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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 209 217
Rank change year-on-year -132 +8 +294
Permanent jobs citing dbt 78 256 477
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 1.76% 1.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 4.45% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 34 250 458
10th Percentile £47,750 £69,875 £70,465
25th Percentile £63,398 £97,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,277 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £137,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £138,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £74,581 £110,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year -32.20% -2.22% +50.00%

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 7,329 5,747 14,104
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.24% 39.41% 42.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,031 4,134 12,000
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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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 28 May 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 25 (32.05%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (11.54%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.85%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 34 (43.59%) AWS
2 32 (41.03%) Azure
3 28 (35.90%) Snowflake
4 25 (32.05%) GCP
5 15 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (14.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (12.82%) Azure Key Vault
7 10 (12.82%) Cloud Composer
7 10 (12.82%) PaaS
8 9 (11.54%) Power Platform
9 7 (8.97%) Dagster
10 5 (6.41%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (6.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (6.41%) AWS CodeBuild
10 5 (6.41%) Datadog
10 5 (6.41%) Matillion
10 5 (6.41%) Pulumi
10 5 (6.41%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.69%) Broadband
2 5 (6.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.79%) BigQuery
2 14 (17.95%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (12.82%) Looker
4 9 (11.54%) Metadata
4 9 (11.54%) Power BI
5 8 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (7.69%) Data Lake
6 6 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (6.41%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (6.41%) Redis
7 5 (6.41%) Relational Database
7 5 (6.41%) Tableau
8 4 (5.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.85%) Big Data
9 3 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.28%) Airbyte
11 1 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Cucumber
1 5 (6.41%) JMeter
1 5 (6.41%) Locust
2 2 (2.56%) JIRA
3 1 (1.28%) Git
General
1 31 (39.74%) Finance
2 24 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 20 (25.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (20.51%) Law
5 14 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (12.82%) Banking
6 10 (12.82%) Retail
7 6 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.56%) Marketing
9 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.28%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (41.03%) Data Engineer
2 28 (35.90%) Senior
3 12 (15.38%) Senior Data Engineer
4 10 (12.82%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (10.26%) Lead
6 6 (7.69%) Architect
6 6 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Snowflake Architect
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Test Leader
8 4 (5.13%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Applications Support
8 4 (5.13%) Applications Support Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Data Scientist
8 4 (5.13%) Principal Data Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.95%) Kafka
2 5 (6.41%) Django
2 5 (6.41%) Gherkin
2 5 (6.41%) GraphQL
2 5 (6.41%) OAuth
2 5 (6.41%) OpenAPI
2 5 (6.41%) PySpark
2 5 (6.41%) Swagger
2 5 (6.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.82%) Blog
3 8 (10.26%) Data Structures
4 6 (7.69%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (7.69%) Social Media
5 5 (6.41%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.56%) Contract for Difference
6 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.56%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.28%) Clustering
7 1 (1.28%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.28%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Linux
2 5 (6.41%) Unix
3 4 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (52.56%) Data Modelling
2 32 (41.03%) CI/CD
3 31 (39.74%) Data Engineering
3 31 (39.74%) DevOps
4 29 (37.18%) Agile
5 28 (35.90%) Analytics
6 24 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (26.92%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (26.92%) ETL
8 20 (25.64%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (21.79%) Coaching
10 16 (20.51%) Asset Management
10 16 (20.51%) Data Governance
11 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (19.23%) Visualisation
12 14 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (17.95%) Observability
13 13 (16.67%) Mentoring
14 12 (15.38%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 54 (69.23%) SQL
2 46 (58.97%) Python
3 22 (28.21%) Java
4 17 (21.79%) PowerShell
5 8 (10.26%) Scala
6 6 (7.69%) C++
7 5 (6.41%) C#
8 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.28%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (6.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (6.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 10 (12.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.41%) QA
3 5 (6.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (20.51%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (35.90%) Terraform
2 9 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.41%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (6.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.54%) Google
3 6 (7.69%) Databricks
4 4 (5.13%) Ab Initio
4 4 (5.13%) IBM
5 1 (1.28%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle
5 1 (1.28%) Salesforce