dbt Job Trends in the North of England

dbt (data build tool)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring dbt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 221 311
Rank change year-on-year -49 +90 +117
Permanent jobs citing dbt 29 33 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.20% 0.48% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.58% 1.38% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 23 29 37
10th Percentile £63,175 £56,495 £52,000
25th Percentile £66,091 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,258 £86,250
90th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £96,250
England median annual salary £75,338 £105,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -28.25% +20.00% +18.64%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,022 2,398 5,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.27% 34.87% 36.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,350 1,649 4,562
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,200 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,548
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 North of England

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

dbt job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing dbt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing dbt

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing dbt in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for dbt in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
North West -12 12 £73,801 +6.48% 17
Yorkshire -39 11 £80,000 - 8
North East -23 6 £73,801 +6.48% 4
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 9 (31.03%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (27.59%) Apache Spark
3 6 (20.69%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 22 (75.86%) AWS
2 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 14 (48.28%) GCP
3 9 (31.03%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (31.03%) PaaS
4 7 (24.14%) Amazon ECR
4 7 (24.14%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (24.14%) Power Platform
4 7 (24.14%) Pulumi
5 5 (17.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 5 (17.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (17.24%) Sentry
5 5 (17.24%) Snowflake
6 4 (13.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (13.79%) SaaS
7 3 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (6.90%) Datadog
8 2 (6.90%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) Data Lake
2 8 (27.59%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (27.59%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (27.59%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (24.14%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (24.14%) Power BI
3 7 (24.14%) Redis
4 6 (20.69%) BigQuery
5 4 (13.79%) Data Vault
5 4 (13.79%) Tableau
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (6.90%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (6.90%) Looker
6 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.45%) DB2
7 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.45%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.90%) JMeter
2 2 (6.90%) Locust
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.45%) MLflow
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Digital Health
4 3 (10.34%) Finance
5 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Senior
2 12 (41.38%) Data Engineer
3 10 (34.48%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Lead
4 5 (17.24%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Test Leader
6 2 (6.90%) Site Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Developer
7 1 (3.45%) GCP Data Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Principal Data Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Django
2 2 (6.90%) Gherkin
2 2 (6.90%) Pandas
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) LangChain
3 1 (3.45%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (3.45%) pgvector
3 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.45%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.45%) Snowpark
3 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) NHS
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.45%) Clustering
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
1 7 (24.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 14 (48.28%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) DevOps
3 11 (37.93%) ETL
3 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (31.03%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (31.03%) Observability
5 9 (31.03%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (27.59%) Data Modelling
6 8 (27.59%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (27.59%) Migration
7 7 (24.14%) Clean Code
7 7 (24.14%) Data Engineering
8 6 (20.69%) Analytics
8 6 (20.69%) Data Governance
8 6 (20.69%) Validation
9 5 (17.24%) Data Architecture
9 5 (17.24%) Open Source
9 5 (17.24%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 27 (93.10%) Python
2 13 (44.83%) SQL
3 11 (37.93%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
1 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.79%) QA
3 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.90%) GDPR
3 2 (6.90%) WCAG
4 1 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (44.83%) Terraform
2 5 (17.24%) AWS Copilot
3 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.90%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Google
2 4 (13.79%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.45%) Dell