dbt Contract Job Trends in the City of London

dbt (data build tool)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring dbt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 117 131
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +66
Contract jobs citing dbt 12 8 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.71% 0.38% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 0.95% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 18
10th Percentile £477 £456 £413
25th Percentile £513 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -10.80% -7.39%
75th Percentile £638 £553 £613
90th Percentile £703 £594 £688
Central London median daily rate £525 £513 £533
% change year-on-year +2.44% -3.76% +2.40%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

dbt falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 696 843 1,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.11% 39.78% 40.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 548 785
10th Percentile £338 £399 £353
25th Percentile £434 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £752 £764 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £21.58 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.00 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing dbt relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

dbt job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing dbt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing dbt

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing dbt in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for dbt in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 5 (41.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
1 7 (58.33%) Snowflake
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) ChatGPT
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Fivetran
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (8.33%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) Metadata
2 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (8.33%) Data Vault
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) ERwin
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Back Office
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) General Ledger
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Data Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Data Modeller
4 1 (8.33%) Data Product Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Product Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Product Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 5 (41.67%) AI
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
3 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 3 (25.00%) Analytics
4 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (25.00%) Line Management
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 2 (16.67%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Talend