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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 588 726
Rank change year-on-year +241 +138 -71
Contract jobs citing dbt 236 106 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 0.50% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 84 113
10th Percentile £463 £450 £345
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £859 £675 £800
90th Percentile £888 £700 £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 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

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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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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 20 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 20 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 +225 216 £800 +39.13% 116
London +212 192 £800 +39.13% 85
Work from Home +222 167 £800 +39.13% 69
UK excluding London +37 16 £475 -17.39% 51
South East +18 6 £450 -21.74% 23
Midlands +12 5 £400 -42.86% 8
West Midlands +17 3 £550 -21.43% 7
East of England +5 3 £625 -10.71% 1
North of England +16 2 £438 -12.50% 13
East Midlands +8 2 £388 -44.64% 1
Yorkshire +13 1 £438 -37.50% 3
North West +8 1 - - 8

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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
1 159 (67.37%) Apache Airflow
2 125 (52.97%) Apache
3 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Softmar
2 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.42%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 173 (73.31%) AWS
2 145 (61.44%) Snowflake
3 93 (39.41%) GCP
4 23 (9.75%) Azure
5 15 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (6.36%) Serverless
6 13 (5.51%) Amazon S3
7 12 (5.08%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.66%) GitHub
9 7 (2.97%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (2.97%) Fivetran
10 6 (2.54%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.69%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (1.27%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 3 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (61.02%) Amazon Athena
2 132 (55.93%) Apache Arrow
2 132 (55.93%) Dremio
3 119 (50.42%) Data Lake
4 109 (46.19%) Apache Ignite
5 38 (16.10%) Data Warehouse
6 25 (10.59%) Big Data
7 16 (6.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (5.08%) Power BI
9 11 (4.66%) BigQuery
10 7 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (2.97%) Tableau
11 6 (2.54%) Looker
12 5 (2.12%) Flink
13 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.27%) Airbyte
14 3 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
15 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
16 1 (0.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (6.78%) Git
2 9 (3.81%) JIRA
3 3 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.42%) Poetry
General
1 141 (59.75%) Finance
2 114 (48.31%) Front Office
3 107 (45.34%) Banking
4 104 (44.07%) Investment Banking
5 10 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.81%) Social Skills
7 3 (1.27%) Marketing
7 3 (1.27%) Retail
8 1 (0.42%) Games
8 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.42%) Law
8 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.42%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 69 (29.24%) Software Engineer
2 66 (27.97%) AWS Engineer
3 52 (22.03%) Developer
4 51 (21.61%) Lead
5 50 (21.19%) Data Engineer
5 50 (21.19%) Python Engineer
5 50 (21.19%) Senior
6 44 (18.64%) Python Software Engineer
7 41 (17.37%) AWS Software Engineer
7 41 (17.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 39 (16.53%) Architect
9 34 (14.41%) Java Engineer
9 34 (14.41%) Java Software Engineer
10 32 (13.56%) Software Developer
11 30 (12.71%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (11.44%) Python Developer
12 27 (11.44%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (11.44%) Team Leader
13 26 (11.02%) Lead Developer
13 26 (11.02%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (54.66%) gRPC
1 129 (54.66%) Protocol Buffers
2 113 (47.88%) Pandas
3 109 (46.19%) NumPy
3 109 (46.19%) SciPy
4 15 (6.36%) PySpark
5 10 (4.24%) React
5 10 (4.24%) Redux
6 7 (2.97%) AngularJS
6 7 (2.97%) Node.js
6 7 (2.97%) Vue
7 5 (2.12%) ADO
8 3 (1.27%) .NET
8 3 (1.27%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.27%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (1.27%) Flask
9 2 (0.85%) JSON
9 2 (0.85%) Kafka
9 2 (0.85%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (0.85%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 119 (50.42%) Hedge funds
2 111 (47.03%) Fixed Income
3 101 (42.80%) Derivative
3 101 (42.80%) Equities
4 98 (41.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (7.63%) Clustering
6 10 (4.24%) Pricing Data
7 5 (2.12%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.42%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.42%) FMCG
9 1 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.42%) Life Science
9 1 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (58.47%) Asset Management
2 130 (55.08%) Agile
3 115 (48.73%) Software Engineering
4 107 (45.34%) Investment Management
5 48 (20.34%) Line Management
6 40 (16.95%) ETL
7 39 (16.53%) Analytics
8 37 (15.68%) Data Modelling
9 34 (14.41%) DevOps
10 32 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
11 31 (13.14%) Greeks
12 29 (12.29%) Data Engineering
13 20 (8.47%) Data Ingestion
14 18 (7.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 17 (7.20%) CI/CD
16 16 (6.78%) Unit Testing
17 15 (6.36%) Business Intelligence
17 15 (6.36%) Data Architecture
17 15 (6.36%) Data Transformation
18 14 (5.93%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 182 (77.12%) Python
2 126 (53.39%) JavaScript
3 117 (49.58%) Java
4 108 (45.76%) TypeScript
5 48 (20.34%) SQL
6 22 (9.32%) Go
7 18 (7.63%) Scala
8 7 (2.97%) Ruby
9 3 (1.27%) C#
10 2 (0.85%) Bash
11 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.42%) LookML
11 1 (0.42%) R
11 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (1.69%) Degree
1 4 (1.69%) SC Cleared
1 4 (1.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.42%) ISEB
2 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
2 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
2 1 (0.42%) PhD
2 1 (0.42%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (19.49%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.12%) QA
3 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.42%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (2.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (14.83%) Terraform
2 26 (11.02%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.05%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (7.20%) Google
2 7 (2.97%) Ab Initio
2 7 (2.97%) Databricks
2 7 (2.97%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.27%) Informatica
4 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg
4 2 (0.85%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.42%) Adobe
5 1 (0.42%) FactSet
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle
5 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.42%) SAP
5 1 (0.42%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.42%) SnapLogic