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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 223 252
Rank change year-on-year -18 +29 +70
Contract jobs citing Pandas 151 132 140
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 0.98% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.82% 3.73% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 113 125
10th Percentile £403 £510 £463
25th Percentile £463 £613 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £725 £638
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +13.73% -8.93%
75th Percentile £749 £850 £788
90th Percentile £875 £888 £800
England median daily rate £550 £675 £638
% change year-on-year -18.52% +5.88% -8.44%
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 £62.50
% change year-on-year +107.55% -57.60% -

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 3,948 3,536 4,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.90% 26.25% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,668 2,340 3,435
10th Percentile £363 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £524 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.73% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 30
10th Percentile £28.39 £36.58 £28.35
25th Percentile £35.06 £39.06 £35.79
Median hourly rate £46.50 £54.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +10.77% -25.00%
75th Percentile £62.18 £65.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £82.50 £81.38 £73.79
England median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.60% +13.64% -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 16 February 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 February 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
Central London +3 19 £650 +4.42% 5
West London - 5 £523 - 7
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 25 (16.56%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.62%) Apache
2 10 (6.62%) Apache Spark
3 9 (5.96%) Jupyter
4 8 (5.30%) Appian
5 1 (0.66%) Luigi
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 62 (41.06%) AWS
2 52 (34.44%) Azure
3 24 (15.89%) Power Platform
4 20 (13.25%) GCP
5 18 (11.92%) Azure AI
5 18 (11.92%) dbt
6 16 (10.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (10.60%) Snowflake
7 13 (8.61%) GitHub
8 12 (7.95%) Amazon SageMaker
9 11 (7.28%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (5.96%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (5.30%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (5.30%) Power Automate
11 8 (5.30%) Serverless
12 7 (4.64%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.64%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (3.97%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (3.97%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.23%) Power BI
2 13 (8.61%) Data Lake
3 12 (7.95%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.28%) Pinecone
5 10 (6.62%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (6.62%) Apache Arrow
5 10 (6.62%) Apache Iceberg
5 10 (6.62%) Dremio
6 8 (5.30%) Tableau
7 7 (4.64%) Big Data
7 7 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.97%) Apache Ignite
8 6 (3.97%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.31%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (3.31%) Metadata
9 5 (3.31%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.31%) Parquet
10 4 (2.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 28 (18.54%) Git
2 19 (12.58%) MLflow
3 6 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.66%) GitLab
5 1 (0.66%) Poetry
5 1 (0.66%) Selenium
General
1 71 (47.02%) Finance
2 41 (27.15%) Banking
3 38 (25.17%) Social Skills
4 30 (19.87%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (17.22%) Front Office
6 21 (13.91%) Investment Banking
7 12 (7.95%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.97%) Marketing
9 5 (3.31%) Publishing
10 4 (2.65%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.65%) Legal
11 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.32%) Retail
13 1 (0.66%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.66%) Electronics
13 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (31.79%) Developer
2 39 (25.83%) Data Scientist
2 39 (25.83%) Python Developer
3 38 (25.17%) Senior
4 29 (19.21%) Data Engineer
5 19 (12.58%) Python Engineer
6 13 (8.61%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (8.61%) Senior Developer
7 12 (7.95%) AWS Developer
7 12 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (7.95%) Senior Python Developer
8 11 (7.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 10 (6.62%) AWS Software Engineer
9 10 (6.62%) Python Software Engineer
9 10 (6.62%) Software Engineer
10 9 (5.96%) RAD Developer
11 8 (5.30%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.30%) JavaScript Developer
12 7 (4.64%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 7 (4.64%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (74.17%) NumPy
2 62 (41.06%) scikit-learn
3 32 (21.19%) PyTorch
3 32 (21.19%) REST
4 27 (17.88%) SciPy
5 26 (17.22%) TensorFlow
6 21 (13.91%) FastAPI
6 21 (13.91%) Flask
7 18 (11.92%) LangChain
8 16 (10.60%) Django
8 16 (10.60%) Hugging Face
8 16 (10.60%) Matplotlib
8 16 (10.60%) PySpark
9 15 (9.93%) Polars
10 12 (7.95%) AngularJS
10 12 (7.95%) LangGraph
10 12 (7.95%) React
10 12 (7.95%) Vue
10 12 (7.95%) Web Services
11 11 (7.28%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 25 (16.56%) Equities
2 25 (16.56%) Hedge funds
3 17 (11.26%) Algorithms
4 15 (9.93%) Fixed Income
5 10 (6.62%) Derivative
6 8 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (5.30%) Low-Code
7 6 (3.97%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.97%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.97%) Pricing Data
8 3 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.99%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.99%) Multi-touch
8 3 (1.99%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.99%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (43.71%) Machine Learning
2 62 (41.06%) AI
3 57 (37.75%) Data Science
4 51 (33.77%) Analytics
5 49 (32.45%) Data Pipeline
6 48 (31.79%) Data Engineering
7 41 (27.15%) CI/CD
8 35 (23.18%) Generative AI
9 32 (21.19%) ETL
9 32 (21.19%) LLM
10 31 (20.53%) Data Analysis
10 31 (20.53%) Visualisation
11 30 (19.87%) Software Engineering
12 28 (18.54%) Natural Language Processing
13 27 (17.88%) Data Modelling
14 24 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (15.89%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 23 (15.23%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (15.23%) Mathematics
16 22 (14.57%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 151 (100.00%) Python
2 77 (50.99%) SQL
3 24 (15.89%) JavaScript
4 18 (11.92%) Java
5 14 (9.27%) C#
5 14 (9.27%) C++
6 10 (6.62%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.62%) VBA
7 9 (5.96%) Rust
8 5 (3.31%) R
9 4 (2.65%) Bicep
10 2 (1.32%) Ada
11 1 (0.66%) Bash
11 1 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (11.26%) Degree
2 15 (9.93%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.96%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.96%) PhD
4 5 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.31%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (17.22%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.65%) QA
3 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) MiFID
System Software
1 32 (21.19%) Docker
2 3 (1.99%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (17.88%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.30%) Terraform
3 3 (1.99%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.66%) Podman
Vendors
1 21 (13.91%) Databricks
2 17 (11.26%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.27%) OpenAI
4 13 (8.61%) Google
5 8 (5.30%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (5.30%) UiPath
6 6 (3.97%) Foundry
7 5 (3.31%) Dataiku
8 4 (2.65%) Alteryx
8 4 (2.65%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.99%) Cognos
9 3 (1.99%) IBM
9 3 (1.99%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.99%) Sage
9 3 (1.99%) SAP
10 1 (0.66%) DataRobot
10 1 (0.66%) Oracle
10 1 (0.66%) Reuters
10 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.66%) Veritas