dbt Job Trends

dbt (data build tool)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring dbt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 323 534
Rank change year-on-year -87 +211 +96
Permanent jobs citing dbt 284 421 270
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.86% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 2.30% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 161 380 251
10th Percentile £49,625 £61,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £68,813 £75,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £73,090
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +36.82% +0.81%
75th Percentile £97,500 £116,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +21.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

dbt falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,608 18,303 28,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.30% 37.21% 38.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,219 10,901 23,698
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing dbt relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

dbt job vacancy trend in the UK

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing dbt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing dbt

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing dbt over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

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 February 2026. 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 -92 211 £80,000 -23.81% 99
London -83 156 £86,000 -20.00% 68
Work from Home -77 136 £86,000 -18.10% 47
UK excluding London +39 113 £73,801 +6.48% 72
Scotland +38 55 £73,801 +14.65% 5
North of England -26 25 £73,801 +6.48% 22
South East +15 11 £60,000 -20.00% 35
North West +3 10 £73,801 +6.48% 15
Yorkshire -26 10 £80,000 - 6
West Midlands +15 6 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Midlands +7 6 £73,801 +13.54% 5
Wales -2 5 £73,801 +14.65% 1
North East -10 5 £73,801 +6.48% 1
East of England +17 4 £45,000 -50.00%
Northern Ireland -26 4 £73,801 +14.65% 1
South West - 3 £45,000 - 3

