dbt Job Trends in the UK excluding London

dbt (data build tool)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring dbt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 454 638
Rank change year-on-year +40 +184 +71
Permanent jobs citing dbt 150 41 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% 0.48% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 85 32 80
10th Percentile £51,250 £62,500 £50,925
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,630 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.37% +6.74% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £75,313 £79,600
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +15.79% +26.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,681 8,481 22,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.75% 32.10% 33.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,825 6,316 17,458
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £39,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

dbt job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing dbt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing dbt

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing dbt in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for dbt in the UK excluding London

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Scotland +19 47 £74,401 +14.46% 3
North of England -41 36 £73,801 +6.37% 28
Midlands -24 16 £72,771 +11.96% 28
North West -17 15 £73,801 +6.37% 15
East of England -23 15 £86,725 -3.64% 11
South East -31 14 £60,000 -20.00% 36
West Midlands -11 13 £75,000 +10.90% 9
Yorkshire -59 12 £80,000 - 9
North East -26 9 £73,801 +6.37% 4
Wales -19 8 £73,801 +9.13% 2
Northern Ireland - 8 £80,000 - 1
South West - 6 £48,750 - 11
East Midlands -49 3 £65,000 - 19
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 34 (22.67%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (11.33%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.67%) Apache
4 2 (1.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Markit EDM
2 3 (2.00%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 74 (49.33%) Azure
2 67 (44.67%) Snowflake
3 62 (41.33%) AWS
4 39 (26.00%) GCP
4 39 (26.00%) PaaS
5 35 (23.33%) Power Platform
6 33 (22.00%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (22.00%) SaaS
7 20 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (12.67%) Azure Key Vault
9 14 (9.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (8.67%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (8.67%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (8.67%) Pulumi
11 12 (8.00%) GitHub
12 11 (7.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (7.33%) GitHub Copilot
13 10 (6.67%) Datadog
14 8 (5.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 8 (5.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (36.67%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (23.33%) Power BI
3 23 (15.33%) Elasticsearch
4 22 (14.67%) Looker
4 22 (14.67%) Tableau
5 21 (14.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 20 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (11.33%) BigQuery
7 17 (11.33%) Data Lake
8 16 (10.67%) Redis
9 15 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (8.67%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (5.33%) Data Vault
12 6 (4.00%) Metabase
12 6 (4.00%) Metadata
13 5 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (2.67%) NoSQL
14 4 (2.67%) SQL Server
15 3 (2.00%) Big Data
15 3 (2.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (8.67%) JIRA
2 10 (6.67%) Cucumber
2 10 (6.67%) Git
2 10 (6.67%) JMeter
2 10 (6.67%) Locust
3 7 (4.67%) MLflow
4 2 (1.33%) GitLab
General
1 51 (34.00%) Finance
2 50 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (19.33%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.00%) Digital Health
6 4 (2.67%) Banking
7 2 (1.33%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.33%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Law
8 1 (0.67%) Marketing
8 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Publishing
8 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (41.33%) Senior
2 37 (24.67%) Data Engineer
2 37 (24.67%) Lead
3 31 (20.67%) Test Leader
4 19 (12.67%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (9.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 9 (6.00%) Data Scientist
7 8 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.67%) Senior Data Scientist
8 7 (4.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 7 (4.67%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (4.00%) Principal Data Scientist
10 5 (3.33%) Site Engineer
10 5 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 4 (2.67%) Analyst
11 4 (2.67%) Applications Engineer
11 4 (2.67%) Applications Support
11 4 (2.67%) Applications Support Engineer
11 4 (2.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.00%) Kafka
2 13 (8.67%) Django
3 11 (7.33%) GraphQL
3 11 (7.33%) OAuth
3 11 (7.33%) OpenAPI
3 11 (7.33%) Swagger
4 10 (6.67%) Gherkin
4 10 (6.67%) YAML
5 7 (4.67%) LangChain
5 7 (4.67%) LlamaIndex
5 7 (4.67%) pgvector
5 7 (4.67%) PyTorch
5 7 (4.67%) scikit-learn
5 7 (4.67%) TensorFlow
6 6 (4.00%) PySpark
7 3 (2.00%) Snowpark
8 2 (1.33%) JSON
8 2 (1.33%) REST
8 2 (1.33%) SOAP
9 1 (0.67%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.33%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (4.67%) Clustering
3 7 (4.67%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.00%) NHS
6 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.33%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.67%) Anti-Piracy
7 1 (0.67%) Blog
7 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.67%) Replication
7 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.67%) Social Media
7 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.67%) Linux
1 13 (8.67%) Unix
2 4 (2.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (51.33%) CI/CD
2 65 (43.33%) Data Modelling
2 65 (43.33%) DevOps
3 64 (42.67%) Agile
4 56 (37.33%) Analytics
5 46 (30.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (30.00%) Test Automation
7 44 (29.33%) ETL
8 41 (27.33%) Data Engineering
9 40 (26.67%) AI
10 38 (25.33%) Coaching
10 38 (25.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (24.67%) Data Pipeline
11 37 (24.67%) Observability
12 36 (24.00%) Asset Management
12 36 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (23.33%) Mentoring
14 33 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (20.67%) BDD
16 28 (18.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 110 (73.33%) Python
2 70 (46.67%) SQL
3 43 (28.67%) Java
4 26 (17.33%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.33%) C#
6 7 (4.67%) R
7 6 (4.00%) Julia
8 4 (2.67%) Scala
9 3 (2.00%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.00%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.67%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.67%) C++
10 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 21 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.67%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.00%) Degree
5 2 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.67%) Data Quality
2 19 (12.67%) Accessibility
3 12 (8.00%) QA
4 10 (6.67%) GDPR
4 10 (6.67%) WCAG
5 7 (4.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.67%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (20.00%) Docker
2 4 (2.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (36.67%) Terraform
2 14 (9.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.67%) Grafana
4 8 (5.33%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 31 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.00%) Databricks
3 21 (14.00%) Google
4 7 (4.67%) Cloudera
4 7 (4.67%) Dell
5 4 (2.67%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.67%) IBM
6 3 (2.00%) Confluent
6 3 (2.00%) Oracle
7 2 (1.33%) Splunk
8 1 (0.67%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.67%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.67%) Informatica
8 1 (0.67%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.67%) Salesforce