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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 143 329
Rank change year-on-year -139 +186 +255
Permanent jobs citing dbt 112 300 236
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 2.34% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 4.99% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 51 289 223
10th Percentile £62,500 £64,471 £56,320
25th Percentile £68,813 £77,500 £71,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,677 £107,500 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.60% -4.44% +32.35%
75th Percentile £87,500 £135,000 £143,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £139,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £91,250
% change year-on-year -28.57% +15.07% +23.73%

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 6,492 6,007 13,837
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.77% 46.89% 44.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,386 4,673 11,985
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,715
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 1 April 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 32 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (10.71%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.36%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.89%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 70 (62.50%) Azure
2 61 (54.46%) Snowflake
3 52 (46.43%) AWS
4 42 (37.50%) GCP
5 33 (29.46%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (16.96%) Azure Key Vault
7 17 (15.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (14.29%) Power Platform
9 15 (13.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (11.61%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (11.61%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (11.61%) GitHub
10 13 (11.61%) Pulumi
11 11 (9.82%) Fivetran
11 11 (9.82%) GitHub Copilot
12 10 (8.93%) Matillion
12 10 (8.93%) PaaS
13 7 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (5.36%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.61%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.36%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (16.96%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (14.29%) Power BI
4 15 (13.39%) BigQuery
5 14 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (12.50%) Metadata
6 13 (11.61%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (11.61%) Redis
7 11 (9.82%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (8.04%) Data Lake
9 7 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (6.25%) Relational Database
10 6 (5.36%) Looker
11 5 (4.46%) Data Vault
11 5 (4.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (3.57%) Apache Arrow
12 4 (3.57%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (3.57%) Apache Ignite
12 4 (3.57%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 11 (9.82%) JIRA
2 5 (4.46%) Cucumber
2 5 (4.46%) JMeter
2 5 (4.46%) Locust
3 3 (2.68%) Git
General
1 51 (45.54%) Finance
2 45 (40.18%) Social Skills
3 22 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (15.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (9.82%) Law
6 10 (8.93%) Banking
7 5 (4.46%) Retail
8 4 (3.57%) Front Office
8 4 (3.57%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.89%) International Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.89%) Publishing
10 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (49.11%) Senior
2 30 (26.79%) Data Engineer
3 19 (16.96%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (10.71%) Senior Data Engineer
5 9 (8.04%) Lead
6 8 (7.14%) Architect
6 8 (7.14%) Site Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Python Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Snowflake Architect
8 5 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Test Leader
9 4 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) AWS Software Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.39%) Kafka
2 13 (11.61%) Django
3 11 (9.82%) GraphQL
3 11 (9.82%) OAuth
3 11 (9.82%) OpenAPI
3 11 (9.82%) Swagger
4 8 (7.14%) YAML
5 5 (4.46%) Gherkin
5 5 (4.46%) PySpark
6 4 (3.57%) gRPC
6 4 (3.57%) NumPy
6 4 (3.57%) Pandas
6 4 (3.57%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (3.57%) SciPy
7 2 (1.79%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.79%) CSS
7 2 (1.79%) HTML
7 2 (1.79%) Node.js
7 2 (1.79%) React
7 2 (1.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.89%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 6 (5.36%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (5.36%) Social Media
5 5 (4.46%) Blog
5 5 (4.46%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.57%) Derivative
6 4 (3.57%) Equities
6 4 (3.57%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.57%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.57%) Pricing Data
7 2 (1.79%) Contract for Difference
7 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.79%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.89%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.89%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.29%) Linux
2 13 (11.61%) Unix
3 4 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (54.46%) CI/CD
1 61 (54.46%) DevOps
2 60 (53.57%) Data Modelling
3 58 (51.79%) Agile
4 44 (39.29%) Analytics
5 40 (35.71%) Asset Management
5 40 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (33.93%) Coaching
7 35 (31.25%) ETL
8 34 (30.36%) Data Engineering
9 29 (25.89%) Data Pipeline
10 27 (24.11%) Mentoring
10 27 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (22.32%) Data Governance
13 24 (21.43%) Clean Code
13 24 (21.43%) Observability
14 21 (18.75%) Migration
15 20 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (16.96%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (56.25%) Python
2 61 (54.46%) SQL
3 29 (25.89%) Java
4 26 (23.21%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.82%) C#
6 9 (8.04%) Scala
7 7 (6.25%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.36%) C++
9 4 (3.57%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.79%) Ruby
11 1 (0.89%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (13.39%) SC Cleared
1 15 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.57%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 14 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.46%) QA
2 5 (4.46%) WCAG
3 1 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (19.64%) Docker
2 4 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (38.39%) Terraform
2 10 (8.93%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.46%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (4.46%) Grafana
4 2 (1.79%) Argo
Vendors
1 32 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.18%) Google
3 12 (10.71%) Databricks
4 5 (4.46%) Talend
5 4 (3.57%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.57%) IBM
6 2 (1.79%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.89%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.89%) Apple
7 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle
7 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.89%) Spotify