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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 196 263
Rank change year-on-year -25 +67 +71
Contract jobs citing Pandas 159 208 166
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 1.31% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.29% 5.01% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 193 138
10th Percentile £425 £550 £436
25th Percentile £513 £675 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £800 £629
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +27.24% -1.76%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
England median daily rate £625 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -21.88% +28.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +107.55% -59.54% +19.09%

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 3,707 4,150 5,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 26.08% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,515 2,724 3,928
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £669 £710 £700
90th Percentile £788 £838 £800
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 35
10th Percentile £34.19 £35.13 £33.20
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.31 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -15.22% -3.36%
75th Percentile £63.56 £62.25 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £70.40 £82.94
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.46% +18.18% -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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 +17 13 £625 - 7
West London - 3 £525 - 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 59 (37.11%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (22.64%) Apache
3 10 (6.29%) Apache Spark
3 10 (6.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.26%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 93 (58.49%) AWS
2 59 (37.11%) dbt
3 45 (28.30%) Snowflake
4 36 (22.64%) GCP
5 34 (21.38%) Azure
6 14 (8.81%) Power Platform
7 8 (5.03%) Azure AI
8 7 (4.40%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (3.77%) Vertex AI
10 5 (3.14%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.52%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (2.52%) Serverless
12 3 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.89%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (1.89%) GitHub
13 2 (1.26%) Dialogflow
13 2 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
14 1 (0.63%) IBM Watson
14 1 (0.63%) n8n
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (32.70%) Amazon Athena
2 51 (32.08%) Apache Arrow
2 51 (32.08%) Apache Iceberg
2 51 (32.08%) Dremio
3 32 (20.13%) Apache Ignite
3 32 (20.13%) Data Lake
4 21 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (8.81%) Power BI
6 9 (5.66%) BigQuery
7 8 (5.03%) Tableau
8 7 (4.40%) Big Data
9 5 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.14%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.14%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.89%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.26%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.26%) KDB
11 2 (1.26%) Metadata
11 2 (1.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (21.38%) Git
2 5 (3.14%) MLflow
3 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (63.52%) Finance
2 68 (42.77%) Banking
3 66 (41.51%) Front Office
4 54 (33.96%) Investment Banking
5 27 (16.98%) Social Skills
6 22 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (6.29%) Marketing
7 10 (6.29%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.52%) Legal
9 3 (1.89%) Retail
10 2 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.26%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Electronics
11 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (40.25%) Developer
2 55 (34.59%) Python Developer
2 55 (34.59%) Python Engineer
3 51 (32.08%) AWS Engineer
3 51 (32.08%) AWS Software Engineer
3 51 (32.08%) Software Engineer
4 47 (29.56%) Python Software Engineer
5 44 (27.67%) Senior
6 36 (22.64%) AWS Developer
6 36 (22.64%) Java Engineer
6 36 (22.64%) Java Software Engineer
7 32 (20.13%) Data Scientist
8 31 (19.50%) Senior Java Engineer
8 31 (19.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 31 (19.50%) Senior Software Engineer
9 19 (11.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 17 (10.69%) JavaScript Developer
11 9 (5.66%) Data Engineer
11 9 (5.66%) RAD Developer
12 6 (3.77%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (78.62%) NumPy
2 73 (45.91%) SciPy
3 36 (22.64%) AngularJS
3 36 (22.64%) React
3 36 (22.64%) scikit-learn
3 36 (22.64%) Vue
4 32 (20.13%) gRPC
4 32 (20.13%) Protocol Buffers
5 25 (15.72%) Flask
6 24 (15.09%) FastAPI
7 19 (11.95%) Node.js
8 18 (11.32%) Polars
8 18 (11.32%) PyTorch
9 17 (10.69%) REST
10 15 (9.43%) TensorFlow
11 13 (8.18%) LangChain
12 9 (5.66%) COM
13 7 (4.40%) Matplotlib
13 7 (4.40%) PySpark
14 6 (3.77%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 77 (48.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 64 (40.25%) Equities
3 60 (37.74%) Hedge funds
4 53 (33.33%) Fixed Income
5 33 (20.75%) Derivative
6 32 (20.13%) Pricing Data
7 14 (8.81%) Algorithms
8 6 (3.77%) Multi-touch
9 4 (2.52%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.89%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.89%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.89%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.63%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (49.69%) Software Engineering
2 64 (40.25%) Agile
3 56 (35.22%) Asset Management
4 52 (32.70%) Investment Management
5 49 (30.82%) Data Science
6 47 (29.56%) Machine Learning
7 41 (25.79%) AI
8 38 (23.90%) Analytics
9 32 (20.13%) Data Engineering
10 31 (19.50%) Data Analysis
11 29 (18.24%) Mathematics
12 28 (17.61%) Risk Management
13 26 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (15.72%) CI/CD
15 23 (14.47%) Clean Code
16 20 (12.58%) Fintech
16 20 (12.58%) Generative AI
16 20 (12.58%) Visualisation
17 19 (11.95%) Data Pipeline
17 19 (11.95%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 155 (97.48%) Python
2 71 (44.65%) JavaScript
3 56 (35.22%) Java
4 52 (32.70%) SQL
5 51 (32.08%) TypeScript
6 19 (11.95%) C#
6 19 (11.95%) C++
7 18 (11.32%) Rust
8 10 (6.29%) VBA
9 7 (4.40%) R
10 1 (0.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (8.81%) Degree
2 11 (6.92%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.03%) PhD
4 4 (2.52%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.52%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.89%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.89%) MCP
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.89%) QA
3 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (18.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.89%) Kubeflow
3 2 (1.26%) Terraform
4 1 (0.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (6.29%) Google
2 8 (5.03%) Databricks
3 7 (4.40%) Foundry
3 7 (4.40%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.14%) Bloomberg
4 5 (3.14%) Dataiku
5 4 (2.52%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.89%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.89%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.26%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.63%) Cognos
8 1 (0.63%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.63%) IBM
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle
8 1 (0.63%) Sage
8 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.63%) SAP