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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 325 543
Rank change year-on-year +91 +218 +135
Contract jobs citing dbt 271 210 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.11% 0.58% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 1.80% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 197 75
10th Percentile £451 £463 £435
25th Percentile £513 £533 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £800 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +39.13% +2.22%
75th Percentile £838 £888 £681
90th Percentile £875 - £715
UK median daily rate £650 £800 £575
% change year-on-year -18.75% +39.13% -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 9,035 11,689 17,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.12% 32.09% 36.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,257 8,437 12,880
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £673
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 325 289
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.04 £15.85 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.25 £21.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.24% -38.24% +58.14%
75th Percentile £36.38 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.63 £65.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +57.73%

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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 19 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 19 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 +77 238 £675 -15.63% 256
North of England +30 15 £463 +5.71% 47
North West +24 11 £463 - 21
East of England +26 7 £321 -48.58% 3
South West - 4 £650 - 8
North East - 3 £425 -
South East +32 1 £517 +14.89% 66
Midlands +14 1 £475 +18.75% 5
Yorkshire +13 1 - - 26
East Midlands +11 1 £475 +22.58% 3
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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 (59.41%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (32.47%) Apache
3 30 (11.07%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.11%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 194 (71.59%) AWS
2 116 (42.80%) Snowflake
3 70 (25.83%) GCP
4 42 (15.50%) Azure
5 38 (14.02%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (14.02%) GitHub
6 34 (12.55%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (12.55%) Serverless
7 27 (9.96%) Power Platform
8 24 (8.86%) OpenShift
9 21 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (7.38%) Dagster
11 15 (5.54%) Amazon S3
12 14 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (2.21%) Fivetran
14 5 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (1.48%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.74%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (43.54%) Amazon Athena
2 109 (40.22%) Apache Iceberg
3 107 (39.48%) Dremio
4 98 (36.16%) Apache Arrow
5 64 (23.62%) Data Warehouse
6 61 (22.51%) Apache Ignite
7 48 (17.71%) Data Lake
8 28 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (9.96%) Power BI
10 23 (8.49%) BigQuery
11 18 (6.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (6.27%) Tableau
13 15 (5.54%) Snowflake Schema
14 14 (5.17%) Data Vault
15 13 (4.80%) Metadata
16 11 (4.06%) Relational Database
17 8 (2.95%) Airbyte
17 8 (2.95%) Looker
18 4 (1.48%) Big Data
18 4 (1.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (8.86%) Artifactory
2 17 (6.27%) Git
3 5 (1.85%) Terragrunt
4 4 (1.48%) JIRA
5 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 127 (46.86%) Finance
2 107 (39.48%) Front Office
3 56 (20.66%) Banking
4 46 (16.97%) Investment Banking
5 43 (15.87%) Social Skills
6 29 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (7.38%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.21%) Retail
10 5 (1.85%) Marketing
11 3 (1.11%) Legal
12 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Publishing
12 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 120 (44.28%) Data Engineer
2 114 (42.07%) AWS Engineer
3 85 (31.37%) Python Engineer
4 79 (29.15%) Software Engineer
5 74 (27.31%) AWS Software Engineer
6 65 (23.99%) Senior
7 55 (20.30%) Developer
8 49 (18.08%) Python Software Engineer
9 45 (16.61%) AWS Developer
9 45 (16.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 41 (15.13%) Java Engineer
10 41 (15.13%) Java Software Engineer
11 35 (12.92%) Snowflake Engineer
12 29 (10.70%) Python Developer
13 27 (9.96%) DevOps Engineer
13 27 (9.96%) Senior Data Engineer
14 26 (9.59%) AWS DevOps
14 26 (9.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 26 (9.59%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (8.86%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (25.83%) PySpark
2 68 (25.09%) NumPy
2 68 (25.09%) Pandas
3 65 (23.99%) SciPy
4 38 (14.02%) Kafka
5 37 (13.65%) gRPC
5 37 (13.65%) Protocol Buffers
6 33 (12.18%) React
7 32 (11.81%) AngularJS
8 31 (11.44%) Node.js
9 30 (11.07%) Vue
10 24 (8.86%) J2EE
11 21 (7.75%) Jinja
12 9 (3.32%) pytest
13 8 (2.95%) Redux
14 7 (2.58%) REST
15 2 (0.74%) .NET
15 2 (0.74%) ADO
15 2 (0.74%) Apache NiFi
15 2 (0.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 74 (27.31%) Fixed Income
2 60 (22.14%) Equities
2 60 (22.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (16.61%) Derivative
3 45 (16.61%) Hedge funds
4 16 (5.90%) Pricing Data
5 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.48%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.74%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.37%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.37%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.37%) Linux
1 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (46.86%) Agile
2 112 (41.33%) Asset Management
2 112 (41.33%) Software Engineering
3 81 (29.89%) Analytics
4 74 (27.31%) Data Modelling
5 73 (26.94%) Data Engineering
6 68 (25.09%) CI/CD
7 67 (24.72%) Data Pipeline
8 55 (20.30%) ETL
9 53 (19.56%) Investment Management
10 44 (16.24%) Business Intelligence
11 40 (14.76%) Fintech
12 38 (14.02%) DevOps
13 35 (12.92%) Migration
14 34 (12.55%) Open Source
15 32 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (10.70%) Performance Attribution
17 26 (9.59%) Visualisation
18 24 (8.86%) Data Architecture
18 24 (8.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 204 (75.28%) Python
2 126 (46.49%) SQL
3 90 (33.21%) Java
4 64 (23.62%) JavaScript
5 61 (22.51%) TypeScript
6 24 (8.86%) Go
7 6 (2.21%) SPARQL
8 4 (1.48%) R
8 4 (1.48%) Scala
9 3 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.37%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.37%) Bicep
10 1 (0.37%) C#
10 1 (0.37%) LookML
10 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (7.01%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.85%) Degree
4 3 (1.11%) SnowPro
5 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.21%) GDPR
3 4 (1.48%) QA
4 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 30 (11.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (21.40%) Terraform
2 36 (13.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.37%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (4.80%) Databricks
1 13 (4.80%) Google
2 11 (4.06%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.85%) MicroStrategy
3 5 (1.85%) Oracle
4 2 (0.74%) Cribl.io
4 2 (0.74%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.37%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.37%) Confluent
5 1 (0.37%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.37%) IBM
5 1 (0.37%) Informatica
5 1 (0.37%) SAP
5 1 (0.37%) Workday