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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 168 339
Rank change year-on-year -58 +171 +293
Permanent jobs citing dbt 145 327 171
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 1.99% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.55% 4.27% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 89 315 159
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £50,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £71,225 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £105,000 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year - +39.72% -11.59%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £145,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £95,000 £73,090
% change year-on-year -13.16% +29.98% -2.55%

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 5,695 7,652 11,338
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.64% 46.68% 46.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,994 4,868 9,839
10th Percentile £32,038 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%

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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 23 January 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 62 (42.76%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (18.62%) Apache
3 8 (5.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.69%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.76%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 95 (65.52%) Snowflake
2 83 (57.24%) AWS
2 83 (57.24%) Azure
3 53 (36.55%) GCP
4 49 (33.79%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (17.24%) GitHub
6 19 (13.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (13.10%) Azure Key Vault
6 19 (13.10%) GitHub Copilot
6 19 (13.10%) Power Platform
7 14 (9.66%) Fivetran
8 10 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (6.90%) Matillion
9 9 (6.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (5.52%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (5.52%) Pulumi
11 4 (2.76%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.76%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.52%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (35.86%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (32.41%) Amazon Athena
3 43 (29.66%) Apache Arrow
3 43 (29.66%) Apache Iceberg
3 43 (29.66%) Dremio
4 33 (22.76%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (20.00%) Data Lake
6 23 (15.86%) Apache Ignite
7 20 (13.79%) Snowflake Schema
8 19 (13.10%) Power BI
9 10 (6.90%) BigQuery
10 9 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (5.52%) Looker
11 8 (5.52%) Redis
11 8 (5.52%) Tableau
12 7 (4.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (4.83%) Metadata
13 6 (4.14%) Data Vault
13 6 (4.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (13.10%) JIRA
2 7 (4.83%) Git
General
1 103 (71.03%) Finance
2 50 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 43 (29.66%) Front Office
4 30 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (17.93%) Banking
6 23 (15.86%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.83%) Retail
8 6 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.14%) Marketing
9 3 (2.07%) Music Industry
10 2 (1.38%) Law
11 1 (0.69%) International Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (46.90%) Senior
2 45 (31.03%) Python Engineer
3 43 (29.66%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (29.66%) AWS Software Engineer
3 43 (29.66%) Python Software Engineer
3 43 (29.66%) Software Engineer
4 23 (15.86%) Java Engineer
4 23 (15.86%) Java Software Engineer
5 22 (15.17%) Developer
6 21 (14.48%) Senior Java Engineer
6 21 (14.48%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 21 (14.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 20 (13.79%) AWS Developer
7 20 (13.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 20 (13.79%) Python Developer
8 19 (13.10%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (13.10%) Data Engineer
9 9 (6.21%) Architect
10 8 (5.52%) Site Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (33.79%) Pandas
2 48 (33.10%) NumPy
3 43 (29.66%) SciPy
4 23 (15.86%) gRPC
4 23 (15.86%) Protocol Buffers
5 22 (15.17%) AngularJS
5 22 (15.17%) Node.js
5 22 (15.17%) React
5 22 (15.17%) Vue
6 11 (7.59%) GraphQL
6 11 (7.59%) OAuth
6 11 (7.59%) OpenAPI
6 11 (7.59%) Swagger
7 10 (6.90%) Django
8 9 (6.21%) Kafka
9 8 (5.52%) YAML
10 6 (4.14%) PySpark
11 5 (3.45%) scikit-learn
12 4 (2.76%) Hugging Face
13 2 (1.38%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.66%) Equities
1 43 (29.66%) Fixed Income
1 43 (29.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 37 (25.52%) Cloud Native
3 23 (15.86%) Derivative
3 23 (15.86%) Hedge funds
3 23 (15.86%) Pricing Data
4 12 (8.28%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.38%) Blog
6 2 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.38%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.69%) Contract for Difference
7 1 (0.69%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.69%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.90%) Linux
2 8 (5.52%) Unix
3 4 (2.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (63.45%) Agile
2 91 (62.76%) Asset Management
3 68 (46.90%) DevOps
4 63 (43.45%) CI/CD
5 58 (40.00%) Data Modelling
6 54 (37.24%) Software Engineering
7 50 (34.48%) Analytics
8 49 (33.79%) Coaching
9 43 (29.66%) Investment Management
10 42 (28.97%) ETL
11 36 (24.83%) Mentoring
12 34 (23.45%) AI
13 32 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (21.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
16 29 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
17 27 (18.62%) Clean Code
17 27 (18.62%) Data Engineering
18 25 (17.24%) Fintech
19 22 (15.17%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 92 (63.45%) Python
2 56 (38.62%) SQL
3 46 (31.72%) JavaScript
4 43 (29.66%) TypeScript
5 33 (22.76%) Java
6 30 (20.69%) PowerShell
7 11 (7.59%) C#
8 6 (4.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.45%) Scala
10 2 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (6.90%) SC Cleared
1 10 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.76%) SnowPro
3 3 (2.07%) Degree
4 2 (1.38%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.97%) Accessibility
2 10 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.38%) NCSC
3 2 (1.38%) NIST
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (6.90%) Docker
2 4 (2.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (24.83%) Terraform
2 4 (2.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.38%) Argo
Vendors
1 38 (26.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.03%) Google
3 13 (8.97%) Databricks
4 9 (6.21%) Talend
5 4 (2.76%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.76%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.76%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.76%) IBM
5 4 (2.76%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.76%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.76%) Zoho
6 2 (1.38%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.69%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.69%) Apple
7 1 (0.69%) Spotify