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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 230 243
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 +75
Contract jobs citing Pandas 145 126 153
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 0.94% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.52% 3.58% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 106 135
10th Percentile £404 £510 £463
25th Percentile £460 £603 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £838 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 £830
England median daily rate £540 £675 £638
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.88% -8.93%

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 4,119 3,524 4,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.33% 26.28% 24.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,799 2,385 3,387
10th Percentile £363 £383 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 33
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.37
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.31 £28.51
Median hourly rate £47.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +5.29% -35.01%
75th Percentile £63.00 £64.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £74.73
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 7 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 7 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 +1 18 £650 +4.42% 16
West London - 4 £486 - 8
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 (15.17%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.90%) Apache Spark
2 10 (6.90%) Jupyter
3 8 (5.52%) Apache
3 8 (5.52%) Appian
4 1 (0.69%) Luigi
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.38%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Actimize
1 1 (0.69%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 59 (40.69%) AWS
2 56 (38.62%) Azure
3 24 (16.55%) Power Platform
4 19 (13.10%) GCP
5 18 (12.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (10.34%) Snowflake
7 14 (9.66%) Azure AI
8 13 (8.97%) dbt
8 13 (8.97%) GitHub
9 11 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (6.90%) Amazon SageMaker
11 8 (5.52%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (5.52%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (5.52%) Power Automate
11 8 (5.52%) Serverless
12 7 (4.83%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.83%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (4.83%) Vertex AI
13 6 (4.14%) Amazon Bedrock
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.86%) Power BI
2 12 (8.28%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.59%) Data Lake
3 11 (7.59%) Pinecone
4 9 (6.21%) Tableau
5 7 (4.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (4.14%) Big Data
6 6 (4.14%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.14%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (4.14%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (3.45%) Apache Arrow
7 5 (3.45%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (3.45%) Dremio
7 5 (3.45%) Metadata
7 5 (3.45%) Parquet
8 4 (2.76%) Apache Ignite
8 4 (2.76%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (17.93%) Git
2 19 (13.10%) MLflow
3 7 (4.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.38%) Selenium
4 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.69%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) Poetry
General
1 65 (44.83%) Finance
2 36 (24.83%) Banking
2 36 (24.83%) Social Skills
3 32 (22.07%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (15.17%) Front Office
5 17 (11.72%) Investment Banking
6 14 (9.66%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.14%) Marketing
7 6 (4.14%) Publishing
8 4 (2.76%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.07%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.38%) Retail
11 1 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Electronics
11 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Legal
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (30.34%) Developer
2 36 (24.83%) Data Scientist
3 35 (24.14%) Python Developer
4 34 (23.45%) Senior
5 30 (20.69%) Data Engineer
6 13 (8.97%) Python Engineer
6 13 (8.97%) Senior Developer
7 12 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 12 (8.28%) Senior Python Developer
8 11 (7.59%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (6.21%) RAD Developer
10 8 (5.52%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Analyst
11 7 (4.83%) AWS Developer
11 7 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) JavaScript Developer
12 6 (4.14%) Python Data Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) Quantitative Developer
12 6 (4.14%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (71.03%) NumPy
2 60 (41.38%) scikit-learn
3 33 (22.76%) PyTorch
4 32 (22.07%) REST
5 27 (18.62%) TensorFlow
6 21 (14.48%) SciPy
7 19 (13.10%) FastAPI
7 19 (13.10%) Flask
8 18 (12.41%) Matplotlib
9 16 (11.03%) Django
9 16 (11.03%) Hugging Face
9 16 (11.03%) PySpark
10 14 (9.66%) LangChain
10 14 (9.66%) Polars
11 12 (8.28%) Web Services
12 11 (7.59%) Seaborn
13 10 (6.90%) Faiss
13 10 (6.90%) pytest
14 9 (6.21%) COM
14 9 (6.21%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.17%) Equities
2 21 (14.48%) Hedge funds
3 20 (13.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (11.03%) Algorithms
5 11 (7.59%) Fixed Income
6 10 (6.90%) Derivative
7 8 (5.52%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (5.52%) Low-Code
8 7 (4.83%) Data Structures
9 6 (4.14%) AI Agents
10 4 (2.76%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (2.76%) Pricing Data
11 3 (2.07%) Multi-touch
11 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
11 3 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 2 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.38%) NHS
12 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.69%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.83%) Linux
2 1 (0.69%) Unix
2 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (45.52%) Machine Learning
2 60 (41.38%) AI
3 53 (36.55%) Data Pipeline
3 53 (36.55%) Data Science
4 47 (32.41%) Analytics
4 47 (32.41%) Data Engineering
5 41 (28.28%) CI/CD
6 35 (24.14%) Generative AI
7 32 (22.07%) Data Analysis
7 32 (22.07%) ETL
8 31 (21.38%) LLM
8 31 (21.38%) Visualisation
9 28 (19.31%) Data Modelling
9 28 (19.31%) Natural Language Processing
10 23 (15.86%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (15.86%) Decision-Making
10 23 (15.86%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 22 (15.17%) Mathematics
11 22 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (15.17%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 145 (100.00%) Python
2 81 (55.86%) SQL
3 17 (11.72%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.34%) Java
5 13 (8.97%) C#
5 13 (8.97%) C++
6 11 (7.59%) VBA
7 7 (4.83%) Rust
8 5 (3.45%) R
8 5 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.76%) Bicep
10 2 (1.38%) Ada
11 1 (0.69%) Bash
11 1 (0.69%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (12.41%) Degree
2 16 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.90%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.21%) PhD
5 6 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.14%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.69%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.76%) QA
3 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.69%) MiFID
System Software
1 34 (23.45%) Docker
2 3 (2.07%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (19.31%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.52%) Terraform
3 5 (3.45%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 22 (15.17%) Databricks
2 16 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.03%) OpenAI
3 13 (8.97%) Google
4 8 (5.52%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (5.52%) UiPath
5 5 (3.45%) Bloomberg
5 5 (3.45%) Dataiku
6 3 (2.07%) Cognos
6 3 (2.07%) Foundry
6 3 (2.07%) IBM
6 3 (2.07%) Refinitiv
6 3 (2.07%) Sage
6 3 (2.07%) SAP
7 2 (1.38%) Reuters
8 1 (0.69%) Advent
8 1 (0.69%) Cisco
8 1 (0.69%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.69%) Veritas