dbt Contract Job Trends

dbt (data build tool)
UK

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 301 236
Rank change year-on-year -10 -65 +275
Contract jobs citing dbt 449 276 386
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.84% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.37% 2.21% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 214 353
10th Percentile £400 £408 £463
25th Percentile £460 £475 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £775
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -28.39% +47.62%
75th Percentile £663 £825 £850
90th Percentile £725 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £480 £425
% change year-on-year +14.58% +12.94% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £57.00 £35.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +59.44% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £36.00 -

All Cloud Computing 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 18,915 12,482 12,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.61% 38.04% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,538 8,334 8,575
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £409 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 637 293 188
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +42.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

dbt job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing dbt over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for dbt in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing dbt.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing dbt

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Top 16 Contract Job 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 6 October 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
England -21 408 £550 -3.51% 664
London -26 296 £550 -15.38% 472
Work from Home -75 127 £550 -26.67% 337
UK excluding London -28 117 £550 +14.58% 266
South West -2 35 £550 +37.50% 37
North of England -58 28 £425 +23.55% 55
North West -30 23 £425 +24.72% 32
South East -49 16 £550 - 89
East of England -25 11 £390 -25.71% 21
Midlands -33 11 £450 -8.86% 23
Scotland -16 10 £525 +6.06% 20
West Midlands -40 8 - - 12
Wales - 6 £650 - 10
East Midlands -6 3 £450 +9.09% 11
Yorkshire -38 3 £525 +77.97% 16
North East -38 2 - - 7

