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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 231 247
Rank change year-on-year -18 +16 +74
Contract jobs citing Pandas 147 127 146
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 0.95% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.61% 3.58% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 107 130
10th Percentile £400 £510 £463
25th Percentile £461 £588 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £644
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +4.85% -8.04%
75th Percentile £738 £838 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 £800
England median daily rate £550 £675 £638
% change year-on-year -18.52% +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 4,071 3,551 4,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.62% 26.46% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,752 2,382 3,401
10th Percentile £363 £383 £388
25th Percentile £425 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £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 22 21 35
10th Percentile £27.80 £35.00 £20.12
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.50 £29.12
Median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.56 £65.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.00 £74.46
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +13 20 £650 +4.42% 9
West London - 4 £486 - 6
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 (14.97%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.80%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.12%) Jupyter
4 8 (5.44%) Apache
4 8 (5.44%) Appian
5 1 (0.68%) Luigi
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.36%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Actimize
1 1 (0.68%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 60 (40.82%) AWS
2 57 (38.78%) Azure
3 24 (16.33%) Power Platform
4 19 (12.93%) GCP
5 18 (12.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (11.56%) Azure AI
7 15 (10.20%) Snowflake
8 13 (8.84%) dbt
8 13 (8.84%) GitHub
9 11 (7.48%) Amazon SageMaker
9 11 (7.48%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (6.12%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (5.44%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (5.44%) Power Automate
11 8 (5.44%) Serverless
12 7 (4.76%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (4.08%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (4.08%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.65%) Power BI
2 12 (8.16%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.48%) Data Lake
3 11 (7.48%) Pinecone
4 9 (6.12%) Tableau
5 7 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (4.08%) Apache Arrow
6 6 (4.08%) Apache Iceberg
6 6 (4.08%) Big Data
6 6 (4.08%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.08%) Dremio
6 6 (4.08%) Geospatial Data
7 5 (3.40%) Metadata
7 5 (3.40%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.40%) Parquet
7 5 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.72%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (17.69%) Git
2 19 (12.93%) MLflow
3 6 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.36%) Selenium
4 2 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.68%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) Poetry
General
1 66 (44.90%) Finance
2 38 (25.85%) Social Skills
3 37 (25.17%) Banking
4 32 (21.77%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (15.65%) Front Office
6 17 (11.56%) Investment Banking
7 14 (9.52%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.08%) Marketing
8 6 (4.08%) Publishing
9 4 (2.72%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.04%) Legal
10 3 (2.04%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.36%) Retail
12 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Electronics
12 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (29.93%) Developer
2 38 (25.85%) Data Scientist
3 35 (23.81%) Python Developer
4 34 (23.13%) Senior
5 29 (19.73%) Data Engineer
6 14 (9.52%) Python Engineer
7 13 (8.84%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 12 (8.16%) Senior Python Developer
9 11 (7.48%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (6.12%) RAD Developer
11 8 (5.44%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.44%) AWS Developer
11 8 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (5.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 7 (4.76%) Analyst
13 6 (4.08%) JavaScript Developer
13 6 (4.08%) Python Software Engineer
13 6 (4.08%) Quantitative Developer
13 6 (4.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (72.11%) NumPy
2 63 (42.86%) scikit-learn
3 35 (23.81%) PyTorch
4 32 (21.77%) REST
5 28 (19.05%) TensorFlow
6 21 (14.29%) SciPy
7 19 (12.93%) FastAPI
7 19 (12.93%) Flask
8 17 (11.56%) LangChain
8 17 (11.56%) Matplotlib
9 16 (10.88%) Django
9 16 (10.88%) Hugging Face
9 16 (10.88%) PySpark
10 14 (9.52%) Polars
11 12 (8.16%) Web Services
12 11 (7.48%) LangGraph
12 11 (7.48%) Seaborn
13 10 (6.80%) Faiss
13 10 (6.80%) pytest
14 9 (6.12%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.97%) Equities
2 21 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 21 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 16 (10.88%) Algorithms
4 12 (8.16%) Fixed Income
5 9 (6.12%) Derivative
6 8 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (5.44%) Low-Code
7 6 (4.08%) AI Agents
7 6 (4.08%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.72%) Pricing Data
9 3 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.04%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (2.04%) Multi-touch
9 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.36%) NHS
10 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.68%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Unix
2 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (45.58%) Machine Learning
2 63 (42.86%) AI
3 56 (38.10%) Data Science
4 52 (35.37%) Data Pipeline
5 49 (33.33%) Analytics
6 47 (31.97%) Data Engineering
7 41 (27.89%) CI/CD
8 38 (25.85%) Generative AI
9 34 (23.13%) LLM
10 32 (21.77%) Data Analysis
10 32 (21.77%) ETL
10 32 (21.77%) Visualisation
11 28 (19.05%) Data Modelling
11 28 (19.05%) Natural Language Processing
12 25 (17.01%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 25 (17.01%) Software Engineering
13 23 (15.65%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (15.65%) Decision-Making
13 23 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (14.97%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 147 (100.00%) Python
2 78 (53.06%) SQL
3 18 (12.24%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.52%) Java
5 13 (8.84%) C#
6 12 (8.16%) C++
7 11 (7.48%) VBA
8 7 (4.76%) Rust
9 6 (4.08%) TypeScript
10 5 (3.40%) R
11 4 (2.72%) Bicep
12 2 (1.36%) Ada
13 1 (0.68%) Bash
13 1 (0.68%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (11.56%) Degree
2 16 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.12%) Master's Degree
3 9 (6.12%) PhD
4 6 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.72%) QA
3 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (22.45%) Docker
2 3 (2.04%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.44%) Terraform
3 4 (2.72%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 21 (14.29%) Databricks
2 17 (11.56%) Microsoft
3 16 (10.88%) OpenAI
4 13 (8.84%) Google
5 8 (5.44%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (5.44%) UiPath
6 6 (4.08%) Foundry
7 5 (3.40%) Dataiku
8 4 (2.72%) Bloomberg
9 3 (2.04%) Alteryx
9 3 (2.04%) Cognos
9 3 (2.04%) IBM
9 3 (2.04%) Refinitiv
9 3 (2.04%) Sage
9 3 (2.04%) SAP
10 1 (0.68%) Advent
10 1 (0.68%) DataRobot
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle
10 1 (0.68%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.68%) Salesforce