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 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 142 219 427
Rank change year-on-year +77 +208 +99
Contract jobs citing dbt 238 186 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.92% 1.06% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.51% 2.75% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 177 52
10th Percentile £463 £495 £421
25th Percentile £525 £575 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £800 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +39.13% +4.55%
75th Percentile £838 £888 £675
90th Percentile £875 - £749
England median daily rate £670 £800 £575
% change year-on-year -16.25% +39.13% +2.22%
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 5,276 6,755 10,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.46% 38.65% 38.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,640 4,983 7,392
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 68 80
10th Percentile £22.57 £17.32 £19.89
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -40.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.28 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £59.88 £88.47
England median hourly rate £25.25 £21.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +20.24% -38.24% +58.14%

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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 19 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 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
Central London +11 17 £610 +13.49% 16
West London - 2 £788 - 1
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England

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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 (62.61%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (35.71%) Apache
3 27 (11.34%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 174 (73.11%) AWS
2 103 (43.28%) Snowflake
3 60 (25.21%) GCP
4 40 (16.81%) Azure
5 38 (15.97%) Amazon ECS
6 35 (14.71%) GitHub
7 32 (13.45%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (13.45%) Serverless
8 24 (10.08%) OpenShift
9 22 (9.24%) Power Platform
10 21 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (8.40%) Dagster
12 14 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (5.46%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (2.52%) Fivetran
15 4 (1.68%) Alation
15 4 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (1.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.84%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (49.16%) Amazon Athena
2 109 (45.80%) Apache Iceberg
3 107 (44.96%) Dremio
4 98 (41.18%) Apache Arrow
5 61 (25.63%) Apache Ignite
6 51 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (20.17%) Data Lake
8 24 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
9 22 (9.24%) Power BI
10 14 (5.88%) Tableau
11 13 (5.46%) BigQuery
12 12 (5.04%) Data Vault
12 12 (5.04%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (4.62%) Metadata
14 9 (3.78%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (1.68%) Airbyte
15 4 (1.68%) Looker
15 4 (1.68%) Relational Database
16 3 (1.26%) DynamoDB
17 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (10.08%) Artifactory
2 13 (5.46%) Git
3 5 (2.10%) Terragrunt
4 3 (1.26%) JIRA
5 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 126 (52.94%) Finance
2 107 (44.96%) Front Office
3 56 (23.53%) Banking
4 46 (19.33%) Investment Banking
5 27 (11.34%) Social Skills
6 24 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (8.40%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.52%) Retail
10 3 (1.26%) Marketing
11 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Legal
11 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Publishing
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.42%) Military
12 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 111 (46.64%) AWS Engineer
2 101 (42.44%) Data Engineer
3 84 (35.29%) Python Engineer
4 77 (32.35%) Software Engineer
5 74 (31.09%) AWS Software Engineer
6 58 (24.37%) Senior
7 54 (22.69%) Developer
8 49 (20.59%) Python Software Engineer
9 45 (18.91%) AWS Developer
9 45 (18.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 41 (17.23%) Java Engineer
10 41 (17.23%) Java Software Engineer
11 33 (13.87%) Snowflake Engineer
12 29 (12.18%) Python Developer
13 27 (11.34%) DevOps Engineer
14 26 (10.92%) AWS DevOps
14 26 (10.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 24 (10.08%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (10.08%) Snowflake Developer
16 22 (9.24%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (28.15%) PySpark
2 65 (27.31%) NumPy
2 65 (27.31%) Pandas
2 65 (27.31%) SciPy
3 37 (15.55%) gRPC
3 37 (15.55%) Protocol Buffers
4 32 (13.45%) Kafka
5 31 (13.03%) Node.js
6 30 (12.61%) React
6 30 (12.61%) Vue
7 29 (12.18%) AngularJS
8 24 (10.08%) J2EE
9 21 (8.82%) Jinja
10 9 (3.78%) pytest
11 8 (3.36%) Redux
12 3 (1.26%) REST
13 2 (0.84%) Apache NiFi
13 2 (0.84%) AWS CDK
13 2 (0.84%) Great Expectations
13 2 (0.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 74 (31.09%) Fixed Income
2 60 (25.21%) Equities
2 60 (25.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (18.91%) Derivative
3 45 (18.91%) Hedge funds
4 16 (6.72%) Pricing Data
5 5 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.26%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.84%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.42%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.42%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.42%) FMCG
9 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (50.84%) Agile
2 112 (47.06%) Asset Management
3 110 (46.22%) Software Engineering
4 67 (28.15%) Analytics
5 61 (25.63%) Data Modelling
6 59 (24.79%) CI/CD
7 56 (23.53%) Data Engineering
8 53 (22.27%) Investment Management
9 47 (19.75%) Data Pipeline
10 40 (16.81%) Fintech
11 38 (15.97%) Business Intelligence
12 37 (15.55%) ETL
13 35 (14.71%) DevOps
14 33 (13.87%) Migration
15 29 (12.18%) Performance Attribution
16 27 (11.34%) Open Source
17 24 (10.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 22 (9.24%) Data Architecture
19 21 (8.82%) Order Management
19 21 (8.82%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 182 (76.47%) Python
2 108 (45.38%) SQL
3 86 (36.13%) Java
4 61 (25.63%) JavaScript
5 59 (24.79%) TypeScript
6 24 (10.08%) Go
7 4 (1.68%) R
8 3 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.26%) Scala
9 2 (0.84%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.42%) Bicep
10 1 (0.42%) LookML
Qualifications
1 15 (6.30%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.84%) Degree
4 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.42%) PMP
4 1 (0.42%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.68%) QA
3 2 (0.84%) GDPR
4 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
System Software
1 29 (12.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (21.85%) Terraform
2 32 (13.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (5.04%) Databricks
2 10 (4.20%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.36%) Google
4 5 (2.10%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (1.26%) Oracle
6 2 (0.84%) Cribl.io
7 1 (0.42%) Confluent
7 1 (0.42%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.42%) IBM
7 1 (0.42%) Informatica
7 1 (0.42%) SAP
7 1 (0.42%) Workday