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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 201 159
Rank change year-on-year -109 -42 +97
Contract jobs citing Pandas 123 175 274
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 1.29% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.74% 4.94% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 130 251
10th Percentile £408 £525 £625
25th Percentile £472 £623 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £809 - -
England median daily rate £550 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +28.00%

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 4,493 3,543 4,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.63% 26.06% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 2,486 3,228
10th Percentile £394 £370 £376
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £786 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 25
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £51.44 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% +37.17% -43.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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
West London -10 8 £500 -4.76% 5
Central London -20 8 £600 +5.26% 2
East London +3 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 14 (11.38%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.32%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.69%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.44%) Apache
4 3 (2.44%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.63%) Appian
Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 45 (36.59%) AWS
2 40 (32.52%) Azure
3 17 (13.82%) GCP
4 16 (13.01%) Serverless
5 15 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (12.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (12.20%) GitHub
5 15 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (10.57%) Amazon S3
6 13 (10.57%) Amazon SageMaker
7 11 (8.94%) Power Platform
8 8 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.69%) dbt
10 6 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (4.88%) Dagster
11 5 (4.07%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (3.25%) Amazon Neptune
12 4 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (3.25%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.76%) Relational Database
2 10 (8.13%) Power BI
3 9 (7.32%) Big Data
3 9 (7.32%) Geospatial Data
4 8 (6.50%) Tableau
5 7 (5.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.69%) Neo4j
6 4 (3.25%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.44%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.44%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.44%) Metadata
7 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.44%) Power Query
7 3 (2.44%) SQLite
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.63%) MySQL
8 2 (1.63%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.63%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 26 (21.14%) Git
2 13 (10.57%) MLflow
3 12 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.69%) Selenium
5 4 (3.25%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.63%) GitLab
7 1 (0.81%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.81%) Postman
7 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (39.84%) Finance
2 39 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (22.76%) Social Skills
4 18 (14.63%) Publishing
5 10 (8.13%) Banking
6 7 (5.69%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.88%) Front Office
7 6 (4.88%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.25%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.25%) Marketing
9 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Legal
9 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Advertising
10 1 (0.81%) Aviation
10 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Military
10 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.81%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (30.89%) Developer
2 33 (26.83%) Python Developer
3 28 (22.76%) Data Scientist
4 24 (19.51%) Data Engineer
5 22 (17.89%) Senior
6 14 (11.38%) Analyst
7 10 (8.13%) AWS Developer
8 9 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (7.32%) Data Analyst
8 9 (7.32%) Kafka Developer
8 9 (7.32%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (5.69%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.69%) Senior Data Scientist
9 7 (5.69%) Senior Python Developer
9 7 (5.69%) SQL Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Business Analyst
10 5 (4.07%) Python Data Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (59.35%) NumPy
2 49 (39.84%) scikit-learn
3 29 (23.58%) Polars
4 26 (21.14%) FastAPI
5 25 (20.33%) Flask
6 23 (18.70%) REST
7 22 (17.89%) PySpark
8 16 (13.01%) PyTorch
9 14 (11.38%) Kafka
9 14 (11.38%) Matplotlib
10 13 (10.57%) TensorFlow
11 11 (8.94%) RESTful
12 9 (7.32%) Apache Avro
12 9 (7.32%) Django
12 9 (7.32%) GeoJSON
13 7 (5.69%) .NET
13 7 (5.69%) Seaborn
14 6 (4.88%) pytest
14 6 (4.88%) SciPy
15 5 (4.07%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.82%) Hedge funds
2 12 (9.76%) Equities
3 9 (7.32%) Algorithms
3 9 (7.32%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.50%) Derivative
5 7 (5.69%) Fixed Income
5 7 (5.69%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.07%) Market Risk
7 4 (3.25%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.44%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.44%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.63%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.63%) Life Science
9 2 (1.63%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.63%) NHS
9 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.81%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.38%) Unix
2 13 (10.57%) Linux
3 2 (1.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (46.34%) Data Pipeline
2 52 (42.28%) Machine Learning
3 51 (41.46%) Data Science
4 47 (38.21%) CI/CD
5 44 (35.77%) Analytics
6 38 (30.89%) AI
7 28 (22.76%) Containerisation
7 28 (22.76%) Data Engineering
7 28 (22.76%) Decision-Making
8 27 (21.95%) Visualisation
9 26 (21.14%) Data Transformation
10 23 (18.70%) Data Analysis
11 21 (17.07%) ETL
12 20 (16.26%) Agile
12 20 (16.26%) Code Quality
13 18 (14.63%) Validation
14 17 (13.82%) Anomaly Detection
14 17 (13.82%) LLM
15 16 (13.01%) Feature Engineering
15 16 (13.01%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 123 (100.00%) Python
2 89 (72.36%) SQL
3 15 (12.20%) C#
4 12 (9.76%) Shell Script
5 6 (4.88%) Java
6 4 (3.25%) Cypher
6 4 (3.25%) Gremlin
7 3 (2.44%) C++
7 3 (2.44%) R
7 3 (2.44%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.44%) VBA
8 2 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.81%) Bash
9 1 (0.81%) C
9 1 (0.81%) Haskell
9 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (12.20%) Degree
2 12 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.32%) Master's Degree
4 7 (5.69%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.07%) PhD
6 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (24.39%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.81%) GDPR
3 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 40 (32.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (17.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.07%) Terraform
3 4 (3.25%) Grafana
3 4 (3.25%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.44%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (10.57%) Databricks
2 12 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.07%) Foundry
3 5 (4.07%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.44%) Google
4 3 (2.44%) Palantir
4 3 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.63%) Automation Anywhere
5 2 (1.63%) UiPath
6 1 (0.81%) Advent
6 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.81%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.81%) Reuters
6 1 (0.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) SimCorp