Polars Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Polars
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Polars skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Polars 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.39% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £420 £600 -
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 30 25 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 11.76% 12.95% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 16
10th Percentile £325 £313 £206
25th Percentile £391 £339 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +15.63% -20.00%
75th Percentile £536 £566 £541
90th Percentile £631 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%

Polars
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Polars within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 16 November 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
County Antrim - 1 - -
Polars
UK

Polars
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform