dbt Contract Job Trends in the South East

dbt (data build tool)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring dbt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 166 205
Rank change year-on-year -11 +39 +39
Contract jobs citing dbt 12 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.27% 0.11% 0.080%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 0.34% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £495 - £390
25th Percentile £540 £367 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £414 £435
Median % change year-on-year +35.43% -4.94% -13.00%
75th Percentile £600 £465 £456
90th Percentile £665 - £468
England median daily rate £553 £660 £535
% change year-on-year -16.29% +23.36% -6.96%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,353 1,161 1,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.95% 31.61% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 959 790 1,006
10th Percentile £213 £261 £206
25th Percentile £363 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £575 £630 £625
90th Percentile £669 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 17 32
10th Percentile £12.50 £17.10 £17.05
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £19.63
Median hourly rate £20.00 £28.50 £29.66
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% -3.91% +48.30%
75th Percentile £48.75 £43.75 £55.78
90th Percentile £94.10 £64.73 £79.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -8.62% +19.32% +8.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

dbt job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing dbt

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing dbt in the South East over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for dbt in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Thames Valley -7 11 £560 +46.02% 3
Buckinghamshire - 6 £560 - 1
Berkshire -5 5 - - 1
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (16.67%) Fivetran
5 2 (16.67%) PaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub
6 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Tableau
2 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (33.33%) Power BI
2 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (16.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Telecoms Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Environment And Release Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Release Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) NumPy
2 1 (8.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
1 5 (41.67%) Data Transformation
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (41.67%) Workflow
2 4 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 4 (33.33%) ETL
2 4 (33.33%) Validation
2 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 4 (33.33%) WFM
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) DataOps
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce