dbt Job Trends in Edinburgh

dbt (data build tool)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring dbt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 80 101
Rank change year-on-year +15 +21 +55
Permanent jobs citing dbt 24 14 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.89% 1.12% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.69% 2.93% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 4
10th Percentile £67,179 £46,713 -
25th Percentile £68,813 £55,674 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £62,215 £69,045
Median % change year-on-year +18.62% -9.89% -18.77%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £80,070
90th Percentile - £74,145 -
Scotland median annual salary £73,801 £62,215 £69,045
% change year-on-year +18.62% -9.89% -18.77%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

dbt falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 359 478 456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 43.20% 38.24% 43.97%
Number of salaries quoted 122 205 394
10th Percentile £25,050 £36,450 £39,075
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -9.80% +10.46%
75th Percentile £76,642 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

dbt job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing dbt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing dbt

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 23 (95.83%) Azure
2 19 (79.17%) Snowflake
3 17 (70.83%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (41.67%) GitHub
4 10 (41.67%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (20.83%) AWS
6 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (16.67%) GCP
6 4 (16.67%) PaaS
6 4 (16.67%) Pulumi
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (12.50%) Sentry
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 1 (4.17%) Datadog
9 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (16.67%) Redis
4 2 (8.33%) Data Vault
4 2 (8.33%) Metadata
4 2 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.17%) JMeter
2 1 (4.17%) Locust
General
1 19 (79.17%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Senior
2 7 (29.17%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Data Modeller
6 1 (4.17%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) Site Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Django
2 3 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 3 (12.50%) OAuth
2 3 (12.50%) OpenAPI
2 3 (12.50%) Swagger
3 1 (4.17%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) CI/CD
1 22 (91.67%) DevOps
2 19 (79.17%) Asset Management
2 19 (79.17%) Coaching
3 14 (58.33%) Agile
3 14 (58.33%) AI
3 14 (58.33%) Clean Code
4 13 (54.17%) Mentoring
4 13 (54.17%) Migration
5 12 (50.00%) Analytics
5 12 (50.00%) Data Modelling
6 11 (45.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (45.83%) Test Automation
7 10 (41.67%) ETL
7 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (41.67%) Sprint Planning
7 10 (41.67%) Sprint Retrospective
8 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (25.00%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Google