 (12.58%) Visualisation
17 19 (11.95%) Order Management
17 19 (11.95%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 155 (97.48%) Python
2 73 (45.91%) JavaScript
3 58 (36.48%) Java
4 53 (33.33%) SQL
4 53 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 18 (11.32%) C#
5 18 (11.32%) C++
5 18 (11.32%) Rust
6 10 (6.29%) VBA
7 7 (4.40%) R
8 1 (0.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (8.18%) Degree
2 10 (6.29%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.03%) PhD
4 4 (2.52%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.89%) MCP
6 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.89%) QA
3 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (18.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (13.84%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.52%) Kubeflow
3 2 (1.26%) Terraform
4 1 (0.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (6.29%) Google
2 8 (5.03%) Databricks
3 7 (4.40%) Foundry
3 7 (4.40%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.14%) Bloomberg
4 5 (3.14%) Dataiku
5 4 (2.52%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.89%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.89%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.26%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.63%) Cognos
8 1 (0.63%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.63%) IBM
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle
8 1 (0.63%) Sage
8 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.63%) SAP