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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 205 254
Rank change year-on-year -115 +49 +269
Permanent jobs citing dbt 84 269 408
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 1.82% 1.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 4.41% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 35 263 389
10th Percentile £60,600 £70,000 £68,650
25th Percentile £66,091 £97,500 £85,000
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 £91,250 £138,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year -31.82% -2.22% +50.00%

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 7,068 6,099 13,953
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.97% 41.17% 42.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,840 4,447 11,915
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,700 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 16 May 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 25 (29.76%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.62%) Azure
2 37 (44.05%) AWS
3 34 (40.48%) Snowflake
4 28 (33.33%) GCP
5 19 (22.62%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (13.10%) Power Platform
8 10 (11.90%) PaaS
9 9 (10.71%) Cloud Composer
10 6 (7.14%) Dagster
10 6 (7.14%) Matillion
11 5 (5.95%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (5.95%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (5.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (5.95%) AWS CodeBuild
11 5 (5.95%) Datadog
11 5 (5.95%) Pulumi
11 5 (5.95%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.14%) Broadband
2 5 (5.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.24%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (19.05%) BigQuery
3 11 (13.10%) Looker
3 11 (13.10%) Power BI
4 10 (11.90%) Metadata
5 9 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (7.14%) Tableau
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.95%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.95%) Redis
7 5 (5.95%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.95%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (5.95%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.57%) Big Data
9 3 (3.57%) Data Vault
10 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Cucumber
1 5 (5.95%) JMeter
1 5 (5.95%) Locust
2 4 (4.76%) JIRA
3 2 (2.38%) Git
General
1 36 (42.86%) Finance
2 27 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 20 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (19.05%) Law
6 10 (11.90%) Banking
6 10 (11.90%) Retail
7 6 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.38%) Marketing
9 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (35.71%) Data Engineer
1 30 (35.71%) Senior
2 12 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (11.90%) Lead
3 10 (11.90%) Senior Data Engineer
4 7 (8.33%) Architect
5 6 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Snowflake Architect
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Test Leader
7 4 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Applications Support
7 4 (4.76%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Data Scientist
7 4 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Analyst
8 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.05%) Kafka
2 6 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 6 (7.14%) OAuth
2 6 (7.14%) OpenAPI
2 6 (7.14%) Swagger
2 6 (7.14%) YAML
3 5 (5.95%) Django
3 5 (5.95%) Gherkin
3 5 (5.95%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.90%) Blog
3 8 (9.52%) Data Structures
4 6 (7.14%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (7.14%) Social Media
5 5 (5.95%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.38%) Contract for Difference
6 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.38%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.19%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.71%) Linux
2 5 (5.95%) Unix
3 4 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (53.57%) Data Modelling
2 36 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 35 (41.67%) DevOps
4 34 (40.48%) Agile
5 33 (39.29%) Data Engineering
6 31 (36.90%) Analytics
7 25 (29.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (28.57%) ETL
9 23 (27.38%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (26.19%) Coaching
11 20 (23.81%) Asset Management
11 20 (23.81%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (22.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (21.43%) Data Governance
14 16 (19.05%) Mentoring
14 16 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
15 15 (17.86%) Visualisation
16 14 (16.67%) Machine Learning
16 14 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 57 (67.86%) SQL
2 48 (57.14%) Python
3 24 (28.57%) Java
4 19 (22.62%) PowerShell
5 9 (10.71%) Scala
6 6 (7.14%) C#
6 6 (7.14%) C++
7 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.19%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
1 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.48%) Data Quality
2 11 (13.10%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.95%) QA
3 5 (5.95%) WCAG
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (17.86%) Docker
2 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (34.52%) Terraform
2 9 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.95%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (5.95%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.52%) Databricks
2 8 (9.52%) Google
3 4 (4.76%) Ab Initio
3 4 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle
4 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.19%) Talend