Polars Contracts in London

Polars
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Polars skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Polars over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Polars 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.095% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £553 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £681 - -
90th Percentile £715 - -
England median daily rate £600 - -

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 3,274 4,452 7,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.99% 24.66% 27.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,289 3,349 5,867
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £699 £731
90th Percentile £834 £800 £813
England median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 37
10th Percentile £34.48 £16.25 £33.00
25th Percentile £38.69 £25.00 £38.13
Median hourly rate £54.00 £38.16 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.53% -41.30% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £69.40 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +32.65%

Polars
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Polars in London

Polars
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Polars in London over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Polars in London

Polars
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
Central London - 1 £625 -
Polars
England

Polars
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Git
General
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 9 (75.00%) Banking
3 8 (66.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Front Office
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
1 11 (91.67%) Python Developer
2 5 (41.67%) AWS Developer
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Front Office Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) Pandas
2 9 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 9 (75.00%) React
2 9 (75.00%) Vue
3 8 (66.67%) NumPy
4 7 (58.33%) FastAPI
4 7 (58.33%) Flask
4 7 (58.33%) SciPy
5 2 (16.67%) CSS
5 2 (16.67%) HTML
5 2 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Hedge funds
2 6 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (8.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (8.33%) Market Risk
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) Data Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) Mathematics
3 7 (58.33%) Systematic Trading
4 5 (41.67%) Clean Code
4 5 (41.67%) Structured Programming
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) API Design
5 2 (16.67%) API Development
5 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (16.67%) Web Development
6 1 (8.33%) Data Management
6 1 (8.33%) Front End Development
6 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
6 1 (8.33%) TDD
6 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (41.67%) C#
3 5 (41.67%) C++
3 5 (41.67%) Java
3 5 (41.67%) Rust
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes