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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 163 365
Rank change year-on-year -106 +202 +231
Permanent jobs citing dbt 117 299 201
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.70% 2.14% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 4.51% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 53 287 188
10th Percentile £66,091 £64,471 £59,265
25th Percentile £68,813 £76,250 £66,110
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £101,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +3.70% +19.12%
75th Percentile £92,500 £122,500 £139,688
90th Percentile £112,000 £140,250 £155,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +27.27% +10.00%

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 6,177 6,623 13,571
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.15% 47.47% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,201 4,754 11,803
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +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 11 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 36 (30.77%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (10.26%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.98%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.85%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 75 (64.10%) Azure
2 68 (58.12%) Snowflake
3 56 (47.86%) AWS
4 44 (37.61%) GCP
5 39 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (16.24%) Azure Key Vault
7 17 (14.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (13.68%) GitHub
8 16 (13.68%) Power Platform
9 15 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (11.97%) GitHub Copilot
11 13 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
11 13 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (11.11%) Pulumi
12 11 (9.40%) Fivetran
13 10 (8.55%) Matillion
14 9 (7.69%) PaaS
15 7 (5.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (5.98%) Cloud Composer
16 6 (5.13%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.13%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (35.90%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (13.68%) Power BI
4 15 (12.82%) BigQuery
4 15 (12.82%) Metadata
4 15 (12.82%) Snowflake Schema
5 14 (11.97%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (11.11%) Redis
7 11 (9.40%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (8.55%) Data Lake
9 7 (5.98%) Apache Arrow
9 7 (5.98%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (5.98%) Dremio
9 7 (5.98%) Relational Database
10 6 (5.13%) Data Vault
11 5 (4.27%) Apache Ignite
11 5 (4.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (3.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (11.97%) JIRA
2 4 (3.42%) Cucumber
2 4 (3.42%) JMeter
2 4 (3.42%) Locust
3 3 (2.56%) Git
General
1 57 (48.72%) Finance
2 47 (40.17%) Social Skills
3 24 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (7.69%) Banking
5 9 (7.69%) Law
6 7 (5.98%) Front Office
7 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.56%) Retail
9 2 (1.71%) Marketing
9 2 (1.71%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.85%) International Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Publishing
10 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (50.43%) Senior
2 30 (25.64%) Data Engineer
3 19 (16.24%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (9.40%) Senior Data Engineer
5 9 (7.69%) Architect
5 9 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) Lead
6 8 (6.84%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) Site Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) AWS Software Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) Python Software Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Snowflake Architect
9 5 (4.27%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Applications Support Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.82%) Kafka
2 13 (11.11%) Django
3 11 (9.40%) GraphQL
3 11 (9.40%) OAuth
3 11 (9.40%) OpenAPI
3 11 (9.40%) Swagger
4 8 (6.84%) NumPy
4 8 (6.84%) Pandas
4 8 (6.84%) YAML
5 7 (5.98%) SciPy
6 5 (4.27%) gRPC
6 5 (4.27%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (4.27%) PySpark
7 4 (3.42%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.42%) Gherkin
7 4 (3.42%) Node.js
7 4 (3.42%) React
7 4 (3.42%) Vue
8 2 (1.71%) CSS
8 2 (1.71%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.35%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.84%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.98%) Equities
4 7 (5.98%) Fixed Income
4 7 (5.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (5.13%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (5.13%) Social Media
6 5 (4.27%) Derivative
6 5 (4.27%) Hedge funds
6 5 (4.27%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.27%) Pricing Data
7 3 (2.56%) Blog
7 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.71%) Contract for Difference
8 2 (1.71%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.85%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.85%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.68%) Linux
2 13 (11.11%) Unix
3 4 (3.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (56.41%) CI/CD
1 66 (56.41%) DevOps
2 63 (53.85%) Agile
3 61 (52.14%) Data Modelling
4 49 (41.88%) Asset Management
5 45 (38.46%) Analytics
6 44 (37.61%) Coaching
7 40 (34.19%) ETL
8 39 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (29.91%) Data Engineering
10 30 (25.64%) Mentoring
10 30 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (24.79%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (23.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (23.08%) Clean Code
14 24 (20.51%) Data Governance
14 24 (20.51%) Migration
15 23 (19.66%) AI
15 23 (19.66%) Observability
16 21 (17.95%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (58.97%) Python
2 62 (52.99%) SQL
3 29 (24.79%) Java
3 29 (24.79%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.40%) C#
5 10 (8.55%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.69%) Scala
7 7 (5.98%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.13%) C++
9 2 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.71%) Ruby
10 1 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (12.82%) SC Cleared
1 15 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.42%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.71%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.68%) Accessibility
2 12 (10.26%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.42%) QA
3 4 (3.42%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (17.95%) Docker
2 4 (3.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (38.46%) Terraform
2 9 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.27%) AWS Copilot
4 4 (3.42%) Grafana
5 2 (1.71%) Argo
Vendors
1 35 (29.91%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.53%) Google
3 12 (10.26%) Databricks
4 5 (4.27%) Talend
5 4 (3.42%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.42%) IBM
6 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.85%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.85%) Apple
7 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle
7 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.85%) Spotify