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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 213 217
Rank change year-on-year -32 +4 +69
Contract jobs citing Pandas 164 137 172
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 1.08% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.89% 4.15% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 112 152
10th Percentile £406 £510 £463
25th Percentile £453 £571 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £869 £850
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 4,218 3,301 4,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.59% 26.03% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,862 2,307 3,340
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 17 23
10th Percentile £24.95 £34.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £39.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £55.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +45.46% -41.30%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.75 £69.40
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 5 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 5 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 +11.84% 22
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 22 (13.41%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (7.32%) Jupyter
3 10 (6.10%) Apache Spark
4 8 (4.88%) Appian
5 6 (3.66%) Apache
6 1 (0.61%) Luigi
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Actimize
1 1 (0.61%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 65 (39.63%) Azure
2 63 (38.41%) AWS
3 27 (16.46%) Power Platform
4 22 (13.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (11.59%) GCP
6 17 (10.37%) GitHub
7 16 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (9.15%) Serverless
9 14 (8.54%) Amazon SageMaker
9 14 (8.54%) Azure AI
10 12 (7.32%) Amazon S3
11 11 (6.71%) Snowflake
12 9 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (4.88%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (4.88%) Azure Machine Learning
13 8 (4.88%) Dagster
13 8 (4.88%) dbt
13 8 (4.88%) Power Automate
14 7 (4.27%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.85%) Power BI
2 12 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.10%) Tableau
4 9 (5.49%) Data Lake
4 9 (5.49%) Geospatial Data
4 9 (5.49%) Pinecone
4 9 (5.49%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.88%) Big Data
6 7 (4.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.05%) Metadata
9 4 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.44%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.44%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.44%) Parquet
9 4 (2.44%) Power Query
10 3 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.83%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.83%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.83%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 29 (17.68%) Git
2 20 (12.20%) MLflow
3 11 (6.71%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.66%) Selenium
5 3 (1.83%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.22%) GitLab
6 2 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.61%) Poetry
General
1 59 (35.98%) Finance
2 45 (27.44%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (24.39%) Social Skills
4 30 (18.29%) Banking
5 18 (10.98%) Front Office
6 13 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 13 (7.93%) Publishing
7 10 (6.10%) Investment Banking
8 8 (4.88%) Marketing
9 4 (2.44%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Aviation
12 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Electronics
12 1 (0.61%) Legal
12 1 (0.61%) Retail
12 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (30.49%) Developer
2 42 (25.61%) Data Scientist
3 41 (25.00%) Senior
4 39 (23.78%) Python Developer
5 35 (21.34%) Data Engineer
6 16 (9.76%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 13 (7.93%) Analyst
8 13 (7.93%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (7.93%) Senior Python Developer
9 12 (7.32%) Python Engineer
10 9 (5.49%) AWS Developer
10 9 (5.49%) RAD Developer
11 8 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (4.88%) Data Analyst
11 8 (4.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 8 (4.88%) Python Data Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Senior Data Scientist
13 5 (3.05%) Quantitative Developer
14 4 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (67.07%) NumPy
2 72 (43.90%) scikit-learn
3 36 (21.95%) REST
4 32 (19.51%) PyTorch
5 27 (16.46%) TensorFlow
6 23 (14.02%) Matplotlib
7 22 (13.41%) Flask
7 22 (13.41%) Polars
8 19 (11.59%) PySpark
9 18 (10.98%) Django
9 18 (10.98%) FastAPI
10 15 (9.15%) Hugging Face
10 15 (9.15%) SciPy
10 15 (9.15%) Seaborn
10 15 (9.15%) Web Services
11 11 (6.71%) LangChain
11 11 (6.71%) pytest
11 11 (6.71%) RESTful
12 10 (6.10%) Kafka
12 10 (6.10%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.63%) Equities
1 24 (14.63%) Hedge funds
2 17 (10.37%) Algorithms
3 14 (8.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (5.49%) Fixed Income
5 8 (4.88%) Derivative
5 8 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.88%) Low-Code
6 7 (4.27%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.66%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.05%) AI Agents
8 5 (3.05%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.44%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (2.44%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.83%) Multi-touch
11 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.22%) NHS
11 2 (1.22%) Pricing Data
11 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.61%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.27%) Linux
2 5 (3.05%) Unix
3 2 (1.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (45.12%) Machine Learning
2 67 (40.85%) Data Pipeline
3 62 (37.80%) Data Science
4 59 (35.98%) AI
5 55 (33.54%) Analytics
6 51 (31.10%) CI/CD
7 48 (29.27%) Data Engineering
8 38 (23.17%) Visualisation
9 36 (21.95%) Data Analysis
10 35 (21.34%) ETL
11 32 (19.51%) Decision-Making
11 32 (19.51%) Generative AI
12 29 (17.68%) Containerisation
12 29 (17.68%) LLM
13 27 (16.46%) Data Modelling
13 27 (16.46%) Natural Language Processing
14 23 (14.02%) Data Cleansing
15 22 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
15 22 (13.41%) Validation
16 21 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 164 (100.00%) Python
2 99 (60.37%) SQL
3 15 (9.15%) C#
4 12 (7.32%) Java
4 12 (7.32%) VBA
5 11 (6.71%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.49%) C++
7 6 (3.66%) R
8 4 (2.44%) Bicep
9 3 (1.83%) Rust
9 3 (1.83%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.22%) Ada
10 2 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.22%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.61%) Bash
11 1 (0.61%) C
11 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (13.41%) Degree
2 19 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.93%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.49%) PhD
4 9 (5.49%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.83%) QA
3 1 (0.61%) MiFID
System Software
1 40 (24.39%) Docker
2 2 (1.22%) HDFS
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (18.29%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.10%) Terraform
3 6 (3.66%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.41%) Databricks
3 15 (9.15%) OpenAI
4 14 (8.54%) Google
5 8 (4.88%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.88%) UiPath
6 4 (2.44%) Dataiku
6 4 (2.44%) Foundry
7 3 (1.83%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.83%) Cognos
7 3 (1.83%) IBM
7 3 (1.83%) Sage
7 3 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.83%) SAP
8 2 (1.22%) Reuters
9 1 (0.61%) Advent
9 1 (0.61%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.61%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Veritas