dbt Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

dbt (data build tool)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring dbt skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing dbt 10 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.33% - 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% - 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £333 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.43%
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
England median daily rate £525 £670 £725
% change year-on-year -21.64% -7.59% +26.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 926 462 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.61% 33.77% 23.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 331 354
10th Percentile £311 £200 £213
25th Percentile £402 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -12.20%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £600
90th Percentile £665 £700 £680
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 9
10th Percentile - £15.25 £14.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.63 £19.95
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.13 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.89% -30.27% +46.73%
75th Percentile £60.79 £23.62 £26.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £38.49 £55.00
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -24.47%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

dbt job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing dbt

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing dbt in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for dbt in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 April 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
Birmingham - 7 £358 - 5
Warwickshire - 3 £500 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (20.00%) Metadata
4 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Information Architect
4 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) ETL
2 7 (70.00%) Analytics
2 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (60.00%) Migration
4 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (50.00%) Validation
5 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (30.00%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
6 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
6 3 (30.00%) Data Validation
6 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
7 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
7 2 (20.00%) Metadata Management
7 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 22301
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cognos
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle