Polars Contract Job Trends in the North West

Polars
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Polars skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Polars 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.026% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £675 £625 -
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 676 497 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.34% 23.13% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 385 256
10th Percentile £400 £325 £330
25th Percentile £447 £375 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £447 £488
Median % change year-on-year +18.57% -8.31% -7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £537 £582
90th Percentile £710 £675 £688
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 4 7
10th Percentile £50.01 £27.20 £42.11
25th Percentile £62.50 £29.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £72.33 £51.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.82% +7.37% +2.86%
75th Percentile £77.00 £76.81 £73.00
90th Percentile £77.35 £89.08 £79.70
England median hourly rate £66.66 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.20% -15.38% +8.33%

Polars
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Polars within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Manchester - 1 £750 - 1
Polars
England

Polars
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Arrow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (100.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Dask
1 1 (100.00%) Jinja
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Snowpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Management
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker