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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 228 220
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 +102
Permanent jobs citing dbt 7 18 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.089% 0.28% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.88% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5 18 9
10th Percentile £58,779 £46,713 £50,800
25th Percentile £66,323 £56,495 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £65,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% +0.78% +29.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile £83,266 £79,530 £80,070
England median annual salary £85,000 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% +13.33%

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 2,844 2,051 2,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.36% 32.14% 36.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,397 1,177 1,881
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £53,300 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +6.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,925 £79,540 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +12 5 £73,801 +14.65%
East Midlands -9 2 £70,000 +7.69% 3
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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 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) Pulumi
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
3 1 (14.29%) Datadog
3 1 (14.29%) Dataform
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Sentry
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
1 2 (28.57%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Power Query
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JMeter
1 1 (14.29%) Locust
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Django
2 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Service-Level Objective
4 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google