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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 368 605
Rank change year-on-year +101 +237 +85
Contract jobs citing dbt 279 227 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 0.53% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.56% 1.64% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 210 81
10th Percentile £450 £463 £450
25th Percentile £513 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £800 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +39.13% -11.54%
75th Percentile £838 £850 £675
90th Percentile £875 £888 £700
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 10,914 13,844 21,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.48% 32.44% 36.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,510 9,832 15,319
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 345 340
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £18.44
Median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +56.25%
75th Percentile £46.30 £35.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £65.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.34 £17.72 £25.00
% change year-on-year +20.40% -29.12% +27.39%

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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 15 May 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 15 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
England +111 272 £670 -16.25% 407
London +73 238 £675 -15.63% 317
Work from Home +46 169 £750 -6.25% 230
UK excluding London +57 30 £463 -2.63% 164
North of England +30 16 £463 +5.71% 47
North West +20 12 £463 - 20
East of England +28 7 £321 -48.58% 8
South West - 4 £650 - 9
North East 0 3 £425 -
South East +42 1 £517 +14.89% 75
Yorkshire +16 1 - - 27
Midlands +15 1 £475 +18.75% 6
East Midlands +10 1 £475 +22.58% 3
Wales - 1 - - 4

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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
1 163 (58.42%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (32.62%) Apache
3 33 (11.83%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.08%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 195 (69.89%) AWS
2 120 (43.01%) Snowflake
3 72 (25.81%) GCP
4 45 (16.13%) Azure
5 40 (14.34%) Amazon ECS
6 38 (13.62%) GitHub
7 36 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (12.90%) Serverless
8 28 (10.04%) Power Platform
9 26 (9.32%) OpenShift
10 21 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (7.17%) Dagster
12 15 (5.38%) Amazon S3
13 14 (5.02%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.15%) Fivetran
15 5 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 4 (1.43%) Amazon EMR
16 4 (1.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (42.29%) Amazon Athena
2 109 (39.07%) Apache Iceberg
3 107 (38.35%) Dremio
4 98 (35.13%) Apache Arrow
5 65 (23.30%) Data Warehouse
6 63 (22.58%) Apache Ignite
7 48 (17.20%) Data Lake
8 28 (10.04%) BigQuery
8 28 (10.04%) Power BI
9 26 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (7.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (6.45%) Tableau
12 15 (5.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (5.02%) Data Vault
14 12 (4.30%) Looker
14 12 (4.30%) Metadata
14 12 (4.30%) Relational Database
15 8 (2.87%) Airbyte
16 5 (1.79%) Big Data
16 5 (1.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (9.32%) Artifactory
2 17 (6.09%) Git
3 5 (1.79%) Terragrunt
4 4 (1.43%) JIRA
5 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 131 (46.95%) Finance
2 107 (38.35%) Front Office
3 56 (20.07%) Banking
4 46 (16.49%) Investment Banking
5 44 (15.77%) Social Skills
6 31 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (7.53%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.15%) Retail
10 5 (1.79%) Marketing
11 4 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Legal
12 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.72%) Publishing
12 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 125 (44.80%) Data Engineer
2 114 (40.86%) AWS Engineer
3 87 (31.18%) Python Engineer
4 77 (27.60%) Software Engineer
5 72 (25.81%) AWS Software Engineer
6 67 (24.01%) Senior
7 56 (20.07%) Developer
8 48 (17.20%) Python Software Engineer
9 43 (15.41%) AWS Developer
9 43 (15.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 40 (14.34%) Java Engineer
10 40 (14.34%) Java Software Engineer
11 35 (12.54%) Snowflake Engineer
12 29 (10.39%) DevOps Engineer
13 28 (10.04%) AWS DevOps
13 28 (10.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 28 (10.04%) Python Developer
14 27 (9.68%) Senior Data Engineer
15 26 (9.32%) Senior Software Engineer
16 24 (8.60%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (26.16%) PySpark
2 66 (23.66%) NumPy
2 66 (23.66%) Pandas
3 63 (22.58%) SciPy
4 42 (15.05%) Kafka
5 37 (13.26%) gRPC
5 37 (13.26%) Protocol Buffers
6 31 (11.11%) React
7 30 (10.75%) AngularJS
7 30 (10.75%) Node.js
8 28 (10.04%) Vue
9 26 (9.32%) J2EE
10 21 (7.53%) Jinja
11 9 (3.23%) pytest
12 8 (2.87%) Redux
13 7 (2.51%) REST
14 2 (0.72%) .NET
14 2 (0.72%) ADO
14 2 (0.72%) Apache NiFi
14 2 (0.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 72 (25.81%) Fixed Income
2 58 (20.79%) Equities
2 58 (20.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (16.13%) Derivative
3 45 (16.13%) Hedge funds
4 16 (5.73%) Pricing Data
5 5 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.43%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.08%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.72%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.72%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.36%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.36%) Linux
1 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (46.24%) Agile
2 113 (40.50%) Software Engineering
3 112 (40.14%) Asset Management
4 81 (29.03%) Analytics
5 77 (27.60%) Data Modelling
6 76 (27.24%) Data Engineering
7 71 (25.45%) CI/CD
8 69 (24.73%) Data Pipeline
9 58 (20.79%) ETL
10 51 (18.28%) Investment Management
11 44 (15.77%) Business Intelligence
12 39 (13.98%) DevOps
13 38 (13.62%) Fintech
14 36 (12.90%) Open Source
15 34 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (11.83%) Migration
17 28 (10.04%) Visualisation
18 27 (9.68%) Performance Attribution
19 26 (9.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 24 (8.60%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 211 (75.63%) Python
2 134 (48.03%) SQL
3 93 (33.33%) Java
4 62 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 60 (21.51%) TypeScript
6 27 (9.68%) Go
7 6 (2.15%) SPARQL
8 5 (1.79%) Scala
9 4 (1.43%) R
10 3 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.72%) LookML
12 1 (0.36%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.36%) C#
12 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 13 (4.66%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.79%) Degree
4 3 (1.08%) SnowPro
5 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.15%) GDPR
3 5 (1.79%) QA
4 4 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (11.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (21.15%) Terraform
2 38 (13.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.36%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (5.73%) Databricks
2 14 (5.02%) Google
3 10 (3.58%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.79%) MicroStrategy
4 5 (1.79%) Oracle
5 2 (0.72%) Cribl.io
5 2 (0.72%) Informatica
5 2 (0.72%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.36%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.36%) Confluent
6 1 (0.36%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.36%) IBM
6 1 (0.36%) SAP
6 1 (0.36%) Workday