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 167 (37.19%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (13.81%) Apache
3 45 (10.02%) Apache Spark
4 19 (4.23%) Confluence
5 5 (1.11%) SAS
6 4 (0.89%) PowerExchange
7 3 (0.67%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.78%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.45%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.22%) BambooHR
4 1 (0.22%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 215 (47.88%) AWS
2 203 (45.21%) Snowflake
3 147 (32.74%) Azure
4 113 (25.17%) GCP
5 86 (19.15%) Power Platform
6 76 (16.93%) Amazon S3
7 50 (11.14%) Serverless
8 48 (10.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 47 (10.47%) GitHub
10 45 (10.02%) AWS Lambda
11 40 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 28 (6.24%) Fivetran
14 27 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (5.35%) Amazon EMR
16 21 (4.68%) SaaS
17 19 (4.23%) Dagster
18 16 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 14 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
19 14 (3.12%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) MQTT
1 1 (0.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (36.30%) Data Warehouse
2 86 (19.15%) Power BI
3 72 (16.04%) BigQuery
4 62 (13.81%) Snowflake Schema
5 50 (11.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 41 (9.13%) Metadata
7 40 (8.91%) Tableau
8 34 (7.57%) Data Lake
9 31 (6.90%) Looker
10 29 (6.46%) Data Vault
11 28 (6.24%) Delta Lake
11 28 (6.24%) Semantic Layer
12 27 (6.01%) Amazon Athena
13 25 (5.57%) Apache Iceberg
14 20 (4.45%) SQL Server
15 15 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
16 14 (3.12%) Star Schema
17 13 (2.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 12 (2.67%) Relational Database
19 11 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (14.48%) Git
2 24 (5.35%) GitLab
3 22 (4.90%) JIRA
4 20 (4.45%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.56%) Terragrunt
6 6 (1.34%) MLflow
7 3 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.45%) ERwin
8 2 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.22%) Postman
9 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.22%) Snyk
9 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 127 (28.29%) Finance
2 101 (22.49%) Social Skills
3 45 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.24%) Banking
5 26 (5.79%) Retail
6 21 (4.68%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.00%) Marketing
9 8 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.34%) Billing
10 6 (1.34%) Front Office
10 6 (1.34%) Military
10 6 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.89%) Legal
11 4 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.67%) Automotive
12 3 (0.67%) Aviation
12 3 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.67%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 230 (51.22%) Data Engineer
2 86 (19.15%) Senior
3 59 (13.14%) Senior Data Engineer
3 59 (13.14%) Snowflake Engineer
4 58 (12.92%) Architect
5 51 (11.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 37 (8.24%) Data Architect
7 33 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (6.24%) AWS Data Engineer
9 26 (5.79%) Lead
10 22 (4.90%) GCP Engineer
11 18 (4.01%) GCP Data Engineer
12 16 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (3.12%) Consultant
14 13 (2.90%) Python Engineer
15 12 (2.67%) Developer
16 10 (2.23%) Python Data Engineer
17 9 (2.00%) Analyst
17 9 (2.00%) Snowflake Architect
17 9 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (19.60%) Terraform
2 57 (12.69%) PySpark
3 51 (11.36%) Kafka
4 13 (2.90%) REST
5 11 (2.45%) Pandas
6 6 (1.34%) Apache Beam
6 6 (1.34%) Great Expectations
6 6 (1.34%) OAuth
7 5 (1.11%) JSON
7 5 (1.11%) LangGraph
7 5 (1.11%) OpenID
7 5 (1.11%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.11%) Spark Streaming
8 4 (0.89%) .NET
8 4 (0.89%) Jinja
8 4 (0.89%) LangChain
8 4 (0.89%) Matplotlib
8 4 (0.89%) NumPy
8 4 (0.89%) Spring
8 4 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (11.80%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 21 (4.68%) Data Structures
3 21 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.12%) Reinsurance
6 10 (2.23%) AI Agents
7 9 (2.00%) Legacy Code
8 8 (1.78%) Clustering
8 8 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.56%) Mainframe
9 7 (1.56%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.67%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.67%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.67%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.67%) Robotics
12 3 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.78%) Linux
2 7 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (53.90%) Data Modelling
2 240 (53.45%) Data Engineering
3 228 (50.78%) Analytics
4 179 (39.87%) CI/CD
4 179 (39.87%) Data Pipeline
5 141 (31.40%) ETL
6 127 (28.29%) Data Transformation
7 123 (27.39%) AI
8 116 (25.84%) Business Intelligence
9 112 (24.94%) Agile
10 107 (23.83%) DevOps
11 91 (20.27%) Migration
12 82 (18.26%) Infrastructure as Code
13 79 (17.59%) Data Governance
14 73 (16.26%) Data Architecture
15 72 (16.04%) Decision-Making
16 65 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
17 62 (13.81%) Machine Learning
18 58 (12.92%) Test Automation
19 57 (12.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 312 (69.49%) SQL
2 245 (54.57%) Python
3 31 (6.90%) Java
4 15 (3.34%) Scala
5 14 (3.12%) Bash
6 12 (2.67%) Shell Script
7 7 (1.56%) LookML
8 6 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (1.34%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.89%) R
10 3 (0.67%) C#
10 3 (0.67%) Cypher
10 3 (0.67%) Gremlin
10 3 (0.67%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.67%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.67%) SPARQL
10 3 (0.67%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.45%) Bicep
11 2 (0.45%) COBOL
11 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (9.58%) Security Cleared
2 34 (7.57%) SC Cleared
3 12 (2.67%) AWS Certification
4 11 (2.45%) Degree
5 8 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.56%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.11%) SnowPro
9 3 (0.67%) CSPO
9 3 (0.67%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.45%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) PMP
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (32.74%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.46%) QA
3 18 (4.01%) GDPR
4 6 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.45%) EMIR
5 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.45%) GRC
5 2 (0.45%) MiFID
6 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (6.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.78%) Control-M
3 4 (0.89%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.45%) Grafana
4 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 102 (22.72%) Databricks
2 48 (10.69%) Google
3 32 (7.13%) Informatica
3 32 (7.13%) Microsoft
4 13 (2.90%) Oracle
5 12 (2.67%) Teradata
6 9 (2.00%) MicroStrategy
7 7 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.56%) Splunk
8 6 (1.34%) Talend
9 5 (1.11%) Anaplan
9 5 (1.11%) Denodo
9 5 (1.11%) New Relic
10 3 (0.67%) Amplitude
10 3 (0.67%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.67%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.67%) SAP
11 2 (0.45%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.45%) Hitachi
11 2 (0.45%) Workday