dbt Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

dbt (data build tool)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring dbt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 316 388
Rank change year-on-year -36 +72 +87
Contract jobs citing dbt 46 32 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.22% 0.088%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 0.70% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 24 12
10th Percentile £344 £316 £401
25th Percentile £400 £355 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £441 £443
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -0.45% -23.04%
75th Percentile £565 £491 £549
90th Percentile £650 £560 £643
UK median daily rate £544 £650 £540
% change year-on-year -16.35% +20.37% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 - £77.50

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,890 4,541 5,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.16% 31.21% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,111 2,995 4,286
10th Percentile £240 £238 £218
25th Percentile £375 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.89%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 112 183
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £14.01
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.18 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £24.18 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.53% +15.14% +8.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £64.73 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -0.53% +8.35% +12.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

dbt job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing dbt.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing dbt

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing dbt in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for dbt in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 of England -44 21 £438 -4.11% 18
North West -20 15 £345 -23.28% 12
South East -4 10 £560 +35.43% 36
East of England -17 6 £525 +64.06% 7
Midlands -36 4 £575 +27.71% 2
Scotland - 4 £498 - 4
South West -7 3 £675 +3.85% 4
East Midlands -16 3 £575 +43.57% 1
Yorkshire -51 3 £488 +2.63% 3
North East - 3 £488 - 3
West Midlands -32 1 - - 1
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (47.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 27 (58.70%) Snowflake
2 14 (30.43%) AWS
2 14 (30.43%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) Prefect
4 5 (10.87%) Serverless
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
6 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.35%) Dataform
7 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.35%) Fivetran
7 2 (4.35%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) Snowflake Schema
2 13 (28.26%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.70%) BigQuery
3 4 (8.70%) Metadata
3 4 (8.70%) Tableau
4 3 (6.52%) Delta Lake
4 3 (6.52%) Power BI
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.35%) Data Vault
5 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.17%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.17%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) ERwin
3 2 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (56.52%) Data Engineer
2 14 (30.43%) Senior
3 9 (19.57%) Senior Data Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Snowflake Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Consultant
7 2 (4.35%) Data Consultant
7 2 (4.35%) Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Snowflake Developer
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) PySpark
2 2 (4.35%) Kafka
2 2 (4.35%) NumPy
2 2 (4.35%) Pandas
3 1 (2.17%) JSON
3 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Clustering
2 4 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Data Modelling
2 22 (47.83%) Data Engineering
3 18 (39.13%) Analytics
4 17 (36.96%) CI/CD
5 12 (26.09%) ETL
6 11 (23.91%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (19.57%) Data Science
8 9 (19.57%) Data Transformation
8 9 (19.57%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (17.39%) Agile
9 8 (17.39%) Resource Management
10 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (13.04%) Data Governance
12 5 (10.87%) Data Architecture
12 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making
12 5 (10.87%) E-Commerce
12 5 (10.87%) Migration
13 4 (8.70%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 31 (67.39%) SQL
2 26 (56.52%) Python
3 8 (17.39%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.17%) Bicep
4 1 (2.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) Degree
2 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (39.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Terraform
2 2 (4.35%) Grafana
2 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.17%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Databricks
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.35%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce