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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 198 163
Rank change year-on-year -108 -35 +96
Contract jobs citing Pandas 126 171 275
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 1.26% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.80% 4.83% 6.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 127 252
10th Percentile £409 £525 £619
25th Percentile £478 £638 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
England median daily rate £550 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +30.61%

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 4,492 3,537 4,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.67% 26.08% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,968 2,463 3,322
10th Percentile £390 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 26
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +12.50% -39.39%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £58.76
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -2 10 £511 -2.62% 4
Central London -24 8 £600 +5.26% 6
East London +1 1 - - 1
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 15 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.35%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.56%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.38%) Apache
4 3 (2.38%) Appian
Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.79%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 49 (38.89%) AWS
2 42 (33.33%) Azure
3 17 (13.49%) GCP
4 16 (12.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (11.90%) GitHub
5 15 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (11.90%) Serverless
6 14 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
7 13 (10.32%) Amazon S3
7 13 (10.32%) Power Platform
8 8 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.56%) Dagster
9 7 (5.56%) dbt
10 6 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (3.97%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (3.17%) Amazon Neptune
12 4 (3.17%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (3.17%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.52%) Power BI
1 12 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 10 (7.94%) Tableau
3 9 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
4 7 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (5.56%) Big Data
4 7 (5.56%) Neo4j
5 4 (3.17%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.17%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.38%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.38%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.38%) Metadata
6 3 (2.38%) Pinecone
6 3 (2.38%) Power Query
6 3 (2.38%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.38%) SQLite
7 2 (1.59%) MySQL
7 2 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (20.63%) Git
2 14 (11.11%) MLflow
3 12 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.56%) Selenium
5 4 (3.17%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.59%) GitLab
7 1 (0.79%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.79%) Postman
7 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (38.89%) Finance
2 39 (30.95%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (23.02%) Social Skills
4 18 (14.29%) Publishing
5 10 (7.94%) Banking
6 7 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.76%) Front Office
7 6 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.97%) Marketing
9 4 (3.17%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.59%) Legal
11 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Advertising
12 1 (0.79%) Aviation
12 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Military
12 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (30.95%) Developer
2 33 (26.19%) Python Developer
3 29 (23.02%) Data Scientist
4 24 (19.05%) Senior
5 23 (18.25%) Data Engineer
6 15 (11.90%) Analyst
7 10 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 10 (7.94%) AWS Developer
7 10 (7.94%) Data Analyst
7 10 (7.94%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.14%) Kafka Developer
9 7 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Senior Data Scientist
9 7 (5.56%) Senior Python Developer
9 7 (5.56%) SQL Developer
10 6 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.97%) Python Data Engineer
12 4 (3.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (57.14%) NumPy
2 51 (40.48%) scikit-learn
3 29 (23.02%) Polars
4 26 (20.63%) FastAPI
4 26 (20.63%) Flask
5 23 (18.25%) REST
6 17 (13.49%) PySpark
6 17 (13.49%) PyTorch
7 15 (11.90%) Kafka
8 14 (11.11%) Matplotlib
8 14 (11.11%) TensorFlow
9 12 (9.52%) RESTful
10 11 (8.73%) Django
11 9 (7.14%) Apache Avro
11 9 (7.14%) GeoJSON
12 8 (6.35%) Seaborn
13 7 (5.56%) .NET
13 7 (5.56%) pytest
14 6 (4.76%) Web Services
15 5 (3.97%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.49%) Hedge funds
2 12 (9.52%) Equities
3 11 (8.73%) Algorithms
4 9 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.56%) Derivative
5 7 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.76%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (3.17%) Data Structures
8 4 (3.17%) Market Risk
9 3 (2.38%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.38%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.59%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.59%) Life Science
10 2 (1.59%) Multi-touch
10 2 (1.59%) NHS
10 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.32%) Unix
2 12 (9.52%) Linux
3 2 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (48.41%) Data Pipeline
2 55 (43.65%) Machine Learning
3 52 (41.27%) Data Science
4 49 (38.89%) CI/CD
5 39 (30.95%) AI
5 39 (30.95%) Analytics
6 30 (23.81%) Containerisation
7 29 (23.02%) Visualisation
8 27 (21.43%) Data Engineering
8 27 (21.43%) Decision-Making
9 26 (20.63%) Data Analysis
10 23 (18.25%) Data Transformation
11 22 (17.46%) ETL
12 19 (15.08%) Agile
12 19 (15.08%) Code Quality
13 18 (14.29%) LLM
13 18 (14.29%) Use Case
13 18 (14.29%) Validation
14 17 (13.49%) Anomaly Detection
15 16 (12.70%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 126 (100.00%) Python
2 91 (72.22%) SQL
3 15 (11.90%) C#
4 11 (8.73%) Shell Script
5 7 (5.56%) Java
6 4 (3.17%) Cypher
6 4 (3.17%) Gremlin
6 4 (3.17%) R
7 3 (2.38%) C++
7 3 (2.38%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.38%) VBA
8 2 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.79%) Bash
9 1 (0.79%) C
9 1 (0.79%) Haskell
9 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (12.70%) Degree
2 11 (8.73%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.76%) PhD
6 5 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (24.60%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
3 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 43 (34.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.97%) Terraform
3 4 (3.17%) Grafana
3 4 (3.17%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.73%) Databricks
3 7 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.38%) Automation Anywhere
4 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.38%) UiPath
5 2 (1.59%) Foundry
5 2 (1.59%) Google
6 1 (0.79%) Advent
6 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.79%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.79%) Reuters
6 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) SimCorp