dbt Contracts in England

dbt (data build tool)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring dbt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited dbt 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 236 357 556
Rank change year-on-year +121 +199 +133
Contract jobs citing dbt 268 187 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.10% 0.50% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.96% 1.58% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 173 74
10th Percentile £450 £463 £433
25th Percentile £513 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £775 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.55% +34.78% +4.55%
75th Percentile £838 £850 £697
90th Percentile £875 £888 £737
UK median daily rate £670 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -10.67% +30.43% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
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 median hourly rate - £48.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -42.94% -

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for dbt in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for dbt in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing dbt in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for dbt in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for dbt in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +87 237 £675 -15.63% 171
North of England +33 16 £463 - 21
North West +29 13 £463 - 14
East of England +31 4 £318 -49.09% 1
South West - 4 £650 - 4
North East +1 2 £438 -
South East +41 1 £517 +8.84% 47
Midlands +18 1 £475 +18.75% 5
East Midlands +9 1 £475 +22.58% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £475 - 7
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 161 (60.07%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (36.57%) Apache
3 37 (13.81%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.12%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 197 (73.51%) AWS
2 111 (41.42%) Snowflake
3 74 (27.61%) GCP
4 46 (17.16%) Amazon ECS
5 40 (14.93%) Azure
6 38 (14.18%) GitHub
7 35 (13.06%) AWS Lambda
7 35 (13.06%) Serverless
8 28 (10.45%) OpenShift
9 26 (9.70%) Dagster
10 23 (8.58%) Power Platform
11 22 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (5.22%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.61%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (2.61%) Fivetran
15 6 (2.24%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (2.24%) IaaS
15 6 (2.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (44.40%) Amazon Athena
2 114 (42.54%) Apache Iceberg
3 111 (41.42%) Dremio
4 100 (37.31%) Apache Arrow
5 68 (25.37%) Apache Ignite
6 61 (22.76%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (17.54%) Data Lake
8 24 (8.96%) BigQuery
9 23 (8.58%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (8.58%) Power BI
10 21 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (5.97%) Tableau
12 11 (4.10%) Data Vault
12 11 (4.10%) Metadata
12 11 (4.10%) Snowflake Schema
13 9 (3.36%) Looker
14 8 (2.99%) Airbyte
14 8 (2.99%) Relational Database
15 5 (1.87%) Big Data
16 4 (1.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (10.45%) Artifactory
2 15 (5.60%) Git
3 4 (1.49%) Terragrunt
4 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.75%) JIRA
6 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 135 (50.37%) Finance
2 111 (41.42%) Front Office
3 58 (21.64%) Banking
4 46 (17.16%) Investment Banking
5 39 (14.55%) Social Skills
6 27 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (7.84%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.49%) Marketing
9 4 (1.49%) Retail
10 3 (1.12%) Legal
11 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.75%) Publishing
11 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (47.01%) Data Engineer
2 117 (43.66%) AWS Engineer
3 92 (34.33%) Python Engineer
4 76 (28.36%) Software Engineer
5 72 (26.87%) AWS Software Engineer
6 60 (22.39%) Senior
7 53 (19.78%) Developer
8 47 (17.54%) Python Software Engineer
9 43 (16.04%) AWS Developer
9 43 (16.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 37 (13.81%) Java Engineer
10 37 (13.81%) Java Software Engineer
11 33 (12.31%) Snowflake Engineer
12 31 (11.57%) DevOps Engineer
13 30 (11.19%) AWS DevOps
13 30 (11.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 29 (10.82%) Python Developer
15 25 (9.33%) Senior Data Engineer
16 24 (8.96%) Senior Software Engineer
16 24 (8.96%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (29.85%) PySpark
2 68 (25.37%) NumPy
2 68 (25.37%) Pandas
3 65 (24.25%) SciPy
4 46 (17.16%) Kafka
5 40 (14.93%) gRPC
5 40 (14.93%) Protocol Buffers
6 31 (11.57%) React
7 30 (11.19%) AngularJS
8 29 (10.82%) Node.js
9 28 (10.45%) J2EE
9 28 (10.45%) Vue
10 23 (8.58%) Jinja
11 11 (4.10%) Redux
12 9 (3.36%) pytest
13 7 (2.61%) REST
14 2 (0.75%) ADO
14 2 (0.75%) AWS CDK
14 2 (0.75%) Great Expectations
14 2 (0.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 72 (26.87%) Fixed Income
2 55 (20.52%) Equities
2 55 (20.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (16.79%) Derivative
3 45 (16.79%) Hedge funds
4 12 (4.48%) Pricing Data
5 5 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.75%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.75%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.37%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.37%) FMCG
9 1 (0.37%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (47.76%) Agile
2 116 (43.28%) Asset Management
3 115 (42.91%) Software Engineering
4 80 (29.85%) Analytics
5 78 (29.10%) Data Engineering
6 72 (26.87%) CI/CD
6 72 (26.87%) Data Modelling
7 64 (23.88%) Data Pipeline
8 54 (20.15%) ETL
9 49 (18.28%) Investment Management
10 40 (14.93%) Fintech
11 39 (14.55%) Business Intelligence
11 39 (14.55%) Open Source
12 38 (14.18%) DevOps
13 34 (12.69%) Migration
14 28 (10.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (10.07%) Performance Attribution
15 27 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (8.96%) Visualisation
17 23 (8.58%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 207 (77.24%) Python
2 122 (45.52%) SQL
3 95 (35.45%) Java
4 62 (23.13%) JavaScript
5 59 (22.01%) TypeScript
6 29 (10.82%) Go
7 6 (2.24%) SPARQL
8 4 (1.49%) R
8 4 (1.49%) Scala
9 1 (0.37%) C#
9 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (6.72%) Security Cleared
2 13 (4.85%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.12%) Degree
4 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.58%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.24%) GDPR
3 4 (1.49%) QA
4 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 33 (12.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (22.01%) Terraform
2 39 (14.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (4.48%) Google
2 11 (4.10%) Databricks
2 11 (4.10%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (1.12%) Oracle
5 2 (0.75%) Confluent
5 2 (0.75%) Cribl.io
5 2 (0.75%) IBM
5 2 (0.75%) Informatica
6 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.37%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.37%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.37%) SAP
6 1 (0.37%) Workday