dbt Contracts in London

dbt (data build tool)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 147 234 425
Rank change year-on-year +87 +191 +100
Contract jobs citing dbt 237 160 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.89% 0.90% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.46% 2.37% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 152 51
10th Percentile £463 £488 £420
25th Percentile £525 £536 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £800 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +39.13% +5.50%
75th Percentile £838 £888 £681
90th Percentile £875 - £775
England median daily rate £670 £775 £575
% change year-on-year -13.55% +34.78% +4.55%
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
England median hourly rate - £48.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -42.94% -

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for dbt in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for dbt in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for dbt in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the London 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
Central London +13 17 £610 +13.49% 12
West London - 2 £788 - 4
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 149 (62.87%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (39.66%) Apache
3 35 (14.77%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.27%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 179 (75.53%) AWS
2 99 (41.77%) Snowflake
3 65 (27.43%) GCP
4 46 (19.41%) Amazon ECS
5 39 (16.46%) Azure
6 35 (14.77%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (14.77%) GitHub
6 35 (14.77%) Serverless
7 28 (11.81%) OpenShift
8 26 (10.97%) Dagster
9 22 (9.28%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (7.59%) Power Platform
11 14 (5.91%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.95%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (2.95%) Fivetran
13 6 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.84%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (50.21%) Amazon Athena
2 114 (48.10%) Apache Iceberg
3 111 (46.84%) Dremio
4 100 (42.19%) Apache Arrow
5 68 (28.69%) Apache Ignite
6 49 (20.68%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (19.83%) Data Lake
8 19 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (7.59%) Power BI
10 13 (5.49%) BigQuery
10 13 (5.49%) Tableau
11 12 (5.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.80%) Data Vault
12 9 (3.80%) Metadata
12 9 (3.80%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.69%) Airbyte
13 4 (1.69%) DynamoDB
13 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.27%) Big Data
14 3 (1.27%) Looker
Development Applications
1 28 (11.81%) Artifactory
2 12 (5.06%) Git
3 4 (1.69%) Terragrunt
4 2 (0.84%) JIRA
4 2 (0.84%) SonarQube
General
1 134 (56.54%) Finance
2 111 (46.84%) Front Office
3 58 (24.47%) Banking
4 46 (19.41%) Investment Banking
5 25 (10.55%) Social Skills
6 22 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (8.86%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.69%) Retail
10 2 (0.84%) Legal
10 2 (0.84%) Marketing
10 2 (0.84%) Publishing
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 113 (47.68%) AWS Engineer
2 106 (44.73%) Data Engineer
3 90 (37.97%) Python Engineer
4 74 (31.22%) Software Engineer
5 72 (30.38%) AWS Software Engineer
6 53 (22.36%) Senior
7 51 (21.52%) Developer
8 47 (19.83%) Python Software Engineer
9 43 (18.14%) AWS Developer
9 43 (18.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 37 (15.61%) Java Engineer
10 37 (15.61%) Java Software Engineer
11 31 (13.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 31 (13.08%) Snowflake Engineer
12 30 (12.66%) AWS DevOps
12 30 (12.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 29 (12.24%) Python Developer
14 24 (10.13%) Snowflake Developer
15 22 (9.28%) Senior Software Engineer
16 20 (8.44%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (32.49%) PySpark
2 65 (27.43%) NumPy
2 65 (27.43%) Pandas
2 65 (27.43%) SciPy
3 41 (17.30%) Kafka
4 40 (16.88%) gRPC
4 40 (16.88%) Protocol Buffers
5 29 (12.24%) Node.js
6 28 (11.81%) J2EE
6 28 (11.81%) React
6 28 (11.81%) Vue
7 27 (11.39%) AngularJS
8 23 (9.70%) Jinja
9 11 (4.64%) Redux
10 9 (3.80%) pytest
11 3 (1.27%) REST
12 2 (0.84%) AWS CDK
12 2 (0.84%) Great Expectations
12 2 (0.84%) RESTful
13 1 (0.42%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 72 (30.38%) Fixed Income
2 55 (23.21%) Equities
2 55 (23.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (18.99%) Derivative
3 45 (18.99%) Hedge funds
4 12 (5.06%) Pricing Data
5 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.84%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.42%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.42%) FMCG
8 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (51.48%) Agile
2 116 (48.95%) Asset Management
3 113 (47.68%) Software Engineering
4 66 (27.85%) Analytics
5 64 (27.00%) CI/CD
6 61 (25.74%) Data Modelling
7 60 (25.32%) Data Engineering
8 49 (20.68%) Investment Management
9 46 (19.41%) Data Pipeline
10 40 (16.88%) Fintech
11 36 (15.19%) DevOps
11 36 (15.19%) ETL
12 34 (14.35%) Migration
13 33 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
14 32 (13.50%) Open Source
15 28 (11.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 27 (11.39%) Performance Attribution
17 21 (8.86%) Data Architecture
18 18 (7.59%) Data Management
19 16 (6.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 187 (78.90%) Python
2 107 (45.15%) SQL
3 92 (38.82%) Java
4 59 (24.89%) JavaScript
5 57 (24.05%) TypeScript
6 29 (12.24%) Go
7 4 (1.69%) R
7 4 (1.69%) Scala
8 2 (0.84%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (5.91%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.49%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.84%) Degree
4 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.06%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.69%) QA
3 2 (0.84%) GDPR
4 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
System Software
1 32 (13.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (22.78%) Terraform
2 35 (14.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (4.22%) Databricks
1 10 (4.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.95%) Google
3 4 (1.69%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (1.27%) Oracle
5 2 (0.84%) Confluent
5 2 (0.84%) Cribl.io
5 2 (0.84%) IBM
5 2 (0.84%) Informatica
6 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.42%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.42%) SAP
6 1 (0.42%) Workday