dbt Job Trends in London

dbt (data build tool)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring dbt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 131 187
Rank change year-on-year -139 +56 +187
Permanent jobs citing dbt 138 334 395
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.68% 2.66% 1.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.95% 6.03% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 64 308 380
10th Percentile £40,000 £77,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,438 £98,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £93,500 £137,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £144,875 £165,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year -31.82% -2.22% +50.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,064 5,538 10,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.91% 44.12% 43.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,733 4,039 8,165
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +6.52% -11.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

dbt job vacancy trend in London

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Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing dbt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing dbt

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Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing dbt in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for dbt in London

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Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Central London +19 31 £90,000 +12.15% 20
West London -14 7 £90,000 +44.00% 1
South London - 6 - -
dbt
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 73 (52.90%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (19.57%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.35%) Apache
4 3 (2.17%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.72%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 71 (51.45%) AWS
2 67 (48.55%) Snowflake
3 60 (43.48%) Azure
4 54 (39.13%) Power Platform
5 49 (35.51%) GCP
6 20 (14.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (9.42%) Fivetran
8 12 (8.70%) Matillion
8 12 (8.70%) Power Automate
9 8 (5.80%) Amazon S3
9 8 (5.80%) GitHub
10 7 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.07%) Cloud Composer
10 7 (5.07%) Serverless
11 6 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (3.62%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (3.62%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (3.62%) Dagster
13 4 (2.90%) Dataform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.90%) Broadband
2 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (42.03%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (39.13%) Power BI
3 41 (29.71%) BigQuery
4 33 (23.91%) Tableau
5 27 (19.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (18.84%) Data Lake
6 26 (18.84%) Looker
7 19 (13.77%) Snowflake Schema
8 17 (12.32%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (11.59%) SQL Server
10 12 (8.70%) Relational Database
11 11 (7.97%) Metabase
12 8 (5.80%) Data Vault
12 8 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (4.35%) Metadata
14 4 (2.90%) Big Data
14 4 (2.90%) Semantic Layer
14 4 (2.90%) Star Schema
15 3 (2.17%) NoSQL
15 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (15.22%) MLflow
2 18 (13.04%) Git
3 11 (7.97%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.17%) GitLab
5 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.72%) JMeter
5 1 (0.72%) Locust
5 1 (0.72%) Yeoman
General
1 51 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 40 (28.99%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (28.26%) Finance
4 15 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (8.70%) Banking
5 12 (8.70%) Law
6 9 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.07%) Retail
8 6 (4.35%) Marketing
9 4 (2.90%) Advertising
10 2 (1.45%) Automotive
11 1 (0.72%) Front Office
11 1 (0.72%) Games
11 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.72%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (40.58%) Data Engineer
2 32 (23.19%) Senior
3 17 (12.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 16 (11.59%) Analyst
4 16 (11.59%) Lead
4 16 (11.59%) Systems Engineer
5 13 (9.42%) Architect
6 11 (7.97%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 11 (7.97%) Financial Analyst
6 11 (7.97%) IT Analyst
6 11 (7.97%) IT Support
6 11 (7.97%) IT Support Analyst
6 11 (7.97%) Support Analyst
6 11 (7.97%) Systems Analyst
6 11 (7.97%) Systems Support
6 11 (7.97%) Systems Support Analyst
7 10 (7.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) AWS Data Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (30.43%) Kafka
2 20 (14.49%) LangChain
3 16 (11.59%) LlamaIndex
3 16 (11.59%) pgvector
3 16 (11.59%) PyTorch
3 16 (11.59%) scikit-learn
3 16 (11.59%) TensorFlow
4 5 (3.62%) Spring
4 5 (3.62%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.90%) AWS CDK
5 4 (2.90%) LangGraph
5 4 (2.90%) Model Context Protocol
5 4 (2.90%) PySpark
6 3 (2.17%) Middleware
6 3 (2.17%) Pandas
6 3 (2.17%) Streamlit
7 2 (1.45%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.45%) CSS
7 2 (1.45%) HTML
7 2 (1.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (26.81%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.59%) Clustering
2 16 (11.59%) Public Cloud
3 13 (9.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (5.07%) Blog
5 6 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.90%) Anti-Piracy
6 4 (2.90%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.90%) Social Media
7 3 (2.17%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.45%) Contract for Difference
8 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.72%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.72%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.90%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (62.32%) Data Pipeline
2 75 (54.35%) Data Modelling
3 74 (53.62%) Analytics
4 72 (52.17%) Data Engineering
5 62 (44.93%) Business Intelligence
6 52 (37.68%) CI/CD
7 49 (35.51%) AI
7 49 (35.51%) ETL
8 47 (34.06%) Data Governance
9 36 (26.09%) Machine Learning
10 31 (22.46%) Data Management
10 31 (22.46%) Data Science
11 30 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (18.12%) Presales
13 24 (17.39%) Storytelling
14 23 (16.67%) Data Transformation
15 22 (15.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (15.94%) RBAC
15 22 (15.94%) Use Case
15 22 (15.94%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 111 (80.43%) SQL
2 88 (63.77%) Python
3 17 (12.32%) Java
4 5 (3.62%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.62%) Scala
5 4 (2.90%) C++
6 3 (2.17%) ANSI SQL
6 3 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.45%) Ruby
8 1 (0.72%) Bash
8 1 (0.72%) Bicep
8 1 (0.72%) C#
8 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.72%) PHP
8 1 (0.72%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (9.42%) Degree
2 4 (2.90%) AWS Certification
2 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (2.90%) Master's Degree
2 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 4 (2.90%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (19.57%) Data Quality
2 20 (14.49%) GDPR
3 16 (11.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (3.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.72%) QA
5 1 (0.72%) SLA
5 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (25.36%) Terraform
2 17 (12.32%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.25%) Grafana
4 9 (6.52%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.17%) Control-M
6 2 (1.45%) Argo
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 29 (21.01%) Databricks
2 16 (11.59%) Cloudera
2 16 (11.59%) Dell
3 15 (10.87%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.52%) Google
5 5 (3.62%) Talend
6 4 (2.90%) Informatica
7 2 (1.45%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.72%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.72%) Apple
8 1 (0.72%) Confluent
8 1 (0.72%) Foundry
8 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle
8 1 (0.72%) Palantir
8 1 (0.72%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.72%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.72%) Spotify