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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 201 171
Rank change year-on-year -87 -30 +86
Contract jobs citing Pandas 133 154 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 1.22% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.05% 4.62% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 117 238
10th Percentile £411 £530 £530
25th Percentile £485 £638 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% -6.25% +15.52%
75th Percentile £750 £875 £888
90th Percentile £831 - -
England median daily rate £550 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +20.75%

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 4,359 3,335 4,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.80% 26.41% 26.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 2,336 3,466
10th Percentile £381 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £713 £703
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 28
10th Percentile £24.30 £32.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +5.29% -36.57%
75th Percentile £73.00 £58.13 £61.70
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £56.25
% change year-on-year +10.40% +4.67% -13.46%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 - 11 £511 - 4
Central London -17 9 £560 +1.82% 1
East London 0 1 - - 2
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 17 (12.78%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (6.77%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.02%) Jupyter
4 7 (5.26%) Appian
5 2 (1.50%) Apache
6 1 (0.75%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 52 (39.10%) AWS
1 52 (39.10%) Azure
2 23 (17.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 19 (14.29%) GitHub
3 19 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 18 (13.53%) GCP
4 18 (13.53%) Power Platform
5 14 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (10.53%) Serverless
6 12 (9.02%) Amazon S3
6 12 (9.02%) Amazon SageMaker
7 11 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (6.02%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (6.02%) Dagster
10 7 (5.26%) Azure AI
10 7 (5.26%) Power Automate
11 6 (4.51%) dbt
12 4 (3.01%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.78%) Power BI
2 12 (9.02%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.27%) Tableau
4 10 (7.52%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.77%) Geospatial Data
6 7 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (5.26%) Pinecone
7 6 (4.51%) Big Data
7 6 (4.51%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.01%) Power Query
9 3 (2.26%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.26%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.26%) Metadata
9 3 (2.26%) Neo4j
9 3 (2.26%) Parquet
9 3 (2.26%) SQLite
10 2 (1.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (18.05%) Git
2 21 (15.79%) MLflow
3 12 (9.02%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.26%) Selenium
5 4 (3.01%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.50%) GitLab
7 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.75%) Postman
7 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (39.85%) Finance
2 39 (29.32%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (24.81%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.53%) Publishing
5 11 (8.27%) Banking
6 7 (5.26%) Front Office
6 7 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.51%) Marketing
7 6 (4.51%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.76%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Advertising
11 1 (0.75%) Aviation
11 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Legal
11 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.75%) Military
11 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (30.83%) Developer
2 33 (24.81%) Python Developer
3 29 (21.80%) Senior
4 28 (21.05%) Data Engineer
4 28 (21.05%) Data Scientist
5 15 (11.28%) Analyst
6 13 (9.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 11 (8.27%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (7.52%) AWS Developer
8 10 (7.52%) Data Analyst
8 10 (7.52%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.77%) Kafka Developer
10 7 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Python Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Senior Python Developer
10 7 (5.26%) SQL Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Senior Data Scientist
12 5 (3.76%) Business Analyst
12 5 (3.76%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (57.89%) NumPy
2 55 (41.35%) scikit-learn
3 29 (21.80%) Polars
4 28 (21.05%) FastAPI
4 28 (21.05%) Flask
5 27 (20.30%) REST
6 23 (17.29%) PyTorch
7 19 (14.29%) TensorFlow
8 18 (13.53%) PySpark
9 16 (12.03%) Django
9 16 (12.03%) Kafka
9 16 (12.03%) Matplotlib
9 16 (12.03%) RESTful
10 10 (7.52%) pytest
10 10 (7.52%) Seaborn
10 10 (7.52%) Web Services
11 9 (6.77%) Apache Avro
11 9 (6.77%) GeoJSON
12 8 (6.02%) Hugging Face
12 8 (6.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.78%) Hedge funds
2 13 (9.77%) Equities
3 12 (9.02%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.77%) Management Information System
5 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
6 7 (5.26%) Fixed Income
6 7 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (5.26%) Low-Code
7 6 (4.51%) Derivative
8 4 (3.01%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.26%) Multi-touch
9 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.50%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.50%) Life Science
10 2 (1.50%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.50%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.27%) Unix
2 10 (7.52%) Linux
3 2 (1.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (53.38%) Data Pipeline
2 61 (45.86%) Machine Learning
3 58 (43.61%) CI/CD
4 51 (38.35%) Data Science
5 43 (32.33%) AI
6 37 (27.82%) Analytics
7 36 (27.07%) Data Engineering
8 30 (22.56%) Containerisation
9 29 (21.80%) ETL
10 28 (21.05%) Decision-Making
11 26 (19.55%) Visualisation
12 24 (18.05%) Data Modelling
12 24 (18.05%) Data Transformation
13 23 (17.29%) Data Analysis
14 20 (15.04%) LLM
14 20 (15.04%) Natural Language Processing
14 20 (15.04%) Validation
15 19 (14.29%) Agile
15 19 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
15 19 (14.29%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 133 (100.00%) Python
2 91 (68.42%) SQL
3 14 (10.53%) C#
4 9 (6.77%) Shell Script
5 5 (3.76%) Java
5 5 (3.76%) R
6 3 (2.26%) Bicep
6 3 (2.26%) C++
6 3 (2.26%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.26%) VBA
7 2 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.50%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.75%) Bash
8 1 (0.75%) C
8 1 (0.75%) Haskell
8 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (14.29%) Degree
2 12 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.52%) Master's Degree
4 8 (6.02%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.26%) PhD
6 5 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (30.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.50%) QA
System Software
1 47 (35.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (21.80%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.77%) Terraform
3 4 (3.01%) Grafana
3 4 (3.01%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 17 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.53%) Databricks
3 11 (8.27%) OpenAI
4 7 (5.26%) Automation Anywhere
4 7 (5.26%) UiPath
5 3 (2.26%) Google
5 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.50%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.50%) Foundry
6 2 (1.50%) Reuters
7 1 (0.75%) Advent
7 1 (0.75%) Cognos
7 1 (0.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.75%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.75%) Sage
7 1 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) SimCorp