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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 204 199
Rank change year-on-year -53 -5 +74
Contract jobs citing Pandas 147 147 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 1.19% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.53% 4.57% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 113 179
10th Percentile £400 £510 £513
25th Percentile £450 £588 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £875 - -
England median daily rate £550 £725 £800
% change year-on-year -24.14% -9.38% +14.29%

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 4,162 3,216 4,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.06% 26.03% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,769 2,249 3,358
10th Percentile £372 £385 £375
25th Percentile £437 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 25
10th Percentile £23.65 - £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +14.12% -36.80%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £91.00 £81.25 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 16 £613 +11.36% 8
West London - 10 £511 - 4
East London -6 1 - - 3
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 18 (12.24%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (7.48%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.44%) Appian
3 8 (5.44%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.04%) Apache
5 1 (0.68%) Luigi
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Actimize
1 1 (0.68%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.68%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 57 (38.78%) AWS
2 56 (38.10%) Azure
3 23 (15.65%) Azure Data Factory
4 22 (14.97%) GitHub
5 21 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (12.93%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (12.93%) Power Platform
6 19 (12.93%) Serverless
7 17 (11.56%) Amazon S3
7 17 (11.56%) GCP
8 13 (8.84%) Amazon SageMaker
9 11 (7.48%) Azure AI
9 11 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.44%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (5.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (5.44%) Dagster
10 8 (5.44%) Power Automate
11 7 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (4.08%) dbt
13 5 (3.40%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.24%) Power BI
2 12 (8.16%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.48%) Relational Database
3 11 (7.48%) Tableau
4 9 (6.12%) Big Data
4 9 (6.12%) Geospatial Data
5 8 (5.44%) Data Lake
5 8 (5.44%) Pinecone
6 7 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.40%) Metadata
8 4 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.72%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.72%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.72%) Parquet
8 4 (2.72%) Power Query
9 3 (2.04%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.04%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.04%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 27 (18.37%) Git
2 21 (14.29%) MLflow
3 17 (11.56%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.76%) Selenium
5 4 (2.72%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.36%) GitLab
7 1 (0.68%) Poetry
7 1 (0.68%) Postman
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (38.78%) Finance
2 38 (25.85%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (25.17%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.24%) Publishing
5 15 (10.20%) Banking
6 8 (5.44%) Front Office
6 8 (5.44%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.08%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.08%) Marketing
8 4 (2.72%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Aviation
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.68%) Military
11 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (30.61%) Developer
2 34 (23.13%) Data Scientist
2 34 (23.13%) Python Developer
3 33 (22.45%) Data Engineer
3 33 (22.45%) Senior
4 15 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 14 (9.52%) Analyst
6 13 (8.84%) Senior Data Engineer
7 12 (8.16%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.80%) AWS Developer
9 9 (6.12%) Kafka Developer
9 9 (6.12%) Senior Python Developer
10 8 (5.44%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.76%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) SQL Developer
12 6 (4.08%) Quantitative Developer
12 6 (4.08%) Senior Data Scientist
13 5 (3.40%) Business Analyst
13 5 (3.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (59.18%) NumPy
2 57 (38.78%) scikit-learn
3 30 (20.41%) Polars
3 30 (20.41%) REST
4 29 (19.73%) Flask
5 27 (18.37%) PyTorch
6 25 (17.01%) FastAPI
7 22 (14.97%) PySpark
7 22 (14.97%) TensorFlow
8 19 (12.93%) Django
8 19 (12.93%) Matplotlib
9 16 (10.88%) Kafka
9 16 (10.88%) RESTful
10 13 (8.84%) Hugging Face
11 12 (8.16%) pytest
11 12 (8.16%) Seaborn
12 11 (7.48%) Web Services
13 9 (6.12%) Apache Avro
13 9 (6.12%) GeoJSON
13 9 (6.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.56%) Equities
1 17 (11.56%) Hedge funds
2 12 (8.16%) Algorithms
3 10 (6.80%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.44%) Derivative
4 8 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (5.44%) Low-Code
4 8 (5.44%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.76%) Fixed Income
6 6 (4.08%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.40%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (2.04%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.04%) Multi-touch
9 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.36%) NHS
9 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.36%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.68%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.80%) Unix
2 9 (6.12%) Linux
3 2 (1.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (52.38%) Data Pipeline
2 64 (43.54%) Machine Learning
3 59 (40.14%) CI/CD
4 53 (36.05%) AI
4 53 (36.05%) Data Science
5 42 (28.57%) Analytics
5 42 (28.57%) Data Engineering
6 34 (23.13%) ETL
7 31 (21.09%) Containerisation
8 30 (20.41%) Decision-Making
8 30 (20.41%) Visualisation
9 29 (19.73%) Generative AI
10 25 (17.01%) Data Modelling
10 25 (17.01%) Data Transformation
11 24 (16.33%) Data Analysis
11 24 (16.33%) LLM
11 24 (16.33%) Validation
12 23 (15.65%) Natural Language Processing
13 21 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
14 18 (12.24%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 147 (100.00%) Python
2 95 (64.63%) SQL
3 17 (11.56%) C#
4 8 (5.44%) Shell Script
5 7 (4.76%) C++
5 7 (4.76%) Java
5 7 (4.76%) R
6 6 (4.08%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.72%) Bicep
8 3 (2.04%) VBA
9 2 (1.36%) Ada
9 2 (1.36%) Bash
9 2 (1.36%) C
9 2 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (16.33%) Degree
2 14 (9.52%) Master's Degree
3 12 (8.16%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.48%) PhD
5 6 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.08%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (29.93%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.36%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (31.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) HDFS
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (21.09%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.48%) Terraform
3 4 (2.72%) Grafana
3 4 (2.72%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 22 (14.97%) Databricks
2 21 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.52%) OpenAI
4 8 (5.44%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (5.44%) Google
4 8 (5.44%) UiPath
5 3 (2.04%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.36%) Cognos
6 2 (1.36%) Foundry
6 2 (1.36%) IBM
6 2 (1.36%) Reuters
6 2 (1.36%) Sage
6 2 (1.36%) SAP
7 1 (0.68%) Advent
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco
7 1 (0.68%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.68%) Veritas