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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 199 165
Rank change year-on-year -109 -34 +84
Contract jobs citing Pandas 129 171 278
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 1.25% 1.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.86% 4.81% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 127 255
10th Percentile £409 £525 £615
25th Percentile £478 £638 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £888
90th Percentile £813 - -
England median daily rate £540 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -28.00% -6.25% +28.00%

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 4,516 3,558 4,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.68% 26.09% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,989 2,473 3,374
10th Percentile £392 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £725
90th Percentile £786 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £521 £550
% change year-on-year +0.86% -5.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% -9.38%

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 July 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 July 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 -2 11 £511 -2.62% 4
Central London -15 9 £600 +5.26% 2
East London +2 1 - - 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 16 (12.40%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.20%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.43%) Jupyter
4 4 (3.10%) Appian
5 3 (2.33%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.78%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 51 (39.53%) AWS
2 43 (33.33%) Azure
3 17 (13.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 17 (13.18%) GCP
4 16 (12.40%) Amazon SageMaker
4 16 (12.40%) GitHub
4 16 (12.40%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (11.63%) Serverless
6 14 (10.85%) Power Platform
7 13 (10.08%) Amazon S3
8 8 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.20%) Dagster
9 7 (5.43%) dbt
10 6 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (3.88%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (3.88%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (3.10%) Azure AI
12 4 (3.10%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.08%) Power BI
2 12 (9.30%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.53%) Tableau
4 9 (6.98%) Geospatial Data
5 7 (5.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.43%) Big Data
5 7 (5.43%) Neo4j
6 4 (3.10%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.10%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.10%) Pinecone
6 4 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.33%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.33%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.33%) Metadata
7 3 (2.33%) Power Query
7 3 (2.33%) SQLite
8 2 (1.55%) MySQL
8 2 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (20.93%) Git
2 16 (12.40%) MLflow
3 12 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.43%) Selenium
5 4 (3.10%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.55%) GitLab
7 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.78%) Postman
7 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (39.53%) Finance
2 40 (31.01%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (23.26%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.95%) Publishing
5 11 (8.53%) Banking
6 7 (5.43%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.65%) Front Office
7 6 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.88%) Marketing
9 4 (3.10%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.55%) Legal
11 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.78%) Advertising
12 1 (0.78%) Aviation
12 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.78%) Military
12 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.78%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (30.23%) Developer
2 33 (25.58%) Python Developer
3 31 (24.03%) Data Scientist
4 24 (18.60%) Senior
5 23 (17.83%) Data Engineer
6 15 (11.63%) Analyst
7 11 (8.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 10 (7.75%) AWS Developer
8 10 (7.75%) Data Analyst
8 10 (7.75%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.98%) Kafka Developer
10 7 (5.43%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Python Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Senior Data Scientist
10 7 (5.43%) Senior Python Developer
10 7 (5.43%) SQL Developer
11 6 (4.65%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (3.88%) Business Analyst
12 5 (3.88%) Python Data Engineer
13 4 (3.10%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (58.14%) NumPy
2 54 (41.86%) scikit-learn
3 29 (22.48%) Polars
4 27 (20.93%) FastAPI
4 27 (20.93%) Flask
5 24 (18.60%) REST
6 18 (13.95%) PyTorch
7 17 (13.18%) PySpark
8 15 (11.63%) Kafka
8 15 (11.63%) Matplotlib
8 15 (11.63%) TensorFlow
9 13 (10.08%) RESTful
10 12 (9.30%) Django
11 10 (7.75%) Seaborn
12 9 (6.98%) Apache Avro
12 9 (6.98%) GeoJSON
13 8 (6.20%) pytest
14 7 (5.43%) .NET
14 7 (5.43%) Web Services
15 6 (4.65%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.18%) Hedge funds
2 13 (10.08%) Algorithms
3 12 (9.30%) Equities
4 9 (6.98%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.43%) Derivative
5 7 (5.43%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.65%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (3.10%) Data Structures
8 4 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.10%) Low-Code
8 4 (3.10%) Market Risk
9 3 (2.33%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.55%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.55%) Life Science
10 2 (1.55%) Multi-touch
10 2 (1.55%) NHS
10 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.08%) Unix
2 12 (9.30%) Linux
3 2 (1.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (48.84%) Data Pipeline
2 58 (44.96%) Machine Learning
3 54 (41.86%) Data Science
4 51 (39.53%) CI/CD
5 41 (31.78%) AI
6 40 (31.01%) Analytics
7 32 (24.81%) Containerisation
8 31 (24.03%) Visualisation
9 29 (22.48%) Data Engineering
10 27 (20.93%) Data Analysis
10 27 (20.93%) Decision-Making
11 23 (17.83%) Data Transformation
11 23 (17.83%) ETL
12 20 (15.50%) Agile
12 20 (15.50%) LLM
13 19 (14.73%) Code Quality
13 19 (14.73%) Use Case
13 19 (14.73%) Validation
14 18 (13.95%) Data Cleansing
14 18 (13.95%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 129 (100.00%) Python
2 94 (72.87%) SQL
3 15 (11.63%) C#
4 11 (8.53%) Shell Script
5 7 (5.43%) Java
6 4 (3.10%) Cypher
6 4 (3.10%) Gremlin
6 4 (3.10%) R
7 3 (2.33%) C++
7 3 (2.33%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.33%) VBA
8 2 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.78%) Bash
9 1 (0.78%) C
9 1 (0.78%) Haskell
9 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (13.18%) Degree
2 11 (8.53%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.75%) Master's Degree
4 7 (5.43%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.65%) PhD
6 5 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (24.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 45 (34.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (19.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.88%) Terraform
3 4 (3.10%) Grafana
3 4 (3.10%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (10.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.53%) Databricks
3 8 (6.20%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.10%) Automation Anywhere
4 4 (3.10%) UiPath
5 3 (2.33%) Google
5 3 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.55%) Foundry
7 1 (0.78%) Advent
7 1 (0.78%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.78%) Cognos
7 1 (0.78%) IBM
7 1 (0.78%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.78%) Reuters
7 1 (0.78%) Sage
7 1 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) SimCorp