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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 387 636
Rank change year-on-year -24 +249 +63
Permanent jobs citing dbt 338 690 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.63% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 1.88% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 307 664 189
10th Percentile £64,509 £55,400 £49,150
25th Percentile £90,625 £78,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +64.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £137,500 £143,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £165,000 £123,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,384 £71,746 £68,500
% change year-on-year -3.29% +4.74% +52.22%

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 15,580 36,735 39,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 33.43% 43.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10,288 27,325 26,970
10th Percentile £31,000 £30,425 £34,248
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -10.16% +2.40%
75th Percentile £82,250 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% +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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -33 330 £110,000 -4.35% 455
London -24 294 £110,000 -4.35% 314
Work from Home -51 250 £110,000 -4.35% 256
UK excluding London +135 37 £69,384 -3.29% 212
North of England +47 19 £69,384 +8.41% 55
North West +11 10 £69,384 +15.64% 26
Yorkshire +65 6 £68,750 +61.76% 24
East of England +48 6 £90,000 +71.43% 12
South East +88 5 £75,000 - 100
Midlands +71 4 £66,250 -9.25% 1
North East +38 3 £69,384 -7.67% 5
East Midlands - 3 £65,000 -
Scotland +111 2 £65,000 -13.51% 14
West Midlands +49 1 £67,626 -7.36% 1
Wales +37 1 £67,626 -10.01% 5

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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
1 262 (77.51%) Apache Airflow
2 159 (47.04%) Apache
3 55 (16.27%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.59%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 288 (85.21%) AWS
2 147 (43.49%) Snowflake
3 132 (39.05%) GCP
4 73 (21.60%) Amazon ECS
5 65 (19.23%) Serverless
6 61 (18.05%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (16.86%) Azure
8 51 (15.09%) OpenShift
9 21 (6.21%) Power Platform
10 20 (5.92%) Dagster
11 19 (5.62%) Amazon S3
12 15 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (3.85%) Pulumi
14 12 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (3.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 11 (3.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 11 (3.25%) AWS CodeBuild
15 11 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.25%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.59%) Internet
3 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (68.93%) Amazon Athena
2 229 (67.75%) Apache Iceberg
3 226 (66.86%) Dremio
4 217 (64.20%) Apache Arrow
5 120 (35.50%) Apache Ignite
6 81 (23.96%) PostgreSQL
7 65 (19.23%) Data Lake
8 42 (12.43%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (6.21%) Power BI
10 17 (5.03%) BigQuery
11 16 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (4.73%) Tableau
12 15 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (3.25%) Big Data
14 11 (3.25%) Looker
14 11 (3.25%) Redis
15 10 (2.96%) Relational Database
16 8 (2.37%) RDBMS
17 7 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 51 (15.09%) Artifactory
2 15 (4.44%) Git
3 2 (0.59%) JIRA
4 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.30%) MLflow
General
1 249 (73.67%) Finance
2 225 (66.57%) Front Office
3 100 (29.59%) Banking
4 91 (26.92%) Investment Banking
5 47 (13.91%) Social Skills
6 22 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (5.33%) Marketing
8 17 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.85%) Law
10 5 (1.48%) Retail
11 4 (1.18%) Music Industry
12 3 (0.89%) Advertising
13 2 (0.59%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 219 (64.79%) AWS Engineer
2 182 (53.85%) Python Engineer
3 166 (49.11%) AWS Software Engineer
3 166 (49.11%) Software Engineer
4 117 (34.62%) Python Software Engineer
5 115 (34.02%) Developer
6 111 (32.84%) Data Engineer
7 107 (31.66%) AWS Developer
7 107 (31.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 97 (28.70%) Java Engineer
8 97 (28.70%) Java Software Engineer
9 85 (25.15%) Senior
10 73 (21.60%) Python Developer
11 54 (15.98%) Senior Java Engineer
11 54 (15.98%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 54 (15.98%) Senior Software Engineer
12 52 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
13 51 (15.09%) AWS DevOps
13 51 (15.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 38 (11.24%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (43.49%) Pandas
2 143 (42.31%) NumPy
3 142 (42.01%) SciPy
4 106 (31.36%) PySpark
5 81 (23.96%) React
6 79 (23.37%) AngularJS
6 79 (23.37%) Vue
7 75 (22.19%) Node.js
8 69 (20.41%) gRPC
8 69 (20.41%) Protocol Buffers
9 62 (18.34%) Kafka
10 51 (15.09%) J2EE
11 12 (3.55%) Redux
12 11 (3.25%) Django
13 6 (1.78%) GraphQL
13 6 (1.78%) REST
14 4 (1.18%) CSS3
14 4 (1.18%) HTML5
14 4 (1.18%) Material-UI
14 4 (1.18%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 174 (51.48%) Fixed Income
2 156 (46.15%) Equities
3 148 (43.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 91 (26.92%) Derivative
4 91 (26.92%) Hedge funds
5 48 (14.20%) Pricing Data
6 10 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.89%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.89%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.59%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.59%) Replication
11 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.30%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.30%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.30%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.30%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.30%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.25%) Linux
1 11 (3.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (72.19%) Agile
1 244 (72.19%) Software Engineering
2 225 (66.57%) Asset Management
3 134 (39.64%) Investment Management
4 106 (31.36%) CI/CD
5 104 (30.77%) Data Engineering
6 83 (24.56%) Fintech
7 82 (24.26%) DevOps
8 75 (22.19%) Performance Attribution
9 66 (19.53%) Open Source
9 66 (19.53%) Risk Management
10 65 (19.23%) Order Management
11 60 (17.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 57 (16.86%) ETL
13 51 (15.09%) Analytics
13 51 (15.09%) Data Pipeline
14 50 (14.79%) Data Modelling
15 34 (10.06%) Data Management
16 27 (7.99%) Business Intelligence
17 23 (6.80%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 290 (85.80%) Python
2 174 (51.48%) Java
3 138 (40.83%) JavaScript
4 134 (39.64%) TypeScript
5 115 (34.02%) SQL
6 53 (15.68%) Go
7 3 (0.89%) Cypher
7 3 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.89%) Scala
8 2 (0.59%) Bash
8 2 (0.59%) C#
8 2 (0.59%) VBA
9 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (6.80%) Degree
2 14 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.25%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.78%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.59%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.18%) QA
3 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 70 (20.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 79 (23.37%) Terraform
2 58 (17.16%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.25%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 23 (6.80%) Databricks
2 20 (5.92%) Google
3 7 (2.07%) Informatica
4 6 (1.78%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.48%) StreamSets
6 4 (1.18%) Oracle
6 4 (1.18%) Splunk
7 3 (0.89%) Amplitude
7 3 (0.89%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.30%) Confluent
8 1 (0.30%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.30%) SAP
8 1 (0.30%) Talend