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

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 215 432
Rank change year-on-year +73 +217 +86
Contract jobs citing dbt 176 134 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.79% 0.88% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.51% 2.45% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 127 28
10th Percentile £475 £479 £471
25th Percentile £550 £556 £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 £650 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 3,906 5,470 10,096
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.83% 36.10% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,866 3,932 7,416
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -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 41 87 129
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £16.82 £21.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -51.85% +87.83%
75th Percentile £71.25 £46.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £66.25 £75.20
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 5 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
1 123 (69.89%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (46.02%) Apache
3 30 (17.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 141 (80.11%) AWS
2 73 (41.48%) Snowflake
3 60 (34.09%) GCP
4 45 (25.57%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (15.91%) OpenShift
5 28 (15.91%) Serverless
6 27 (15.34%) Azure
7 26 (14.77%) Dagster
8 19 (10.80%) GitHub
9 17 (9.66%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (9.66%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (7.39%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.70%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (1.70%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.70%) IaaS
13 2 (1.14%) PaaS
13 2 (1.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (60.23%) Apache Iceberg
2 105 (59.66%) Amazon Athena
2 105 (59.66%) Dremio
3 94 (53.41%) Apache Arrow
4 69 (39.20%) Apache Ignite
5 44 (25.00%) Data Lake
6 27 (15.34%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (7.39%) Power BI
9 7 (3.98%) BigQuery
9 7 (3.98%) Metadata
10 6 (3.41%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (3.41%) Tableau
11 5 (2.84%) Data Vault
12 4 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (2.27%) Looker
13 2 (1.14%) Metabase
13 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
14 1 (0.57%) Airbyte
14 1 (0.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 28 (15.91%) Artifactory
2 3 (1.70%) Git
3 2 (1.14%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.57%) JIRA
General
1 112 (63.64%) Finance
2 105 (59.66%) Front Office
3 50 (28.41%) Banking
4 39 (22.16%) Investment Banking
5 16 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.25%) Social Skills
7 7 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.27%) Marketing
9 3 (1.70%) Retail
10 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Legal
11 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 104 (59.09%) AWS Engineer
2 85 (48.30%) Python Engineer
3 67 (38.07%) Software Engineer
4 66 (37.50%) AWS Software Engineer
5 63 (35.80%) Data Engineer
6 46 (26.14%) Developer
7 45 (25.57%) Python Software Engineer
8 40 (22.73%) Senior
9 35 (19.89%) AWS Developer
9 35 (19.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 35 (19.89%) Java Engineer
9 35 (19.89%) Java Software Engineer
10 30 (17.05%) AWS DevOps
10 30 (17.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 30 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
11 25 (14.20%) Python Developer
12 23 (13.07%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (11.36%) Senior Java Engineer
13 20 (11.36%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 16 (9.09%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (38.64%) NumPy
1 68 (38.64%) Pandas
2 67 (38.07%) SciPy
3 65 (36.93%) PySpark
4 41 (23.30%) gRPC
4 41 (23.30%) Protocol Buffers
5 35 (19.89%) Kafka
6 29 (16.48%) Node.js
7 28 (15.91%) AngularJS
7 28 (15.91%) J2EE
7 28 (15.91%) React
8 27 (15.34%) Vue
9 16 (9.09%) Jinja
10 10 (5.68%) Redux
11 3 (1.70%) pytest
12 1 (0.57%) ADO
12 1 (0.57%) Django
12 1 (0.57%) FastAPI
12 1 (0.57%) Great Expectations
12 1 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 66 (37.50%) Fixed Income
2 50 (28.41%) Equities
2 50 (28.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 39 (22.16%) Derivative
3 39 (22.16%) Hedge funds
4 14 (7.95%) Pricing Data
5 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.14%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.57%) FMCG
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (60.80%) Agile
1 107 (60.80%) Asset Management
1 107 (60.80%) Software Engineering
2 51 (28.98%) Investment Management
3 50 (28.41%) Data Engineering
4 46 (26.14%) CI/CD
5 44 (25.00%) Analytics
6 39 (22.16%) Fintech
7 36 (20.45%) Data Modelling
8 32 (18.18%) DevOps
9 30 (17.05%) Open Source
10 28 (15.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 27 (15.34%) Performance Attribution
12 21 (11.93%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (11.36%) Migration
14 18 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
15 17 (9.66%) ETL
15 17 (9.66%) Order Management
15 17 (9.66%) Risk Management
16 13 (7.39%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 134 (76.14%) Python
2 84 (47.73%) Java
3 60 (34.09%) JavaScript
4 59 (33.52%) TypeScript
5 56 (31.82%) SQL
6 29 (16.48%) Go
7 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (5.68%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.14%) QA
3 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.57%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (17.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (21.59%) Terraform
2 30 (17.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (2.84%) Google
2 2 (1.14%) Cribl.io
2 2 (1.14%) Databricks
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.14%) MicroStrategy