Dask
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Dask skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Dask over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 678 873 981
Rank change year-on-year +195 +108 +188
Permanent jobs citing Dask 6 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.012% 0.006%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.071% 0.057% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 3
10th Percentile £101,000 £32,750 £29,408
25th Percentile £102,500 £35,000 £32,269
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £42,500 £38,744
Median % change year-on-year +147.06% +9.69% -66.31%
75th Percentile £107,500 £47,500 £55,850
90th Percentile £109,000 £49,750 £65,090
UK excluding London median annual salary - £40,000 £34,372
% change year-on-year - +16.37% -34.53%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,493 21,046 31,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 21.40% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,474 15,738 19,371
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £50,509 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,900 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Dask.

Salary trend for Dask in the UK

Dask
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Dask within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +183 6 £105,000 +147.06% 8
Work from Home +179 5 £110,000 +175.00% 5
UK excluding London +200 4 - - 2
East Midlands - 4 - -
Midlands - 4 - - 1
London +105 2 £105,000 -23.64% 6

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Front Office
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Data Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Polars
2 1 (16.67%) AWS SAM
2 1 (16.67%) JAX
2 1 (16.67%) Ray
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Engineering
1 5 (83.33%) Data Governance
1 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
1 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Argo
2 1 (16.67%) Packer
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Databricks