dbt Contracts in the North of England

dbt (data build tool)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 150 183 206
Rank change year-on-year +33 +23 +24
Contract jobs citing dbt 16 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.49% 0.042% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 0.14% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £419 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.27%
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £518 - -
England median daily rate £670 £775 £575
% change year-on-year -13.55% +34.78% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for dbt in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for dbt in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for dbt in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +29 13 £463 - 14
North East +1 2 £438 -
Yorkshire - 1 £475 - 7
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (31.25%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (6.25%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Snowflake
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Stitch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (31.25%) BigQuery
2 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (25.00%) Airbyte
3 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (18.75%) Looker
5 2 (12.50%) Big Data
5 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
5 2 (12.50%) Data Vault
5 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
5 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (6.25%) Metadata
6 1 (6.25%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (6.25%) Power BI
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Data Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Analytics Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (68.75%) ETL
3 9 (56.25%) Analytics
3 9 (56.25%) Data Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) Visualisation
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (25.00%) Digital Twin
6 4 (25.00%) Open Source
6 4 (25.00%) RDF
6 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 2 (12.50%) Data Security
7 2 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 2 (12.50%) Runbook
7 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) SPARQL
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks