Polars Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Polars
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London citing Polars skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Polars 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.010% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.059% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £750 - -
25th Percentile £788 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 - -
75th Percentile £950 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £688 £420 £600
% change year-on-year +63.69% -30.00% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

6 months to
12 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,064 3,718 3,227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.53% 21.65% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,239 2,478 2,009
10th Percentile £356 £325 £340
25th Percentile £420 £401 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £653 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 142 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.35 £22.00
25th Percentile £54.28 £43.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -5.77% +17.05%
75th Percentile £77.50 £66.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £77.38 £73.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +8.70%

Polars Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Polars job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Polars Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Polars in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Polars in the UK excluding London

Polars Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Polars within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 3 £900 - 3
North of England - 3 £900 - 3
Polars
UK

Polars Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Dask100.0%3
1Jinja100.0%3
1Kafka100.0%3
1LangChain100.0%3
1LlamaIndex100.0%3
1PySpark100.0%3
1Snowpark100.0%3