Dagster Contracts

Elementl Dagster
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Dagster skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Dagster 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 490 572 705
Rank change year-on-year +82 +133 +126
Contract jobs citing Dagster 30 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.023% 0.022%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.071% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 10 4
10th Percentile £550 - £437
25th Percentile £600 £438 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £500 £548
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -8.72% -12.36%
75th Percentile £888 £571 £628
90th Percentile - £658 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Dagster
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Dagster in the UK

Dagster
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Dagster.

Daily rate trend for Dagster in the UK

Dagster
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dagster over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dagster in the UK

Dagster
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +77 30 £800 +60.00% 23
London +56 28 £800 +60.00% 21
Work from Home - 27 £800 - 16

Dagster
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 30 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (56.67%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.33%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (90.00%) GCP
3 26 (86.67%) dbt
4 19 (63.33%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (60.00%) Snowflake
6 10 (33.33%) Azure
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.67%) Prefect
7 2 (6.67%) Serverless
8 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (86.67%) Amazon Athena
1 26 (86.67%) Apache Iceberg
1 26 (86.67%) Data Lake
1 26 (86.67%) Dremio
2 17 (56.67%) Apache Arrow
2 17 (56.67%) Apache Ignite
3 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 26 (86.67%) Banking
1 26 (86.67%) Finance
1 26 (86.67%) Front Office
2 17 (56.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.33%) Marketing
3 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) AWS Engineer
1 17 (56.67%) AWS Software Engineer
1 17 (56.67%) Software Engineer
2 15 (50.00%) Python Engineer
3 13 (43.33%) Data Engineer
4 11 (36.67%) Java Engineer
4 11 (36.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (30.00%) Python Data Engineer
5 9 (30.00%) Senior
5 9 (30.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
6 6 (20.00%) Senior Java Engineer
6 6 (20.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Data Science Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (93.33%) NumPy
1 28 (93.33%) Pandas
1 28 (93.33%) SciPy
2 26 (86.67%) PySpark
3 17 (56.67%) gRPC
3 17 (56.67%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (6.67%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 17 (56.67%) Derivative
1 17 (56.67%) Equities
1 17 (56.67%) Fixed Income
1 17 (56.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 17 (56.67%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.67%) Genomics
2 2 (6.67%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) Software Engineering
2 26 (86.67%) Agile
2 26 (86.67%) Asset Management
3 17 (56.67%) Migration
4 11 (36.67%) Data Engineering
5 9 (30.00%) Analytics
5 9 (30.00%) Fintech
5 9 (30.00%) Investment Management
6 3 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (10.00%) Data Science
6 3 (10.00%) ETL
7 2 (6.67%) Bioinformatics
7 2 (6.67%) Computer Science
7 2 (6.67%) Observability
7 2 (6.67%) Proteomics
7 2 (6.67%) Software Testing
7 2 (6.67%) Transcriptomics
7 2 (6.67%) Visualisation
8 1 (3.33%) Data Modelling
8 1 (3.33%) Product Marketing
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Python
2 26 (86.67%) Java
3 17 (56.67%) JavaScript
3 17 (56.67%) TypeScript
4 4 (13.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) HDFS
2 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Databricks