Hybrid/Remote dbt Job Trends

dbt (data build tool)
UK > Work from Home

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 225 86
Rank change year-on-year -137 -139 +303
Permanent jobs citing dbt 91 228 799
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 1.38% 3.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 3.84% 7.96%
Number of salaries quoted 63 225 791
10th Percentile £62,500 £69,250 £71,075
25th Percentile £67,079 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,654 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.08% - +53.03%
75th Percentile £78,312 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £91,000 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £74,846 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -31.96% -4.35% +64.29%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,673 5,940 10,043
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.88% 35.92% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,303 4,355 7,809
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,749 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing dbt and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

dbt job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing dbt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing dbt

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing dbt over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

dbt salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 10 (10.99%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.20%) Apache
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.77%) AWS
2 27 (29.67%) GCP
3 21 (23.08%) Azure
4 17 (18.68%) Snowflake
5 13 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (13.19%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.59%) Fivetran
7 6 (6.59%) SaaS
8 5 (5.49%) Datadog
8 5 (5.49%) PaaS
9 4 (4.40%) Cloud Composer
10 3 (3.30%) Alation
10 3 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.30%) GitHub
10 3 (3.30%) Google Ads
10 3 (3.30%) Google Analytics
11 2 (2.20%) AppsFlyer
11 2 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.20%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.19%) BigQuery
1 12 (13.19%) Power BI
2 10 (10.99%) Looker
3 9 (9.89%) Data Lake
3 9 (9.89%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (9.89%) Semantic Layer
4 7 (7.69%) Tableau
5 6 (6.59%) Metadata
5 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.20%) Airbyte
8 2 (2.20%) Big Data
8 2 (2.20%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.10%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.10%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 8 (8.79%) Git
2 5 (5.49%) Cucumber
2 5 (5.49%) JMeter
2 5 (5.49%) Locust
3 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (58.24%) Social Skills
2 40 (43.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (26.37%) Finance
4 17 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.09%) Retail
6 7 (7.69%) Banking
6 7 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (7.69%) Law
7 4 (4.40%) Marketing
8 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Legal
8 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.10%) Advertising
9 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.10%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (31.87%) Data Engineer
2 26 (28.57%) Senior
3 24 (26.37%) Architect
4 13 (14.29%) ERP Architect
4 13 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) Site Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (13.19%) Lead
6 11 (12.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 11 (12.09%) Technical Architect
7 10 (10.99%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Analyst
8 6 (6.59%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Test Leader
10 4 (4.40%) Principal Data Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Product Analyst
11 3 (3.30%) Onboarding Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) Gherkin
1 5 (5.49%) PySpark
2 4 (4.40%) Kafka
3 3 (3.30%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.10%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.79%) Blog
3 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.30%) Replication
5 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.20%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.10%) Clustering
7 1 (1.10%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.10%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Linux
2 13 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.26%) AI
2 32 (35.16%) CI/CD
3 31 (34.07%) Analytics
4 26 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 25 (27.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (26.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (26.37%) Data Engineering
6 24 (26.37%) Open Source
6 24 (26.37%) Technical Architecture
7 23 (25.27%) Observability
8 22 (24.18%) Data Modelling
9 21 (23.08%) Mentoring
10 20 (21.98%) Collaborative Culture
11 19 (20.88%) DevOps
12 18 (19.78%) Migration
13 17 (18.68%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (17.58%) Agile
14 16 (17.58%) Collaborative Engineering
14 16 (17.58%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (16.48%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 48 (52.75%) Python
2 43 (47.25%) SQL
3 6 (6.59%) Java
Qualifications
1 38 (41.76%) SC Cleared
1 38 (41.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.20%) Degree
2 2 (2.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.89%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.49%) QA
3 5 (5.49%) WCAG
4 2 (2.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (28.57%) Terraform
2 6 (6.59%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.49%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (25.27%) Google
2 17 (18.68%) Microsoft
3 12 (13.19%) OpenAI
4 6 (6.59%) Databricks
5 2 (2.20%) Braze
5 2 (2.20%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.10%) Infor
6 1 (1.10%) Marketo
6 1 (1.10%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud