dbt (data build tool)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for dbt skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited dbt over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 455 670 734
Rank change year-on-year +215 +64 +82
Permanent jobs citing dbt 517 317 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.32% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 0.74% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 490 173 85
10th Percentile £52,400 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £73,125 £62,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £143,750 £105,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £122,500 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.54% +44.44% -18.18%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,421 42,712 77,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.07% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,675 28,032 41,298
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +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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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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for dbt in the UK

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Top 16 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 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +224 503 £112,500 +50.00% 106
London +200 430 £115,000 +35.29% 76
Work from Home +282 422 £115,000 +35.29% 71
UK excluding London +7 82 £64,000 -1.54% 46
North of England +78 45 £64,000 -1.54% 13
North West +22 24 £60,000 -4.00% 8
North East - 16 £75,400 - 2
West Midlands +12 9 £73,000 +47.87% 7
South East +9 9 £75,000 +7.14% 19
Midlands -9 9 £73,000 +47.87% 8
South West -29 9 £53,500 -35.15%
Yorkshire +76 5 £42,500 -34.62% 3
Wales +8 3 £67,100 +5.84% 2
Scotland -60 3 £75,400 +37.09% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £75,400 - 1
East of England - 1 £52,500 -

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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
1 366 (70.79%) Apache Airflow
2 281 (54.35%) Apache
3 16 (3.09%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.93%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 389 (75.24%) AWS
2 344 (66.54%) Snowflake
3 178 (34.43%) GCP
4 40 (7.74%) Azure
5 27 (5.22%) Fivetran
5 27 (5.22%) Power Platform
6 21 (4.06%) Amazon S3
7 19 (3.68%) Prefect
8 18 (3.48%) SaaS
9 14 (2.71%) Amazon EMR
9 14 (2.71%) Amazon Kinesis
10 13 (2.51%) GitHub
11 12 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (2.13%) Cloud Composer
13 10 (1.93%) Dagster
14 8 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.35%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.35%) Serverless
16 6 (1.16%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Internet
1 2 (0.39%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (60.15%) Amazon Athena
2 309 (59.77%) Dremio
3 306 (59.19%) Apache Arrow
4 273 (52.80%) Data Lake
5 245 (47.39%) Apache Ignite
6 59 (11.41%) Big Data
7 42 (8.12%) Tableau
8 37 (7.16%) Looker
9 36 (6.96%) BigQuery
9 36 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (6.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 29 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (5.22%) Power BI
13 10 (1.93%) Airbyte
13 10 (1.93%) Data Mining
14 9 (1.74%) Relational Database
15 8 (1.55%) Metadata
15 8 (1.55%) SQL Server
16 7 (1.35%) RDBMS
16 7 (1.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (5.61%) Git
2 12 (2.32%) GitLab
2 12 (2.32%) JIRA
3 8 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.77%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.58%) Deequ
5 3 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.39%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 337 (65.18%) Finance
2 258 (49.90%) Front Office
3 246 (47.58%) Banking
4 235 (45.45%) Investment Banking
5 63 (12.19%) Social Skills
6 29 (5.61%) Digital Economy
7 27 (5.22%) Local Government
7 27 (5.22%) Public Sector
8 26 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (3.48%) Retail
10 17 (3.29%) Games
11 16 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (1.74%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.55%) Law
14 7 (1.35%) Marketing
15 4 (0.77%) Music Industry
16 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
17 1 (0.19%) Legal
17 1 (0.19%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.19%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 159 (30.75%) AWS Engineer
2 152 (29.40%) Software Engineer
3 135 (26.11%) Lead
4 112 (21.66%) Python Engineer
5 108 (20.89%) Senior
6 103 (19.92%) Data Engineer
7 99 (19.15%) Python Software Engineer
8 97 (18.76%) AWS Software Engineer
9 83 (16.05%) Java Engineer
10 79 (15.28%) Developer
10 79 (15.28%) Java Software Engineer
11 73 (14.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 71 (13.73%) Senior Software Engineer
13 64 (12.38%) Architect
14 59 (11.41%) Software Developer
15 57 (11.03%) Team Leader
16 52 (10.06%) Solutions Architect
17 50 (9.67%) Lead Developer
17 50 (9.67%) Lead Software Engineer
18 48 (9.28%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (58.03%) gRPC
1 300 (58.03%) Protocol Buffers
2 253 (48.94%) Pandas
3 244 (47.20%) NumPy
4 243 (47.00%) SciPy
5 36 (6.96%) React
6 28 (5.42%) Node.js
7 23 (4.45%) Redux
8 16 (3.09%) Vue
9 14 (2.71%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.13%) Django
11 9 (1.74%) .NET
11 9 (1.74%) ASP.NET
11 9 (1.74%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (1.35%) Apache Beam
13 6 (1.16%) Great Expectations
13 6 (1.16%) Lambda Expressions
13 6 (1.16%) PySpark
13 6 (1.16%) PyTorch
13 6 (1.16%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 285 (55.13%) Hedge funds
2 257 (49.71%) Fixed Income
3 237 (45.84%) Derivative
3 237 (45.84%) Equities
4 228 (44.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 48 (9.28%) Clustering
6 31 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (5.80%) Pricing Data
8 29 (5.61%) Social Media
9 15 (2.90%) Product Ownership
10 13 (2.51%) Client/Server
10 13 (2.51%) Online Games
11 10 (1.93%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.55%) NHS
13 7 (1.35%) Cloud Native
14 6 (1.16%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (0.97%) Replication
16 3 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
17 2 (0.39%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.77%) Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (62.09%) Agile
2 316 (61.12%) Asset Management
3 270 (52.22%) Investment Management
4 259 (50.10%) Software Engineering
5 114 (22.05%) Analytics
6 99 (19.15%) Line Management
7 92 (17.79%) Greeks
8 80 (15.47%) Data Engineering
9 73 (14.12%) DevOps
10 71 (13.73%) Mentoring
11 68 (13.15%) ETL
12 65 (12.57%) Data Pipeline
13 55 (10.64%) Data Modelling
14 53 (10.25%) Visualisation
15 48 (9.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 41 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
16 41 (7.93%) Data Transformation
16 41 (7.93%) Roadmaps
17 37 (7.16%) Thought Leadership
18 36 (6.96%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 438 (84.72%) Python
2 297 (57.45%) JavaScript
3 290 (56.09%) Java
4 246 (47.58%) TypeScript
5 113 (21.86%) SQL
6 49 (9.48%) Go
7 23 (4.45%) Scala
8 18 (3.48%) C#
9 13 (2.51%) Ruby
10 5 (0.97%) Perl
10 5 (0.97%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.77%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.58%) C
13 2 (0.39%) Lisp
14 1 (0.19%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (3.48%) SC Cleared
1 18 (3.48%) Security Cleared
2 7 (1.35%) Degree
3 4 (0.77%) ISTQB
4 3 (0.58%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (24.95%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.19%) GDPR
3 1 (0.19%) QA
System Software
1 10 (1.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 81 (15.67%) Terraform
2 57 (11.03%) Kubernetes
3 48 (9.28%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (6.77%) Google
2 14 (2.71%) Databricks
3 10 (1.93%) Dataiku
3 10 (1.93%) Teradata
4 6 (1.16%) F5
5 5 (0.97%) SnapLogic
6 4 (0.77%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.39%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.39%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.39%) Snowplow
7 2 (0.39%) Twitter
8 1 (0.19%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.19%) Facebook
8 1 (0.19%) Informatica
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle
8 1 (0.19%) Vertica