Polars Contract Job Trends in London

Polars
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Polars skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 377 -
Rank change year-on-year +21 - -
Contract jobs citing Polars 20 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.019% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.57% 0.071% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
England median daily rate £420 £600 -
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,516 4,245 5,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.23% 26.87% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,388 2,796 4,076
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £788 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 38
10th Percentile £31.52 £36.30 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.67 £39.19 £40.20
Median hourly rate £52.72 £47.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -21.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £62.19 £62.23 £73.24
90th Percentile £87.63 £74.60 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.70 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -15.85% +16.99% -14.52%

Polars
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Polars relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Polars job vacancy trend in London

Polars
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Polars.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Polars

Polars
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 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (90.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 19 (95.00%) Git
General
1 18 (90.00%) Banking
1 18 (90.00%) Finance
1 18 (90.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (100.00%) Developer
2 19 (95.00%) Python Developer
3 18 (90.00%) AWS Developer
3 18 (90.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (100.00%) Pandas
2 19 (95.00%) FastAPI
2 19 (95.00%) NumPy
3 18 (90.00%) AngularJS
3 18 (90.00%) Flask
3 18 (90.00%) React
3 18 (90.00%) SciPy
3 18 (90.00%) Vue
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) Plotly
4 1 (5.00%) pytest
4 1 (5.00%) Ray
4 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (90.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 18 (90.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 18 (90.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (90.00%) Clean Code
2 18 (90.00%) Data Engineering
2 18 (90.00%) Mathematics
2 18 (90.00%) Structured Programming
2 18 (90.00%) Systematic Trading
3 1 (5.00%) Analytics
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (5.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (5.00%) OO
3 1 (5.00%) OOP
3 1 (5.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Python
2 18 (90.00%) C#
2 18 (90.00%) C++
2 18 (90.00%) Java
2 18 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (90.00%) Rust
3 1 (5.00%) Go
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (95.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (95.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Google