dbt Job Trends in England

dbt (data build tool)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring dbt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 303 521
Rank change year-on-year -133 +218 +77
Permanent jobs citing dbt 216 386 279
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.33% 1.00% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 2.65% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 129 348 263
10th Percentile £42,500 £64,471 £35,000
25th Percentile £66,091 £77,500 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £147,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +23.53% +13.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 21,780 14,561 27,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.93% 37.74% 37.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11,919 10,157 23,435
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,651 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

dbt job vacancy trend in England

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Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing dbt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing dbt

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing dbt in England over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for dbt in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the England region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -105 143 £80,000 -27.27% 76
North of England -36 30 £74,051 +6.84% 28
South East -8 13 £60,000 -20.00% 37
North West -13 13 £73,801 +6.48% 17
Midlands -15 13 £73,801 +13.54% 14
West Midlands +15 12 £74,401 +7.35% 6
Yorkshire -38 11 £80,000 - 7
East of England -9 8 £65,863 -26.82% 4
North East -26 6 £73,801 +6.48% 4
South West - 3 £45,000 - 6
East Midlands -35 1 £65,000 - 8
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 86 (39.81%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (14.35%) Apache Spark
3 18 (8.33%) Apache
4 3 (1.39%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.93%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.46%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 113 (52.31%) AWS
2 98 (45.37%) Snowflake
3 87 (40.28%) Azure
4 85 (39.35%) Power Platform
5 70 (32.41%) GCP
6 23 (10.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (10.65%) Fivetran
6 23 (10.65%) PaaS
7 18 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (7.41%) SaaS
9 14 (6.48%) Amazon ECR
9 14 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (6.48%) Pulumi
10 13 (6.02%) Amazon S3
10 13 (6.02%) GitHub
11 12 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.56%) Power Automate
12 11 (5.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (4.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.48%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (39.35%) Power BI
2 71 (32.87%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (19.91%) Tableau
4 41 (18.98%) BigQuery
5 33 (15.28%) Data Lake
6 29 (13.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (13.43%) Looker
7 28 (12.96%) SQL Server
8 27 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (12.04%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (9.26%) Snowflake Schema
11 17 (7.87%) Redis
12 16 (7.41%) Metabase
13 15 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (6.02%) Relational Database
15 12 (5.56%) Metadata
15 12 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (5.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 10 (4.63%) Data Vault
18 9 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 27 (12.50%) Git
2 15 (6.94%) MLflow
3 12 (5.56%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.24%) Cucumber
4 7 (3.24%) JMeter
4 7 (3.24%) Locust
5 5 (2.31%) GitLab
General
1 80 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 53 (24.54%) Finance
3 50 (23.15%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.87%) Banking
5 13 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (5.09%) Law
7 11 (5.09%) Marketing
8 7 (3.24%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.31%) Digital Health
9 5 (2.31%) Front Office
10 4 (1.85%) Advertising
11 3 (1.39%) Retail
12 2 (0.93%) Automotive
12 2 (0.93%) Games
12 2 (0.93%) Publishing
13 1 (0.46%) International Banking
13 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.46%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (39.35%) Data Engineer
2 70 (32.41%) Senior
3 30 (13.89%) Senior Data Engineer
4 28 (12.96%) Lead
5 19 (8.80%) Analyst
6 17 (7.87%) Architect
7 14 (6.48%) Test Leader
8 12 (5.56%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 12 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
8 12 (5.56%) IT Analyst
8 12 (5.56%) IT Support
8 12 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
8 12 (5.56%) Support Analyst
8 12 (5.56%) Systems Analyst
8 12 (5.56%) Systems Support
8 12 (5.56%) Systems Support Analyst
9 10 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.63%) Data Architect
9 10 (4.63%) Data Scientist
9 10 (4.63%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.81%) Kafka
2 14 (6.48%) Django
3 13 (6.02%) LangChain
4 10 (4.63%) PySpark
5 9 (4.17%) LlamaIndex
5 9 (4.17%) pgvector
5 9 (4.17%) PyTorch
5 9 (4.17%) scikit-learn
5 9 (4.17%) TensorFlow
6 8 (3.70%) Pandas
7 7 (3.24%) Gherkin
8 6 (2.78%) Spring
9 5 (2.31%) NumPy
9 5 (2.31%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.85%) gRPC
10 4 (1.85%) LangGraph
10 4 (1.85%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (1.85%) Node.js
10 4 (1.85%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (1.85%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (4.17%) Clustering
3 9 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.24%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.78%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.78%) Social Media
7 5 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.31%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.85%) Derivative
8 4 (1.85%) Equities
8 4 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.85%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.85%) Pricing Data
8 4 (1.85%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.39%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.87%) Linux
2 14 (6.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (50.46%) Data Pipeline
2 103 (47.69%) Analytics
3 98 (45.37%) Data Modelling
4 95 (43.98%) Data Engineering
5 90 (41.67%) CI/CD
6 88 (40.74%) Business Intelligence
7 69 (31.94%) ETL
8 59 (27.31%) Data Governance
9 55 (25.46%) AI
10 53 (24.54%) Agile
11 52 (24.07%) DevOps
12 51 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
13 46 (21.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 42 (19.44%) Data Science
15 40 (18.52%) Observability
16 39 (18.06%) Machine Learning
17 37 (17.13%) Data Architecture
18 36 (16.67%) Data Transformation
19 35 (16.20%) Mentoring
19 35 (16.20%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 150 (69.44%) Python
2 136 (62.96%) SQL
3 44 (20.37%) Java
4 11 (5.09%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 9 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.70%) Scala
7 7 (3.24%) C#
8 6 (2.78%) C++
9 5 (2.31%) R
10 4 (1.85%) ANSI SQL
11 3 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.39%) Julia
11 3 (1.39%) Ruby
12 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.46%) Bash
13 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (9.72%) SC Cleared
1 21 (9.72%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.63%) Degree
3 6 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.31%) DBS Check
4 5 (2.31%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.93%) PhD
6 2 (0.93%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (26.85%) Data Quality
2 20 (9.26%) GDPR
3 12 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 9 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (4.17%) QA
5 7 (3.24%) WCAG
6 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (21.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 62 (28.70%) Terraform
2 27 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.41%) Grafana
4 9 (4.17%) AWS Copilot
4 9 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.85%) Argo
5 4 (1.85%) Control-M
Vendors
1 34 (15.74%) Databricks
2 31 (14.35%) Google
3 23 (10.65%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.17%) Cloudera
4 9 (4.17%) Dell
5 6 (2.78%) Dataiku
5 6 (2.78%) Informatica
6 5 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.39%) Confluent
7 3 (1.39%) Oracle
7 3 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.93%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.93%) Foundry
8 2 (0.93%) Talend
9 1 (0.46%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.46%) Facebook
9 1 (0.46%) Palantir
9 1 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.46%) SimCorp