dbt Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

dbt (data build tool)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 211 433
Rank change year-on-year +66 +222 +95
Contract jobs citing dbt 173 136 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.75% 0.89% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.39% 2.45% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 128 28
10th Percentile £475 £475 £471
25th Percentile £550 £548 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +39.13% -11.54%
75th Percentile £838 £888 £613
90th Percentile £875 - £775
UK median daily rate £670 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -10.67% +30.43% -11.54%
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 median hourly rate - £48.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -42.94% -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

dbt falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing dbt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

dbt trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing dbt.

dbt daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing dbt over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

dbt daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 120 (69.36%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (46.82%) Apache
3 30 (17.34%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.16%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 138 (79.77%) AWS
2 71 (41.04%) Snowflake
3 60 (34.68%) GCP
4 45 (26.01%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (16.18%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (16.18%) Azure
5 28 (16.18%) OpenShift
5 28 (16.18%) Serverless
6 26 (15.03%) Dagster
7 19 (10.98%) GitHub
8 17 (9.83%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (9.83%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (7.51%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.73%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (1.73%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.73%) IaaS
12 2 (1.16%) PaaS
12 2 (1.16%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (60.12%) Apache Iceberg
2 103 (59.54%) Amazon Athena
2 103 (59.54%) Dremio
3 92 (53.18%) Apache Arrow
4 68 (39.31%) Apache Ignite
5 42 (24.28%) Data Lake
6 27 (15.61%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (9.83%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (7.51%) Power BI
9 7 (4.05%) BigQuery
9 7 (4.05%) Metadata
10 6 (3.47%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (3.47%) Tableau
11 5 (2.89%) Data Vault
12 4 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.73%) Looker
14 2 (1.16%) Metabase
14 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
15 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
15 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (16.18%) Artifactory
2 3 (1.73%) Git
3 2 (1.16%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.58%) JIRA
General
1 110 (63.58%) Finance
2 103 (59.54%) Front Office
3 48 (27.75%) Banking
4 37 (21.39%) Investment Banking
5 16 (9.25%) Public Sector
6 15 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (6.36%) Social Skills
8 7 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.31%) Marketing
10 3 (1.73%) Retail
11 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Legal
12 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 101 (58.38%) AWS Engineer
2 83 (47.98%) Python Engineer
3 65 (37.57%) Software Engineer
4 64 (36.99%) AWS Software Engineer
5 63 (36.42%) Data Engineer
6 46 (26.59%) Developer
7 43 (24.86%) Python Software Engineer
8 37 (21.39%) Senior
9 35 (20.23%) AWS Developer
9 35 (20.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 33 (19.08%) Java Engineer
10 33 (19.08%) Java Software Engineer
11 30 (17.34%) AWS DevOps
11 30 (17.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 30 (17.34%) DevOps Engineer
12 25 (14.45%) Python Developer
13 21 (12.14%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (10.40%) Senior Java Engineer
14 18 (10.40%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 16 (9.25%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (38.15%) NumPy
1 66 (38.15%) Pandas
2 65 (37.57%) PySpark
2 65 (37.57%) SciPy
3 40 (23.12%) gRPC
3 40 (23.12%) Protocol Buffers
4 36 (20.81%) Kafka
5 29 (16.76%) Node.js
6 28 (16.18%) AngularJS
6 28 (16.18%) J2EE
6 28 (16.18%) React
7 27 (15.61%) Vue
8 16 (9.25%) Jinja
9 11 (6.36%) Redux
10 3 (1.73%) pytest
11 1 (0.58%) ADO
11 1 (0.58%) FastAPI
11 1 (0.58%) Flask
11 1 (0.58%) Great Expectations
11 1 (0.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 64 (36.99%) Fixed Income
2 47 (27.17%) Equities
2 47 (27.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 37 (21.39%) Derivative
3 37 (21.39%) Hedge funds
4 12 (6.94%) Pricing Data
5 3 (1.73%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.16%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.58%) FMCG
7 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (60.69%) Agile
1 105 (60.69%) Asset Management
1 105 (60.69%) Software Engineering
2 50 (28.90%) Data Engineering
3 49 (28.32%) Investment Management
4 47 (27.17%) CI/CD
5 44 (25.43%) Analytics
6 39 (22.54%) Fintech
7 37 (21.39%) Data Modelling
8 33 (19.08%) DevOps
9 30 (17.34%) Open Source
10 28 (16.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 27 (15.61%) Performance Attribution
12 21 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (11.56%) Migration
14 18 (10.40%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (10.40%) ETL
15 16 (9.25%) Order Management
15 16 (9.25%) Risk Management
16 13 (7.51%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 131 (75.72%) Python
2 82 (47.40%) Java
3 58 (33.53%) JavaScript
4 57 (32.95%) TypeScript
5 55 (31.79%) SQL
6 29 (16.76%) Go
7 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (5.78%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.20%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.05%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.16%) QA
3 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.58%) GDPR
3 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (17.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (22.54%) Terraform
2 31 (17.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (2.89%) Google
2 2 (1.16%) Cribl.io
2 2 (1.16%) Databricks
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.16%) MicroStrategy