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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 115 302
Rank change year-on-year -85 +187 +378
Permanent jobs citing dbt 187 520 180
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 2.77% 0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.37% 6.09% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 140 512 172
10th Percentile £68,806 £60,200 £59,450
25th Percentile £87,238 £77,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +43.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £119,063
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £105,000 £105,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +40.00% -

All Cloud 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 5,547 8,539 9,798
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.27% 45.41% 47.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,083 5,605 8,403
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,100 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £109,600 £99,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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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 13 December 2025.

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
1 108 (57.75%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (27.81%) Apache
3 6 (3.21%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.53%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.07%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 127 (67.91%) AWS
2 113 (60.43%) Snowflake
3 75 (40.11%) GCP
4 74 (39.57%) Azure
5 42 (22.46%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (13.37%) GitHub
7 19 (10.16%) GitHub Copilot
8 18 (9.63%) Power Platform
9 15 (8.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (8.02%) Azure Key Vault
10 14 (7.49%) Fivetran
11 10 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (4.28%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (4.28%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.28%) Pulumi
13 7 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.67%) Matillion
15 4 (2.14%) Amazon SageMaker
15 4 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (2.14%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.28%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.07%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (52.41%) Amazon Athena
2 94 (50.27%) Apache Arrow
2 94 (50.27%) Apache Iceberg
2 94 (50.27%) Dremio
3 58 (31.02%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (28.34%) Data Lake
5 49 (26.20%) Apache Ignite
6 48 (25.67%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (10.70%) Snowflake Schema
8 18 (9.63%) Power BI
9 9 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (4.81%) Looker
9 9 (4.81%) Tableau
10 8 (4.28%) BigQuery
10 8 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (4.28%) Redis
11 7 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (3.74%) Metadata
12 6 (3.21%) Data Vault
12 6 (3.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (10.16%) JIRA
2 8 (4.28%) Git
General
1 144 (77.01%) Finance
2 94 (50.27%) Front Office
3 51 (27.27%) Banking
4 49 (26.20%) Investment Banking
5 44 (23.53%) Social Skills
6 26 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.21%) Retail
8 5 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.67%) Marketing
9 3 (1.60%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.53%) International Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 94 (50.27%) AWS Engineer
1 94 (50.27%) AWS Software Engineer
1 94 (50.27%) Software Engineer
2 93 (49.73%) Senior
3 92 (49.20%) Python Engineer
4 90 (48.13%) Python Software Engineer
5 53 (28.34%) Java Engineer
5 53 (28.34%) Java Software Engineer
6 47 (25.13%) Developer
6 47 (25.13%) Senior Java Engineer
6 47 (25.13%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 47 (25.13%) Senior Software Engineer
7 45 (24.06%) AWS Developer
7 45 (24.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 41 (21.93%) Python Developer
9 16 (8.56%) Data Engineer
10 15 (8.02%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Site Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 6 (3.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (53.48%) Pandas
2 99 (52.94%) NumPy
3 94 (50.27%) SciPy
4 49 (26.20%) gRPC
4 49 (26.20%) Protocol Buffers
5 48 (25.67%) React
6 47 (25.13%) AngularJS
6 47 (25.13%) Node.js
6 47 (25.13%) Vue
7 11 (5.88%) Django
8 9 (4.81%) GraphQL
8 9 (4.81%) OAuth
8 9 (4.81%) OpenAPI
8 9 (4.81%) Swagger
9 6 (3.21%) Kafka
9 6 (3.21%) YAML
10 5 (2.67%) scikit-learn
11 4 (2.14%) Hugging Face
12 2 (1.07%) CSS
12 2 (1.07%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (50.27%) Equities
1 94 (50.27%) Fixed Income
1 94 (50.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 49 (26.20%) Derivative
2 49 (26.20%) Hedge funds
2 49 (26.20%) Pricing Data
3 27 (14.44%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.74%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.07%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.53%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.53%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.28%) Linux
1 8 (4.28%) Unix
2 2 (1.07%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (74.33%) Agile
2 136 (72.73%) Asset Management
3 103 (55.08%) Software Engineering
4 94 (50.27%) Investment Management
5 59 (31.55%) DevOps
6 56 (29.95%) CI/CD
7 51 (27.27%) Risk Management
8 48 (25.67%) Analytics
8 48 (25.67%) Fintech
9 45 (24.06%) Data Modelling
9 45 (24.06%) Order Management
9 45 (24.06%) Performance Attribution
10 44 (23.53%) Coaching
11 36 (19.25%) ETL
12 35 (18.72%) AI
13 34 (18.18%) Mentoring
14 29 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (15.51%) Data Pipeline
15 27 (14.44%) Clean Code
16 26 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 133 (71.12%) Python
2 98 (52.41%) JavaScript
3 94 (50.27%) TypeScript
4 59 (31.55%) Java
5 46 (24.60%) SQL
6 21 (11.23%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.81%) C#
8 5 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.60%) Scala
10 2 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.07%) Ruby
11 1 (0.53%) LookML
Qualifications
1 11 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 11 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.14%) SnowPro
3 3 (1.60%) Degree
4 2 (1.07%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 10 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.74%) NCSC
3 7 (3.74%) NIST
4 6 (3.21%) GDPR
5 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (5.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.07%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (16.58%) Terraform
2 3 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.07%) Argo
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.56%) Google
3 9 (4.81%) Talend
4 8 (4.28%) Databricks
5 4 (2.14%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.14%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.14%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.14%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.14%) Zoho
6 2 (1.07%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.07%) IBM
6 2 (1.07%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.53%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.53%) Apple
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle
7 1 (0.53%) Spotify