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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 80 343
Rank change year-on-year -136 +263 +311
Permanent jobs citing dbt 208 713 166
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.27% 3.50% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.64% 8.03% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 193 702 158
10th Percentile £68,813 £60,200 £53,566
25th Percentile £100,000 £80,313 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +53.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £106,250
90th Percentile - £148,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 £110,000 £73,090
% change year-on-year - +50.50% +0.81%

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 5,713 8,883 11,169
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.91% 43.61% 47.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,036 5,868 9,530
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £48,475 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 17 October 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
1 166 (79.81%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (38.46%) Apache
3 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 178 (85.58%) AWS
2 110 (52.88%) Snowflake
3 95 (45.67%) GCP
4 35 (16.83%) Azure
5 17 (8.17%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.21%) Power Platform
7 12 (5.77%) GitHub
8 9 (4.33%) Fivetran
9 8 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (2.40%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (2.40%) SaaS
13 4 (1.92%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.92%) Google Data Studio
14 3 (1.44%) Matillion
15 2 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
15 2 (0.96%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.96%) Network Security
1 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (75.00%) Amazon Athena
2 155 (74.52%) Apache Arrow
2 155 (74.52%) Apache Iceberg
2 155 (74.52%) Dremio
3 82 (39.42%) PostgreSQL
4 79 (37.98%) Data Lake
5 77 (37.02%) Apache Ignite
6 28 (13.46%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (7.21%) Power BI
8 11 (5.29%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (4.33%) Tableau
10 8 (3.85%) Looker
11 6 (2.88%) BigQuery
11 6 (2.88%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
14 2 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.96%) Big Data
14 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (4.33%) JIRA
2 8 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 175 (84.13%) Finance
2 155 (74.52%) Front Office
3 79 (37.98%) Banking
4 77 (37.02%) Investment Banking
5 27 (12.98%) Social Skills
6 12 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.85%) Retail
8 6 (2.88%) Marketing
9 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.96%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.48%) International Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 155 (74.52%) AWS Engineer
1 155 (74.52%) AWS Software Engineer
1 155 (74.52%) Software Engineer
2 142 (68.27%) Python Engineer
3 139 (66.83%) Python Software Engineer
4 93 (44.71%) Java Engineer
4 93 (44.71%) Java Software Engineer
4 93 (44.71%) Senior
5 80 (38.46%) Developer
6 78 (37.50%) AWS Developer
6 78 (37.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 75 (36.06%) Senior Java Engineer
7 75 (36.06%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 75 (36.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 62 (29.81%) Python Developer
9 16 (7.69%) Data Engineer
9 16 (7.69%) Java Developer
9 16 (7.69%) Java Software Developer
10 6 (2.88%) Analyst
10 6 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (77.88%) Pandas
2 161 (77.40%) NumPy
3 155 (74.52%) SciPy
4 79 (37.98%) React
5 78 (37.50%) AngularJS
5 78 (37.50%) Node.js
5 78 (37.50%) Vue
6 77 (37.02%) gRPC
6 77 (37.02%) Protocol Buffers
7 5 (2.40%) Django
7 5 (2.40%) Kafka
7 5 (2.40%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.92%) Hugging Face
9 2 (0.96%) PySpark
10 1 (0.48%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.48%) Flask
10 1 (0.48%) LightGBM
10 1 (0.48%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 155 (74.52%) Equities
1 155 (74.52%) Fixed Income
1 155 (74.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 77 (37.02%) Derivative
2 77 (37.02%) Hedge funds
2 77 (37.02%) Pricing Data
3 10 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.37%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.48%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.48%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.48%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.48%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.48%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Linux
1 2 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (81.73%) Agile
2 167 (80.29%) Asset Management
3 155 (74.52%) Investment Management
3 155 (74.52%) Software Engineering
4 84 (40.38%) Risk Management
5 82 (39.42%) Fintech
6 78 (37.50%) Order Management
6 78 (37.50%) Performance Attribution
7 31 (14.90%) Analytics
8 23 (11.06%) Data Modelling
8 23 (11.06%) DevOps
8 23 (11.06%) ETL
9 21 (10.10%) AI
9 21 (10.10%) CI/CD
10 18 (8.65%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (7.69%) Data Engineering
12 15 (7.21%) Mentoring
13 13 (6.25%) Coaching
13 13 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 168 (80.77%) Python
2 156 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 155 (74.52%) TypeScript
4 95 (45.67%) Java
5 30 (14.42%) SQL
6 5 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.92%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.96%) Scala
9 1 (0.48%) LookML
9 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (1.44%) Degree
1 3 (1.44%) SC Cleared
1 3 (1.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
2 2 (0.96%) PhD
3 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.37%) NCSC
2 7 (3.37%) NIST
3 5 (2.40%) GDPR
4 4 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (2.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (4.81%) Terraform
2 2 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (4.81%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.33%) Google
3 7 (3.37%) Talend
4 5 (2.40%) Databricks
5 4 (1.92%) Alteryx
5 4 (1.92%) HubSpot
5 4 (1.92%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.92%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.92%) Zoho
6 1 (0.48%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle