dbt Contracts in the UK excluding London

dbt (data build tool)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 369 409
Rank change year-on-year +63 +40 +78
Contract jobs citing dbt 29 16 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.079% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.71% 0.30% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 13 25
10th Percentile £329 £403 £455
25th Percentile £414 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -17.39% -23.33%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £700
90th Percentile £645 £623 -
UK median daily rate £650 £800 £575
% change year-on-year -18.75% +39.13% -11.54%

All Cloud 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 4,089 5,269 7,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.61% 25.96% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,858 3,741 5,627
10th Percentile £237 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 262 220
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.44
Median hourly rate £20.37 £17.72 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +14.95% -31.49% +34.38%
75th Percentile £33.80 £27.25 £64.63
90th Percentile £69.50 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +57.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing dbt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for dbt in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing dbt in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for dbt in the UK excluding London

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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 19 May 2025.

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 19 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 of England +30 15 £463 +5.71% 46
North West +24 11 £463 - 21
East of England +26 7 £321 -48.58% 3
South West - 4 £650 - 8
North East - 3 £425 -
South East +32 1 £517 +14.89% 65
Midlands +14 1 £475 +18.75% 5
Yorkshire +13 1 - - 25
East Midlands +11 1 £475 +22.58% 2
Wales - 1 - - 2
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (31.03%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.34%) Apache
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.45%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) AWS
2 11 (37.93%) Snowflake
3 8 (27.59%) GCP
4 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.34%) GitHub
5 3 (10.34%) Vertex AI
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.90%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.90%) Azure
6 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) Serverless
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (3.45%) Pulumi
7 1 (3.45%) Stitch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (31.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (27.59%) BigQuery
4 7 (24.14%) Relational Database
5 5 (17.24%) Power BI
6 4 (13.79%) Airbyte
6 4 (13.79%) Looker
6 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
7 3 (10.34%) RDBMS
7 3 (10.34%) Tableau
8 2 (6.90%) Big Data
8 2 (6.90%) Data Mining
8 2 (6.90%) Data Vault
8 2 (6.90%) Hadoop
8 2 (6.90%) Metadata
8 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
8 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
9 1 (3.45%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Data Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Data Consultant
5 3 (10.34%) Architect
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Data Modeller
6 2 (6.90%) Developer
6 2 (6.90%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) GCP Architect
7 1 (3.45%) GCP Data Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Kafka
2 4 (13.79%) REST
3 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
3 3 (10.34%) NumPy
3 3 (10.34%) Pandas
3 3 (10.34%) PySpark
3 3 (10.34%) React
4 2 (6.90%) .NET
5 1 (3.45%) ADO
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (3.45%) Blazor
5 1 (3.45%) CSS
5 1 (3.45%) HTML
5 1 (3.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.90%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Data Pipeline
2 16 (55.17%) Data Engineering
2 16 (55.17%) ETL
3 15 (51.72%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (44.83%) Analytics
5 11 (37.93%) Data Modelling
6 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
7 8 (27.59%) Visualisation
8 7 (24.14%) Agile
8 7 (24.14%) Data Security
8 7 (24.14%) Open Source
9 6 (20.69%) Data Governance
10 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
11 4 (13.79%) Data Integration
11 4 (13.79%) Digital Twin
11 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
11 4 (13.79%) RDF
11 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (13.79%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) Python
2 17 (58.62%) SQL
3 5 (17.24%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) SPARQL
5 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.45%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) Scala
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.90%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (41.38%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.79%) GDPR
3 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Terraform
2 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) StreamSets
3 1 (3.45%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft