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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 161 271
Rank change year-on-year -34 +110 +45
Contract jobs citing Pandas 176 261 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.31% 1.60% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.00% 5.77% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 243 129
10th Percentile £513 £663 £400
25th Percentile £600 £750 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +28.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £788
90th Percentile - - £861
England median daily rate £750 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -6.25% +28.00% +4.17%
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 - -

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 3,517 4,521 5,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.15% 27.75% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 3,097 4,207
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £713
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 22 41
10th Percentile £31.94 £23.84 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.48 £36.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -34.62% +12.07%
75th Percentile £62.50 £59.51 £75.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £74.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%

Pandas
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Pandas as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Pandas 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +10 16 £550 -24.14% 22
West London - 3 £525 - 4
East London +9 1 £550 -31.25%
Pandas
England

Pandas
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 86 (48.86%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (28.98%) Apache
3 14 (7.95%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 119 (67.61%) AWS
2 86 (48.86%) dbt
3 52 (29.55%) Snowflake
4 48 (27.27%) GCP
5 29 (16.48%) Azure
6 8 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
6 8 (4.55%) GitHub
6 8 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.98%) Azure AI
8 4 (2.27%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (2.27%) Azure AKS
8 4 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.27%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.14%) Serverless
9 2 (1.14%) Vertex AI
10 1 (0.57%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (48.30%) Amazon Athena
2 84 (47.73%) Apache Arrow
2 84 (47.73%) Apache Iceberg
2 84 (47.73%) Dremio
3 48 (27.27%) Apache Ignite
3 48 (27.27%) Data Lake
4 40 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (6.25%) Tableau
6 8 (4.55%) Power BI
7 6 (3.41%) Big Data
7 6 (3.41%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.84%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.27%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.70%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.70%) KDB
11 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.57%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 30 (17.05%) Git
2 8 (4.55%) MLflow
3 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 126 (71.59%) Finance
2 93 (52.84%) Front Office
3 72 (40.91%) Banking
4 70 (39.77%) Investment Banking
5 22 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 15 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.11%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.55%) Marketing
9 4 (2.27%) Police
9 4 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.70%) Legal
11 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.14%) Retail
12 1 (0.57%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 88 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 84 (47.73%) AWS Engineer
2 84 (47.73%) AWS Software Engineer
3 80 (45.45%) Python Engineer
4 76 (43.18%) Python Software Engineer
5 75 (42.61%) Developer
6 60 (34.09%) Java Engineer
6 60 (34.09%) Java Software Engineer
6 60 (34.09%) Python Developer
7 58 (32.95%) Senior
8 53 (30.11%) AWS Developer
9 48 (27.27%) Senior Java Engineer
9 48 (27.27%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 48 (27.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 36 (20.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 27 (15.34%) Data Scientist
12 17 (9.66%) JavaScript Developer
13 12 (6.82%) Java Developer
13 12 (6.82%) Java Software Developer
14 6 (3.41%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (79.55%) NumPy
2 102 (57.95%) SciPy
3 53 (30.11%) AngularJS
3 53 (30.11%) React
3 53 (30.11%) Vue
4 48 (27.27%) gRPC
4 48 (27.27%) Protocol Buffers
5 36 (20.45%) Node.js
6 30 (17.05%) scikit-learn
7 27 (15.34%) FastAPI
7 27 (15.34%) Flask
8 19 (10.80%) Polars
9 17 (9.66%) TensorFlow
10 13 (7.39%) PyTorch
11 12 (6.82%) LangChain
12 8 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (3.98%) REST
14 5 (2.84%) Kafka
14 5 (2.84%) PySpark
14 5 (2.84%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 100 (56.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 88 (50.00%) Fixed Income
3 85 (48.30%) Equities
4 67 (38.07%) Hedge funds
5 49 (27.84%) Derivative
6 48 (27.27%) Pricing Data
7 14 (7.95%) Algorithms
8 6 (3.41%) Multi-touch
9 5 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.84%) Virtual Team
10 4 (2.27%) AI Agents
10 4 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.14%) Reinsurance
12 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.57%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (0.57%) FMCG
12 1 (0.57%) IoT
12 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.80%) Linux
2 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (64.77%) Software Engineering
2 97 (55.11%) Agile
3 89 (50.57%) Asset Management
4 86 (48.86%) Investment Management
5 46 (26.14%) Data Science
6 42 (23.86%) Machine Learning
7 37 (21.02%) Fintech
8 36 (20.45%) Order Management
8 36 (20.45%) Performance Attribution
8 36 (20.45%) Risk Management
9 33 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
10 27 (15.34%) Mathematics
11 23 (13.07%) Data Engineering
12 21 (11.93%) CI/CD
12 21 (11.93%) Clean Code
13 19 (10.80%) Computer Science
13 19 (10.80%) Statistical Modelling
14 17 (9.66%) Statistics
14 17 (9.66%) Structured Programming
14 17 (9.66%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 164 (93.18%) Python
2 104 (59.09%) JavaScript
3 84 (47.73%) TypeScript
4 80 (45.45%) Java
5 36 (20.45%) SQL
6 22 (12.50%) C#
7 18 (10.23%) C++
7 18 (10.23%) Rust
8 12 (6.82%) R
9 1 (0.57%) Bash
9 1 (0.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (9.09%) Degree
2 11 (6.25%) PhD
3 8 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.27%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.14%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.98%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.70%) QA
4 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (17.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (15.34%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.55%) Terraform
3 2 (1.14%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.57%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (3.98%) Google
2 6 (3.41%) Foundry
3 5 (2.84%) Bloomberg
3 5 (2.84%) Databricks
4 4 (2.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.70%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.70%) Cloudera
5 3 (1.70%) Dataiku
5 3 (1.70%) DataRobot
6 2 (1.14%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle
7 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow