Polars
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Polars skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Polars over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 890 -
Rank change year-on-year +202 - -
Permanent jobs citing Polars 4 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.006% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.047% 0.028% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £78,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £78,750 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Polars falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Polars
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Polars as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Polars in the UK

Polars
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Polars.

Salary trend for Polars in the UK

Polars
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Polars within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +211 4 - - 5
England +172 4 - - 15
Work from Home - 4 - - 9
East Midlands - 4 - -
Midlands - 4 - -

Polars
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Big Data
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Dask
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks