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 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 344 584 704
Rank change year-on-year +240 +120 -41
Contract jobs citing dbt 230 103 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 0.49% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 81 117
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 £850 £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 13,862 20,912 33,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.56% 36.72% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,858 15,137 24,583
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% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 333 406
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.50 £15.34
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.25
% change year-on-year -31.49% +34.38% -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 18 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +218 210 £800 +39.13% 105
London +208 186 £800 +39.13% 75
Work from Home +212 162 £800 +39.13% 71
UK excluding London +46 16 £475 -17.39% 46
South East +30 6 £450 -21.74% 19
Midlands +17 5 £400 -42.86% 8
West Midlands +19 3 £550 -21.43% 7
East of England -2 3 £625 -10.71%
North of England +21 2 £438 -37.50% 13
East Midlands +5 2 £388 -44.64% 1
North West +15 1 - - 8
Yorkshire +9 1 £438 -37.50% 3

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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
1 153 (66.52%) Apache Airflow
2 121 (52.61%) Apache
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Softmar
2 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 167 (72.61%) AWS
2 139 (60.43%) Snowflake
3 89 (38.70%) GCP
4 23 (10.00%) Azure
5 15 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (6.52%) Serverless
6 13 (5.65%) Amazon S3
7 12 (5.22%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.78%) GitHub
9 7 (3.04%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (3.04%) Fivetran
10 6 (2.61%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.74%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (1.74%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (1.30%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 3 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (60.00%) Amazon Athena
2 126 (54.78%) Apache Arrow
2 126 (54.78%) Dremio
3 113 (49.13%) Data Lake
4 105 (45.65%) Apache Ignite
5 38 (16.52%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (10.00%) Big Data
7 16 (6.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (5.22%) Power BI
9 11 (4.78%) BigQuery
10 7 (3.04%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (3.04%) Tableau
11 6 (2.61%) Looker
12 5 (2.17%) Flink
13 4 (1.74%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.30%) Airbyte
14 3 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
15 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
16 1 (0.43%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 16 (6.96%) Git
2 9 (3.91%) JIRA
3 3 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.43%) Poetry
General
1 135 (58.70%) Finance
2 110 (47.83%) Front Office
3 103 (44.78%) Banking
4 100 (43.48%) Investment Banking
5 10 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.91%) Social Skills
7 3 (1.30%) Marketing
7 3 (1.30%) Retail
8 1 (0.43%) Games
8 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.43%) Law
8 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 67 (29.13%) Software Engineer
2 64 (27.83%) AWS Engineer
3 50 (21.74%) Data Engineer
3 50 (21.74%) Developer
3 50 (21.74%) Senior
4 49 (21.30%) Lead
4 49 (21.30%) Python Engineer
5 43 (18.70%) Python Software Engineer
6 41 (17.83%) AWS Software Engineer
7 39 (16.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 37 (16.09%) Architect
9 33 (14.35%) Java Engineer
9 33 (14.35%) Java Software Engineer
10 30 (13.04%) Senior Software Engineer
10 30 (13.04%) Software Developer
11 26 (11.30%) Python Developer
12 25 (10.87%) Solutions Architect
12 25 (10.87%) Team Leader
13 24 (10.43%) Lead Developer
13 24 (10.43%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (53.48%) gRPC
1 123 (53.48%) Protocol Buffers
2 109 (47.39%) Pandas
3 105 (45.65%) NumPy
3 105 (45.65%) SciPy
4 15 (6.52%) PySpark
5 10 (4.35%) React
5 10 (4.35%) Redux
6 7 (3.04%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.04%) Node.js
6 7 (3.04%) Vue
7 5 (2.17%) ADO
8 3 (1.30%) .NET
8 3 (1.30%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.30%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (1.30%) Flask
9 2 (0.87%) JSON
9 2 (0.87%) Kafka
9 2 (0.87%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 113 (49.13%) Hedge funds
2 107 (46.52%) Fixed Income
3 97 (42.17%) Derivative
3 97 (42.17%) Equities
4 94 (40.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (6.96%) Clustering
6 10 (4.35%) Pricing Data
7 5 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.43%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.43%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.87%) Linux
2 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (57.39%) Asset Management
2 126 (54.78%) Agile
3 111 (48.26%) Software Engineering
4 105 (45.65%) Investment Management
5 44 (19.13%) Line Management
6 40 (17.39%) ETL
7 39 (16.96%) Analytics
8 37 (16.09%) Data Modelling
9 32 (13.91%) Data Pipeline
9 32 (13.91%) DevOps
10 31 (13.48%) Greeks
11 29 (12.61%) Data Engineering
12 20 (8.70%) Data Ingestion
13 17 (7.39%) CI/CD
14 16 (6.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 16 (6.96%) Unit Testing
15 15 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
15 15 (6.52%) Data Architecture
15 15 (6.52%) Data Transformation
16 14 (6.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 176 (76.52%) Python
2 120 (52.17%) JavaScript
3 111 (48.26%) Java
4 104 (45.22%) TypeScript
5 48 (20.87%) SQL
6 20 (8.70%) Go
7 18 (7.83%) Scala
8 7 (3.04%) Ruby
9 3 (1.30%) C#
10 2 (0.87%) Bash
11 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.43%) LookML
11 1 (0.43%) R
11 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (1.74%) Degree
1 4 (1.74%) SC Cleared
1 4 (1.74%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.43%) ISEB
2 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
2 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
2 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.17%) QA
3 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (2.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (14.35%) Terraform
2 24 (10.43%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.39%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.87%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (7.39%) Google
2 7 (3.04%) Ab Initio
2 7 (3.04%) Databricks
2 7 (3.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.30%) Informatica
4 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg
4 2 (0.87%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe
5 1 (0.43%) FactSet
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle
5 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.43%) SAP
5 1 (0.43%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.43%) SnapLogic