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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 202 122
Rank change year-on-year -148 -80 +330
Permanent jobs citing dbt 82 250 775
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 1.51% 2.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.98% 4.07% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 55 247 757
10th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £71,075
25th Percentile £67,531 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,654 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.13% -4.35% +43.75%
75th Percentile £79,383 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £91,250 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% -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 8,339 6,148 13,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.05% 37.24% 41.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,923 4,539 10,887
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,720 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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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 July 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 19 (23.17%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (8.54%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.44%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 28 (34.15%) AWS
2 22 (26.83%) GCP
3 16 (19.51%) Azure
4 12 (14.63%) Snowflake
5 11 (13.41%) Power Platform
6 10 (12.20%) Cloud Composer
6 10 (12.20%) PaaS
7 7 (8.54%) Dagster
8 6 (7.32%) SaaS
9 5 (6.10%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (6.10%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 5 (6.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (6.10%) AWS CodeBuild
9 5 (6.10%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (6.10%) Datadog
9 5 (6.10%) Pulumi
9 5 (6.10%) Sentry
10 3 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.32%) Broadband
2 5 (6.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.51%) BigQuery
2 11 (13.41%) Power BI
3 10 (12.20%) Looker
4 9 (10.98%) Metadata
5 7 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (7.32%) Data Lake
6 6 (7.32%) Semantic Layer
6 6 (7.32%) Tableau
7 5 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (6.10%) Redis
8 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.66%) Big Data
10 2 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.44%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.22%) Airbyte
11 1 (1.22%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (1.22%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Cucumber
1 5 (6.10%) JMeter
1 5 (6.10%) Locust
2 4 (4.88%) Git
General
1 43 (52.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 41 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (18.29%) Finance
3 15 (18.29%) Law
4 11 (13.41%) Retail
5 9 (10.98%) Banking
6 6 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.44%) Marketing
8 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (40.24%) Data Engineer
2 25 (30.49%) Architect
3 20 (24.39%) Senior
4 15 (18.29%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (15.85%) ERP Architect
5 13 (15.85%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (13.41%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 11 (13.41%) Technical Architect
7 8 (9.76%) Lead
8 7 (8.54%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Test Leader
11 4 (4.88%) Data Scientist
11 4 (4.88%) Principal Data Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
12 3 (3.66%) Analyst
13 2 (2.44%) Data Analyst
13 2 (2.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.63%) Kafka
2 5 (6.10%) Django
2 5 (6.10%) Gherkin
2 5 (6.10%) PySpark
3 1 (1.22%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.98%) Blog
2 8 (9.76%) Data Structures
3 7 (8.54%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.32%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (7.32%) Social Media
5 5 (6.10%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.66%) Data Fabric
8 2 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.44%) Contract for Difference
8 2 (2.44%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.22%) Clustering
9 1 (1.22%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.76%) Linux
2 5 (6.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (35.37%) Open Source
2 27 (32.93%) Analytics
3 24 (29.27%) Agile
3 24 (29.27%) Data Engineering
3 24 (29.27%) Data Modelling
3 24 (29.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 24 (29.27%) Technical Architecture
4 23 (28.05%) Migration
5 22 (26.83%) AI
6 18 (21.95%) CI/CD
7 17 (20.73%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (19.51%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (19.51%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (19.51%) Prototyping
9 15 (18.29%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (18.29%) Data Governance
9 15 (18.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (18.29%) Observability
10 14 (17.07%) Visualisation
11 13 (15.85%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 42 (51.22%) Python
1 42 (51.22%) SQL
2 19 (23.17%) Java
3 6 (7.32%) C++
3 6 (7.32%) Scala
4 1 (1.22%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (36.59%) SC Cleared
1 30 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.51%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.10%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.10%) QA
2 5 (6.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (19.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (21.95%) Terraform
2 8 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.10%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (6.10%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.41%) OpenAI
3 9 (10.98%) Google
4 5 (6.10%) Databricks
5 1 (1.22%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle
5 1 (1.22%) Salesforce