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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 210 167
Rank change year-on-year -146 -43 +116
Contract jobs citing Pandas 93 164 243
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 1.22% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.73% 4.12% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 122 225
10th Percentile £295 £501 £638
25th Percentile £450 £553 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £805 - -
England median daily rate £545 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -27.33% -6.25% +28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £57.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - -
England median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +15.45% - -

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 5,364 3,978 4,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 29.69% 30.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 2,714 3,281
10th Percentile £400 £364 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £762 £800 £850
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 23
10th Percentile £28.00 £31.77 £23.88
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +22.28% -32.54%
75th Percentile £66.06 £61.56 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.20
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%

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 October 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 October 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
West London -18 2 - - 1
Central London -41 2 £706 +28.30% 8
East London +1 1 - - 2
South London - 1 £300 - 2
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 12 (12.90%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (10.75%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.38%) Jupyter
4 4 (4.30%) Apache
5 3 (3.23%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (2.15%) OpenStack
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Cloudability
2 1 (1.08%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.26%) AWS
2 19 (20.43%) Azure
3 14 (15.05%) GCP
4 11 (11.83%) dbt
5 10 (10.75%) GitHub
5 10 (10.75%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (10.75%) Serverless
6 9 (9.68%) Amazon S3
6 9 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.45%) Amazon SageMaker
7 6 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (5.38%) Amazon Neptune
8 5 (5.38%) Snowflake
9 4 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (4.30%) Power Platform
9 4 (4.30%) Vertex AI
10 3 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) 4G
1 2 (2.15%) 5G
1 2 (2.15%) DNS
1 2 (2.15%) HTTP
1 2 (2.15%) SSH
1 2 (2.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.75%) Relational Database
3 8 (8.60%) Neo4j
4 7 (7.53%) Big Data
5 6 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.45%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.38%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (4.30%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.30%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.30%) Power BI
7 4 (4.30%) Tableau
8 3 (3.23%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (3.23%) Metadata
8 3 (3.23%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.23%) Power Query
8 3 (3.23%) PowerPivot
8 3 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (36.56%) Git
2 10 (10.75%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.38%) MLflow
3 5 (5.38%) Selenium
4 4 (4.30%) GitLab
5 2 (2.15%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.08%) Postman
6 1 (1.08%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (48.39%) Finance
2 22 (23.66%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (20.43%) Social Skills
4 14 (15.05%) Banking
5 13 (13.98%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.38%) Publishing
7 4 (4.30%) Front Office
8 3 (3.23%) Billing
8 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.15%) Legal
9 2 (2.15%) Marketing
9 2 (2.15%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.08%) Advertising
10 1 (1.08%) Automotive
10 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Military
10 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Retail
10 1 (1.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (40.86%) Developer
2 34 (36.56%) Python Developer
3 18 (19.35%) Data Scientist
4 17 (18.28%) Senior
5 14 (15.05%) Data Engineer
6 9 (9.68%) Python Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.60%) Senior Python Developer
8 7 (7.53%) Analyst
8 7 (7.53%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) Senior Data Scientist
10 5 (5.38%) Kafka Developer
10 5 (5.38%) Python Data Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) AWS Developer
11 4 (4.30%) Data Analyst
11 4 (4.30%) Quantitative Developer
11 4 (4.30%) SQL Developer
12 3 (3.23%) Associate Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (61.29%) NumPy
2 27 (29.03%) FastAPI
3 26 (27.96%) scikit-learn
4 25 (26.88%) Flask
5 23 (24.73%) PySpark
6 22 (23.66%) REST
7 17 (18.28%) Polars
8 10 (10.75%) Django
8 10 (10.75%) Kafka
8 10 (10.75%) PyTorch
8 10 (10.75%) RESTful
9 9 (9.68%) TensorFlow
10 7 (7.53%) pytest
10 7 (7.53%) Terraform
11 5 (5.38%) Apache Avro
11 5 (5.38%) Matplotlib
12 4 (4.30%) CSS
12 4 (4.30%) HTML
12 4 (4.30%) SciPy
13 3 (3.23%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Hedge funds
2 9 (9.68%) Derivative
3 8 (8.60%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (8.60%) Market Risk
4 7 (7.53%) Data Structures
5 6 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (6.45%) Equities
5 6 (6.45%) Fixed Income
6 5 (5.38%) Algorithms
6 5 (5.38%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.38%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.23%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.15%) Life Science
8 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.08%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.08%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.08%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.28%) Linux
2 13 (13.98%) Unix
3 1 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (45.16%) Analytics
1 42 (45.16%) Data Pipeline
2 39 (41.94%) CI/CD
3 36 (38.71%) Data Science
4 34 (36.56%) Machine Learning
5 31 (33.33%) AI
6 22 (23.66%) Data Analysis
7 19 (20.43%) Agile
7 19 (20.43%) Data Engineering
7 19 (20.43%) ETL
8 18 (19.35%) Decision-Making
8 18 (19.35%) Validation
8 18 (19.35%) Visualisation
9 17 (18.28%) Containerisation
10 15 (16.13%) Code Quality
10 15 (16.13%) Data Modelling
10 15 (16.13%) Performance Optimisation
11 13 (13.98%) Data Transformation
11 13 (13.98%) LLM
11 13 (13.98%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 93 (100.00%) Python
2 69 (74.19%) SQL
3 15 (16.13%) Shell Script
4 8 (8.60%) C#
5 5 (5.38%) Cypher
5 5 (5.38%) Gremlin
5 5 (5.38%) Java
6 4 (4.30%) Bash
6 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.15%) C++
8 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.15%) R
9 1 (1.08%) Bicep
9 1 (1.08%) C
9 1 (1.08%) Haskell
9 1 (1.08%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (12.90%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.38%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.38%) PhD
3 5 (5.38%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.23%) EMIR
2 3 (3.23%) MiFID
2 3 (3.23%) QA
3 2 (2.15%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (30.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (18.28%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.30%) Kubeflow
2 4 (4.30%) Podman
3 3 (3.23%) Grafana
3 3 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (10.75%) Databricks
2 4 (4.30%) Oracle
3 3 (3.23%) Foundry
3 3 (3.23%) Google
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.23%) Palantir
4 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.08%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.08%) SimCorp