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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 511 619
Rank change year-on-year +243 +108 +316
Permanent jobs citing dbt 753 257 646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 0.43% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.21% 1.01% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 726 223 96
10th Percentile £60,200 £49,150 £45,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £60,200 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £73,090 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -8.64% +23.08%
75th Percentile £142,500 £107,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £143,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +72.62%

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 23,425 25,468 63,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.96% 42.84% 45.39%
Number of salaries quoted 13,587 19,908 37,407
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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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 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for dbt in the UK

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Top 17 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 23 October 2024. 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 +255 708 £110,000 +37.50% 51
Work from Home +260 684 £110,000 +46.67% 62
London +239 630 £115,000 +32.95% 33
UK excluding London +10 118 £65,000 - 26
North of England -6 43 £65,000 - 5
Midlands -16 20 £65,000 +0.78% 3
North West -11 19 £65,000 +4.00% 3
North East -18 19 £65,000 - 1
West Midlands -23 19 £65,000 +0.78% 2
Wales +47 17 £65,000 - 2
Scotland +2 14 £62,215 -9.89% 3
Northern Ireland +36 13 £59,430 -13.93% 2
South East -18 9 £70,000 -11.11% 5
Yorkshire +29 5 £82,500 -32.65% 1
South West -14 1 - - 2
East of England -41 1 £130,000 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 1

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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
1 542 (71.98%) Apache Airflow
2 464 (61.62%) Apache
3 13 (1.73%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.53%) Eagle PACE
1 4 (0.53%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 674 (89.51%) AWS
2 476 (63.21%) Snowflake
3 292 (38.78%) GCP
4 135 (17.93%) Azure
5 118 (15.67%) Amazon ECS
6 95 (12.62%) Amazon EC2
7 92 (12.22%) Amazon EKS
8 61 (8.10%) Dagster
9 57 (7.57%) Power Platform
10 23 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (2.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 21 (2.79%) AWS CloudTrail
11 21 (2.79%) Azure Sentinel
12 20 (2.66%) Amazon ECR
12 20 (2.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 20 (2.66%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.66%) AWS CodeBuild
12 20 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
12 20 (2.66%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.66%) Internet
1 20 (2.66%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.66%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 535 (71.05%) Dremio
2 524 (69.59%) Data Lake
3 501 (66.53%) Amazon Athena
4 479 (63.61%) Apache Arrow
5 419 (55.64%) Apache Ignite
6 61 (8.10%) Big Data
7 57 (7.57%) Power BI
8 49 (6.51%) Tableau
9 34 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (2.66%) Redis
13 16 (2.12%) Metadata
14 14 (1.86%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.86%) Looker
15 13 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
16 11 (1.46%) SQL Server
17 10 (1.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (2.66%) Git
2 13 (1.73%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.66%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.13%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.13%) JIRA
4 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 552 (73.31%) Finance
2 513 (68.13%) Front Office
3 486 (64.54%) Banking
4 433 (57.50%) Investment Banking
5 110 (14.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 69 (9.16%) Social Skills
7 22 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (1.46%) Retail
9 7 (0.93%) Marketing
10 6 (0.80%) Law
11 5 (0.66%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.27%) Publishing
14 1 (0.13%) Digital Economy
14 1 (0.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 292 (38.78%) Software Engineer
2 268 (35.59%) Python Engineer
3 242 (32.14%) AWS Engineer
4 215 (28.55%) AWS Software Engineer
4 215 (28.55%) Senior
5 207 (27.49%) Python Software Engineer
6 186 (24.70%) Java Engineer
7 184 (24.44%) Java Software Engineer
8 180 (23.90%) Lead
9 153 (20.32%) Senior Software Engineer
10 123 (16.33%) Senior Java Engineer
10 123 (16.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 122 (16.20%) Developer
12 98 (13.01%) Data Engineer
13 96 (12.75%) Architect
14 92 (12.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 86 (11.42%) Lead Developer
16 82 (10.89%) Lead Software Developer
16 82 (10.89%) Software Developer
17 76 (10.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 473 (62.82%) Pandas
2 471 (62.55%) NumPy
2 471 (62.55%) SciPy
3 443 (58.83%) gRPC
3 443 (58.83%) Protocol Buffers
4 147 (19.52%) PySpark
5 81 (10.76%) Django
6 68 (9.03%) Node.js
7 53 (7.04%) React
8 30 (3.98%) Redux
9 22 (2.92%) AngularJS
9 22 (2.92%) Vue
10 20 (2.66%) OAuth
10 20 (2.66%) OAuth2
10 20 (2.66%) SAML
11 14 (1.86%) Web Services
12 8 (1.06%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.06%) Kafka
13 7 (0.93%) REST
14 4 (0.53%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 457 (60.69%) Hedge funds
2 455 (60.42%) Fixed Income
3 433 (57.50%) Derivative
3 433 (57.50%) Equities
3 433 (57.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 102 (13.55%) Pricing Data
5 51 (6.77%) Product Ownership
6 24 (3.19%) Clustering
7 21 (2.79%) Security Operations Centre
8 20 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.93%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (0.53%) PropTech
11 4 (0.53%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.27%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.27%) Public Cloud
13 1 (0.13%) Blockchain
13 1 (0.13%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.66%) Linux
1 20 (2.66%) Unix
2 1 (0.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (77.29%) Agile
2 538 (71.45%) Asset Management
3 506 (67.20%) Software Engineering
4 383 (50.86%) Investment Management
5 175 (23.24%) Line Management
6 138 (18.33%) Analytics
7 123 (16.33%) Greeks
8 103 (13.68%) Migration
9 86 (11.42%) DevOps
10 84 (11.16%) Data Engineering
11 83 (11.02%) Mentoring
12 81 (10.76%) Roadmaps
13 79 (10.49%) Fintech
14 61 (8.10%) CI/CD
15 59 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
16 48 (6.37%) Open Source
17 47 (6.24%) TDD
18 45 (5.98%) Continuous Delivery
18 45 (5.98%) Data Modelling
19 42 (5.58%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 687 (91.24%) Python
2 490 (65.07%) Java
3 446 (59.23%) JavaScript
4 420 (55.78%) TypeScript
5 216 (28.69%) SQL
6 27 (3.59%) Go
7 21 (2.79%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (0.93%) C#
9 2 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.13%) C++
10 1 (0.13%) R
Qualifications
1 115 (15.27%) SC Cleared
1 115 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 10 (1.33%) Degree
3 7 (0.93%) CISSP
4 6 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (18.73%) Data Quality
2 7 (0.93%) GRC
2 7 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.13%) QA
System Software
1 34 (4.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 67 (8.90%) Terraform
2 49 (6.51%) Kubernetes
3 24 (3.19%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.27%) Oozie
5 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (8.50%) Bloomberg
1 64 (8.50%) Reuters
2 34 (4.52%) Google
3 25 (3.32%) Microsoft
4 21 (2.79%) Splunk
5 14 (1.86%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.06%) Teradata
7 5 (0.66%) Databricks
7 5 (0.66%) MicroStrategy
8 4 (0.53%) Ab Initio
9 3 (0.40%) Confluent
10 2 (0.27%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.27%) SnapLogic
11 1 (0.13%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.13%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.13%) Informatica
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle