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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 208 209
Rank change year-on-year -44 +1 +62
Contract jobs citing Pandas 154 144 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 1.15% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.66% 4.40% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 113 166
10th Percentile £406 £515 £481
25th Percentile £461 £638 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £819 £888 -
England median daily rate £545 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -24.83% -3.33% +7.14%

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 4,206 3,271 4,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.73% 26.07% 25.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,817 2,296 3,350
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 26
10th Percentile £23.33 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £36.06 £23.90
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +41.24% -43.68%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £74.80 £76.25 £68.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 May 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 May 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 -8 19 £638 +13.84% 12
West London - 9 £511 - 6
East London - 1 - - 4
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 20 (12.99%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.19%) Appian
3 8 (5.19%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.95%) Apache
5 1 (0.65%) Luigi
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Actimize
1 1 (0.65%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 62 (40.26%) Azure
2 56 (36.36%) AWS
3 22 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (13.64%) Power Platform
5 20 (12.99%) GitHub
6 19 (12.34%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (11.69%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (11.69%) GCP
7 18 (11.69%) Serverless
8 16 (10.39%) Amazon S3
9 14 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
10 13 (8.44%) Azure AI
11 10 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (5.19%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (5.19%) Dagster
12 8 (5.19%) Power Automate
13 7 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
13 7 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (3.90%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.99%) Power BI
2 12 (7.79%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.49%) Tableau
4 9 (5.84%) Geospatial Data
4 9 (5.84%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.19%) Big Data
5 8 (5.19%) Pinecone
6 7 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (4.55%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.60%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.60%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.60%) Metadata
8 4 (2.60%) Parquet
8 4 (2.60%) Power Query
9 3 (1.95%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.95%) SQLite
10 2 (1.30%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (16.88%) Git
2 21 (13.64%) MLflow
3 15 (9.74%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.55%) Selenium
5 3 (1.95%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.30%) GitLab
7 1 (0.65%) Poetry
7 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (38.31%) Finance
2 39 (25.32%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (25.32%) Social Skills
3 19 (12.34%) Banking
4 17 (11.04%) Publishing
5 13 (8.44%) Front Office
6 11 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.55%) Marketing
8 4 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.60%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.30%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Aviation
11 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (29.87%) Developer
2 38 (24.68%) Data Scientist
3 36 (23.38%) Python Developer
4 34 (22.08%) Data Engineer
4 34 (22.08%) Senior
5 15 (9.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (8.44%) Analyst
6 13 (8.44%) Senior Data Engineer
7 12 (7.79%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.84%) AWS Developer
8 9 (5.84%) Senior Python Developer
9 8 (5.19%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (5.19%) Kafka Developer
9 8 (5.19%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 8 (5.19%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.55%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.55%) Python Data Engineer
10 7 (4.55%) Senior Data Scientist
11 6 (3.90%) SQL Developer
12 5 (3.25%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (62.34%) NumPy
2 65 (42.21%) scikit-learn
3 33 (21.43%) REST
4 32 (20.78%) PyTorch
5 28 (18.18%) Polars
6 27 (17.53%) TensorFlow
7 26 (16.88%) Flask
8 22 (14.29%) FastAPI
9 20 (12.99%) Matplotlib
9 20 (12.99%) PySpark
10 18 (11.69%) Django
11 15 (9.74%) Hugging Face
12 14 (9.09%) Kafka
12 14 (9.09%) RESTful
13 13 (8.44%) Seaborn
14 11 (7.14%) pytest
14 11 (7.14%) Web Services
15 10 (6.49%) LangChain
16 9 (5.84%) GeoJSON
17 8 (5.19%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.64%) Equities
2 20 (12.99%) Hedge funds
3 13 (8.44%) Algorithms
4 9 (5.84%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (5.19%) Low-Code
5 8 (5.19%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.55%) Fixed Income
7 6 (3.90%) Derivative
8 5 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (2.60%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.60%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.60%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (2.60%) Multi-touch
9 4 (2.60%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.30%) NHS
11 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.65%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.19%) Unix
2 7 (4.55%) Linux
3 2 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (49.35%) Data Pipeline
2 73 (47.40%) Machine Learning
3 57 (37.01%) AI
4 56 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 56 (36.36%) Data Science
5 47 (30.52%) Analytics
6 42 (27.27%) Data Engineering
7 33 (21.43%) Generative AI
8 32 (20.78%) Containerisation
8 32 (20.78%) ETL
9 31 (20.13%) Visualisation
10 29 (18.83%) Data Analysis
11 28 (18.18%) Decision-Making
11 28 (18.18%) LLM
12 25 (16.23%) Data Modelling
13 24 (15.58%) Data Transformation
13 24 (15.58%) Natural Language Processing
13 24 (15.58%) Validation
14 22 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
15 19 (12.34%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 154 (100.00%) Python
2 96 (62.34%) SQL
3 16 (10.39%) C#
4 8 (5.19%) R
4 8 (5.19%) VBA
5 7 (4.55%) Java
6 6 (3.90%) C++
6 6 (3.90%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.90%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.60%) Bicep
8 2 (1.30%) Ada
8 2 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.65%) Bash
9 1 (0.65%) C
9 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (15.58%) Degree
2 15 (9.74%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.44%) Master's Degree
4 11 (7.14%) PhD
5 7 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.55%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (25.97%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.30%) QA
3 1 (0.65%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (29.87%) Docker
2 2 (1.30%) HDFS
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (20.13%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.14%) Terraform
3 6 (3.90%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.60%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.29%) Databricks
3 14 (9.09%) OpenAI
4 13 (8.44%) Google
5 8 (5.19%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (5.19%) UiPath
6 3 (1.95%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.95%) Cognos
6 3 (1.95%) IBM
6 3 (1.95%) Sage
6 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.30%) Foundry
7 2 (1.30%) Reuters
7 2 (1.30%) SAP
8 1 (0.65%) Advent
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco
8 1 (0.65%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.65%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Veritas