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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 220 83
Rank change year-on-year -153 -137 +272
Permanent jobs citing dbt 90 226 766
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 1.37% 3.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 3.90% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 61 214 757
10th Percentile £62,500 £86,765 £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% +57.34%
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% +57.34%

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 8,771 5,796 9,516
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.50% 35.16% 41.31%
Number of salaries quoted 6,441 4,147 6,407
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £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 25 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 11 (12.22%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Superset
3 1 (1.11%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (33.33%) GCP
2 25 (27.78%) AWS
3 23 (25.56%) Azure
4 22 (24.44%) Snowflake
5 14 (15.56%) Power Platform
6 13 (14.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (7.78%) Fivetran
7 7 (7.78%) SaaS
8 6 (6.67%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (3.33%) Alation
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.33%) Dataform
9 3 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.33%) GitHub
9 3 (3.33%) Google Ads
9 3 (3.33%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.22%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.22%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (2.22%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.78%) BigQuery
2 14 (15.56%) Power BI
3 13 (14.44%) Looker
4 11 (12.22%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
6 8 (8.89%) Data Lake
7 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
8 6 (6.67%) Metadata
8 6 (6.67%) Tableau
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (3.33%) Airbyte
10 3 (3.33%) Flink
10 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
10 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
11 2 (2.22%) Delta Lake
11 2 (2.22%) OLTP
12 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (1.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (3.33%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.11%) JIRA
3 1 (1.11%) JMeter
3 1 (1.11%) Locust
General
1 53 (58.89%) Social Skills
2 35 (38.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (28.89%) Finance
4 19 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.22%) Retail
6 7 (7.78%) Marketing
7 6 (6.67%) Banking
7 6 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (6.67%) Law
8 3 (3.33%) Legal
9 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.11%) Advertising
10 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 31 (34.44%) Senior
2 26 (28.89%) Data Engineer
3 25 (27.78%) Architect
4 13 (14.44%) ERP Architect
4 13 (14.44%) Python Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) Site Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (12.22%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 11 (12.22%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (12.22%) Technical Architect
6 8 (8.89%) Lead
7 7 (7.78%) Analyst
8 5 (5.56%) Data Scientist
9 4 (4.44%) Product Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Data Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Onboarding Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Principal Data Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (26.67%) Terraform
2 4 (4.44%) PySpark
3 3 (3.33%) Apache Beam
3 3 (3.33%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.22%) Kafka
5 1 (1.11%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.11%) NumPy
5 1 (1.11%) Pandas
5 1 (1.11%) pgvector
5 1 (1.11%) PostGIS
5 1 (1.11%) Snowpark
5 1 (1.11%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.78%) Blog
3 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.33%) Replication
4 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.22%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.11%) Clustering
6 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.11%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.11%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.56%) Linux
2 13 (14.44%) Unix
3 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (43.33%) AI
2 35 (38.89%) Analytics
3 27 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 27 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 27 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 25 (27.78%) Data Engineering
5 24 (26.67%) Open Source
5 24 (26.67%) Technical Architecture
6 22 (24.44%) Mentoring
6 22 (24.44%) Observability
7 21 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
8 20 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (18.89%) Data Governance
9 17 (18.89%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (18.89%) Machine Learning
9 17 (18.89%) Migration
10 16 (17.78%) Collaborative Engineering
11 15 (16.67%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 50 (55.56%) Python
2 48 (53.33%) SQL
3 5 (5.56%) Java
4 3 (3.33%) Scala
4 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.11%) C#
5 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (42.22%) SC Cleared
1 38 (42.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.22%) Degree
2 2 (2.22%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.33%) GDPR
4 2 (2.22%) QA
5 1 (1.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (12.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.11%) Grafana
2 1 (1.11%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 26 (28.89%) Google
2 20 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 12 (13.33%) OpenAI
4 6 (6.67%) Databricks
5 3 (3.33%) New Relic
5 3 (3.33%) Splunk
6 2 (2.22%) Braze
6 2 (2.22%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.11%) Apple
7 1 (1.11%) Infor
7 1 (1.11%) Marketo
7 1 (1.11%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.11%) RedGate
7 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Trend Micro