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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 172 358
Rank change year-on-year -72 +186 +265
Permanent jobs citing dbt 138 312 176
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 1.92% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.36% 4.12% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 79 299 162
10th Percentile £64,902 £64,471 £51,250
25th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £129,375
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £95,250 £73,090
% change year-on-year -16.01% +30.32% -2.55%

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 5,838 7,568 12,145
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.92% 46.69% 46.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,052 4,814 10,587
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,575 £35,825
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 £79,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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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 31 January 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 57 (41.30%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (16.67%) Apache
3 8 (5.80%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.72%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 88 (63.77%) Snowflake
2 80 (57.97%) Azure
3 74 (53.62%) AWS
4 48 (34.78%) GCP
5 45 (32.61%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (15.22%) GitHub
7 19 (13.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (13.77%) Azure Key Vault
7 19 (13.77%) GitHub Copilot
8 16 (11.59%) Power Platform
9 10 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (7.25%) Fivetran
9 10 (7.25%) Matillion
10 9 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (5.80%) Pulumi
12 3 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.17%) Dataform
13 2 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.80%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (34.78%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (28.99%) Amazon Athena
3 36 (26.09%) Apache Arrow
3 36 (26.09%) Apache Iceberg
3 36 (26.09%) Dremio
4 31 (22.46%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (18.12%) Data Lake
6 20 (14.49%) Snowflake Schema
7 19 (13.77%) Apache Ignite
8 16 (11.59%) Power BI
9 9 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (6.52%) Metadata
10 8 (5.80%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (5.80%) Redis
11 7 (5.07%) BigQuery
11 7 (5.07%) Relational Database
12 6 (4.35%) Data Vault
13 4 (2.90%) Looker
13 4 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (2.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (13.77%) JIRA
2 3 (2.17%) Git
General
1 92 (66.67%) Finance
2 48 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 36 (26.09%) Front Office
4 30 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (16.67%) Banking
6 19 (13.77%) Investment Banking
7 7 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.90%) Retail
9 3 (2.17%) Law
9 3 (2.17%) Marketing
9 3 (2.17%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.72%) International Banking
10 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (48.55%) Senior
2 38 (27.54%) Python Engineer
3 36 (26.09%) AWS Engineer
3 36 (26.09%) AWS Software Engineer
3 36 (26.09%) Python Software Engineer
3 36 (26.09%) Software Engineer
4 22 (15.94%) Data Engineer
5 19 (13.77%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (13.77%) Developer
5 19 (13.77%) Java Engineer
5 19 (13.77%) Java Software Engineer
6 17 (12.32%) AWS Developer
6 17 (12.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 17 (12.32%) Python Developer
6 17 (12.32%) Senior Java Engineer
6 17 (12.32%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 17 (12.32%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) Architect
8 8 (5.80%) Site Engineer
8 8 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (27.54%) Pandas
2 37 (26.81%) NumPy
3 36 (26.09%) SciPy
4 19 (13.77%) AngularJS
4 19 (13.77%) gRPC
4 19 (13.77%) Node.js
4 19 (13.77%) Protocol Buffers
4 19 (13.77%) React
4 19 (13.77%) Vue
5 11 (7.97%) GraphQL
5 11 (7.97%) OAuth
5 11 (7.97%) OpenAPI
5 11 (7.97%) Swagger
6 10 (7.25%) Django
6 10 (7.25%) Kafka
7 8 (5.80%) YAML
8 6 (4.35%) PySpark
9 2 (1.45%) CSS
9 2 (1.45%) HTML
10 1 (0.72%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 38 (27.54%) Cloud Native
2 36 (26.09%) Equities
2 36 (26.09%) Fixed Income
2 36 (26.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (13.77%) Derivative
3 19 (13.77%) Hedge funds
3 19 (13.77%) Pricing Data
4 12 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.17%) Blog
5 3 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.45%) Contract for Difference
6 2 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.45%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.72%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.72%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.72%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.97%) Linux
2 8 (5.80%) Unix
3 4 (2.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (63.77%) Agile
2 84 (60.87%) Asset Management
3 64 (46.38%) DevOps
4 62 (44.93%) CI/CD
5 60 (43.48%) Data Modelling
6 50 (36.23%) Coaching
7 48 (34.78%) Analytics
8 47 (34.06%) Software Engineering
9 40 (28.99%) ETL
10 37 (26.81%) Mentoring
11 36 (26.09%) Investment Management
12 34 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (22.46%) AI
13 31 (22.46%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (21.01%) Data Engineering
14 29 (21.01%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (19.57%) Clean Code
15 27 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
16 24 (17.39%) Fintech
17 22 (15.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 84 (60.87%) Python
2 57 (41.30%) SQL
3 39 (28.26%) JavaScript
4 36 (26.09%) TypeScript
5 30 (21.74%) Java
5 30 (21.74%) PowerShell
6 11 (7.97%) C#
7 5 (3.62%) Scala
8 2 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (7.25%) SC Cleared
1 10 (7.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.90%) SnowPro
3 3 (2.17%) Degree
4 2 (1.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.42%) Accessibility
2 12 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.45%) NCSC
3 2 (1.45%) NIST
4 1 (0.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (7.25%) Docker
2 4 (2.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (26.81%) Terraform
2 5 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 38 (27.54%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.42%) Databricks
3 12 (8.70%) Google
4 5 (3.62%) Talend
5 4 (2.90%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.90%) IBM
6 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.72%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.72%) Apple
7 1 (0.72%) Spotify