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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 170 366
Rank change year-on-year -90 +196 +234
Permanent jobs citing dbt 118 299 200
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 2.14% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.92% 4.51% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 52 287 187
10th Percentile £66,091 £64,471 £59,020
25th Percentile £68,813 £76,250 £66,110
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £92,625 £122,500 £140,625
90th Percentile £112,250 £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 6,161 6,635 13,573
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.13% 47.39% 45.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,183 4,751 11,801
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,259 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +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 10 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 (30.51%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (10.17%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.93%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.85%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 77 (65.25%) Azure
2 70 (59.32%) Snowflake
3 55 (46.61%) AWS
4 44 (37.29%) GCP
5 41 (34.75%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (16.10%) Azure Key Vault
7 17 (14.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (14.41%) GitHub
8 16 (13.56%) Power Platform
9 15 (12.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (12.71%) GitHub Copilot
10 13 (11.02%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (11.02%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (11.02%) Pulumi
11 11 (9.32%) Fivetran
12 10 (8.47%) Matillion
13 8 (6.78%) PaaS
14 7 (5.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (5.93%) Cloud Composer
15 6 (5.08%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.02%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (37.29%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (17.80%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (13.56%) Power BI
3 16 (13.56%) Snowflake Schema
4 15 (12.71%) BigQuery
4 15 (12.71%) Metadata
5 14 (11.86%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (11.02%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (11.02%) Redis
7 11 (9.32%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (8.47%) Data Lake
9 7 (5.93%) Apache Arrow
9 7 (5.93%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (5.93%) Dremio
9 7 (5.93%) Relational Database
10 6 (5.08%) Data Vault
11 5 (4.24%) Apache Ignite
11 5 (4.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (3.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (12.71%) JIRA
2 3 (2.54%) Cucumber
2 3 (2.54%) Git
2 3 (2.54%) JMeter
2 3 (2.54%) Locust
General
1 59 (50.00%) Finance
2 48 (40.68%) Social Skills
3 25 (21.19%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (7.63%) Banking
5 9 (7.63%) Law
6 7 (5.93%) Front Office
7 5 (4.24%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.54%) Retail
9 2 (1.69%) Marketing
9 2 (1.69%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.85%) International Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Publishing
10 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (50.85%) Senior
2 31 (26.27%) Data Engineer
3 19 (16.10%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (9.32%) Senior Data Engineer
5 9 (7.63%) Architect
5 9 (7.63%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (7.63%) Python Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Site Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) AWS Software Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Lead
7 7 (5.93%) Python Software Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Snowflake Architect
9 5 (4.24%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Applications Support Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.71%) Kafka
2 13 (11.02%) Django
3 11 (9.32%) GraphQL
3 11 (9.32%) OAuth
3 11 (9.32%) OpenAPI
3 11 (9.32%) Swagger
4 8 (6.78%) NumPy
4 8 (6.78%) Pandas
4 8 (6.78%) YAML
5 7 (5.93%) SciPy
6 5 (4.24%) gRPC
6 5 (4.24%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (4.24%) PySpark
7 4 (3.39%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.39%) Node.js
7 4 (3.39%) React
7 4 (3.39%) Vue
8 3 (2.54%) Gherkin
9 2 (1.69%) CSS
9 2 (1.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (27.97%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.78%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.93%) Equities
4 7 (5.93%) Fixed Income
4 7 (5.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (5.08%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (5.08%) Social Media
6 5 (4.24%) Derivative
6 5 (4.24%) Hedge funds
6 5 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.24%) Pricing Data
7 3 (2.54%) Blog
7 3 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.69%) Contract for Difference
8 2 (1.69%) 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 (13.56%) Linux
2 13 (11.02%) Unix
3 4 (3.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (56.78%) CI/CD
1 67 (56.78%) DevOps
2 63 (53.39%) Agile
3 62 (52.54%) Data Modelling
4 51 (43.22%) Asset Management
5 46 (38.98%) Analytics
5 46 (38.98%) Coaching
6 41 (34.75%) ETL
7 38 (32.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (29.66%) Data Engineering
9 31 (26.27%) Mentoring
9 31 (26.27%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (24.58%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (23.73%) Clean Code
11 28 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (21.19%) AI
12 25 (21.19%) Migration
13 24 (20.34%) Data Governance
14 22 (18.64%) Observability
15 21 (17.80%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (58.47%) Python
2 63 (53.39%) SQL
3 30 (25.42%) PowerShell
4 28 (23.73%) Java
5 11 (9.32%) C#
6 10 (8.47%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.63%) Scala
8 7 (5.93%) TypeScript
9 6 (5.08%) C++
10 2 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.69%) Ruby
11 1 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (12.71%) SC Cleared
1 15 (12.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.39%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.56%) Accessibility
2 12 (10.17%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.54%) QA
3 3 (2.54%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (16.95%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (38.14%) Terraform
2 8 (6.78%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.24%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (2.54%) Grafana
5 2 (1.69%) Argo
Vendors
1 36 (30.51%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.41%) Google
3 12 (10.17%) Databricks
4 5 (4.24%) Talend
5 4 (3.39%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.39%) IBM
6 2 (1.69%) 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