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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 463 502
Rank change year-on-year +61 +39 +196
Permanent jobs citing dbt 104 109 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 0.94% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 41 98 59
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,713 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,495 £59,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +15.56%
75th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £80,070
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,845 £81,806
UK median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +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 13,561 11,551 12,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.14% 32.20% 36.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,805 6,266 10,486
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%

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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 13 January 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 13 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
Scotland +44 56 £73,801 +24.18% 2
North of England +7 19 £73,801 +6.48% 19
South East +20 10 £55,000 -26.67% 42
Yorkshire -8 9 £80,000 - 5
Midlands +15 7 £73,801 +13.54% 3
North West +17 6 £71,940 +3.80% 12
West Midlands +15 5 £73,801 +14.65%
Wales -4 4 £73,801 +14.65%
North East -5 4 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Northern Ireland -18 3 £73,801 +24.18%
South West - 3 £45,000 - 2
East of England +22 2 £42,500 -52.78%
East Midlands -10 2 £70,000 +7.69% 3
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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 15 (14.42%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (10.58%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.73%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (3.85%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.96%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 79 (75.96%) Azure
2 64 (61.54%) Snowflake
3 48 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (39.42%) AWS
5 30 (28.85%) GCP
6 26 (25.00%) GitHub
7 20 (19.23%) Power Platform
8 19 (18.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (18.27%) Azure Key Vault
8 19 (18.27%) GitHub Copilot
9 18 (17.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
10 16 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (15.38%) PaaS
10 16 (15.38%) Pulumi
11 11 (10.58%) SaaS
12 10 (9.62%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 10 (9.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (9.62%) Sentry
13 9 (8.65%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (51.92%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (19.23%) Power BI
2 20 (19.23%) Snowflake Schema
3 17 (16.35%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (15.38%) Redis
5 13 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (9.62%) BigQuery
7 9 (8.65%) Data Lake
7 9 (8.65%) Tableau
8 8 (7.69%) Looker
9 7 (6.73%) Data Vault
9 7 (6.73%) SQL Server
10 4 (3.85%) Metadata
11 3 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (2.88%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.92%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (18.27%) JIRA
2 10 (9.62%) Git
3 6 (5.77%) Cucumber
3 6 (5.77%) JMeter
3 6 (5.77%) Locust
4 2 (1.92%) GitLab
General
1 62 (59.62%) Finance
2 36 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (29.81%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.85%) Marketing
4 4 (3.85%) Retail
5 2 (1.92%) Banking
5 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.96%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 61 (58.65%) Senior
2 19 (18.27%) Azure Engineer
2 19 (18.27%) Data Engineer
3 14 (13.46%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (9.62%) Lead
4 10 (9.62%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Site Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Test Leader
7 4 (3.85%) Analyst
7 4 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) Applications Support
7 4 (3.85%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (3.85%) Support Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Developer
9 2 (1.92%) Architect
9 2 (1.92%) Data Manager
9 2 (1.92%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.35%) Django
2 11 (10.58%) GraphQL
2 11 (10.58%) OAuth
2 11 (10.58%) OpenAPI
2 11 (10.58%) Swagger
3 8 (7.69%) YAML
4 7 (6.73%) Pandas
5 6 (5.77%) Gherkin
6 4 (3.85%) Hugging Face
6 4 (3.85%) NumPy
6 4 (3.85%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.88%) Kafka
7 3 (2.88%) Snowpark
8 2 (1.92%) PySpark
9 1 (0.96%) GeoPandas
9 1 (0.96%) MapLibre
9 1 (0.96%) NetworkX
9 1 (0.96%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.96%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.62%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.88%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.96%) NHS
5 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.96%) Replication
5 1 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.38%) Linux
1 16 (15.38%) Unix
2 4 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 79 (75.96%) DevOps
3 61 (58.65%) Agile
4 49 (47.12%) Coaching
4 49 (47.12%) Data Modelling
5 48 (46.15%) Asset Management
6 45 (43.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (42.31%) ETL
8 39 (37.50%) Analytics
8 39 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (37.50%) Migration
8 39 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (33.65%) Clean Code
10 34 (32.69%) AI
10 34 (32.69%) Mentoring
11 28 (26.92%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (26.92%) Platform Engineering
12 27 (25.96%) Observability
12 27 (25.96%) Test Automation
13 23 (22.12%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 61 (58.65%) Python
2 53 (50.96%) SQL
3 29 (27.88%) PowerShell
4 14 (13.46%) Java
5 11 (10.58%) C#
6 5 (4.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.88%) Scala
8 1 (0.96%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (21.15%) SC Cleared
1 22 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.92%) Degree
3 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.27%) Accessibility
2 18 (17.31%) Data Quality
3 7 (6.73%) QA
4 6 (5.77%) WCAG
5 2 (1.92%) GDPR
6 1 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.96%) NCSC
6 1 (0.96%) NIST
6 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (24.04%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (44.23%) Terraform
2 10 (9.62%) AWS Copilot
3 7 (6.73%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.77%) Grafana
5 1 (0.96%) Argo
Vendors
1 35 (33.65%) Microsoft
2 25 (24.04%) Google
3 6 (5.77%) Databricks
4 5 (4.81%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.85%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.85%) Alteryx
5 4 (3.85%) HubSpot
5 4 (3.85%) IBM
5 4 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.85%) Talend
5 4 (3.85%) Zoho
6 3 (2.88%) Oracle
7 1 (0.96%) Informatica
7 1 (0.96%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.96%) StreamSets