dbt (data build tool)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for dbt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited dbt over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 598 703
Rank change year-on-year +223 +105 -48
Contract jobs citing dbt 219 101 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 0.48% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 81 117
10th Percentile £463 £450 £345
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £850 £675 £800
90th Percentile £888 £700 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £575 £750
% change year-on-year -17.39% -23.33% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
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 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,933 21,254 33,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.77% 38.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,370 24,584
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 348 423
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £54.63
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.18% +25.00% -

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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 11 May 2024.

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 13 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 11 May 2024. 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 +204 198 £800 +39.13% 74
London +198 172 £800 +39.13% 49
Work from Home +216 150 £800 +39.13% 43
UK excluding London +40 17 £475 -17.39% 26
South East +14 6 £450 -21.74% 6
Midlands +23 5 £400 -42.86% 7
North of England +23 3 £438 -37.50% 8
West Midlands +12 3 £550 -21.43% 4
East of England +7 3 £625 -10.71% 1
East Midlands +11 2 £388 -44.64% 3
Yorkshire +11 1 £438 -37.50% 3
North West +11 1 - - 3
North East - 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
1 145 (66.21%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (50.68%) Apache
3 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Softmar
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.46%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 157 (71.69%) AWS
2 128 (58.45%) Snowflake
3 85 (38.81%) GCP
4 23 (10.50%) Azure
5 17 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (7.76%) Serverless
6 14 (6.39%) Amazon S3
7 12 (5.48%) GitHub
8 10 (4.57%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.11%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (3.20%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (3.20%) Fivetran
11 6 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.28%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (2.28%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (1.37%) AWS Data Pipeline
14 3 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (57.99%) Amazon Athena
2 112 (51.14%) Apache Arrow
2 112 (51.14%) Dremio
3 100 (45.66%) Data Lake
4 95 (43.38%) Apache Ignite
5 38 (17.35%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (10.05%) Big Data
7 18 (8.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (5.02%) BigQuery
9 10 (4.57%) Power BI
10 7 (3.20%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.74%) Flink
11 6 (2.74%) Looker
12 5 (2.28%) Tableau
13 4 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (1.83%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.37%) Airbyte
14 3 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
15 2 (0.91%) Data Hub
15 2 (0.91%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 18 (8.22%) Git
2 10 (4.57%) JIRA
3 3 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.91%) Poetry
5 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
General
1 122 (55.71%) Finance
2 98 (44.75%) Front Office
3 92 (42.01%) Banking
4 89 (40.64%) Investment Banking
5 10 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.57%) Social Skills
6 2 (0.91%) Marketing
7 1 (0.46%) Billing
7 1 (0.46%) Games
7 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.46%) Law
7 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (27.40%) Software Engineer
2 58 (26.48%) AWS Engineer
3 51 (23.29%) Data Engineer
4 48 (21.92%) Developer
5 46 (21.00%) Lead
5 46 (21.00%) Python Engineer
5 46 (21.00%) Senior
6 38 (17.35%) Python Software Engineer
7 36 (16.44%) AWS Software Engineer
7 36 (16.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 35 (15.98%) Architect
9 29 (13.24%) Java Engineer
9 29 (13.24%) Java Software Engineer
10 28 (12.79%) Software Developer
11 26 (11.87%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (10.96%) Python Developer
13 23 (10.50%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (10.50%) Team Leader
14 22 (10.05%) Lead Developer
14 22 (10.05%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (50.68%) gRPC
1 111 (50.68%) Protocol Buffers
2 101 (46.12%) Pandas
3 96 (43.84%) NumPy
3 96 (43.84%) SciPy
4 18 (8.22%) PySpark
5 9 (4.11%) React
5 9 (4.11%) Redux
6 6 (2.74%) AngularJS
6 6 (2.74%) Node.js
6 6 (2.74%) Vue
7 5 (2.28%) ADO
8 4 (1.83%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.37%) .NET
9 3 (1.37%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.37%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (1.37%) Flask
9 3 (1.37%) Kafka
10 2 (0.91%) JSON
10 2 (0.91%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 100 (45.66%) Hedge funds
2 95 (43.38%) Fixed Income
3 86 (39.27%) Derivative
3 86 (39.27%) Equities
4 83 (37.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (6.39%) Clustering
6 8 (3.65%) Pricing Data
7 3 (1.37%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.91%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.46%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.46%) FMCG
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.46%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.37%) Linux
2 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (54.34%) Asset Management
2 115 (52.51%) Agile
3 102 (46.58%) Software Engineering
4 96 (43.84%) Investment Management
5 41 (18.72%) ETL
6 40 (18.26%) Line Management
7 39 (17.81%) Analytics
7 39 (17.81%) Data Modelling
8 36 (16.44%) Data Pipeline
9 31 (14.16%) DevOps
10 29 (13.24%) Data Engineering
11 28 (12.79%) Greeks
12 20 (9.13%) Data Ingestion
13 18 (8.22%) CI/CD
14 17 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (7.76%) Unit Testing
15 16 (7.31%) Data Transformation
16 14 (6.39%) Data Architecture
16 14 (6.39%) Mentoring
16 14 (6.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 166 (75.80%) Python
2 108 (49.32%) JavaScript
3 100 (45.66%) Java
4 94 (42.92%) TypeScript
5 49 (22.37%) SQL
6 19 (8.68%) Scala
7 18 (8.22%) Go
8 7 (3.20%) Ruby
9 3 (1.37%) C#
10 2 (0.91%) Bash
10 2 (0.91%) R
10 2 (0.91%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.46%) LookML
11 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (1.83%) Degree
1 4 (1.83%) SC Cleared
1 4 (1.83%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.46%) ISEB
2 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
2 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
2 1 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (20.55%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.28%) QA
3 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.46%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (3.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (15.07%) Terraform
2 23 (10.50%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.91%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (7.76%) Google
2 7 (3.20%) Ab Initio
2 7 (3.20%) Databricks
2 7 (3.20%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.37%) Bloomberg
3 3 (1.37%) Informatica
4 2 (0.91%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.46%) FactSet
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle
5 1 (0.46%) SnapLogic