dbt Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

dbt (data build tool)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring dbt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 128 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing dbt 5 10 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.38% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 1.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £446 £285 -
25th Percentile £505 £372 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.66% - -
75th Percentile £613 £475 -
90th Percentile - £500 -
England median daily rate £575 £750 £525
% change year-on-year -23.33% +42.86% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
England median hourly rate £35.75 - £77.50

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 972 785 996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.41% 29.48% 35.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 692 499 755
10th Percentile £300 £213 £213
25th Percentile £402 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £490 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% +5.95% -7.50%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 30
10th Percentile £20.25 £18.99 £12.68
25th Percentile £21.39 £25.84 £13.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £33.93 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% +85.92% +10.61%
75th Percentile £33.88 £35.00 £27.50
90th Percentile £35.80 £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +27.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

dbt job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing dbt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing dbt

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing dbt in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for dbt in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
East Midlands -12 3 £575 +43.66% 10
West Midlands -29 2 £575 +31.43% 9
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Snowflake
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Alation
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Collibra
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) API Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) MLOps
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica