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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 168 282
Rank change year-on-year -131 +114 +262
Permanent jobs citing dbt 93 275 347
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 2.04% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 4.68% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 37 269 333
10th Percentile £60,900 £72,500 £60,200
25th Percentile £66,091 £97,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,677 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £137,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £92,700 £138,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £102,500
% change year-on-year -31.82% +7.32% +36.67%

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 6,825 5,874 14,014
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.68% 43.63% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,625 4,628 12,024
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,631
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,188 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,182 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.16% +6.40% -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 30 April 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 27 (29.03%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (12.90%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.15%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 52 (55.91%) Azure
2 44 (47.31%) Snowflake
3 39 (41.94%) AWS
4 30 (32.26%) GCP
5 28 (30.11%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (17.20%) Azure Key Vault
7 14 (15.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (13.98%) Power Platform
9 11 (11.83%) GitHub
10 10 (10.75%) PaaS
11 9 (9.68%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (8.60%) Cloud Composer
13 7 (7.53%) Matillion
14 6 (6.45%) Dagster
15 5 (5.38%) Amazon ECR
15 5 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (5.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 5 (5.38%) AWS CodeBuild
15 5 (5.38%) Pulumi
15 5 (5.38%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.45%) Broadband
2 5 (5.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (26.88%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (16.13%) BigQuery
3 13 (13.98%) Power BI
4 11 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (10.75%) Metadata
6 9 (9.68%) Looker
7 7 (7.53%) Relational Database
7 7 (7.53%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (7.53%) Tableau
8 6 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (5.38%) Redis
10 4 (4.30%) Data Lake
10 4 (4.30%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (4.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (3.23%) Big Data
11 3 (3.23%) Data Vault
12 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
13 1 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 9 (9.68%) JIRA
2 5 (5.38%) Cucumber
2 5 (5.38%) JMeter
2 5 (5.38%) Locust
3 2 (2.15%) Git
General
1 42 (45.16%) Finance
2 32 (34.41%) Social Skills
3 23 (24.73%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (18.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (13.98%) Law
6 7 (7.53%) Banking
6 7 (7.53%) Retail
7 4 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Marketing
9 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Music Industry
9 1 (1.08%) Publishing
9 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (39.78%) Senior
2 31 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 16 (17.20%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (10.75%) Lead
4 10 (10.75%) Senior Data Engineer
5 7 (7.53%) Architect
6 6 (6.45%) Snowflake Architect
7 5 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Test Leader
8 4 (4.30%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Applications Support
8 4 (4.30%) Applications Support Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Data Scientist
8 4 (4.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Analyst
9 3 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.13%) Kafka
2 8 (8.60%) GraphQL
2 8 (8.60%) OAuth
2 8 (8.60%) OpenAPI
2 8 (8.60%) Swagger
2 8 (8.60%) YAML
3 5 (5.38%) Django
3 5 (5.38%) Gherkin
3 5 (5.38%) PySpark
4 2 (2.15%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.15%) CSS
4 2 (2.15%) HTML
4 2 (2.15%) Node.js
4 2 (2.15%) React
4 2 (2.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.96%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.60%) Data Structures
3 7 (7.53%) Blog
4 6 (6.45%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (6.45%) Social Media
5 5 (5.38%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.15%) Contract for Difference
6 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.15%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.08%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.60%) Linux
2 5 (5.38%) Unix
3 4 (4.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (54.84%) Data Modelling
2 46 (49.46%) CI/CD
2 46 (49.46%) DevOps
3 45 (48.39%) Agile
4 37 (39.78%) Analytics
5 35 (37.63%) Data Engineering
6 31 (33.33%) Coaching
7 30 (32.26%) ETL
8 29 (31.18%) Asset Management
9 28 (30.11%) Data Pipeline
9 28 (30.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (27.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (21.51%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (20.43%) Data Governance
13 19 (20.43%) Mentoring
14 18 (19.35%) Migration
15 16 (17.20%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (17.20%) Observability
15 16 (17.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 59 (63.44%) SQL
2 52 (55.91%) Python
3 25 (26.88%) Java
4 23 (24.73%) PowerShell
5 9 (9.68%) Scala
6 8 (8.60%) C#
7 6 (6.45%) C++
8 3 (3.23%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.15%) Ruby
10 1 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.08%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (7.53%) SC Cleared
1 7 (7.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.15%) Degree
2 2 (2.15%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.05%) Accessibility
2 12 (12.90%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.38%) QA
3 5 (5.38%) WCAG
4 1 (1.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (17.20%) Docker
2 4 (4.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (33.33%) Terraform
2 10 (10.75%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.38%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (5.38%) Grafana
4 2 (2.15%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.68%) Databricks
3 8 (8.60%) Google
4 4 (4.30%) Ab Initio
4 4 (4.30%) IBM
5 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.15%) Talend
6 1 (1.08%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.08%) Apple
6 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle
6 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.08%) Spotify