Dask Contract Job Trends in London

Dask
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Dask skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 379 433
Rank change year-on-year +14 +54 +133
Contract jobs citing Dask 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.015% 0.019% 0.014%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.057% 0.069% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £1,005 £600 £471
25th Percentile £1,013 £619 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,050 £650 £513
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% +26.83% -37.88%
75th Percentile £1,113 £806 £519
90th Percentile £1,135 £893 -
England median daily rate £1,050 £638 £513
% change year-on-year +64.71% +24.39% -37.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Dask 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 3,499 4,345 5,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.15% 27.02% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,375 2,891 4,082
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 23 41
10th Percentile £31.77 £23.88 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.17 £36.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -29.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £61.56 £61.97 £73.65
90th Percentile £85.95 £74.20 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.35 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.38% +13.04% -11.54%

Dask
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Dask job vacancy trend in London

Dask
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Dask.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Dask

Dask
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 Dask within the London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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 £1,100 - 2
Dask
England

Dask
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Google JAX
1 1 (50.00%) JAX
1 1 (50.00%) LightGBM
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (50.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Derivative
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Equities
2 1 (50.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (50.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Pattern Recognition
2 1 (50.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PhD