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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 208 146
Rank change year-on-year -120 -62 +118
Contract jobs citing Pandas 114 164 281
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 1.21% 1.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.48% 4.66% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 122 257
10th Percentile £406 £525 £640
25th Percentile £500 £614 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +25.49%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
England median daily rate £550 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +29.29%

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 4,601 3,519 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.78% 25.95% 27.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,039 2,446 3,168
10th Percentile £392 £363 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £695 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 24
10th Percentile £26.40 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.13 £50.19
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £72.01
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -12 7 £575 +9.52% 6
Central London -24 4 £560 -1.75% 13
East London 0 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 13 (11.40%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.89%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.02%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.63%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.75%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 41 (35.96%) AWS
2 32 (28.07%) Azure
3 17 (14.91%) GCP
4 16 (14.04%) Serverless
5 15 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (11.40%) GitHub
6 13 (11.40%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (10.53%) Amazon S3
8 11 (9.65%) Amazon SageMaker
9 10 (8.77%) Power Platform
10 9 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (7.89%) dbt
11 8 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (4.39%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (4.39%) Vertex AI
15 4 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (3.51%) Dagster
15 4 (3.51%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 10 (8.77%) Power BI
3 9 (7.89%) Big Data
4 8 (7.02%) Tableau
5 7 (6.14%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (6.14%) Neo4j
6 5 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.51%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.51%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.51%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.63%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.63%) Metadata
8 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.63%) Power Query
8 3 (2.63%) SQLite
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.75%) MySQL
9 2 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (20.18%) Git
2 11 (9.65%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.89%) MLflow
4 6 (5.26%) Selenium
5 4 (3.51%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.75%) GitLab
7 1 (0.88%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.88%) Postman
7 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (40.35%) Finance
2 33 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (19.30%) Social Skills
4 13 (11.40%) Publishing
5 11 (9.65%) Banking
6 8 (7.02%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.26%) Front Office
8 5 (4.39%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.51%) Marketing
10 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Legal
10 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Advertising
11 1 (0.88%) Aviation
11 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Military
11 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.88%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (33.33%) Developer
2 34 (29.82%) Python Developer
3 26 (22.81%) Data Scientist
4 21 (18.42%) Senior
5 18 (15.79%) Data Engineer
6 13 (11.40%) Analyst
7 10 (8.77%) AWS Developer
7 10 (8.77%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.89%) Data Analyst
8 9 (7.89%) Kafka Developer
8 9 (7.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 8 (7.02%) Senior Python Developer
10 7 (6.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (6.14%) Python Engineer
10 7 (6.14%) SQL Developer
11 6 (5.26%) Senior Data Scientist
12 5 (4.39%) Python Data Engineer
13 4 (3.51%) Business Analyst
13 4 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (3.51%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (58.77%) NumPy
2 39 (34.21%) scikit-learn
3 25 (21.93%) FastAPI
4 24 (21.05%) Flask
4 24 (21.05%) Polars
5 23 (20.18%) PySpark
6 22 (19.30%) REST
7 15 (13.16%) PyTorch
8 12 (10.53%) Kafka
8 12 (10.53%) TensorFlow
9 10 (8.77%) Matplotlib
10 9 (7.89%) Apache Avro
10 9 (7.89%) RESTful
11 8 (7.02%) Django
12 7 (6.14%) .NET
13 6 (5.26%) SciPy
14 5 (4.39%) Seaborn
15 4 (3.51%) GeoJSON
15 4 (3.51%) pytest
15 4 (3.51%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.91%) Hedge funds
2 12 (10.53%) Equities
3 9 (7.89%) Derivative
3 9 (7.89%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.02%) Algorithms
5 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
6 6 (5.26%) Fixed Income
6 6 (5.26%) Market Risk
7 5 (4.39%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.51%) Data Structures
8 4 (3.51%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.63%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.75%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.75%) Life Science
11 1 (0.88%) Credit Derivative
11 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.88%) NHS
11 1 (0.88%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.16%) Unix
2 14 (12.28%) Linux
3 2 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (46.49%) Data Pipeline
2 49 (42.98%) Data Science
3 47 (41.23%) Machine Learning
4 43 (37.72%) CI/CD
5 42 (36.84%) Analytics
6 35 (30.70%) AI
7 25 (21.93%) Containerisation
7 25 (21.93%) Visualisation
8 24 (21.05%) Decision-Making
9 23 (20.18%) Data Analysis
10 22 (19.30%) Data Transformation
11 21 (18.42%) Data Engineering
12 20 (17.54%) Agile
12 20 (17.54%) Code Quality
13 17 (14.91%) ETL
13 17 (14.91%) Performance Optimisation
14 16 (14.04%) Validation
15 14 (12.28%) LLM
15 14 (12.28%) Software Engineering
15 14 (12.28%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 114 (100.00%) Python
2 81 (71.05%) SQL
3 15 (13.16%) C#
4 13 (11.40%) Shell Script
5 7 (6.14%) Java
6 4 (3.51%) Cypher
6 4 (3.51%) Gremlin
7 3 (2.63%) C++
7 3 (2.63%) R
7 3 (2.63%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.63%) VBA
8 2 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.88%) Bash
9 1 (0.88%) C
9 1 (0.88%) Haskell
9 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (12.28%) Degree
2 9 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) Master's Degree
4 6 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.39%) PhD
6 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (19.30%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 37 (32.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.26%) Kubeflow
3 5 (4.39%) Terraform
4 4 (3.51%) Grafana
5 3 (2.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (10.53%) Databricks
2 11 (9.65%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.39%) Foundry
4 4 (3.51%) Google
5 3 (2.63%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.63%) Palantir
5 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.88%) Advent
6 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.88%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.88%) Reuters
6 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) SimCorp