dbt (data build tool)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for dbt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited dbt over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 602 717
Rank change year-on-year +208 +115 -71
Contract jobs citing dbt 200 101 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 0.46% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 78 118
10th Percentile £463 £443 £345
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £850 £684 £800
90th Percentile £888 £730 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £575 £750
% change year-on-year -17.39% -23.33% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £78.75 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.94% - -
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.13 -
90th Percentile - £89.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

dbt is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,016 21,833 34,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.85% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,964 15,782 24,942
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 349 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.07%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing dbt.

Daily rate trend for dbt in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing dbt over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for dbt in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing dbt.

Hourly rate trend for dbt in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing dbt within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +209 184 £800 +39.13% 91
London +181 159 £800 +39.13% 62
Work from Home +212 134 £800 +39.13% 55
UK excluding London +39 15 £475 -17.39% 31
Midlands +23 5 £400 -42.86% 12
South East +11 5 £475 -17.39% 5
West Midlands +21 3 £550 -21.43% 7
East of England +10 3 £625 -10.71% 1
North of England +17 2 - - 7
East Midlands +12 2 £388 -44.64% 5
North West +11 1 - - 4
North East - 1 - - 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
1 127 (63.50%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (48.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Softmar
2 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.50%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 139 (69.50%) AWS
2 109 (54.50%) Snowflake
3 80 (40.00%) GCP
4 22 (11.00%) Azure
5 12 (6.00%) GitHub
6 11 (5.50%) Amazon Kinesis
6 11 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (5.50%) Serverless
7 9 (4.50%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.00%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.50%) Fivetran
9 7 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.50%) Dagster
12 2 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (54.50%) Amazon Athena
2 100 (50.00%) Apache Arrow
2 100 (50.00%) Dremio
3 88 (44.00%) Data Lake
4 85 (42.50%) Apache Ignite
5 31 (15.50%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (10.50%) Big Data
7 12 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (5.50%) BigQuery
9 9 (4.50%) Power BI
10 7 (3.50%) Flink
11 6 (3.00%) Looker
12 5 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (2.50%) Tableau
13 4 (2.00%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.50%) Airbyte
14 3 (1.50%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (1.50%) DynamoDB
14 3 (1.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (7.50%) Git
2 9 (4.50%) JIRA
3 3 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.50%) Poetry
4 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 110 (55.00%) Finance
2 88 (44.00%) Front Office
3 83 (41.50%) Banking
4 80 (40.00%) Investment Banking
5 10 (5.00%) Social Skills
6 9 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.00%) Marketing
8 1 (0.50%) Billing
8 1 (0.50%) Games
8 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.50%) Law
8 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (26.50%) Software Engineer
2 51 (25.50%) AWS Engineer
2 51 (25.50%) Data Engineer
3 45 (22.50%) Developer
4 42 (21.00%) Python Engineer
4 42 (21.00%) Senior
5 39 (19.50%) Lead
6 33 (16.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 33 (16.50%) Python Software Engineer
7 32 (16.00%) Architect
8 31 (15.50%) AWS Software Engineer
9 26 (13.00%) Software Developer
10 25 (12.50%) Java Engineer
10 25 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
11 22 (11.00%) Python Developer
11 22 (11.00%) Senior Software Engineer
12 21 (10.50%) Solutions Architect
12 21 (10.50%) Team Leader
13 20 (10.00%) Lead Developer
13 20 (10.00%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (49.50%) gRPC
1 99 (49.50%) Protocol Buffers
2 93 (46.50%) Pandas
3 87 (43.50%) NumPy
3 87 (43.50%) SciPy
4 12 (6.00%) PySpark
5 8 (4.00%) React
5 8 (4.00%) Redux
6 6 (3.00%) Lambda Expressions
7 5 (2.50%) ADO
7 5 (2.50%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.50%) Node.js
7 5 (2.50%) Vue
8 4 (2.00%) Kafka
9 3 (1.50%) .NET
9 3 (1.50%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.50%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (1.50%) Flask
9 3 (1.50%) LAPP Stack
9 3 (1.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 89 (44.50%) Hedge funds
2 85 (42.50%) Fixed Income
3 77 (38.50%) Derivative
3 77 (38.50%) Equities
4 74 (37.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (6.00%) Clustering
6 6 (3.00%) Pricing Data
7 3 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.50%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.50%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.50%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.50%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.00%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (53.50%) Asset Management
2 102 (51.00%) Agile
3 92 (46.00%) Software Engineering
4 88 (44.00%) Investment Management
5 38 (19.00%) Analytics
6 36 (18.00%) Line Management
7 34 (17.00%) ETL
8 32 (16.00%) Data Modelling
9 31 (15.50%) Data Pipeline
10 30 (15.00%) DevOps
11 25 (12.50%) Greeks
12 22 (11.00%) Data Engineering
13 20 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
14 19 (9.50%) CI/CD
15 18 (9.00%) Business Intelligence
16 17 (8.50%) Unit Testing
17 14 (7.00%) Data Architecture
17 14 (7.00%) Mentoring
17 14 (7.00%) Validation
18 13 (6.50%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 149 (74.50%) Python
2 96 (48.00%) JavaScript
3 89 (44.50%) Java
4 84 (42.00%) TypeScript
5 44 (22.00%) SQL
6 16 (8.00%) Go
7 12 (6.00%) Scala
8 7 (3.50%) Ruby
9 3 (1.50%) C#
9 3 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.00%) Bash
10 2 (1.00%) R
11 1 (0.50%) LookML
11 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (2.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (2.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.50%) Degree
3 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.50%) ISEB
3 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (21.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (16.50%) Terraform
2 22 (11.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (8.50%) Google
2 7 (3.50%) Databricks
2 7 (3.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.50%) Bloomberg
3 3 (1.50%) Informatica
4 2 (1.00%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.50%) FactSet
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle
5 1 (0.50%) SnapLogic