Dagster Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Elementl Dagster
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 277 - 473
Rank change year-on-year - - +153
Contract jobs citing Dagster 27 0 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.27% - 0.015%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% - 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 0 3
10th Percentile £550 - £429
25th Percentile £700 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £521
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.72%
75th Percentile £888 - £648
90th Percentile - - £709
UK median daily rate £800 £500 £548
% change year-on-year +60.00% -8.72% -12.36%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Dagster falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Dagster
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Dagster as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Dagster trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Dagster
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Dagster.

Dagster daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Dagster
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Dagster daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Dagster
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 27 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (62.96%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
1 27 (100.00%) GCP
2 26 (96.30%) dbt
3 17 (62.96%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (62.96%) Amazon ECS
3 17 (62.96%) Amazon EKS
3 17 (62.96%) Snowflake
4 10 (37.04%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (96.30%) Amazon Athena
1 26 (96.30%) Apache Iceberg
1 26 (96.30%) Data Lake
1 26 (96.30%) Dremio
2 17 (62.96%) Apache Arrow
2 17 (62.96%) Apache Ignite
General
1 26 (96.30%) Banking
1 26 (96.30%) Finance
1 26 (96.30%) Front Office
2 17 (62.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) AWS Engineer
1 17 (62.96%) AWS Software Engineer
1 17 (62.96%) Software Engineer
2 15 (55.56%) Python Engineer
3 11 (40.74%) Java Engineer
3 11 (40.74%) Java Software Engineer
4 10 (37.04%) Data Engineer
5 9 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
5 9 (33.33%) Senior
5 9 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (22.22%) Python Software Engineer
6 6 (22.22%) Senior Java Engineer
6 6 (22.22%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Data Science Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (96.30%) NumPy
1 26 (96.30%) Pandas
1 26 (96.30%) PySpark
1 26 (96.30%) SciPy
2 17 (62.96%) gRPC
2 17 (62.96%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 17 (62.96%) Derivative
1 17 (62.96%) Equities
1 17 (62.96%) Fixed Income
1 17 (62.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 17 (62.96%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 26 (96.30%) Agile
2 26 (96.30%) Asset Management
3 17 (62.96%) Migration
4 9 (33.33%) Analytics
4 9 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 9 (33.33%) Fintech
4 9 (33.33%) Investment Management
5 1 (3.70%) Data Modelling
5 1 (3.70%) Data Science
5 1 (3.70%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Python
2 26 (96.30%) Java
3 17 (62.96%) JavaScript
3 17 (62.96%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.70%) SQL