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 94 (33.10%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (9.15%) Apache
2 26 (9.15%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.06%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (2.46%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.70%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 148 (52.11%) Azure
2 145 (51.06%) Snowflake
3 140 (49.30%) AWS
4 95 (33.45%) GCP
5 76 (26.76%) Power Platform
6 58 (20.42%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (11.62%) GitHub
8 29 (10.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (10.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (10.21%) Fivetran
9 25 (8.80%) Amazon ECR
9 25 (8.80%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (8.80%) Pulumi
10 24 (8.45%) PaaS
11 23 (8.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (6.69%) Azure Key Vault
13 18 (6.34%) GitHub Copilot
14 17 (5.99%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 17 (5.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 17 (5.99%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.80%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (34.86%) Data Warehouse
2 76 (26.76%) Power BI
3 52 (18.31%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (10.92%) Data Lake
4 31 (10.92%) Tableau
5 30 (10.56%) BigQuery
6 29 (10.21%) Amazon Athena
7 28 (9.86%) Apache Iceberg
7 28 (9.86%) Snowflake Schema
8 27 (9.51%) Elasticsearch
8 27 (9.51%) Redis
8 27 (9.51%) SQL Server
9 26 (9.15%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (8.45%) Apache Arrow
10 24 (8.45%) Dremio
11 19 (6.69%) Looker
12 18 (6.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (5.99%) Metadata
14 15 (5.28%) Relational Database
14 15 (5.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (9.86%) Git
2 18 (6.34%) JIRA
3 9 (3.17%) Visual Studio
4 8 (2.82%) MLflow
5 7 (2.46%) Cucumber
5 7 (2.46%) JMeter
5 7 (2.46%) Locust
6 5 (1.76%) GitLab
General
1 118 (41.55%) Finance
2 102 (35.92%) Social Skills
3 54 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.80%) Front Office
5 23 (8.10%) Banking
6 13 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.58%) Investment Banking
6 13 (4.58%) Law
7 12 (4.23%) Marketing
8 9 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.76%) Digital Health
10 4 (1.41%) Advertising
10 4 (1.41%) Games
11 3 (1.06%) Music Industry
11 3 (1.06%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.06%) Retail
12 2 (0.70%) Automotive
12 2 (0.70%) International Banking
12 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (40.85%) Senior
2 86 (30.28%) Data Engineer
3 34 (11.97%) Senior Data Engineer
4 29 (10.21%) Software Engineer
5 28 (9.86%) Python Engineer
6 26 (9.15%) AWS Engineer
7 24 (8.45%) AWS Software Engineer
7 24 (8.45%) Developer
7 24 (8.45%) Python Software Engineer
8 22 (7.75%) Architect
8 22 (7.75%) Lead
9 21 (7.39%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (7.04%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (6.34%) Analyst
12 17 (5.99%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.28%) Python Developer
14 14 (4.93%) AWS Developer
14 14 (4.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 12 (4.23%) Data Architect
15 12 (4.23%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.51%) Pandas
2 26 (9.15%) Django
3 25 (8.80%) NumPy
4 24 (8.45%) SciPy
5 21 (7.39%) Kafka
6 18 (6.34%) Node.js
7 17 (5.99%) AngularJS
7 17 (5.99%) React
7 17 (5.99%) Vue
8 11 (3.87%) GraphQL
8 11 (3.87%) OAuth
8 11 (3.87%) OpenAPI
8 11 (3.87%) PySpark
8 11 (3.87%) Swagger
9 10 (3.52%) gRPC
9 10 (3.52%) Protocol Buffers
10 8 (2.82%) YAML
11 7 (2.46%) Gherkin
12 4 (1.41%) CSS
12 4 (1.41%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.44%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.51%) Fixed Income
3 24 (8.45%) Equities
3 24 (8.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (5.99%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.87%) Hedge funds
7 10 (3.52%) Derivative
7 10 (3.52%) Pricing Data
8 9 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (3.17%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.11%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (2.11%) Social Media
11 5 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.41%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.41%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.41%) Reinsurance
13 3 (1.06%) Blog
13 3 (1.06%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.86%) Linux
2 25 (8.80%) Unix
3 4 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (49.30%) CI/CD
2 127 (44.72%) Data Modelling
3 125 (44.01%) Analytics
4 117 (41.20%) Agile
5 114 (40.14%) DevOps
6 106 (37.32%) Data Pipeline
7 96 (33.80%) Data Engineering
8 88 (30.99%) ETL
9 85 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
10 77 (27.11%) Business Intelligence
11 73 (25.70%) Infrastructure as Code
12 72 (25.35%) Asset Management
13 67 (23.59%) AI
14 58 (20.42%) Data Governance
14 58 (20.42%) Mentoring
15 54 (19.01%) Coaching
16 53 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
16 53 (18.66%) Observability
17 48 (16.90%) Software Engineering
18 47 (16.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 183 (64.44%) Python
2 151 (53.17%) SQL
3 49 (17.25%) Java
4 36 (12.68%) PowerShell
5 31 (10.92%) JavaScript
6 28 (9.86%) TypeScript
7 21 (7.39%) C#
8 12 (4.23%) Scala
9 6 (2.11%) C++
10 5 (1.76%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.41%) ANSI SQL
11 4 (1.41%) Ruby
12 3 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.70%) PHP
13 2 (0.70%) R
14 1 (0.35%) Bash
14 1 (0.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 36 (12.68%) SC Cleared
1 36 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.23%) Degree
3 7 (2.46%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.11%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 4 (1.41%) PhD
5 4 (1.41%) SnowPro
6 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (20.77%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.45%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.58%) GDPR
4 8 (2.82%) QA
5 7 (2.46%) WCAG
6 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (18.66%) Docker
2 4 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 90 (31.69%) Terraform
2 24 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.99%) AWS Copilot
4 14 (4.93%) Grafana
5 7 (2.46%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.41%) Argo
7 3 (1.06%) Control-M
Vendors
1 55 (19.37%) Microsoft
2 41 (14.44%) Google
3 36 (12.68%) Databricks
4 8 (2.82%) Dataiku
5 6 (2.11%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.11%) Talend
6 5 (1.76%) Informatica
7 4 (1.41%) Ab Initio
7 4 (1.41%) IBM
7 4 (1.41%) Oracle
8 3 (1.06%) Amplitude
8 3 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.70%) Confluent
9 2 (0.70%) Foundry
10 1 (0.35%) Apple
10 1 (0.35%) Facebook
10 1 (0.35%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.35%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.35%) Spotify
10 1 (0.35%) StreamSets