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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 213 82
Rank change year-on-year -164 -131 +292
Permanent jobs citing dbt 86 229 776
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.35% 1.41% 3.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 3.97% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 60 219 767
10th Percentile £61,350 £87,500 £64,471
25th Percentile £67,908 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,654 £117,800 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.63% +2.43% +53.33%
75th Percentile £78,312 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £91,250 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £74,830 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -31.97% -4.35% +64.29%

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 8,680 5,763 9,522
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.55% 35.56% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,377 4,149 6,527
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,975 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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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 21 September 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 8 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.65%) Apache
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Superset
3 1 (1.16%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.56%) GCP
2 23 (26.74%) AWS
3 22 (25.58%) Azure
4 19 (22.09%) Snowflake
5 13 (15.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (13.95%) Power Platform
7 7 (8.14%) Fivetran
8 4 (4.65%) Cloud Composer
8 4 (4.65%) SaaS
9 3 (3.49%) Alation
9 3 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.49%) Dataform
9 3 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.49%) GitHub
9 3 (3.49%) Google Ads
9 3 (3.49%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.33%) AppsFlyer
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.33%) Google Data Studio
10 2 (2.33%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.28%) BigQuery
2 12 (13.95%) Power BI
3 11 (12.79%) Looker
4 10 (11.63%) Semantic Layer
5 9 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (9.30%) Data Lake
7 6 (6.98%) Metadata
7 6 (6.98%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.98%) Tableau
8 4 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.49%) Airbyte
9 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.33%) Big Data
10 2 (2.33%) Delta Lake
11 1 (1.16%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.16%) Flink
11 1 (1.16%) Mixpanel
11 1 (1.16%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Git
2 3 (3.49%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.49%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.16%) JMeter
3 1 (1.16%) Locust
General
1 52 (60.47%) Social Skills
2 35 (40.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (27.91%) Finance
4 18 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.79%) Retail
6 6 (6.98%) Banking
6 6 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.98%) Law
6 6 (6.98%) Marketing
7 3 (3.49%) Legal
8 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.16%) Advertising
9 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.16%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (32.56%) Senior
2 25 (29.07%) Architect
2 25 (29.07%) Data Engineer
3 13 (15.12%) ERP Architect
3 13 (15.12%) Python Engineer
3 13 (15.12%) Site Engineer
3 13 (15.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 13 (15.12%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (12.79%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 11 (12.79%) Technical Architect
5 10 (11.63%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Lead
7 7 (8.14%) Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Product Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.49%) Onboarding Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) Principal Data Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.58%) Terraform
2 4 (4.65%) PySpark
3 3 (3.49%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.33%) Kafka
5 1 (1.16%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.16%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.16%) NumPy
5 1 (1.16%) Pandas
5 1 (1.16%) pgvector
5 1 (1.16%) PostGIS
5 1 (1.16%) Snowpark
5 1 (1.16%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.14%) Blog
3 4 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.49%) Replication
4 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.33%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.16%) Clustering
6 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.16%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.16%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.16%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.28%) Linux
2 13 (15.12%) Unix
3 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (43.02%) AI
2 32 (37.21%) Analytics
3 27 (31.40%) CI/CD
4 26 (30.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (27.91%) Data Engineering
5 24 (27.91%) Data Modelling
5 24 (27.91%) Open Source
5 24 (27.91%) Technical Architecture
6 22 (25.58%) Mentoring
7 20 (23.26%) Collaborative Culture
7 20 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (23.26%) Observability
8 19 (22.09%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (19.77%) Data Governance
9 17 (19.77%) Migration
10 16 (18.60%) Collaborative Engineering
11 15 (17.44%) DevOps
11 15 (17.44%) Machine Learning
11 15 (17.44%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (53.49%) Python
2 43 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (3.49%) Java
4 1 (1.16%) Scala
4 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (44.19%) SC Cleared
1 38 (44.19%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.33%) Degree
2 2 (2.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (24.42%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.49%) GDPR
4 2 (2.33%) QA
5 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (10.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (27.91%) Google
2 19 (22.09%) Microsoft
3 12 (13.95%) OpenAI
4 5 (5.81%) Databricks
5 2 (2.33%) Braze
5 2 (2.33%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.16%) Apple
6 1 (1.16%) Infor
6 1 (1.16%) Marketo
6 1 (1.16%) New Relic
6 1 (1.16%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Splunk
6 1 (1.16%) Trend Micro