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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 230 232
Rank change year-on-year -25 +2 +78
Contract jobs citing Pandas 150 130 165
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.01% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.62% 3.87% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 108 146
10th Percentile £402 £510 £463
25th Percentile £453 £571 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £738 £854 £800
90th Percentile £875 £888 £888
England median daily rate £525 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -22.22% -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 4,138 3,363 4,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.84% 26.20% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,810 2,332 3,326
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £667 £706 £690
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 27
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £26.76
Median hourly rate £46.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +27.06% -34.62%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 +3 20 £638 +11.84% 26
West London - 9 £511 - 7
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 (14.00%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 9 (6.00%) Jupyter
3 8 (5.33%) Appian
4 6 (4.00%) Apache
5 1 (0.67%) Luigi
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Actimize
1 1 (0.67%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 61 (40.67%) Azure
2 59 (39.33%) AWS
3 25 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 21 (14.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (10.67%) GitHub
6 14 (9.33%) Azure AI
6 14 (9.33%) GCP
6 14 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (8.67%) Amazon SageMaker
8 11 (7.33%) Snowflake
9 9 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.00%) Serverless
10 8 (5.33%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.33%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (5.33%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (5.33%) Dagster
10 8 (5.33%) Power Automate
11 7 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (4.67%) dbt
12 6 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.00%) Power BI
2 12 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.00%) Data Lake
3 9 (6.00%) Geospatial Data
3 9 (6.00%) Pinecone
3 9 (6.00%) Tableau
4 7 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.67%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.00%) Metadata
6 5 (3.33%) Big Data
7 4 (2.67%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.67%) Parquet
8 3 (2.00%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.00%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.00%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.33%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.33%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.33%) MySQL
9 2 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (19.33%) Git
2 20 (13.33%) MLflow
3 8 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.33%) Selenium
4 2 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.67%) GitLab
5 1 (0.67%) Poetry
General
1 59 (39.33%) Finance
2 39 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 34 (22.67%) Banking
5 17 (11.33%) Front Office
6 13 (8.67%) Investment Banking
6 13 (8.67%) Public Sector
7 11 (7.33%) Publishing
8 6 (4.00%) Marketing
9 4 (2.67%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.33%) Retail
12 1 (0.67%) Aviation
12 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.67%) Electronics
12 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Legal
12 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (31.33%) Developer
2 38 (25.33%) Data Scientist
3 36 (24.00%) Python Developer
4 35 (23.33%) Senior
5 34 (22.67%) Data Engineer
6 15 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.67%) Senior Python Developer
8 12 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) Python Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) RAD Developer
11 8 (5.33%) Analyst
11 8 (5.33%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) AWS Developer
12 7 (4.67%) Python Data Engineer
13 6 (4.00%) Data Analyst
13 6 (4.00%) Quantitative Developer
13 6 (4.00%) Senior Data Scientist
14 5 (3.33%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (70.67%) NumPy
2 68 (45.33%) scikit-learn
3 32 (21.33%) REST
4 31 (20.67%) PyTorch
5 27 (18.00%) TensorFlow
6 21 (14.00%) Matplotlib
7 20 (13.33%) Flask
7 20 (13.33%) Polars
8 18 (12.00%) Django
9 17 (11.33%) FastAPI
9 17 (11.33%) SciPy
10 16 (10.67%) PySpark
11 15 (10.00%) Hugging Face
12 14 (9.33%) Seaborn
13 13 (8.67%) Web Services
14 11 (7.33%) LangChain
14 11 (7.33%) pytest
15 10 (6.67%) Plotly
16 9 (6.00%) LangGraph
16 9 (6.00%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.67%) Equities
1 22 (14.67%) Hedge funds
2 18 (12.00%) Algorithms
3 16 (10.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (6.00%) Fixed Income
5 8 (5.33%) Derivative
5 8 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (5.33%) Low-Code
6 7 (4.67%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.33%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.67%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (2.00%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.00%) Multi-touch
9 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.33%) NHS
10 2 (1.33%) Pricing Data
10 2 (1.33%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.67%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.67%) Linux
2 2 (1.33%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (45.33%) Machine Learning
2 57 (38.00%) AI
3 56 (37.33%) Data Pipeline
4 55 (36.67%) Data Science
5 52 (34.67%) Data Engineering
6 50 (33.33%) Analytics
7 46 (30.67%) CI/CD
8 37 (24.67%) Visualisation
9 34 (22.67%) Data Analysis
9 34 (22.67%) ETL
10 31 (20.67%) Generative AI
11 28 (18.67%) Data Modelling
11 28 (18.67%) LLM
12 27 (18.00%) Natural Language Processing
13 26 (17.33%) Decision-Making
14 25 (16.67%) Containerisation
15 23 (15.33%) Data Cleansing
16 22 (14.67%) Business Intelligence
17 21 (14.00%) Mathematics
17 21 (14.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 150 (100.00%) Python
2 90 (60.00%) SQL
3 15 (10.00%) C#
4 13 (8.67%) Java
4 13 (8.67%) JavaScript
5 12 (8.00%) C++
6 11 (7.33%) VBA
7 6 (4.00%) Rust
8 5 (3.33%) R
9 4 (2.67%) Bicep
10 2 (1.33%) Ada
10 2 (1.33%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.67%) Bash
11 1 (0.67%) C
11 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (13.33%) Degree
2 17 (11.33%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.67%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.00%) PhD
5 7 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (24.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.00%) QA
3 1 (0.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 36 (24.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (18.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.33%) Terraform
3 5 (3.33%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (14.67%) Databricks
2 20 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.33%) OpenAI
4 13 (8.67%) Google
5 8 (5.33%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (5.33%) UiPath
6 4 (2.67%) Dataiku
7 3 (2.00%) Bloomberg
7 3 (2.00%) Cognos
7 3 (2.00%) Foundry
7 3 (2.00%) IBM
7 3 (2.00%) Sage
7 3 (2.00%) SAP
8 2 (1.33%) Reuters
9 1 (0.67%) Advent
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle
9 1 (0.67%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.67%) Veritas