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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 89 314
Rank change year-on-year -135 +225 +362
Permanent jobs citing dbt 194 641 183
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.21% 3.21% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.47% 7.29% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 172 628 175
10th Percentile £68,813 £60,200 £56,694
25th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £110,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +46.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £135,625 £142,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £105,000 £107,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.33% +43.33% -6.25%

All Cloud 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 5,591 8,789 10,584
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.91% 44.05% 48.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,155 5,697 9,035
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £37,090
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,245 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 7 November 2025.

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
1 141 (72.68%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (34.54%) Apache
3 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 158 (81.44%) AWS
2 103 (53.09%) Snowflake
3 88 (45.36%) GCP
4 46 (23.71%) Azure
5 21 (10.82%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (8.25%) Power Platform
7 14 (7.22%) GitHub
8 11 (5.67%) Fivetran
9 10 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (5.15%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (4.12%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (4.12%) Pulumi
11 7 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.58%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (2.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (2.06%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.06%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.12%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (68.56%) Amazon Athena
2 130 (67.01%) Apache Arrow
2 130 (67.01%) Apache Iceberg
2 130 (67.01%) Dremio
3 75 (38.66%) PostgreSQL
4 69 (35.57%) Data Lake
5 65 (33.51%) Apache Ignite
6 31 (15.98%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (8.25%) Power BI
8 15 (7.73%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (4.64%) Tableau
10 8 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (4.12%) Looker
10 8 (4.12%) Redis
11 6 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (3.09%) BigQuery
11 6 (3.09%) Metadata
12 5 (2.58%) SQL Server
13 4 (2.06%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 10 (5.15%) JIRA
2 7 (3.61%) Git
3 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 157 (80.93%) Finance
2 130 (67.01%) Front Office
3 67 (34.54%) Banking
4 65 (33.51%) Investment Banking
5 35 (18.04%) Social Skills
6 13 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.12%) Retail
8 6 (3.09%) Marketing
9 5 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.03%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.52%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 130 (67.01%) AWS Engineer
1 130 (67.01%) AWS Software Engineer
1 130 (67.01%) Software Engineer
2 120 (61.86%) Python Engineer
3 118 (60.82%) Python Software Engineer
4 92 (47.42%) Senior
5 77 (39.69%) Java Engineer
5 77 (39.69%) Java Software Engineer
6 67 (34.54%) Developer
7 65 (33.51%) AWS Developer
7 65 (33.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 63 (32.47%) Senior Java Engineer
8 63 (32.47%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 63 (32.47%) Senior Software Engineer
9 53 (27.32%) Python Developer
10 13 (6.70%) Data Engineer
11 12 (6.19%) Java Developer
11 12 (6.19%) Java Software Developer
12 8 (4.12%) Site Engineer
12 8 (4.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (70.62%) Pandas
2 136 (70.10%) NumPy
3 130 (67.01%) SciPy
4 66 (34.02%) React
5 65 (33.51%) AngularJS
5 65 (33.51%) gRPC
5 65 (33.51%) Node.js
5 65 (33.51%) Protocol Buffers
5 65 (33.51%) Vue
6 11 (5.67%) Django
7 5 (2.58%) scikit-learn
8 4 (2.06%) Hugging Face
8 4 (2.06%) Kafka
9 3 (1.55%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.55%) OAuth
9 3 (1.55%) OpenAPI
9 3 (1.55%) Swagger
10 2 (1.03%) PySpark
11 1 (0.52%) Flask
11 1 (0.52%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 130 (67.01%) Equities
1 130 (67.01%) Fixed Income
1 130 (67.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 65 (33.51%) Derivative
2 65 (33.51%) Hedge funds
2 65 (33.51%) Pricing Data
3 14 (7.22%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.61%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.52%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.12%) Linux
1 8 (4.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (77.32%) Agile
2 149 (76.80%) Asset Management
3 133 (68.56%) Software Engineering
4 130 (67.01%) Investment Management
5 71 (36.60%) Risk Management
6 68 (35.05%) Fintech
7 65 (33.51%) Order Management
7 65 (33.51%) Performance Attribution
8 35 (18.04%) Analytics
9 34 (17.53%) DevOps
10 31 (15.98%) CI/CD
11 26 (13.40%) Data Modelling
12 25 (12.89%) AI
13 24 (12.37%) ETL
14 22 (11.34%) Mentoring
15 20 (10.31%) Coaching
16 18 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
16 18 (9.28%) Clean Code
16 18 (9.28%) Data Pipeline
17 15 (7.73%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 150 (77.32%) Python
2 131 (67.53%) JavaScript
3 130 (67.01%) TypeScript
4 79 (40.72%) Java
5 30 (15.46%) SQL
6 7 (3.61%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.55%) C#
9 2 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.03%) Scala
10 1 (0.52%) LookML
10 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (4.64%) SC Cleared
1 9 (4.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.03%) Degree
2 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
2 2 (1.03%) PhD
2 2 (1.03%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.64%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.61%) NCSC
2 7 (3.61%) NIST
3 5 (2.58%) GDPR
4 4 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (5.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (10.31%) Terraform
2 2 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (7.73%) Google
1 15 (7.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.61%) Talend
3 5 (2.58%) Databricks
4 4 (2.06%) Alteryx
4 4 (2.06%) HubSpot
4 4 (2.06%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.06%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.06%) Zoho
5 1 (0.52%) Amplitude
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle