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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 215 222
Rank change year-on-year -31 +7 +57
Contract jobs citing Pandas 161 144 180
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.93% 1.13% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.81% 4.35% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 115 158
10th Percentile £411 £510 £463
25th Percentile £463 £594 £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 £825 £888 £888
England median daily rate £540 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -20.00% -6.90% +3.57%

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 4,225 3,310 4,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.30% 26.05% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,850 2,319 3,342
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £801
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 21
10th Percentile £23.33 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £38.19 £24.18
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +46.58% -45.01%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.25 £70.00
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 19 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 19 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 -7 19 £638 +13.84% 22
West London - 9 £511 - 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 21 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (7.45%) Apache Spark
3 10 (6.21%) Jupyter
4 8 (4.97%) Appian
5 5 (3.11%) Apache
6 1 (0.62%) Luigi
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Actimize
1 1 (0.62%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 66 (40.99%) Azure
2 59 (36.65%) AWS
3 22 (13.66%) Azure Data Factory
3 22 (13.66%) Power Platform
4 19 (11.80%) GCP
5 18 (11.18%) GitHub
6 17 (10.56%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (9.94%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (9.94%) Serverless
8 14 (8.70%) Amazon S3
8 14 (8.70%) Amazon SageMaker
8 14 (8.70%) Azure AI
9 10 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.97%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (4.97%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (4.97%) Dagster
10 8 (4.97%) Power Automate
11 7 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (3.73%) dbt
12 6 (3.73%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.04%) Power BI
2 12 (7.45%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.21%) Tableau
4 9 (5.59%) Geospatial Data
4 9 (5.59%) Pinecone
5 8 (4.97%) Big Data
5 8 (4.97%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (4.35%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.48%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.48%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.48%) Metadata
7 4 (2.48%) Parquet
7 4 (2.48%) Power Query
8 3 (1.86%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.86%) SQLite
9 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (16.77%) Git
2 20 (12.42%) MLflow
3 13 (8.07%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.35%) Selenium
5 3 (1.86%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.24%) GitLab
7 1 (0.62%) Poetry
7 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (36.65%) Finance
2 41 (25.47%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (25.47%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.91%) Banking
4 16 (9.94%) Front Office
5 15 (9.32%) Publishing
6 12 (7.45%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.59%) Marketing
8 6 (3.73%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.48%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.86%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Aviation
12 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Electronics
12 1 (0.62%) Legal
12 1 (0.62%) Retail
12 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (31.06%) Developer
2 42 (26.09%) Data Scientist
3 39 (24.22%) Python Developer
4 37 (22.98%) Senior
5 34 (21.12%) Data Engineer
6 15 (9.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 14 (8.70%) Senior Developer
8 13 (8.07%) Analyst
8 13 (8.07%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (6.83%) Senior Python Developer
10 9 (5.59%) AWS Developer
11 8 (4.97%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) RAD Developer
12 7 (4.35%) Data Analyst
12 7 (4.35%) Python Data Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) Senior Data Scientist
13 6 (3.73%) Kafka Developer
13 6 (3.73%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (65.22%) NumPy
2 69 (42.86%) scikit-learn
3 34 (21.12%) REST
4 33 (20.50%) PyTorch
5 28 (17.39%) TensorFlow
6 26 (16.15%) Polars
7 24 (14.91%) Flask
8 21 (13.04%) Matplotlib
9 20 (12.42%) FastAPI
9 20 (12.42%) PySpark
10 18 (11.18%) Django
11 15 (9.32%) Hugging Face
12 13 (8.07%) Seaborn
13 12 (7.45%) Kafka
13 12 (7.45%) RESTful
13 12 (7.45%) Web Services
14 11 (6.83%) LangChain
14 11 (6.83%) pytest
14 11 (6.83%) SciPy
15 9 (5.59%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.29%) Equities
2 22 (13.66%) Hedge funds
3 15 (9.32%) Algorithms
4 10 (6.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.97%) Low-Code
5 8 (4.97%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.35%) Fixed Income
6 7 (4.35%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.73%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.73%) Derivative
8 5 (3.11%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.48%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (2.48%) Multi-touch
9 4 (2.48%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.24%) NHS
10 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.35%) Linux
2 6 (3.73%) Unix
3 2 (1.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (47.83%) Machine Learning
2 73 (45.34%) Data Pipeline
3 61 (37.89%) Data Science
4 60 (37.27%) AI
5 53 (32.92%) CI/CD
6 52 (32.30%) Analytics
7 44 (27.33%) Data Engineering
8 34 (21.12%) ETL
8 34 (21.12%) Generative AI
9 33 (20.50%) Visualisation
10 32 (19.88%) Data Analysis
11 30 (18.63%) Containerisation
11 30 (18.63%) Decision-Making
12 28 (17.39%) LLM
13 26 (16.15%) Data Modelling
13 26 (16.15%) Natural Language Processing
14 23 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
14 23 (14.29%) Validation
15 22 (13.66%) Data Transformation
16 20 (12.42%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 161 (100.00%) Python
2 97 (60.25%) SQL
3 16 (9.94%) C#
4 11 (6.83%) VBA
5 9 (5.59%) Java
6 8 (4.97%) C++
6 8 (4.97%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.97%) R
7 4 (2.48%) Bicep
7 4 (2.48%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.24%) Ada
8 2 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.24%) Rust
9 1 (0.62%) Bash
9 1 (0.62%) C
9 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (14.91%) Degree
2 17 (10.56%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.07%) Master's Degree
4 10 (6.21%) PhD
5 8 (4.97%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (25.47%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.24%) QA
3 1 (0.62%) MiFID
System Software
1 43 (26.71%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) HDFS
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (19.25%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.83%) Terraform
3 6 (3.73%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (15.53%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.29%) Databricks
3 15 (9.32%) OpenAI
4 14 (8.70%) Google
5 8 (4.97%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.97%) UiPath
6 4 (2.48%) Foundry
7 3 (1.86%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.86%) Cognos
7 3 (1.86%) IBM
7 3 (1.86%) Sage
7 3 (1.86%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.86%) SAP
8 2 (1.24%) Reuters
9 1 (0.62%) Advent
9 1 (0.62%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.62%) Cisco
9 1 (0.62%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.62%) Veritas