dbt (data build tool)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring dbt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited dbt over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 494 665
Rank change year-on-year +135 +171 +109
Permanent jobs citing dbt 380 447 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 0.45% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.52% 1.26% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 345 427 174
10th Percentile £66,000 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £60,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £102,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +36.67% -4.76%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £165,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,384 £65,000 £62,825
% change year-on-year +6.74% +3.46% +39.61%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing dbt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for dbt in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing dbt.

Salary trend for dbt in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing dbt over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for dbt in the UK

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Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
England +120 366 £110,000 +4.76% 168
London +68 327 £110,000 -4.35% 127
Work from Home +118 275 £110,000 -4.35% 104
UK excluding London +156 42 £69,384 +6.74% 41
North of England +56 19 £69,384 +8.41% 20
North West +17 10 £69,384 +15.64% 12
South East +110 8 £75,000 - 10
Yorkshire +70 5 £80,000 +88.24% 8
East of England +62 5 £90,000 +71.43%
Midlands +54 5 £65,000 - 4
Scotland +127 4 £65,000 - 2
North East +40 4 £69,384 -7.98%
East Midlands - 4 £65,000 - 2
West Midlands +40 1 £67,626 +4.04% 2
Wales +38 1 £67,626 +0.78% 2

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 293 (77.11%) Apache Airflow
2 203 (53.42%) Apache
3 84 (22.11%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.05%) Luigi
5 2 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 317 (83.42%) AWS
2 162 (42.63%) Snowflake
3 159 (41.84%) GCP
4 116 (30.53%) Amazon ECS
5 82 (21.58%) Serverless
6 78 (20.53%) AWS Lambda
7 72 (18.95%) Azure
8 71 (18.68%) OpenShift
9 58 (15.26%) Dagster
10 34 (8.95%) Amazon EC2
10 34 (8.95%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (7.11%) Power Platform
12 15 (3.95%) Amazon S3
12 15 (3.95%) Pulumi
13 13 (3.42%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (3.42%) GitHub
14 12 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.16%) Matillion
15 11 (2.89%) AWS CodeBuild
15 11 (2.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.89%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (69.21%) Amazon Athena
1 263 (69.21%) Dremio
2 258 (67.89%) Apache Iceberg
3 233 (61.32%) Apache Arrow
4 166 (43.68%) Apache Ignite
5 93 (24.47%) Data Lake
6 52 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
7 41 (10.79%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (7.11%) Power BI
9 23 (6.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (5.00%) BigQuery
10 19 (5.00%) Tableau
11 18 (4.74%) Looker
12 14 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (3.68%) SQL Server
13 13 (3.42%) Big Data
14 12 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (2.89%) Redis
16 10 (2.63%) Apache Hive
17 9 (2.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 71 (18.68%) Artifactory
2 16 (4.21%) Git
3 6 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.53%) JIRA
5 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.26%) GitLab
General
1 292 (76.84%) Finance
2 258 (67.89%) Front Office
3 136 (35.79%) Banking
4 105 (27.63%) Investment Banking
5 40 (10.53%) Social Skills
6 21 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.42%) Marketing
8 7 (1.84%) Law
8 7 (1.84%) Retail
9 2 (0.53%) Advertising
9 2 (0.53%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 242 (63.68%) AWS Engineer
2 213 (56.05%) Python Engineer
3 163 (42.89%) Software Engineer
4 162 (42.63%) AWS Software Engineer
5 145 (38.16%) Data Engineer
6 113 (29.74%) Python Software Engineer
7 100 (26.32%) Developer
8 92 (24.21%) Senior
9 89 (23.42%) AWS Developer
9 89 (23.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 88 (23.16%) Java Engineer
10 88 (23.16%) Java Software Engineer
11 74 (19.47%) DevOps Engineer
12 73 (19.21%) AWS DevOps
12 73 (19.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 63 (16.58%) Python Developer
14 57 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
15 51 (13.42%) Senior Java Engineer
15 51 (13.42%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 35 (9.21%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (43.68%) PySpark
2 154 (40.53%) Pandas
3 153 (40.26%) NumPy
3 153 (40.26%) SciPy
4 95 (25.00%) gRPC
4 95 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 84 (22.11%) Kafka
6 71 (18.68%) J2EE
7 65 (17.11%) React
8 58 (15.26%) AngularJS
9 57 (15.00%) Node.js
9 57 (15.00%) Vue
10 30 (7.89%) Redux
11 11 (2.89%) Django
12 8 (2.11%) GraphQL
12 8 (2.11%) REST
13 4 (1.05%) Spring
13 4 (1.05%) Spring Boot
14 3 (0.79%) Flask
15 2 (0.53%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 180 (47.37%) Fixed Income
2 150 (39.47%) Equities
3 132 (34.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 105 (27.63%) Derivative
4 105 (27.63%) Hedge funds
5 39 (10.26%) Pricing Data
6 21 (5.53%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.32%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.32%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.05%) Mobile Banking
11 3 (0.79%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.53%) Educational Technology
13 1 (0.26%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.26%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.26%) Digital Media
13 1 (0.26%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.89%) Linux
1 11 (2.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (74.74%) Software Engineering
2 268 (70.53%) Agile
3 258 (67.89%) Asset Management
4 138 (36.32%) Data Engineering
5 128 (33.68%) Investment Management
6 121 (31.84%) CI/CD
7 96 (25.26%) DevOps
8 87 (22.89%) Open Source
9 80 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 77 (20.26%) Fintech
11 69 (18.16%) Analytics
12 61 (16.05%) ETL
13 57 (15.00%) Performance Attribution
14 52 (13.68%) Data Pipeline
15 44 (11.58%) Data Modelling
16 43 (11.32%) Migration
17 39 (10.26%) Data Management
18 36 (9.47%) Risk Management
19 35 (9.21%) Order Management
20 33 (8.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 338 (88.95%) Python
2 213 (56.05%) Java
3 133 (35.00%) JavaScript
4 130 (34.21%) TypeScript
5 120 (31.58%) SQL
6 74 (19.47%) Go
7 3 (0.79%) C#
7 3 (0.79%) Cypher
7 3 (0.79%) Scala
8 2 (0.53%) Bash
8 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.53%) VBA
9 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (7.11%) Degree
2 11 (2.89%) SC Cleared
2 11 (2.89%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.53%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 96 (25.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 94 (24.74%) Terraform
2 77 (20.26%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.89%) AWS Copilot
4 4 (1.05%) Oozie
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 28 (7.37%) Databricks
2 21 (5.53%) Google
3 10 (2.63%) Informatica
4 8 (2.11%) Microsoft
5 3 (0.79%) Oracle
5 3 (0.79%) StreamSets
6 2 (0.53%) Amplitude
6 2 (0.53%) Cribl.io
6 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.26%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.26%) Confluent
7 1 (0.26%) SAP
7 1 (0.26%) Talend