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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 227 253
Rank change year-on-year -30 +26 +67
Contract jobs citing Pandas 150 130 145
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 0.96% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.71% 3.66% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 110 129
10th Percentile £400 £510 £463
25th Percentile £462 £603 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £700 £638
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +9.80% -8.93%
75th Percentile £749 £850 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 £800
England median daily rate £550 £675 £638
% change year-on-year -18.52% +5.88% -8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +107.55% -57.60% -

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 4,043 3,548 4,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.85% 26.19% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,723 2,361 3,411
10th Percentile £363 £383 £385
25th Percentile £425 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £654 £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 24 20 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £36.58 £28.51
25th Percentile £35.25 £39.06 £35.94
Median hourly rate £50.50 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% +8.00% -23.54%
75th Percentile £63.19 £65.00 £68.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £81.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +16.82% -17.69%

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 20 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 20 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 +5 20 £650 +4.42% 13
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 23 (15.33%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.00%) Apache
3 9 (6.00%) Jupyter
4 8 (5.33%) Appian
5 1 (0.67%) Luigi
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.33%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 63 (42.00%) AWS
2 55 (36.67%) Azure
3 24 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 19 (12.67%) GCP
5 17 (11.33%) Azure AI
5 17 (11.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (10.00%) dbt
6 15 (10.00%) Snowflake
7 13 (8.67%) GitHub
8 12 (8.00%) Amazon SageMaker
9 11 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (6.00%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (5.33%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (5.33%) Power Automate
11 8 (5.33%) Serverless
12 7 (4.67%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (4.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.33%) Power BI
2 12 (8.00%) Data Lake
2 12 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.33%) Pinecone
4 8 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (5.33%) Apache Arrow
4 8 (5.33%) Apache Iceberg
4 8 (5.33%) Dremio
4 8 (5.33%) Tableau
5 6 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.00%) Big Data
5 6 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.33%) Apache Ignite
6 5 (3.33%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.33%) Metadata
6 5 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.33%) Parquet
7 4 (2.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 28 (18.67%) Git
2 19 (12.67%) MLflow
3 6 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.67%) GitLab
5 1 (0.67%) Poetry
5 1 (0.67%) Selenium
General
1 70 (46.67%) Finance
2 40 (26.67%) Banking
3 38 (25.33%) Social Skills
4 32 (21.33%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (16.00%) Front Office
6 20 (13.33%) Investment Banking
7 14 (9.33%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.00%) Marketing
8 6 (4.00%) Publishing
9 4 (2.67%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.00%) Legal
10 3 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.33%) Retail
12 1 (0.67%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.67%) Electronics
12 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
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 39 (26.00%) Data Scientist
3 38 (25.33%) Python Developer
4 36 (24.00%) Senior
5 29 (19.33%) Data Engineer
6 16 (10.67%) Python Engineer
7 13 (8.67%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Senior Python Developer
9 11 (7.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) AWS Developer
10 10 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) RAD Developer
12 8 (5.33%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (5.33%) AWS Software Engineer
12 8 (5.33%) JavaScript Developer
12 8 (5.33%) Python Software Engineer
12 8 (5.33%) Software Engineer
13 7 (4.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 6 (4.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (73.33%) NumPy
2 62 (41.33%) scikit-learn
3 33 (22.00%) PyTorch
4 32 (21.33%) REST
5 26 (17.33%) TensorFlow
6 25 (16.67%) SciPy
7 21 (14.00%) FastAPI
7 21 (14.00%) Flask
8 17 (11.33%) LangChain
8 17 (11.33%) Matplotlib
9 16 (10.67%) Django
9 16 (10.67%) Hugging Face
9 16 (10.67%) Polars
9 16 (10.67%) PySpark
10 12 (8.00%) Web Services
11 11 (7.33%) AngularJS
11 11 (7.33%) LangGraph
11 11 (7.33%) React
11 11 (7.33%) Seaborn
11 11 (7.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (16.00%) Hedge funds
3 23 (15.33%) Equities
4 16 (10.67%) Algorithms
5 13 (8.67%) Fixed Income
6 9 (6.00%) Derivative
7 8 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (5.33%) Low-Code
8 6 (4.00%) AI Agents
8 6 (4.00%) Data Structures
9 5 (3.33%) Pricing Data
10 3 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.00%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (2.00%) Multi-touch
10 3 (2.00%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.33%) NHS
11 2 (1.33%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.33%) Reinsurance
11 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (44.00%) Machine Learning
2 63 (42.00%) AI
3 56 (37.33%) Data Science
4 51 (34.00%) Data Pipeline
5 50 (33.33%) Analytics
6 48 (32.00%) Data Engineering
7 41 (27.33%) CI/CD
8 36 (24.00%) Generative AI
9 33 (22.00%) LLM
10 32 (21.33%) Data Analysis
10 32 (21.33%) ETL
10 32 (21.33%) Visualisation
11 28 (18.67%) Natural Language Processing
12 27 (18.00%) Data Modelling
12 27 (18.00%) Software Engineering
13 25 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 23 (15.33%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (15.33%) Decision-Making
14 23 (15.33%) Mathematics
14 23 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 150 (100.00%) Python
2 79 (52.67%) SQL
3 22 (14.67%) JavaScript
4 17 (11.33%) Java
5 14 (9.33%) C#
5 14 (9.33%) C++
6 10 (6.67%) VBA
7 9 (6.00%) Rust
8 8 (5.33%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.33%) R
10 4 (2.67%) Bicep
11 2 (1.33%) Ada
12 1 (0.67%) Bash
12 1 (0.67%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (11.33%) Degree
2 15 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.00%) Master's Degree
3 9 (6.00%) PhD
4 6 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.33%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (19.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.67%) QA
3 2 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 32 (21.33%) Docker
2 3 (2.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (18.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.33%) Terraform
3 3 (2.00%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 22 (14.67%) Databricks
2 16 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.67%) OpenAI
3 12 (8.00%) Google
4 8 (5.33%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (5.33%) UiPath
5 5 (3.33%) Dataiku
5 5 (3.33%) Foundry
6 4 (2.67%) Bloomberg
7 3 (2.00%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.00%) Cognos
7 3 (2.00%) IBM
7 3 (2.00%) Refinitiv
7 3 (2.00%) Sage
7 3 (2.00%) SAP
8 1 (0.67%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle
8 1 (0.67%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.67%) Reuters
8 1 (0.67%) Salesforce