dbt Contract Job Trends in the South West

dbt (data build tool)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 121 137 157
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 -
Contract jobs citing dbt 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.10% 0.16% 0.031%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.58% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £475 £750
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -36.67% -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 654 689 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.75% 27.62% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 425 733
10th Percentile £225 £250 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £503 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.19% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 43 50
10th Percentile - £25.26 £13.25
25th Percentile - £33.00 £15.17
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% -11.47%
75th Percentile £35.05 - £78.00
90th Percentile £64.50 - £80.25
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 South West

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

dbt job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform