Pandas Contracts in London

Pandas
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Pandas skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pandas over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 211 281
Rank change year-on-year +14 +70 +49
Contract jobs citing Pandas 150 205 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.23% 1.18% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.72% 4.56% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 184 153
10th Percentile £510 £513 £451
25th Percentile £575 £619 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £860
90th Percentile - - £970
England median daily rate £725 £800 £696
% change year-on-year -9.38% +14.90% +16.04%

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 3,176 4,492 6,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.99% 25.81% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,227 3,358 5,167
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £725
90th Percentile £838 £838 £810
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 25 37
10th Percentile £31.16 £16.25 £30.45
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £46.25
Median hourly rate £38.91 £42.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% -39.29% +45.71%
75th Percentile £57.19 £62.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.80 £85.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +28.71%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pandas in London.

Daily rate trend for Pandas in London

Pandas
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pandas in London over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pandas in London

Pandas
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pandas in London.

Hourly rate trend for Pandas in London

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 24 May 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 +19 19 £550 +4.76% 9
East London +17 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 64 (42.67%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (24.00%) Apache
3 11 (7.33%) Apache Spark
4 6 (4.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 105 (70.00%) AWS
2 63 (42.00%) dbt
3 51 (34.00%) GCP
4 40 (26.67%) Azure
5 32 (21.33%) Snowflake
6 18 (12.00%) GitHub
7 17 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
8 15 (10.00%) Dagster
9 10 (6.67%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (6.00%) Azure AKS
10 9 (6.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (6.00%) Entra ID
10 9 (6.00%) Serverless
11 8 (5.33%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (42.00%) Amazon Athena
1 63 (42.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 63 (42.00%) Dremio
2 57 (38.00%) Apache Arrow
3 37 (24.67%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (22.67%) Apache Ignite
5 33 (22.00%) Data Lake
6 10 (6.67%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.67%) Oracle Database
7 7 (4.67%) Power BI
7 7 (4.67%) Tableau
8 4 (2.67%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.00%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.33%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.67%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.67%) GIS
11 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (10.00%) Git
2 7 (4.67%) MLflow
3 2 (1.33%) Selenium
4 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) Postman
General
1 104 (69.33%) Finance
2 68 (45.33%) Front Office
3 50 (33.33%) Banking
4 42 (28.00%) Investment Banking
5 16 (10.67%) Social Skills
6 10 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 9 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.33%) Back Office
10 4 (2.67%) Marketing
10 4 (2.67%) Police
10 4 (2.67%) Retail
11 2 (1.33%) Law
11 2 (1.33%) Military
12 1 (0.67%) Advertising
12 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.67%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 68 (45.33%) Developer
2 65 (43.33%) Software Engineer
3 62 (41.33%) Python Engineer
4 57 (38.00%) AWS Engineer
4 57 (38.00%) AWS Software Engineer
5 55 (36.67%) Python Developer
6 47 (31.33%) Python Software Engineer
7 39 (26.00%) AWS Developer
7 39 (26.00%) Senior
8 34 (22.67%) Java Engineer
8 34 (22.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 30 (20.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 23 (15.33%) Data Scientist
10 23 (15.33%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (14.67%) Senior Java Engineer
11 22 (14.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 9 (6.00%) Java Developer
12 9 (6.00%) Java Software Developer
12 9 (6.00%) JavaScript Developer
13 8 (5.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (86.00%) NumPy
2 86 (57.33%) SciPy
3 44 (29.33%) React
4 41 (27.33%) AngularJS
4 41 (27.33%) Vue
5 34 (22.67%) gRPC
5 34 (22.67%) Protocol Buffers
6 30 (20.00%) Node.js
7 26 (17.33%) scikit-learn
8 21 (14.00%) PySpark
9 19 (12.67%) FastAPI
9 19 (12.67%) Flask
9 19 (12.67%) TensorFlow
10 16 (10.67%) PyTorch
11 14 (9.33%) Polars
12 13 (8.67%) Kafka
12 13 (8.67%) OpenTelemetry
13 12 (8.00%) LangChain
13 12 (8.00%) pydantic
14 11 (7.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 59 (39.33%) Fixed Income
2 55 (36.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (30.00%) Equities
4 43 (28.67%) Hedge funds
5 30 (20.00%) Derivative
6 18 (12.00%) Pricing Data
7 12 (8.00%) Algorithms
8 5 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.00%) Multi-touch
10 2 (1.33%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.33%) Solar Panel
10 2 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.67%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.67%) FMCG
11 1 (0.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.33%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (62.67%) Software Engineering
2 76 (50.67%) Agile
3 65 (43.33%) Asset Management
4 57 (38.00%) Investment Management
5 37 (24.67%) Data Science
5 37 (24.67%) Fintech
6 33 (22.00%) Machine Learning
7 31 (20.67%) Risk Management
8 30 (20.00%) Performance Attribution
9 26 (17.33%) Artificial Intelligence
10 23 (15.33%) Analytics
10 23 (15.33%) Order Management
11 22 (14.67%) Mathematics
12 21 (14.00%) Data Engineering
13 20 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (12.00%) CI/CD
15 16 (10.67%) Visualisation
16 15 (10.00%) Computer Science
16 15 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
16 15 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 141 (94.00%) Python
2 73 (48.67%) JavaScript
3 57 (38.00%) TypeScript
4 55 (36.67%) Java
5 34 (22.67%) SQL
6 19 (12.67%) C#
7 14 (9.33%) C++
8 13 (8.67%) Rust
9 11 (7.33%) R
10 3 (2.00%) Scala
10 3 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.33%) VBA
12 1 (0.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (12.67%) Degree
2 11 (7.33%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 7 (4.67%) PhD
4 7 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 6 (4.00%) QA
3 5 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (14.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.67%) Terraform
3 2 (1.33%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 9 (6.00%) Oracle
2 4 (2.67%) Dataiku
2 4 (2.67%) DataRobot
3 3 (2.00%) Google
3 3 (2.00%) Talend
4 2 (1.33%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.33%) Databricks
4 2 (1.33%) Refinitiv
4 2 (1.33%) Reuters
5 1 (0.67%) Foundry
5 1 (0.67%) Informatica
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.67%) SAP
5 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow