dbt Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 573 705
Rank change year-on-year +245 +132 -30
Contract jobs citing dbt 263 109 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 0.53% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 86 112
10th Percentile £463 £456 £345
25th Percentile £514 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £850 £675 £800
90th Percentile £888 £700 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £575 £750
% change year-on-year -25.00% -23.33% +66.67%
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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +223 244 £800 +39.13% 108
London +223 212 £800 +39.13% 70
Work from Home +237 189 £800 +39.13% 67
UK excluding London +30 23 £431 -25.00% 40
Midlands +22 10 £400 -42.86% 6
South East +10 7 £425 -26.09% 8
East Midlands +8 7 £400 -42.86% 2
West Midlands +10 3 £550 -21.43% 4
North of England +9 3 £406 -18.75% 17
East of England -1 3 £625 -10.71%
North West +13 2 £375 -21.05% 13
Yorkshire +12 1 £438 -37.50% 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
1 177 (67.30%) Apache Airflow
2 144 (54.75%) Apache
3 2 (0.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Softmar
2 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.38%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 194 (73.76%) AWS
2 168 (63.88%) Snowflake
3 98 (37.26%) GCP
4 30 (11.41%) Azure
5 20 (7.60%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (5.32%) GitHub
6 14 (5.32%) Serverless
7 13 (4.94%) Amazon S3
8 11 (4.18%) Fivetran
9 8 (3.04%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.14%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (1.14%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (1.14%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 3 (1.14%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (60.46%) Amazon Athena
2 151 (57.41%) Dremio
3 149 (56.65%) Apache Arrow
4 139 (52.85%) Data Lake
5 122 (46.39%) Apache Ignite
6 47 (17.87%) Data Warehouse
7 28 (10.65%) Big Data
8 20 (7.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (7.60%) Power BI
9 14 (5.32%) Tableau
10 12 (4.56%) BigQuery
10 12 (4.56%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.28%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.90%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.90%) Star Schema
13 4 (1.52%) Flink
13 4 (1.52%) Looker
14 3 (1.14%) Airbyte
14 3 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
15 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (5.32%) Git
2 8 (3.04%) JIRA
3 3 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
General
1 160 (60.84%) Finance
2 133 (50.57%) Front Office
3 124 (47.15%) Banking
4 119 (45.25%) Investment Banking
5 11 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.18%) Social Skills
6 5 (1.90%) Retail
7 3 (1.14%) Marketing
8 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.38%) Games
9 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.38%) Law
9 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 78 (29.66%) Software Engineer
2 72 (27.38%) AWS Engineer
3 61 (23.19%) Senior
4 58 (22.05%) Data Engineer
4 58 (22.05%) Python Engineer
5 56 (21.29%) Lead
6 55 (20.91%) Developer
7 52 (19.77%) Python Software Engineer
8 48 (18.25%) AWS Software Engineer
9 42 (15.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 41 (15.59%) Architect
11 40 (15.21%) Java Engineer
11 40 (15.21%) Java Software Engineer
12 38 (14.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (12.55%) Software Developer
14 29 (11.03%) Python Developer
14 29 (11.03%) Solutions Architect
14 29 (11.03%) Team Leader
15 28 (10.65%) Lead Software Engineer
15 28 (10.65%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (53.99%) gRPC
1 142 (53.99%) Protocol Buffers
2 127 (48.29%) Pandas
3 124 (47.15%) NumPy
4 123 (46.77%) SciPy
5 17 (6.46%) PySpark
6 12 (4.56%) React
6 12 (4.56%) Redux
7 9 (3.42%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.42%) Node.js
7 9 (3.42%) Vue
8 5 (1.90%) ADO
9 3 (1.14%) .NET
9 3 (1.14%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.14%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (1.14%) Flask
9 3 (1.14%) Snowpark
10 2 (0.76%) JSON
11 1 (0.38%) EDI
11 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 137 (52.09%) Hedge funds
2 131 (49.81%) Fixed Income
3 119 (45.25%) Derivative
3 119 (45.25%) Equities
4 116 (44.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (6.84%) Clustering
6 14 (5.32%) Pricing Data
7 9 (3.42%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.14%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.76%) Life Science
11 1 (0.38%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.38%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.38%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.38%) Linux
1 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (59.32%) Asset Management
2 148 (56.27%) Agile
3 129 (49.05%) Software Engineering
4 124 (47.15%) Investment Management
5 52 (19.77%) Line Management
6 44 (16.73%) ETL
7 43 (16.35%) Data Modelling
8 38 (14.45%) Analytics
9 37 (14.07%) Greeks
10 34 (12.93%) DevOps
11 33 (12.55%) Data Engineering
11 33 (12.55%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (7.98%) Data Ingestion
13 18 (6.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 17 (6.46%) Unit Testing
15 16 (6.08%) CI/CD
15 16 (6.08%) Data Transformation
16 15 (5.70%) Validation
17 14 (5.32%) Business Intelligence
18 13 (4.94%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 200 (76.05%) Python
2 139 (52.85%) JavaScript
3 130 (49.43%) Java
4 121 (46.01%) TypeScript
5 56 (21.29%) SQL
6 23 (8.75%) Go
7 17 (6.46%) Scala
8 6 (2.28%) Ruby
9 3 (1.14%) C#
10 2 (0.76%) Bash
11 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (1.90%) Degree
2 4 (1.52%) SC Cleared
2 4 (1.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.38%) ISEB
3 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.38%) PhD
3 1 (0.38%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (19.77%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.90%) QA
3 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (2.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (12.55%) Terraform
2 26 (9.89%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (7.22%) Google
2 8 (3.04%) Ab Initio
3 7 (2.66%) Databricks
3 7 (2.66%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.90%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.14%) Informatica
6 2 (0.76%) Dataiku
6 2 (0.76%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe
7 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.38%) FactSet
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle
7 1 (0.38%) SAP
7 1 (0.38%) Sitecore