dbt (data build tool)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for dbt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited dbt over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 620 707
Rank change year-on-year +210 +87 -79
Contract jobs citing dbt 191 99 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.45% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 76 119
10th Percentile £463 £438 £345
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £850 £678 £800
90th Percentile £888 £734 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £575 £725
% change year-on-year -17.39% -20.69% +45.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £78.75 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.94% - -
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.13 -
90th Percentile - £89.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

dbt is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for dbt in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for dbt in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing dbt over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for dbt in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing dbt.

Hourly rate trend for dbt in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +208 177 £750 +30.43% 87
London +182 151 £800 +39.13% 58
Work from Home +213 128 £800 +39.13% 48
UK excluding London +50 15 £475 -17.39% 30
South East +22 6 £475 -17.39% 3
Midlands +16 4 £475 -32.14% 9
West Midlands +26 3 £550 -21.43% 4
East of England +11 3 £625 -10.71% 1
North of England +21 2 - - 9
North West +10 1 - - 8
East Midlands +8 1 £400 -42.86% 5
North East - 1 - - 2

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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
1 118 (61.78%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (47.12%) Apache
3 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Softmar
2 1 (0.52%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.52%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 129 (67.54%) AWS
2 97 (50.79%) Snowflake
3 78 (40.84%) GCP
4 21 (10.99%) Azure
5 11 (5.76%) Amazon Kinesis
5 11 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (5.76%) GitHub
5 11 (5.76%) Serverless
6 10 (5.24%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.66%) Amazon S3
7 7 (3.66%) Fivetran
7 7 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.62%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (2.62%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.57%) Dagster
10 2 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (52.36%) Amazon Athena
2 92 (48.17%) Apache Arrow
2 92 (48.17%) Dremio
3 79 (41.36%) Apache Ignite
4 76 (39.79%) Data Lake
5 31 (16.23%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (9.95%) Big Data
7 12 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (5.76%) BigQuery
9 10 (5.24%) Power BI
10 7 (3.66%) Flink
11 5 (2.62%) Looker
11 5 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (2.09%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.09%) Tableau
13 3 (1.57%) Airbyte
13 3 (1.57%) BusinessObjects
13 3 (1.57%) DynamoDB
13 3 (1.57%) NoSQL
13 3 (1.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (7.33%) Git
2 9 (4.71%) JIRA
3 3 (1.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.57%) Poetry
4 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
General
1 101 (52.88%) Finance
2 82 (42.93%) Front Office
3 77 (40.31%) Banking
4 74 (38.74%) Investment Banking
5 10 (5.24%) Social Skills
6 9 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.05%) Marketing
8 1 (0.52%) Billing
8 1 (0.52%) Games
8 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.52%) Law
8 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (26.18%) Software Engineer
2 49 (25.65%) Data Engineer
3 48 (25.13%) AWS Engineer
4 46 (24.08%) Developer
5 39 (20.42%) Python Engineer
6 37 (19.37%) Senior
7 36 (18.85%) Lead
8 34 (17.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 30 (15.71%) Architect
9 30 (15.71%) AWS Software Engineer
9 30 (15.71%) Python Software Engineer
10 25 (13.09%) Software Developer
11 22 (11.52%) Java Engineer
11 22 (11.52%) Java Software Engineer
11 22 (11.52%) Python Developer
12 19 (9.95%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (9.95%) Team Leader
13 18 (9.42%) Lead Developer
13 18 (9.42%) Lead Software Engineer
13 18 (9.42%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (47.64%) gRPC
1 91 (47.64%) Protocol Buffers
2 87 (45.55%) Pandas
3 81 (42.41%) NumPy
3 81 (42.41%) SciPy
4 12 (6.28%) PySpark
5 8 (4.19%) React
5 8 (4.19%) Redux
6 6 (3.14%) Lambda Expressions
7 5 (2.62%) ADO
7 5 (2.62%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.62%) Node.js
7 5 (2.62%) Vue
8 4 (2.09%) Kafka
9 3 (1.57%) .NET
9 3 (1.57%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.57%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (1.57%) Flask
9 3 (1.57%) LAPP Stack
9 3 (1.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 78 (40.84%) Hedge funds
2 76 (39.79%) Fixed Income
3 68 (35.60%) Derivative
3 68 (35.60%) Equities
4 65 (34.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (5.24%) Clustering
6 4 (2.09%) Pricing Data
7 3 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.57%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.52%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.09%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (51.83%) Asset Management
2 97 (50.79%) Agile
3 85 (44.50%) Software Engineering
4 81 (42.41%) Investment Management
5 42 (21.99%) Analytics
6 34 (17.80%) ETL
7 32 (16.75%) Line Management
8 30 (15.71%) Data Modelling
9 29 (15.18%) Data Pipeline
10 27 (14.14%) DevOps
11 22 (11.52%) Greeks
12 20 (10.47%) Data Engineering
12 20 (10.47%) Data Ingestion
13 19 (9.95%) CI/CD
14 18 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (8.90%) Data Architecture
15 17 (8.90%) Unit Testing
16 14 (7.33%) Mentoring
16 14 (7.33%) Validation
17 12 (6.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 141 (73.82%) Python
2 88 (46.07%) JavaScript
3 81 (42.41%) Java
4 78 (40.84%) TypeScript
5 44 (23.04%) SQL
6 14 (7.33%) Go
7 12 (6.28%) Scala
8 8 (4.19%) Ruby
9 3 (1.57%) C#
9 3 (1.57%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.05%) Bash
10 2 (1.05%) R
11 1 (0.52%) LookML
11 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (2.09%) SC Cleared
1 4 (2.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.57%) Degree
3 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.52%) ISEB
3 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (21.47%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.62%) QA
3 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (3.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (15.71%) Terraform
2 19 (9.95%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.76%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.05%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (8.90%) Google
2 7 (3.66%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.14%) Databricks
4 4 (2.09%) Informatica
5 3 (1.57%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.05%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.52%) FactSet
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle
7 1 (0.52%) SnapLogic