dbt Job Trends in the Midlands

dbt (data build tool)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring dbt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 211 299
Rank change year-on-year -24 +88 +10
Permanent jobs citing dbt 16 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.29% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 12
10th Percentile £55,750 - £51,500
25th Percentile £65,193 £62,500 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,771 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% - +31.66%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £79,500
90th Percentile - £69,973 £79,590
England median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% +33.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,912 1,695 3,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.08% 34.75% 34.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,768 1,321 3,242
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £79,500
England 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 the Midlands

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

dbt job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing dbt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing dbt

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing dbt in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for dbt in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
West Midlands -19 13 £75,000 +10.90% 9
East Midlands -53 3 £65,000 - 15
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) PaaS
1 8 (50.00%) SaaS
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Datadog
3 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Run
5 1 (6.25%) Dataform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
2 2 (12.50%) BigQuery
2 2 (12.50%) Looker
2 2 (12.50%) Tableau
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Power Query
3 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
1 3 (18.75%) JMeter
1 3 (18.75%) Locust
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Health
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Lead
1 8 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DBA
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (6.25%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) BDD
1 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (18.75%) FinOps
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Observability
4 3 (18.75%) OWASP
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Security Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) Java
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
1 3 (18.75%) QA
1 3 (18.75%) WCAG
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 22301
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Grafana
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle