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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 218 85
Rank change year-on-year -142 -133 +310
Permanent jobs citing dbt 97 234 803
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 1.41% 3.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 3.92% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 63 231 794
10th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £71,075
25th Percentile £67,079 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,654 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.13% -4.35% +53.03%
75th Percentile £78,312 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £91,000 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £74,830 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -31.97% -4.35% +58.62%

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 8,681 5,966 10,099
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.01% 35.97% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,293 4,382 7,871
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £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% - -4.76%

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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 16 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 16 (16.49%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.06%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.05%) AWS
2 33 (34.02%) GCP
3 22 (22.68%) Azure
4 18 (18.56%) Snowflake
5 13 (13.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (13.40%) Power Platform
6 9 (9.28%) Cloud Composer
7 7 (7.22%) Fivetran
8 6 (6.19%) Dagster
8 6 (6.19%) SaaS
9 5 (5.15%) Datadog
9 5 (5.15%) PaaS
10 3 (3.09%) Alation
10 3 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.09%) GitHub
10 3 (3.09%) Google Ads
10 3 (3.09%) Google Analytics
11 2 (2.06%) Google Tag Manager
11 2 (2.06%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.40%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.15%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.53%) BigQuery
2 13 (13.40%) Power BI
3 11 (11.34%) Metadata
4 10 (10.31%) Looker
5 9 (9.28%) Data Lake
5 9 (9.28%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (9.28%) Semantic Layer
6 7 (7.22%) SQL Server
6 7 (7.22%) Tableau
7 5 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.09%) Big Data
9 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.06%) Airbyte
10 2 (2.06%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (1.03%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (1.03%) Data Vault
11 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.03%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Git
2 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
2 5 (5.15%) JMeter
2 5 (5.15%) Locust
3 3 (3.09%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (59.79%) Social Skills
2 40 (41.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (24.74%) Finance
4 17 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (12.37%) Law
6 11 (11.34%) Retail
7 7 (7.22%) Banking
7 7 (7.22%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.12%) Marketing
9 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Legal
9 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.03%) Advertising
10 1 (1.03%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.03%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (35.05%) Data Engineer
2 31 (31.96%) Senior
3 25 (25.77%) Architect
4 15 (15.46%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (13.40%) ERP Architect
5 13 (13.40%) Python Engineer
5 13 (13.40%) Site Engineer
5 13 (13.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 13 (13.40%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (12.37%) Lead
7 11 (11.34%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 11 (11.34%) Technical Architect
8 6 (6.19%) Analyst
8 6 (6.19%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Test Leader
10 4 (4.12%) Principal Data Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Product Analyst
11 3 (3.09%) Onboarding Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.28%) Kafka
2 5 (5.15%) Gherkin
2 5 (5.15%) PySpark
3 3 (3.09%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.03%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.40%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.25%) Blog
3 5 (5.15%) Anti-Piracy
3 5 (5.15%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.15%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.15%) Social Media
4 4 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.09%) Data Fabric
5 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.09%) Replication
5 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.03%) Clustering
7 1 (1.03%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.03%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.43%) Linux
2 13 (13.40%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.11%) Analytics
2 33 (34.02%) AI
3 32 (32.99%) CI/CD
4 30 (30.93%) Data Engineering
5 28 (28.87%) Data Modelling
6 26 (26.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 25 (25.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (24.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (24.74%) Open Source
8 24 (24.74%) Technical Architecture
9 23 (23.71%) Observability
10 21 (21.65%) Data Governance
10 21 (21.65%) Mentoring
11 20 (20.62%) Collaborative Culture
12 19 (19.59%) Data Pipeline
12 19 (19.59%) DevOps
13 18 (18.56%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (18.56%) Migration
13 18 (18.56%) Visualisation
14 16 (16.49%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 54 (55.67%) Python
2 48 (49.48%) SQL
3 11 (11.34%) Java
4 5 (5.15%) C++
4 5 (5.15%) Scala
5 1 (1.03%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (39.18%) SC Cleared
1 38 (39.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.06%) Degree
2 2 (2.06%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.65%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.28%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.15%) QA
3 5 (5.15%) WCAG
4 2 (2.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (14.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (26.80%) Terraform
2 6 (6.19%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.15%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (23.71%) Google
2 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.37%) OpenAI
4 6 (6.19%) Databricks
5 2 (2.06%) Braze
5 2 (2.06%) Dataiku
5 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.03%) Infor
6 1 (1.03%) Marketo
6 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.03%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud