dbt Contract Job Trends in the North of England

dbt (data build tool)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring dbt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 162 189
Rank change year-on-year -19 +27 +58
Contract jobs citing dbt 13 7 12
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.31% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 0.53% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 11
10th Percentile £303 £379 £405
25th Percentile £317 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £341 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -6.58% -17.39%
75th Percentile £386 £534 £494
90th Percentile £409 £641 £525
England median daily rate £588 £750 £525
% change year-on-year -21.67% +42.86% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
England median hourly rate £35.75 - £77.50

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 1,562 1,325 1,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 37.15% 32.22% 35.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,113 845 1,309
10th Percentile £274 £303 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
England median daily rate £503 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.19% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 24 70
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.84 £15.98
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £20.23 £27.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.44% -14.73% +29.00%
75th Percentile £51.31 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.19 £70.98 £62.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

dbt job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing dbt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing dbt

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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 17 October 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 17 October 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 -17 6 £341 -24.28% 16
Yorkshire -23 5 £295 -32.57% 9
North East - 2 £413 - 4
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (76.92%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (7.69%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Snowflake
2 6 (46.15%) GCP
3 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Prefect
5 2 (15.38%) AWS
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (7.69%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (46.15%) BigQuery
3 4 (30.77%) Power BI
3 4 (30.77%) Tableau
4 3 (23.08%) Looker
4 3 (23.08%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (15.38%) Bigtable
5 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
5 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
6 1 (7.69%) Data Vault
6 1 (7.69%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Engineering Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) GCP Architect
2 2 (15.38%) GCP Data Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Report Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Snowflake Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Data Modelling
2 8 (61.54%) Analytics
3 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
4 6 (46.15%) ETL
5 5 (38.46%) Agile
5 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
5 5 (38.46%) Data Transformation
5 5 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (30.77%) Data Governance
6 4 (30.77%) Data Science
7 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
7 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
7 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (23.08%) Resource Management
7 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
8 2 (15.38%) Business Analytics
8 2 (15.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (69.23%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
4 2 (15.38%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Scala
4 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Control-M
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft