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 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 431 651 698
Rank change year-on-year +220 +47 +135
Permanent jobs citing dbt 607 306 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.32% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.68% 0.75% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 581 182 80
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,150 £42,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £58,750 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £70,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -15.15% +22.22%
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% -14.29%

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 36,095 40,721 82,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.39% 43.02% 48.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26,995 27,249 41,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,150 £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 1 June 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +225 587 £112,500 +50.00% 106
Work from Home +299 509 £115,000 +35.29% 68
London +242 509 £115,000 +35.29% 68
UK excluding London +20 93 £64,000 -1.54% 40
North of England +64 47 £64,000 -1.54% 17
North West +14 25 £60,000 -4.00% 13
North East - 17 £75,275 - 3
Midlands -11 11 £73,000 +47.87% 6
West Midlands -12 11 £73,000 +47.87% 4
South East +3 10 £75,000 +7.14% 8
South West -29 9 £53,500 -34.15%
Yorkshire +59 5 £42,500 -39.29% 1
Wales +12 5 £66,975 +5.64% 3
Scotland -61 5 £75,150 +36.64% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £75,150 - 2
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
1 435 (71.66%) Apache Airflow
2 344 (56.67%) Apache
3 16 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.65%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 470 (77.43%) AWS
2 402 (66.23%) Snowflake
3 205 (33.77%) GCP
4 46 (7.58%) Azure
5 34 (5.60%) Power Platform
6 28 (4.61%) Fivetran
7 21 (3.46%) Amazon S3
8 19 (3.13%) Prefect
9 17 (2.80%) SaaS
10 16 (2.64%) Dagster
11 14 (2.31%) Amazon EMR
11 14 (2.31%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (2.14%) GitHub
13 11 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (1.81%) Cloud Composer
14 8 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.15%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.15%) Google Analytics
15 7 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.33%) Internet
1 2 (0.33%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 384 (63.26%) Dremio
2 378 (62.27%) Amazon Athena
3 375 (61.78%) Apache Arrow
4 344 (56.67%) Data Lake
5 300 (49.42%) Apache Ignite
6 73 (12.03%) Big Data
7 48 (7.91%) Tableau
8 39 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (5.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (5.93%) BigQuery
9 36 (5.93%) Looker
10 34 (5.60%) Power BI
11 29 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (1.65%) Airbyte
12 10 (1.65%) Data Mining
13 9 (1.48%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.32%) Data Vault
14 8 (1.32%) Metadata
14 8 (1.32%) SQL Server
15 7 (1.15%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 28 (4.61%) Git
2 13 (2.14%) JIRA
3 12 (1.98%) GitLab
4 8 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.66%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.49%) Deequ
6 3 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.33%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 413 (68.04%) Finance
2 327 (53.87%) Front Office
3 310 (51.07%) Banking
4 294 (48.43%) Investment Banking
5 63 (10.38%) Social Skills
6 40 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (4.78%) Digital Economy
8 27 (4.45%) Local Government
8 27 (4.45%) Public Sector
9 18 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (2.97%) Retail
10 16 (2.64%) Games
11 9 (1.48%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.32%) Law
13 7 (1.15%) Marketing
14 4 (0.66%) Music Industry
15 2 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.16%) Legal
16 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.16%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 192 (31.63%) AWS Engineer
2 188 (30.97%) Software Engineer
3 169 (27.84%) Lead
4 145 (23.89%) Python Engineer
5 134 (22.08%) Senior
6 126 (20.76%) Python Software Engineer
7 124 (20.43%) AWS Software Engineer
8 110 (18.12%) Data Engineer
9 105 (17.30%) Java Engineer
10 101 (16.64%) Java Software Engineer
11 93 (15.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 90 (14.83%) Developer
13 84 (13.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 79 (13.01%) Architect
15 72 (11.86%) Technical Leader
16 66 (10.87%) Software Developer
17 65 (10.71%) Team Leader
18 64 (10.54%) Senior Java Engineer
19 62 (10.21%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 60 (9.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (59.47%) gRPC
1 361 (59.47%) Protocol Buffers
2 314 (51.73%) Pandas
3 305 (50.25%) NumPy
4 304 (50.08%) SciPy
5 47 (7.74%) React
6 39 (6.43%) Node.js
7 27 (4.45%) Redux
8 20 (3.29%) Vue
9 18 (2.97%) AngularJS
9 18 (2.97%) Django
10 12 (1.98%) PySpark
11 9 (1.48%) .NET
11 9 (1.48%) ASP.NET
11 9 (1.48%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (1.15%) Apache Beam
13 6 (0.99%) Great Expectations
13 6 (0.99%) Lambda Expressions
13 6 (0.99%) PyTorch
13 6 (0.99%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 351 (57.83%) Hedge funds
2 321 (52.88%) Fixed Income
3 297 (48.93%) Derivative
3 297 (48.93%) Equities
4 288 (47.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 54 (8.90%) Clustering
6 42 (6.92%) Pricing Data
7 31 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (4.78%) Social Media
9 23 (3.79%) Product Ownership
10 13 (2.14%) Client/Server
10 13 (2.14%) Online Games
11 10 (1.65%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.32%) NHS
13 7 (1.15%) Cloud Native
14 6 (0.99%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (0.82%) Replication
16 3 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
17 2 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.66%) Linux
2 1 (0.16%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (65.24%) Agile
2 392 (64.58%) Asset Management
3 332 (54.70%) Investment Management
4 321 (52.88%) Software Engineering
5 125 (20.59%) Analytics
6 116 (19.11%) Greeks
7 115 (18.95%) Line Management
8 87 (14.33%) Data Engineering
9 86 (14.17%) DevOps
10 79 (13.01%) Mentoring
11 66 (10.87%) ETL
12 65 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
13 55 (9.06%) Data Modelling
14 54 (8.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 51 (8.40%) Visualisation
16 49 (8.07%) Roadmaps
17 44 (7.25%) CI/CD
18 41 (6.75%) Data Transformation
19 40 (6.59%) Business Intelligence
20 37 (6.10%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 522 (86.00%) Python
2 358 (58.98%) JavaScript
3 353 (58.15%) Java
4 301 (49.59%) TypeScript
5 120 (19.77%) SQL
6 55 (9.06%) Go
7 22 (3.62%) Scala
8 18 (2.97%) C#
9 12 (1.98%) Ruby
10 5 (0.82%) Perl
10 5 (0.82%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.66%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.49%) C
13 2 (0.33%) Lisp
14 1 (0.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 32 (5.27%) SC Cleared
1 32 (5.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (1.15%) Degree
3 4 (0.66%) ISTQB
4 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.33%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (25.37%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.33%) QA
4 1 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (1.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 88 (14.50%) Terraform
2 64 (10.54%) Kubernetes
3 54 (8.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (5.93%) Google
2 15 (2.47%) Databricks
3 10 (1.65%) Dataiku
3 10 (1.65%) Teradata
4 7 (1.15%) ServiceNow
5 6 (0.99%) F5
6 5 (0.82%) SnapLogic
7 4 (0.66%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.33%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.33%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle
8 2 (0.33%) Snowplow
8 2 (0.33%) Twitter
9 1 (0.16%) Amplitude
9 1 (0.16%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.16%) Facebook
9 1 (0.16%) Informatica
9 1 (0.16%) Vertica