Dask Contract Job Trends

Dask
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Dask skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 568 555 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Dask 13 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.026% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 0
10th Percentile £575 £375 -
25th Percentile - £380 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
75th Percentile £1,150 £663 -
90th Percentile - £860 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,189 7,567 9,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.88% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,414 4,793 6,998
10th Percentile £351 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 105 175
10th Percentile £30.40 £21.55 £31.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.40 £74.70 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -1.54% +25.26% -20.17%

Dask
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Dask job vacancy trend in the UK

Dask
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dask.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dask

Dask
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dask over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dask in the UK

Dask
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dask.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dask

Dask
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dask within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 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
London +1 9 £1,100 +118.91% 1
England -36 9 £1,100 +118.91% 1
Work from Home +17 4 £575 +51.32%

Dask
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (69.23%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Big Data
1 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) QGIS
2 2 (15.38%) Spatial Data
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Financial Institution
2 6 (46.15%) Front Office
2 6 (46.15%) Investment Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Retail
6 1 (7.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Data Scientist
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithm Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) scikit-learn
2 4 (30.77%) NumPy
2 4 (30.77%) Pandas
3 3 (23.08%) Google JAX
3 3 (23.08%) JAX
3 3 (23.08%) LightGBM
3 3 (23.08%) PyTorch
3 3 (23.08%) TensorFlow
3 3 (23.08%) XGBoost
4 2 (15.38%) GeoJSON
4 2 (15.38%) GeoPandas
4 2 (15.38%) Plotly
4 2 (15.38%) Polars
4 2 (15.38%) PostGIS
4 2 (15.38%) PySpark
4 2 (15.38%) Streamlit
5 1 (7.69%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Derivative
2 7 (53.85%) Distributed Computing
3 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
3 6 (46.15%) Equities
3 6 (46.15%) Fixed Income
3 6 (46.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (46.15%) Hedge funds
4 5 (38.46%) Algorithms
5 3 (23.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Machine Learning
2 9 (69.23%) AI
2 9 (69.23%) Deep Learning
2 9 (69.23%) Reinforcement Learning
2 9 (69.23%) Risk Management
3 8 (61.54%) Open Source
4 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
4 7 (53.85%) Time Series Forecasting
5 6 (46.15%) Computer Science
5 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (46.15%) LLM
5 6 (46.15%) Mathematics
5 6 (46.15%) Natural Language Processing
5 6 (46.15%) Physics
5 6 (46.15%) Quantitative Finance
6 5 (38.46%) Analytics
7 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
7 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
8 3 (23.08%) Anomaly Detection
8 3 (23.08%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
1 6 (46.15%) Master's Degree
1 6 (46.15%) PhD
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks