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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 201 160
Rank change year-on-year -100 -41 +97
Contract jobs citing Pandas 130 168 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 1.24% 1.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.90% 4.76% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 126 256
10th Percentile £410 £525 £616
25th Percentile £482 £638 £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 £813 - -
England median daily rate £545 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -27.33% -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 4,486 3,529 4,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.70% 26.02% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,970 2,449 3,419
10th Percentile £392 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £719
90th Percentile £782 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
% change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -10.04%

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 16 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 16 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 -4 11 £511 -2.62% 4
Central London -26 9 £600 +5.26% 2
East London +2 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 16 (12.31%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.15%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.38%) Jupyter
4 4 (3.08%) Appian
5 3 (2.31%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.77%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.77%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 52 (40.00%) AWS
2 44 (33.85%) Azure
3 18 (13.85%) GCP
4 17 (13.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (12.31%) Amazon SageMaker
5 16 (12.31%) GitHub
5 16 (12.31%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (11.54%) Serverless
7 14 (10.77%) Power Platform
8 13 (10.00%) Amazon S3
9 8 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (6.15%) Dagster
10 7 (5.38%) dbt
11 6 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (3.85%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (3.08%) Amazon Neptune
13 4 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.00%) Power BI
2 12 (9.23%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.46%) Tableau
4 9 (6.92%) Geospatial Data
5 7 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.38%) Big Data
5 7 (5.38%) Neo4j
6 4 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.08%) Pinecone
6 4 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.08%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.31%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.31%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.31%) Metadata
7 3 (2.31%) Power Query
7 3 (2.31%) SQLite
8 2 (1.54%) MySQL
8 2 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (20.77%) Git
2 16 (12.31%) MLflow
3 12 (9.23%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.38%) Selenium
5 4 (3.08%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.54%) GitLab
7 1 (0.77%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.77%) Postman
7 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (40.00%) Finance
2 41 (31.54%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (23.85%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.85%) Publishing
5 11 (8.46%) Banking
6 7 (5.38%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.62%) Front Office
7 6 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.85%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.85%) Marketing
9 3 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.54%) Legal
10 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Advertising
11 1 (0.77%) Aviation
11 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Military
11 1 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.77%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 40 (30.77%) Developer
2 33 (25.38%) Python Developer
3 31 (23.85%) Data Scientist
4 24 (18.46%) Senior
5 23 (17.69%) Data Engineer
6 15 (11.54%) Analyst
7 11 (8.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) AWS Developer
8 10 (7.69%) Data Analyst
8 10 (7.69%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.92%) Kafka Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Python Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Senior Data Scientist
10 7 (5.38%) Senior Python Developer
10 7 (5.38%) SQL Developer
11 6 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Business Analyst
12 5 (3.85%) Python Data Engineer
13 4 (3.08%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (58.46%) NumPy
2 55 (42.31%) scikit-learn
3 29 (22.31%) Polars
4 27 (20.77%) FastAPI
4 27 (20.77%) Flask
5 24 (18.46%) REST
6 18 (13.85%) PyTorch
7 17 (13.08%) PySpark
8 16 (12.31%) Kafka
9 15 (11.54%) Matplotlib
9 15 (11.54%) TensorFlow
10 13 (10.00%) RESTful
11 12 (9.23%) Django
12 10 (7.69%) Seaborn
13 9 (6.92%) Apache Avro
13 9 (6.92%) GeoJSON
14 8 (6.15%) pytest
15 7 (5.38%) .NET
15 7 (5.38%) Web Services
16 6 (4.62%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.08%) Hedge funds
2 13 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 12 (9.23%) Equities
4 9 (6.92%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.38%) Derivative
5 7 (5.38%) Fixed Income
5 7 (5.38%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.08%) Low-Code
7 4 (3.08%) Market Risk
8 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.31%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.54%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.54%) Life Science
9 2 (1.54%) Multi-touch
9 2 (1.54%) NHS
9 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.00%) Unix
2 12 (9.23%) Linux
3 2 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (49.23%) Data Pipeline
2 59 (45.38%) Machine Learning
3 55 (42.31%) Data Science
4 51 (39.23%) CI/CD
5 41 (31.54%) AI
5 41 (31.54%) Analytics
6 32 (24.62%) Containerisation
7 31 (23.85%) Visualisation
8 30 (23.08%) Data Engineering
9 28 (21.54%) Decision-Making
10 27 (20.77%) Data Analysis
11 24 (18.46%) ETL
12 23 (17.69%) Data Transformation
13 20 (15.38%) Agile
13 20 (15.38%) LLM
14 19 (14.62%) Code Quality
14 19 (14.62%) Use Case
14 19 (14.62%) Validation
15 18 (13.85%) Data Cleansing
15 18 (13.85%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 130 (100.00%) Python
2 95 (73.08%) SQL
3 15 (11.54%) C#
4 11 (8.46%) Shell Script
5 7 (5.38%) Java
6 4 (3.08%) Cypher
6 4 (3.08%) Gremlin
6 4 (3.08%) R
7 3 (2.31%) C++
7 3 (2.31%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.31%) VBA
8 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.77%) Bash
9 1 (0.77%) C
9 1 (0.77%) Haskell
9 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (13.08%) Degree
2 11 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.62%) PhD
6 5 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (25.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.77%) GDPR
3 1 (0.77%) QA
System Software
1 45 (34.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.85%) Terraform
3 4 (3.08%) Grafana
3 4 (3.08%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.31%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.46%) Databricks
3 8 (6.15%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.08%) Automation Anywhere
4 4 (3.08%) UiPath
5 3 (2.31%) Google
5 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.54%) Foundry
7 1 (0.77%) Advent
7 1 (0.77%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.77%) Cognos
7 1 (0.77%) IBM
7 1 (0.77%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.77%) Reuters
7 1 (0.77%) Sage
7 1 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.77%) SimCorp