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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 181 355
Rank change year-on-year -81 +174 +283
Permanent jobs citing dbt 130 308 177
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.96% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 4.20% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 69 295 166
10th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £49,375
25th Percentile £71,626 £75,625 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £105,000 £77,700
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.14% -8.59%
75th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £145,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £100,000 £73,090
% change year-on-year -20.00% +36.82% +0.81%

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 6,093 7,328 12,744
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.62% 46.66% 45.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,199 4,742 11,155
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 15 February 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 45 (34.62%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (10.77%) Apache
3 9 (6.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.77%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 81 (62.31%) Azure
2 78 (60.00%) Snowflake
3 65 (50.00%) AWS
4 50 (38.46%) GCP
5 44 (33.85%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (15.38%) GitHub
7 19 (14.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (14.62%) Azure Key Vault
8 18 (13.85%) GitHub Copilot
9 15 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (11.54%) Power Platform
10 13 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (10.00%) Pulumi
11 10 (7.69%) Fivetran
11 10 (7.69%) Matillion
12 9 (6.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (3.85%) AWS CodeBuild
13 5 (3.85%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.77%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (36.92%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (25.38%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (21.54%) Amazon Athena
4 24 (18.46%) Apache Arrow
4 24 (18.46%) Apache Iceberg
4 24 (18.46%) Dremio
5 19 (14.62%) Snowflake Schema
6 16 (12.31%) Data Lake
7 15 (11.54%) Power BI
8 14 (10.77%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (10.00%) Redis
10 10 (7.69%) Apache Ignite
10 10 (7.69%) Metadata
11 9 (6.92%) BigQuery
12 7 (5.38%) Relational Database
13 6 (4.62%) Data Vault
14 5 (3.85%) Looker
15 4 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (3.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (13.85%) JIRA
2 3 (2.31%) Git
General
1 79 (60.77%) Finance
2 48 (36.92%) Social Skills
3 29 (22.31%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (18.46%) Front Office
5 14 (10.77%) Banking
6 10 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (7.69%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.08%) Law
8 3 (2.31%) Music Industry
8 3 (2.31%) Retail
9 2 (1.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.77%) International Banking
10 1 (0.77%) Publishing
10 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (48.46%) Senior
2 26 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 24 (18.46%) AWS Engineer
3 24 (18.46%) AWS Software Engineer
3 24 (18.46%) Python Software Engineer
3 24 (18.46%) Software Engineer
4 23 (17.69%) Data Engineer
5 19 (14.62%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (12.31%) Developer
7 14 (10.77%) AWS Developer
7 14 (10.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 14 (10.77%) Python Developer
8 10 (7.69%) Java Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (6.92%) Architect
9 9 (6.92%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.15%) Senior Java Engineer
10 8 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (6.15%) Site Engineer
10 8 (6.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.23%) NumPy
1 25 (19.23%) Pandas
2 24 (18.46%) SciPy
3 16 (12.31%) AngularJS
3 16 (12.31%) Node.js
3 16 (12.31%) React
3 16 (12.31%) Vue
4 13 (10.00%) Django
5 11 (8.46%) GraphQL
5 11 (8.46%) Kafka
5 11 (8.46%) OAuth
5 11 (8.46%) OpenAPI
5 11 (8.46%) Swagger
6 10 (7.69%) gRPC
6 10 (7.69%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (6.15%) YAML
8 6 (4.62%) PySpark
9 2 (1.54%) CSS
9 2 (1.54%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (28.46%) Cloud Native
2 24 (18.46%) Equities
2 24 (18.46%) Fixed Income
2 24 (18.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (9.23%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (7.69%) Derivative
4 10 (7.69%) Hedge funds
4 10 (7.69%) Pricing Data
5 5 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.31%) Blog
7 3 (2.31%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.54%) Contract for Difference
8 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.54%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.77%) Anti-Piracy
9 1 (0.77%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.77%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.77%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.77%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.31%) Linux
2 13 (10.00%) Unix
3 4 (3.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (61.54%) Agile
2 71 (54.62%) Asset Management
3 66 (50.77%) CI/CD
3 66 (50.77%) DevOps
4 62 (47.69%) Data Modelling
5 49 (37.69%) Coaching
6 48 (36.92%) Analytics
7 40 (30.77%) ETL
8 36 (27.69%) Mentoring
9 35 (26.92%) Software Engineering
10 34 (26.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (23.85%) Clean Code
12 30 (23.08%) Data Engineering
13 29 (22.31%) AI
14 28 (21.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (20.00%) Migration
16 25 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
17 24 (18.46%) Investment Management
18 22 (16.92%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 77 (59.23%) Python
2 56 (43.08%) SQL
3 30 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 27 (20.77%) Java
4 27 (20.77%) JavaScript
5 24 (18.46%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.46%) C#
7 6 (4.62%) Scala
8 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.54%) Ruby
9 1 (0.77%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 15 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.08%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 13 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.77%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (11.54%) Docker
2 4 (3.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (32.31%) Terraform
2 5 (3.85%) AWS Copilot
2 5 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.54%) Argo
Vendors
1 36 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.31%) Google
3 13 (10.00%) Databricks
4 5 (3.85%) Talend
5 4 (3.08%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.08%) IBM
6 2 (1.54%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.77%) Apple
7 1 (0.77%) Spotify