Dagster Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Elementl Dagster
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Dagster skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dagster 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.075% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £399 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £535 - -
UK median daily rate £479 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -36.17% +3.45% +15.08%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Dagster falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,305 4,902 6,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.06% 28.80% 31.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,572 3,135 4,881
10th Percentile £238 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 123 237
10th Percentile £14.63 £15.98 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.02 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £33.93 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.06% +50.80% +15.38%
75th Percentile £36.00 £69.22 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.88 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +42.89%

Dagster
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Dagster job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Dagster
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Dagster.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Dagster

Dagster
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dagster in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dagster in the UK excluding London

Dagster
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 Dagster within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Scotland - 2 £525 -
South East - 1 £375 - 34
South West - 1 £458 - 5
Dagster
UK

Dagster
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
1 1 (25.00%) Poetry
1 1 (25.00%) Pylint
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CDK
1 3 (75.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (50.00%) boto
2 2 (50.00%) Hugging Face
2 2 (50.00%) JWT
2 2 (50.00%) NumPy
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth
2 2 (50.00%) OpenCV
2 2 (50.00%) Pandas
2 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (25.00%) Django
3 1 (25.00%) Flask
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) PySpark
3 1 (25.00%) pytest
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Async-Await
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Vision
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) OCR
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Google