Polars Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Polars
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Polars skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Polars 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

Polars 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 431 480 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.70% 26.43% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 287 374
10th Percentile £362 £413 £400
25th Percentile £435 £479 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £693
90th Percentile £775 £764 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £43.83 - -
25th Percentile £45.83 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £51.38 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.46% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £56.67 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%

Polars
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (100.00%) Spatial Data
General
1 2 (100.00%) Publishing
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 2 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality