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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 204 179
Rank change year-on-year -81 -25 +77
Contract jobs citing Pandas 135 151 258
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 1.21% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.12% 4.57% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 115 236
10th Percentile £404 £528 £513
25th Percentile £463 £638 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £749 £875 £888
90th Percentile £825 - -
England median daily rate £540 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -28.00% -6.25% +18.52%

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 4,322 3,304 4,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.78% 26.48% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,863 2,315 3,476
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £713 £700
90th Percentile £781 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 29
10th Percentile £23.65 £32.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +4.71% -36.57%
75th Percentile £68.38 £61.25 £61.43
90th Percentile £93.75 £87.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -24 11 £498 -9.55%
West London - 11 £511 - 4
East London -2 1 - - 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 17 (12.59%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.93%) Jupyter
4 7 (5.19%) Appian
5 2 (1.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.74%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 55 (40.74%) AWS
2 52 (38.52%) Azure
3 23 (17.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (14.07%) GitHub
4 19 (14.07%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (13.33%) GCP
5 18 (13.33%) Power Platform
6 16 (11.85%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (11.85%) Serverless
7 14 (10.37%) Amazon S3
8 12 (8.89%) Amazon SageMaker
9 11 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (5.93%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (5.93%) Dagster
12 7 (5.19%) Azure AI
12 7 (5.19%) Power Automate
13 6 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (4.44%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.59%) Power BI
2 12 (8.89%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.15%) Tableau
4 10 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (5.93%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (5.19%) Big Data
7 7 (5.19%) Pinecone
8 5 (3.70%) Metadata
9 4 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.96%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.96%) Power Query
10 3 (2.22%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.22%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.22%) Neo4j
10 3 (2.22%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 24 (17.78%) Git
2 21 (15.56%) MLflow
3 12 (8.89%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.19%) Selenium
5 4 (2.96%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.48%) GitLab
7 1 (0.74%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.74%) Postman
7 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (39.26%) Finance
2 38 (28.15%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (24.44%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.33%) Publishing
5 11 (8.15%) Banking
6 7 (5.19%) Front Office
6 7 (5.19%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.44%) Marketing
7 6 (4.44%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.70%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Advertising
11 1 (0.74%) Aviation
11 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Legal
11 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.74%) Military
11 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (30.37%) Developer
2 33 (24.44%) Python Developer
3 30 (22.22%) Data Engineer
4 28 (20.74%) Senior
5 27 (20.00%) Data Scientist
6 15 (11.11%) Analyst
7 14 (10.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 11 (8.15%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) AWS Developer
9 10 (7.41%) Data Analyst
9 10 (7.41%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.67%) Kafka Developer
11 7 (5.19%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) Python Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) Senior Python Developer
11 7 (5.19%) SQL Developer
12 5 (3.70%) Business Analyst
12 5 (3.70%) Python Data Engineer
12 5 (3.70%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (58.52%) NumPy
2 55 (40.74%) scikit-learn
3 29 (21.48%) Polars
3 29 (21.48%) REST
4 28 (20.74%) FastAPI
4 28 (20.74%) Flask
5 24 (17.78%) PyTorch
6 20 (14.81%) PySpark
6 20 (14.81%) TensorFlow
7 17 (12.59%) Matplotlib
8 16 (11.85%) Django
8 16 (11.85%) Kafka
8 16 (11.85%) RESTful
9 11 (8.15%) Seaborn
10 10 (7.41%) pytest
10 10 (7.41%) Web Services
11 9 (6.67%) Apache Avro
11 9 (6.67%) GeoJSON
12 8 (5.93%) Hugging Face
12 8 (5.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.59%) Hedge funds
2 13 (9.63%) Equities
3 12 (8.89%) Algorithms
4 10 (7.41%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.93%) Product Ownership
6 7 (5.19%) Fixed Income
6 7 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (5.19%) Low-Code
7 6 (4.44%) Data Structures
7 6 (4.44%) Derivative
8 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.22%) Multi-touch
8 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.48%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.48%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.48%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.48%) NHS
9 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.15%) Unix
2 10 (7.41%) Linux
3 2 (1.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (54.07%) Data Pipeline
2 61 (45.19%) Machine Learning
3 58 (42.96%) CI/CD
4 50 (37.04%) Data Science
5 45 (33.33%) AI
6 36 (26.67%) Analytics
6 36 (26.67%) Data Engineering
7 31 (22.96%) ETL
8 30 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 28 (20.74%) Decision-Making
10 27 (20.00%) Visualisation
11 25 (18.52%) Data Modelling
12 24 (17.78%) Data Analysis
12 24 (17.78%) Data Transformation
13 22 (16.30%) Validation
14 21 (15.56%) Natural Language Processing
15 20 (14.81%) Generative AI
15 20 (14.81%) LLM
16 19 (14.07%) Agile
16 19 (14.07%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 135 (100.00%) Python
2 94 (69.63%) SQL
3 15 (11.11%) C#
4 9 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 6 (4.44%) Java
5 6 (4.44%) R
6 4 (2.96%) C++
7 3 (2.22%) Bicep
7 3 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.22%) VBA
8 2 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.48%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.74%) Ada
9 1 (0.74%) Bash
9 1 (0.74%) C
9 1 (0.74%) Haskell
9 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (14.07%) Degree
2 12 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.41%) Master's Degree
4 8 (5.93%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.19%) PhD
6 5 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (31.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.48%) QA
System Software
1 47 (34.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) HDFS
2 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (21.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.67%) Terraform
3 4 (2.96%) Grafana
3 4 (2.96%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 17 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.11%) Databricks
3 12 (8.89%) OpenAI
4 7 (5.19%) Automation Anywhere
4 7 (5.19%) UiPath
5 3 (2.22%) Google
5 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.48%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.48%) Foundry
6 2 (1.48%) Reuters
6 2 (1.48%) SAP
7 1 (0.74%) Advent
7 1 (0.74%) Cognos
7 1 (0.74%) IBM
7 1 (0.74%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.74%) Sage
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) SimCorp