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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 205 219
Rank change year-on-year -56 +14 +57
Contract jobs citing Pandas 158 145 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.14% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.75% 4.39% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 114 162
10th Percentile £408 £517 £464
25th Percentile £463 £638 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £875
90th Percentile £863 £888 £888
England median daily rate £545 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -22.14% -6.67% +7.14%

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 4,208 3,304 4,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.96% 26.07% 25.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,840 2,323 3,359
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 24
10th Percentile £23.00 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £36.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £35.54
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +47.74% -44.48%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £69.10
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -11 19 £638 +13.84% 13
West London - 9 £511 - 6
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 21 (13.29%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (6.96%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.06%) Appian
3 8 (5.06%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.53%) Apache
5 1 (0.63%) Luigi
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Actimize
1 1 (0.63%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 64 (40.51%) Azure
2 57 (36.08%) AWS
3 22 (13.92%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (13.29%) Power Platform
5 19 (12.03%) GitHub
6 18 (11.39%) GCP
6 18 (11.39%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (10.76%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (10.76%) Serverless
8 15 (9.49%) Amazon S3
9 14 (8.86%) Amazon SageMaker
9 14 (8.86%) Azure AI
10 10 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (5.06%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (5.06%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (5.06%) Dagster
11 8 (5.06%) Power Automate
12 7 (4.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (3.80%) dbt
13 6 (3.80%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.66%) Power BI
2 12 (7.59%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.33%) Tableau
4 9 (5.70%) Geospatial Data
4 9 (5.70%) Pinecone
5 8 (5.06%) Big Data
5 8 (5.06%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (4.43%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.53%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.53%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.53%) Metadata
8 4 (2.53%) Parquet
8 4 (2.53%) Power Query
9 3 (1.90%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.90%) SQLite
10 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (16.46%) Git
2 21 (13.29%) MLflow
3 14 (8.86%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.43%) Selenium
5 3 (1.90%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.27%) GitLab
7 1 (0.63%) Poetry
7 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (37.34%) Finance
2 41 (25.95%) Social Skills
3 39 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (13.29%) Banking
5 16 (10.13%) Publishing
6 14 (8.86%) Front Office
7 11 (6.96%) Public Sector
8 8 (5.06%) Marketing
9 5 (3.16%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.53%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.27%) Legal
12 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.63%) Aviation
13 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (29.75%) Developer
2 40 (25.32%) Data Scientist
3 37 (23.42%) Python Developer
4 35 (22.15%) Senior
5 34 (21.52%) Data Engineer
6 16 (10.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 13 (8.23%) Analyst
7 13 (8.23%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (7.59%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.70%) AWS Developer
9 9 (5.70%) Senior Python Developer
10 8 (5.06%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.43%) Kafka Developer
11 7 (4.43%) Python Data Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) Senior Data Scientist
12 6 (3.80%) Quantitative Developer
12 6 (3.80%) RAD Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (63.92%) NumPy
2 67 (42.41%) scikit-learn
3 33 (20.89%) PyTorch
3 33 (20.89%) REST
4 28 (17.72%) TensorFlow
5 27 (17.09%) Polars
6 25 (15.82%) Flask
7 21 (13.29%) FastAPI
8 20 (12.66%) Matplotlib
8 20 (12.66%) PySpark
9 18 (11.39%) Django
10 15 (9.49%) Hugging Face
11 13 (8.23%) Kafka
11 13 (8.23%) RESTful
11 13 (8.23%) Seaborn
12 12 (7.59%) LangChain
13 11 (6.96%) pytest
13 11 (6.96%) Web Services
14 9 (5.70%) LangGraph
14 9 (5.70%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.92%) Equities
2 20 (12.66%) Hedge funds
3 13 (8.23%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (5.06%) Low-Code
4 8 (5.06%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.06%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.43%) Fixed Income
5 7 (4.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.80%) Derivative
7 5 (3.16%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.53%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.53%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (2.53%) Multi-touch
8 4 (2.53%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.27%) NHS
10 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.43%) Linux
1 7 (4.43%) Unix
2 2 (1.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (47.47%) Machine Learning
2 74 (46.84%) Data Pipeline
3 60 (37.97%) AI
4 59 (37.34%) Data Science
5 55 (34.81%) CI/CD
6 50 (31.65%) Analytics
7 43 (27.22%) Data Engineering
8 35 (22.15%) Generative AI
9 33 (20.89%) ETL
10 32 (20.25%) Visualisation
11 31 (19.62%) Containerisation
12 30 (18.99%) LLM
13 29 (18.35%) Data Analysis
14 28 (17.72%) Decision-Making
15 26 (16.46%) Natural Language Processing
16 25 (15.82%) Data Modelling
17 24 (15.19%) Validation
18 23 (14.56%) Data Transformation
19 22 (13.92%) Data Cleansing
20 21 (13.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 158 (100.00%) Python
2 95 (60.13%) SQL
3 16 (10.13%) C#
4 9 (5.70%) VBA
5 8 (5.06%) Java
5 8 (5.06%) R
6 7 (4.43%) C++
6 7 (4.43%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.16%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.53%) Bicep
9 2 (1.27%) Ada
9 2 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.63%) Bash
10 1 (0.63%) C
10 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.63%) Rust
10 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (15.82%) Degree
2 15 (9.49%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.86%) Master's Degree
4 11 (6.96%) PhD
5 7 (4.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.43%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (25.32%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.27%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) MiFID
System Software
1 45 (28.48%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) HDFS
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (19.62%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.96%) Terraform
3 6 (3.80%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.53%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.56%) Databricks
3 15 (9.49%) OpenAI
4 13 (8.23%) Google
5 8 (5.06%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (5.06%) UiPath
6 4 (2.53%) Foundry
7 3 (1.90%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.90%) Cognos
7 3 (1.90%) IBM
7 3 (1.90%) Sage
7 3 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.27%) Reuters
8 2 (1.27%) SAP
9 1 (0.63%) Advent
9 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco
9 1 (0.63%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Veritas