Hybrid/Remote Dagster Contract Job Trends

Elementl Dagster
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Dagster skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 309 403
Rank change year-on-year -10 +94 +186
Contract jobs citing Dagster 4 21 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.040% 0.17% 0.005%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.093% 0.45% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 21 1
10th Percentile £458 £550 -
25th Percentile £465 £675 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -36.17% +25.00% -17.24%
75th Percentile £490 £825 -
90th Percentile £496 - -
UK median daily rate £563 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -25.00% +3.45% +7.01%

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 4,303 4,674 7,247
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 43.23% 38.60% 38.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,920 3,155 5,309
10th Percentile £325 £340 £353
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £645
90th Percentile £738 £751 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 41 104
10th Percentile £17.88 £19.30 £15.88
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.25 £21.99
Median hourly rate £37.25 £36.69 £40.05
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% -8.39% +14.43%
75th Percentile £65.22 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £87.85
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.29% +45.00%

Dagster
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Dagster and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Dagster job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Dagster
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Dagster.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Dagster

Dagster
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Prefect
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) dbt
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) boto
2 1 (25.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Flask
2 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) NumPy
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Async-Await
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) LLM
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft