dbt Contracts

dbt (data build tool)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 404 612
Rank change year-on-year +130 +208 +102
Contract jobs citing dbt 274 198 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.45% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.49% 1.40% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 180 78
10th Percentile £450 £463 £443
25th Percentile £513 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £738 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% +28.26% -11.54%
75th Percentile £838 £850 £684
90th Percentile £875 £888 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £575
% change year-on-year -2.63% -17.39% -23.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile - £46.75 £80.63
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -42.94% -
75th Percentile - £50.25 £88.13
90th Percentile - - £89.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing dbt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for dbt in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing dbt.

Daily rate trend for dbt in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing dbt over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for dbt in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing dbt.

Hourly rate trend for dbt in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +126 266 £670 -10.67% 168
London +92 235 £675 -15.63% 127
Work from Home +76 172 £750 -6.25% 104
UK excluding London +65 27 £463 -2.63% 41
North of England +42 16 £463 - 20
North West +23 13 £463 - 12
East of England +34 4 £318 -49.09%
South West - 4 £650 - 2
North East +1 2 £438 -
South East +38 1 £517 +8.84% 10
Midlands +20 1 £475 +18.75% 4
East Midlands +9 1 £475 +22.58% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £475 - 8
Wales - 1 - - 2

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 160 (58.39%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (36.50%) Apache
3 37 (13.50%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.09%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 195 (71.17%) AWS
2 114 (41.61%) Snowflake
3 76 (27.74%) GCP
4 46 (16.79%) Amazon ECS
5 43 (15.69%) Azure
6 38 (13.87%) GitHub
7 35 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
7 35 (12.77%) Serverless
8 28 (10.22%) OpenShift
9 26 (9.49%) Dagster
10 24 (8.76%) Power Platform
11 22 (8.03%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (5.11%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.55%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (2.55%) Fivetran
15 6 (2.19%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (2.19%) IaaS
15 6 (2.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.73%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (43.07%) Amazon Athena
2 114 (41.61%) Apache Iceberg
3 110 (40.15%) Dremio
4 99 (36.13%) Apache Arrow
5 68 (24.82%) Apache Ignite
6 63 (22.99%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (17.15%) Data Lake
8 27 (9.85%) BigQuery
9 24 (8.76%) Power BI
10 22 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (7.66%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (6.20%) Tableau
13 12 (4.38%) Looker
14 11 (4.01%) Data Vault
14 11 (4.01%) Metadata
14 11 (4.01%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (2.92%) Airbyte
15 8 (2.92%) Relational Database
16 5 (1.82%) Big Data
16 5 (1.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (10.22%) Artifactory
2 16 (5.84%) Git
3 4 (1.46%) SonarQube
3 4 (1.46%) Terragrunt
4 2 (0.73%) JIRA
5 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 136 (49.64%) Finance
2 110 (40.15%) Front Office
3 58 (21.17%) Banking
4 46 (16.79%) Investment Banking
5 40 (14.60%) Social Skills
6 29 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (8.03%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.46%) Marketing
9 4 (1.46%) Retail
10 3 (1.09%) Legal
10 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.73%) Publishing
11 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 126 (45.99%) Data Engineer
2 116 (42.34%) AWS Engineer
3 92 (33.58%) Python Engineer
4 75 (27.37%) Software Engineer
5 71 (25.91%) AWS Software Engineer
6 63 (22.99%) Senior
7 55 (20.07%) Developer
8 47 (17.15%) Python Software Engineer
9 42 (15.33%) AWS Developer
9 42 (15.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 36 (13.14%) Java Engineer
10 36 (13.14%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (11.68%) Snowflake Engineer
12 31 (11.31%) DevOps Engineer
13 30 (10.95%) AWS DevOps
13 30 (10.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 29 (10.58%) Python Developer
15 25 (9.12%) Senior Data Engineer
16 24 (8.76%) Senior Software Engineer
16 24 (8.76%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (29.20%) PySpark
2 67 (24.45%) NumPy
2 67 (24.45%) Pandas
3 64 (23.36%) SciPy
4 49 (17.88%) Kafka
5 40 (14.60%) gRPC
5 40 (14.60%) Protocol Buffers
6 30 (10.95%) React
7 29 (10.58%) AngularJS
7 29 (10.58%) Node.js
8 28 (10.22%) J2EE
9 27 (9.85%) Vue
10 23 (8.39%) Jinja
11 11 (4.01%) Redux
12 9 (3.28%) pytest
13 7 (2.55%) REST
14 2 (0.73%) ADO
14 2 (0.73%) AWS CDK
14 2 (0.73%) Great Expectations
14 2 (0.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 71 (25.91%) Fixed Income
2 54 (19.71%) Equities
2 54 (19.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (16.42%) Derivative
3 45 (16.42%) Hedge funds
4 12 (4.38%) Pricing Data
5 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.46%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.73%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.73%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.36%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.36%) FMCG
9 1 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (46.72%) Agile
2 115 (41.97%) Asset Management
2 115 (41.97%) Software Engineering
3 81 (29.56%) Analytics
4 78 (28.47%) Data Engineering
5 76 (27.74%) CI/CD
6 75 (27.37%) Data Modelling
7 64 (23.36%) Data Pipeline
8 56 (20.44%) ETL
9 48 (17.52%) Investment Management
10 41 (14.96%) Business Intelligence
11 39 (14.23%) DevOps
11 39 (14.23%) Fintech
11 39 (14.23%) Open Source
12 34 (12.41%) Migration
13 30 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (10.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (9.49%) Performance Attribution
15 26 (9.49%) Visualisation
16 23 (8.39%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 210 (76.64%) Python
2 128 (46.72%) SQL
3 95 (34.67%) Java
4 61 (22.26%) JavaScript
5 59 (21.53%) TypeScript
6 30 (10.95%) Go
7 6 (2.19%) SPARQL
8 4 (1.46%) R
8 4 (1.46%) Scala
9 1 (0.36%) C#
9 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.36%) LookML
9 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (6.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (4.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.09%) Degree
4 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.19%) GDPR
3 4 (1.46%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.46%) QA
4 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (12.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 61 (22.26%) Terraform
2 40 (14.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (4.74%) Databricks
1 13 (4.74%) Google
2 11 (4.01%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.46%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (1.09%) Confluent
4 3 (1.09%) IBM
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle
5 2 (0.73%) Cribl.io
5 2 (0.73%) Informatica
6 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.36%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.36%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.36%) SAP
6 1 (0.36%) Workday