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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 161 347
Rank change year-on-year -112 +186 +249
Permanent jobs citing dbt 114 299 203
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 2.20% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 4.63% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 50 287 190
10th Percentile £62,500 £64,471 £60,000
25th Percentile £68,813 £76,250 £69,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,588 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% - +23.53%
75th Percentile £87,500 £122,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £140,250 £155,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +23.53% +13.33%

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 6,350 6,453 13,590
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.59% 47.53% 45.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,279 4,736 11,834
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,899 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 17 March 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 33 (28.95%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (10.53%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.26%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.88%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 76 (66.67%) Azure
2 68 (59.65%) Snowflake
3 52 (45.61%) AWS
4 42 (36.84%) GCP
5 39 (34.21%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 17 (14.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (14.04%) GitHub
8 16 (14.04%) Power Platform
9 15 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (12.28%) GitHub Copilot
11 13 (11.40%) Amazon ECR
11 13 (11.40%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (11.40%) Pulumi
12 11 (9.65%) Fivetran
13 10 (8.77%) Matillion
14 9 (7.89%) PaaS
15 7 (6.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (6.14%) Cloud Composer
16 6 (5.26%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.40%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (36.84%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (14.04%) Power BI
4 15 (13.16%) BigQuery
5 14 (12.28%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (12.28%) Metadata
5 14 (12.28%) Snowflake Schema
6 13 (11.40%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (11.40%) Redis
7 9 (7.89%) Data Lake
8 8 (7.02%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (6.14%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.39%) Data Vault
10 5 (4.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (3.51%) Apache Arrow
11 4 (3.51%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (3.51%) Apache Ignite
11 4 (3.51%) Dremio
11 4 (3.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (12.28%) JIRA
2 4 (3.51%) Cucumber
2 4 (3.51%) JMeter
2 4 (3.51%) Locust
3 3 (2.63%) Git
General
1 54 (47.37%) Finance
2 47 (41.23%) Social Skills
3 24 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (7.89%) Law
6 8 (7.02%) Banking
7 4 (3.51%) Front Office
7 4 (3.51%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.63%) Retail
9 2 (1.75%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.88%) International Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.88%) Publishing
10 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (51.75%) Senior
2 31 (27.19%) Data Engineer
3 19 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (7.02%) Architect
5 8 (7.02%) Lead
5 8 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (7.02%) Site Engineer
5 8 (7.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (5.26%) Python Engineer
6 6 (5.26%) Snowflake Architect
7 5 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) AWS Software Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Python Software Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.16%) Kafka
2 13 (11.40%) Django
3 11 (9.65%) GraphQL
3 11 (9.65%) OAuth
3 11 (9.65%) OpenAPI
3 11 (9.65%) Swagger
4 8 (7.02%) YAML
5 5 (4.39%) NumPy
5 5 (4.39%) Pandas
5 5 (4.39%) PySpark
6 4 (3.51%) Gherkin
6 4 (3.51%) gRPC
6 4 (3.51%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (3.51%) SciPy
7 2 (1.75%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.75%) CSS
7 2 (1.75%) HTML
7 2 (1.75%) Node.js
7 2 (1.75%) React
7 2 (1.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (28.07%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.02%) Data Structures
4 6 (5.26%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (5.26%) Social Media
5 5 (4.39%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.51%) Derivative
6 4 (3.51%) Equities
6 4 (3.51%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.51%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.51%) Pricing Data
7 3 (2.63%) Blog
8 2 (1.75%) Contract for Difference
8 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.75%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.04%) Linux
2 13 (11.40%) Unix
3 4 (3.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (57.89%) CI/CD
1 66 (57.89%) DevOps
2 60 (52.63%) Agile
2 60 (52.63%) Data Modelling
3 46 (40.35%) Asset Management
4 44 (38.60%) Analytics
4 44 (38.60%) Coaching
5 39 (34.21%) ETL
5 39 (34.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (29.82%) Data Engineering
7 30 (26.32%) Mentoring
7 30 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (25.44%) Data Pipeline
9 28 (24.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (23.68%) Clean Code
11 24 (21.05%) Data Governance
11 24 (21.05%) Migration
12 23 (20.18%) AI
12 23 (20.18%) Observability
13 21 (18.42%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (57.89%) Python
2 62 (54.39%) SQL
3 29 (25.44%) PowerShell
4 28 (24.56%) Java
5 11 (9.65%) C#
6 9 (7.89%) Scala
7 7 (6.14%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.26%) C++
9 4 (3.51%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.75%) Ruby
11 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (13.16%) SC Cleared
1 15 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.51%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.04%) Accessibility
2 13 (11.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.51%) QA
3 4 (3.51%) WCAG
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (18.42%) Docker
2 4 (3.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (39.47%) Terraform
2 9 (7.89%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.39%) AWS Copilot
4 4 (3.51%) Grafana
5 2 (1.75%) Argo
Vendors
1 35 (30.70%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.91%) Google
3 12 (10.53%) Databricks
4 5 (4.39%) Talend
5 4 (3.51%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.51%) IBM
6 2 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.88%) Apple
7 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.88%) Spotify