Dask Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Dask
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Dask skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Dask 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 299 - 475
Rank change year-on-year - - +131
Contract jobs citing Dask 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% - 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% - 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.14%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile £647 - -
UK median daily rate £553 £550 £725
% change year-on-year +0.45% -24.14% +3.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Dask
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Dask trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Dask
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Dask daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Dask
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Dask daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Dask
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 4 (80.00%) Apache Spark
1 4 (80.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) HTTP
1 4 (80.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 4 (80.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (80.00%) Parquet
1 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (80.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Poetry
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) AWS DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) LAPP Stack
1 4 (80.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) LangChain
2 1 (20.00%) NumPy
2 1 (20.00%) Pandas
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) Data Science
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Trunk-Based Development
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform