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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 197 169
Rank change year-on-year -143 -28 +121
Contract jobs citing Pandas 102 172 254
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 1.30% 1.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.92% 4.39% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 130 235
10th Percentile £331 £513 £648
25th Percentile £450 £575 £744
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -6.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £801 - -
England median daily rate £550 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 -

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 5,313 3,919 4,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.27% 29.52% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,565 2,700 3,394
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £703
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 32 22
10th Percentile £26.43 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.06 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +22.28% -32.54%
75th Percentile £63.00 £62.81 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +22.67% -12.60% +0.68%

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 September 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 September 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 -23 2 - - 6
East London +4 1 - - 2
Central London -34 1 £786 +42.95% 11
South London - 1 £300 - 3
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 11 (10.78%) Apache Spark
2 10 (9.80%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (7.84%) Jupyter
4 4 (3.92%) Apache
5 3 (2.94%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.96%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 34 (33.33%) AWS
2 20 (19.61%) Azure
3 16 (15.69%) Serverless
4 15 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (14.71%) GCP
5 13 (12.75%) Amazon S3
6 11 (10.78%) GitHub
6 11 (10.78%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.82%) dbt
8 8 (7.84%) Amazon SageMaker
8 8 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (6.86%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.90%) Amazon Neptune
10 5 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.92%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.92%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.96%) 4G
1 2 (1.96%) 5G
1 2 (1.96%) DNS
1 2 (1.96%) HTTP
1 2 (1.96%) SSH
1 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.80%) Big Data
2 10 (9.80%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.84%) Neo4j
4 7 (6.86%) Power BI
5 6 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.88%) Tableau
6 4 (3.92%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.92%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.92%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.94%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.94%) Metadata
7 3 (2.94%) MySQL
7 3 (2.94%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.94%) Redis
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.96%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 31 (30.39%) Git
2 13 (12.75%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.82%) Selenium
4 5 (4.90%) GitLab
4 5 (4.90%) MLflow
5 4 (3.92%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.98%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.98%) Postman
6 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (41.18%) Finance
2 23 (22.55%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (20.59%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.76%) Banking
5 11 (10.78%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.86%) Publishing
7 5 (4.90%) Front Office
7 5 (4.90%) Marketing
8 3 (2.94%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.96%) Legal
9 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.96%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.98%) Advertising
10 1 (0.98%) Automotive
10 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.98%) Military
10 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.98%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (36.27%) Developer
2 33 (32.35%) Python Developer
3 22 (21.57%) Senior
4 21 (20.59%) Data Scientist
5 15 (14.71%) Data Engineer
6 11 (10.78%) Analyst
7 10 (9.80%) Python Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) AWS Developer
8 8 (7.84%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.86%) Kafka Developer
9 7 (6.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) Senior Python Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Python Data Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Senior Data Scientist
10 6 (5.88%) SQL Developer
11 5 (4.90%) Data Analyst
12 4 (3.92%) Business Analyst
12 4 (3.92%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (57.84%) NumPy
2 28 (27.45%) scikit-learn
3 27 (26.47%) FastAPI
4 26 (25.49%) PySpark
5 25 (24.51%) Flask
6 24 (23.53%) REST
7 19 (18.63%) Polars
8 12 (11.76%) Kafka
8 12 (11.76%) PyTorch
8 12 (11.76%) RESTful
9 9 (8.82%) TensorFlow
9 9 (8.82%) Terraform
10 7 (6.86%) Apache Avro
10 7 (6.86%) pytest
11 6 (5.88%) Django
11 6 (5.88%) Matplotlib
12 5 (4.90%) Great Expectations
12 5 (4.90%) SciPy
13 4 (3.92%) CSS
13 4 (3.92%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Hedge funds
2 8 (7.84%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (6.86%) Derivative
3 7 (6.86%) Equities
3 7 (6.86%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.86%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.88%) Market Risk
5 5 (4.90%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.92%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.92%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.94%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.96%) Life Science
9 1 (0.98%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.98%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.98%) Multi-touch
9 1 (0.98%) Robotics
9 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.67%) Linux
2 14 (13.73%) Unix
3 1 (0.98%) VMS
3 1 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (46.08%) Data Pipeline
2 43 (42.16%) Data Science
3 42 (41.18%) Analytics
3 42 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 40 (39.22%) Machine Learning
5 35 (34.31%) AI
6 24 (23.53%) Data Analysis
7 23 (22.55%) Agile
8 22 (21.57%) Validation
9 20 (19.61%) Containerisation
10 19 (18.63%) Decision-Making
11 18 (17.65%) Visualisation
12 17 (16.67%) Data Engineering
12 17 (16.67%) ETL
13 16 (15.69%) Code Quality
13 16 (15.69%) Data Transformation
14 15 (14.71%) Performance Optimisation
14 15 (14.71%) Software Engineering
15 14 (13.73%) LLM
16 13 (12.75%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 102 (100.00%) Python
2 74 (72.55%) SQL
3 15 (14.71%) Shell Script
4 11 (10.78%) C#
5 7 (6.86%) Java
6 5 (4.90%) Cypher
6 5 (4.90%) Gremlin
7 4 (3.92%) Bash
7 4 (3.92%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.94%) R
9 2 (1.96%) C++
9 2 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.96%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.96%) VBA
10 1 (0.98%) C
10 1 (0.98%) Haskell
10 1 (0.98%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (12.75%) Degree
2 7 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.90%) PhD
4 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.75%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.92%) QA
3 3 (2.94%) EMIR
3 3 (2.94%) MiFID
4 2 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.98%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (32.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.88%) Grafana
3 4 (3.92%) Kubeflow
3 4 (3.92%) Podman
4 3 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (8.82%) Databricks
2 7 (6.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.92%) Foundry
3 4 (3.92%) Google
3 4 (3.92%) Oracle
4 3 (2.94%) Palantir
4 3 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.98%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.98%) SimCorp