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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 177 266
Rank change year-on-year -46 +89 +62
Contract jobs citing Pandas 160 227 159
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 1.44% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.55% 5.38% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 211 133
10th Percentile £443 £563 £405
25th Percentile £525 £675 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +28.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
England median daily rate £675 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -15.63% +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 -
% change year-on-year +107.55% - -

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 3,514 4,218 5,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.21% 26.81% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,386 2,775 4,054
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £712
90th Percentile £788 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 35
10th Percentile £31.52 £36.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.67 £38.50 £40.55
Median hourly rate £52.72 £49.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -17.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £62.19 £62.50 £74.33
90th Percentile £87.63 £75.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.85 £65.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -15.62% +17.12% -14.62%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +5 13 £563 -10.00% 56
West London - 3 £525 - 2
East London - 1 £550 - 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 67 (41.88%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (26.25%) Apache
3 13 (8.13%) Apache Spark
4 10 (6.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 103 (64.38%) AWS
2 68 (42.50%) dbt
3 49 (30.63%) Snowflake
4 41 (25.63%) GCP
5 27 (16.88%) Azure
6 13 (8.13%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.13%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (3.13%) Azure AI
8 4 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.50%) GitHub
9 3 (1.88%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.88%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.88%) Serverless
9 3 (1.88%) Vertex AI
10 2 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.63%) MailChimp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
2 63 (39.38%) Apache Arrow
2 63 (39.38%) Apache Iceberg
2 63 (39.38%) Dremio
3 38 (23.75%) Apache Ignite
3 38 (23.75%) Data Lake
4 28 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (8.13%) Power BI
6 10 (6.25%) Tableau
7 7 (4.38%) Big Data
7 7 (4.38%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.75%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.75%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.25%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.25%) KDB
10 2 (1.25%) Metadata
10 2 (1.25%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.25%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 35 (21.88%) Git
2 8 (5.00%) MLflow
3 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 107 (66.88%) Finance
2 71 (44.38%) Front Office
3 68 (42.50%) Banking
4 62 (38.75%) Investment Banking
5 23 (14.38%) Social Skills
6 20 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.63%) Marketing
7 9 (5.63%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.88%) Legal
8 3 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Retail
9 2 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.25%) Police
9 2 (1.25%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Electronics
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (43.13%) Developer
2 63 (39.38%) AWS Engineer
2 63 (39.38%) AWS Software Engineer
2 63 (39.38%) Software Engineer
3 62 (38.75%) Python Engineer
4 57 (35.63%) Python Developer
5 56 (35.00%) Python Software Engineer
6 50 (31.25%) Senior
7 45 (28.13%) Java Engineer
7 45 (28.13%) Java Software Engineer
8 43 (26.88%) AWS Developer
9 37 (23.13%) Senior Java Engineer
9 37 (23.13%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 37 (23.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 27 (16.88%) Data Scientist
11 25 (15.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 18 (11.25%) JavaScript Developer
13 7 (4.38%) Java Developer
13 7 (4.38%) Java Software Developer
14 6 (3.75%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (77.50%) NumPy
2 85 (53.13%) SciPy
3 43 (26.88%) AngularJS
3 43 (26.88%) React
3 43 (26.88%) Vue
4 38 (23.75%) gRPC
4 38 (23.75%) Protocol Buffers
5 29 (18.13%) scikit-learn
6 28 (17.50%) Flask
7 27 (16.88%) FastAPI
8 25 (15.63%) Node.js
9 20 (12.50%) Polars
10 15 (9.38%) PyTorch
11 14 (8.75%) TensorFlow
12 13 (8.13%) REST
13 10 (6.25%) LangChain
14 7 (4.38%) PySpark
15 6 (3.75%) Matplotlib
15 6 (3.75%) Plotly
16 5 (3.13%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 84 (52.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 68 (42.50%) Equities
3 65 (40.63%) Fixed Income
4 61 (38.13%) Hedge funds
5 39 (24.38%) Derivative
6 38 (23.75%) Pricing Data
7 16 (10.00%) Algorithms
8 5 (3.13%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.13%) Multi-touch
9 4 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.88%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.88%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.25%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.63%) IoT
12 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (57.50%) Software Engineering
2 75 (46.88%) Agile
3 69 (43.13%) Asset Management
4 65 (40.63%) Investment Management
5 42 (26.25%) Data Science
6 40 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 34 (21.25%) AI
8 30 (18.75%) Data Engineering
8 30 (18.75%) Mathematics
9 28 (17.50%) Risk Management
10 26 (16.25%) Fintech
11 25 (15.63%) Order Management
11 25 (15.63%) Performance Attribution
12 24 (15.00%) Analytics
13 23 (14.38%) CI/CD
13 23 (14.38%) Clean Code
13 23 (14.38%) Data Analysis
14 21 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (11.88%) Visualisation
16 18 (11.25%) Structured Programming
Programming Languages
1 153 (95.63%) Python
2 84 (52.50%) JavaScript
3 66 (41.25%) Java
4 63 (39.38%) TypeScript
5 48 (30.00%) SQL
6 20 (12.50%) C++
6 20 (12.50%) Rust
7 19 (11.88%) C#
8 9 (5.63%) R
9 4 (2.50%) VBA
10 1 (0.63%) Bash
10 1 (0.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (8.75%) Degree
2 9 (5.63%) PhD
2 9 (5.63%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.50%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.88%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.50%) QA
3 2 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (19.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (14.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.88%) Terraform
3 2 (1.25%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (3.75%) Databricks
1 6 (3.75%) Dataiku
1 6 (3.75%) Google
2 5 (3.13%) Bloomberg
2 5 (3.13%) Foundry
3 3 (1.88%) Alteryx
3 3 (1.88%) Cloudera
3 3 (1.88%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.25%) DataRobot
4 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.25%) Refinitiv
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle
5 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.63%) SAP