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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 208 173
Rank change year-on-year -147 -35 +111
Contract jobs citing Pandas 97 170 249
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 1.26% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.81% 4.25% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 127 231
10th Percentile £299 £508 £638
25th Percentile £450 £556 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -22.43% -6.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £801 - -
England median daily rate £538 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -28.33% -6.25% +28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 -

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 5,350 3,999 4,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.69% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,607 2,736 3,325
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £710
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 22
10th Percentile £26.55 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.56 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -22 2 - - 5
East London +4 1 - -
Central London -46 1 £786 +42.95% 12
South London - 1 £300 - 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 10 (10.31%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (10.31%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.19%) Jupyter
3 4 (4.12%) Apache
4 3 (3.09%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (2.06%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.03%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.05%) AWS
2 20 (20.62%) Azure
3 13 (13.40%) GCP
3 13 (13.40%) Serverless
4 12 (12.37%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (11.34%) Amazon S3
6 10 (10.31%) GitHub
6 10 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (9.28%) dbt
8 8 (8.25%) Amazon SageMaker
9 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (6.19%) Power Platform
11 5 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.15%) Amazon Neptune
11 5 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (4.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (4.12%) Snowflake
13 3 (3.09%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (3.09%) Azure Machine Learning
13 3 (3.09%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) 4G
1 2 (2.06%) 5G
1 2 (2.06%) DNS
1 2 (2.06%) HTTP
1 2 (2.06%) SSH
1 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (9.28%) Relational Database
3 8 (8.25%) Neo4j
4 7 (7.22%) Big Data
5 6 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.19%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.19%) Power BI
5 6 (6.19%) Tableau
6 4 (4.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (4.12%) BigQuery
6 4 (4.12%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.12%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.12%) Power Query
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.09%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.09%) Metadata
7 3 (3.09%) MySQL
7 3 (3.09%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (31.96%) Git
2 10 (10.31%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.15%) MLflow
3 5 (5.15%) Selenium
4 4 (4.12%) GitLab
5 2 (2.06%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.03%) Postman
6 1 (1.03%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (44.33%) Finance
2 23 (23.71%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (21.65%) Social Skills
4 13 (13.40%) Banking
5 12 (12.37%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.19%) Publishing
7 5 (5.15%) Front Office
8 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.06%) Billing
9 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Legal
9 2 (2.06%) Marketing
9 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.03%) Advertising
10 1 (1.03%) Automotive
10 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.03%) Military
10 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.03%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (37.11%) Developer
2 32 (32.99%) Python Developer
3 21 (21.65%) Data Scientist
3 21 (21.65%) Senior
4 15 (15.46%) Data Engineer
5 11 (11.34%) Analyst
6 10 (10.31%) Python Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.25%) Senior Python Developer
8 7 (7.22%) Senior Data Scientist
9 6 (6.19%) Data Analyst
9 6 (6.19%) Kafka Developer
9 6 (6.19%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Python Data Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) AWS Developer
11 4 (4.12%) Quantitative Developer
11 4 (4.12%) SQL Developer
12 3 (3.09%) Associate Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (60.82%) NumPy
2 28 (28.87%) scikit-learn
3 26 (26.80%) PySpark
4 25 (25.77%) FastAPI
5 23 (23.71%) Flask
5 23 (23.71%) REST
6 17 (17.53%) Polars
7 13 (13.40%) PyTorch
8 11 (11.34%) Kafka
9 10 (10.31%) RESTful
9 10 (10.31%) TensorFlow
9 10 (10.31%) Terraform
10 7 (7.22%) Django
10 7 (7.22%) pytest
11 6 (6.19%) Apache Avro
12 5 (5.15%) Matplotlib
12 5 (5.15%) SciPy
13 4 (4.12%) CSS
13 4 (4.12%) Great Expectations
13 4 (4.12%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Hedge funds
2 9 (9.28%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (8.25%) Derivative
4 7 (7.22%) Market Risk
5 6 (6.19%) Data Structures
5 6 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (6.19%) Equities
5 6 (6.19%) Management Information System
5 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
6 5 (5.15%) Fixed Income
6 5 (5.15%) Public Cloud
7 4 (4.12%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.09%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.09%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (2.06%) Life Science
9 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.03%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.03%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.49%) Linux
2 12 (12.37%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (44.33%) Data Pipeline
2 42 (43.30%) Analytics
3 41 (42.27%) Data Science
4 38 (39.18%) CI/CD
4 38 (39.18%) Machine Learning
5 33 (34.02%) AI
6 23 (23.71%) Agile
7 22 (22.68%) Data Analysis
8 20 (20.62%) Validation
9 19 (19.59%) Containerisation
9 19 (19.59%) Decision-Making
9 19 (19.59%) Visualisation
10 18 (18.56%) Data Engineering
10 18 (18.56%) ETL
11 15 (15.46%) Code Quality
11 15 (15.46%) LLM
11 15 (15.46%) Software Engineering
12 14 (14.43%) Data Transformation
12 14 (14.43%) Performance Optimisation
13 12 (12.37%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 97 (100.00%) Python
2 71 (73.20%) SQL
3 14 (14.43%) Shell Script
4 8 (8.25%) C#
5 6 (6.19%) Java
6 5 (5.15%) Cypher
6 5 (5.15%) Gremlin
7 4 (4.12%) Bash
7 4 (4.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (4.12%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.09%) R
9 2 (2.06%) C++
9 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.06%) VBA
10 1 (1.03%) Bicep
10 1 (1.03%) C
10 1 (1.03%) Haskell
10 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (14.43%) Degree
2 7 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.15%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.15%) PhD
3 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.09%) EMIR
2 3 (3.09%) MiFID
2 3 (3.09%) QA
3 2 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (30.93%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (20.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.15%) Grafana
3 4 (4.12%) Podman
4 3 (3.09%) Kubeflow
4 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (9.28%) Databricks
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.12%) Oracle
4 3 (3.09%) Foundry
4 3 (3.09%) Google
4 3 (3.09%) Palantir
5 2 (2.06%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.03%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.03%) SimCorp