Dask
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Dask skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Dask over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 709 830
Rank change year-on-year +112 +121 -135
Contract jobs citing Dask 3 7 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.012% 0.037%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.034% 0.051% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 31
10th Percentile £490 £480 £525
25th Percentile £494 £506 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +3.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £619 £738 £738
90th Percentile £630 £880 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £725 £525
% change year-on-year -18.97% +38.10% -8.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Dask is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,883 13,734 24,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.58% 23.25% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,016 17,623
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 152 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.18 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.25
% change year-on-year -24.90% +28.43% +9.44%

Dask
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Dask in the UK

Dask
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Dask in the UK

Dask
Top 6 Contract 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 5 May 2024. 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 +120 3 £550 +7.32% 5
UK excluding London +56 2 £588 -18.97% 2
London +111 1 £525 +2.44% 3
Midlands - 1 £550 -
South East - 1 £625 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

Dask
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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Multimedia
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) NumPy
1 3 (100.00%) Pandas
2 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (33.33%) Flask
3 1 (33.33%) Keras
3 1 (33.33%) Matplotlib
3 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) DataOps
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) MLOps
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Physics
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP