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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 153 341
Rank change year-on-year -123 +188 +255
Permanent jobs citing dbt 113 295 230
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 2.30% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 4.85% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 51 284 217
10th Percentile £62,500 £64,471 £55,400
25th Percentile £68,813 £77,500 £71,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,677 £107,500 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.60% -4.44% +32.35%
75th Percentile £87,500 £122,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £141,375 £155,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +13.51% +29.82%

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 6,407 6,077 13,842
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.07% 47.37% 44.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,328 4,694 11,994
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +7.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,625 £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 27 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 32 (28.32%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (10.62%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.31%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.88%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 72 (63.72%) Azure
2 63 (55.75%) Snowflake
3 52 (46.02%) AWS
4 42 (37.17%) GCP
5 35 (30.97%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (16.81%) Azure Key Vault
7 17 (15.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (14.16%) Power Platform
9 15 (13.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (12.39%) GitHub
11 13 (11.50%) Amazon ECR
11 13 (11.50%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (11.50%) Pulumi
12 12 (10.62%) GitHub Copilot
13 11 (9.73%) Fivetran
14 10 (8.85%) Matillion
14 10 (8.85%) PaaS
15 7 (6.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (6.19%) Cloud Composer
16 6 (5.31%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.50%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (33.63%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (16.81%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (14.16%) Power BI
4 15 (13.27%) BigQuery
5 14 (12.39%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (12.39%) Metadata
6 13 (11.50%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (11.50%) Redis
7 12 (10.62%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (7.96%) Data Lake
9 7 (6.19%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (6.19%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.42%) Data Vault
10 5 (4.42%) Looker
10 5 (4.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (3.54%) Apache Arrow
11 4 (3.54%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (3.54%) Apache Ignite
11 4 (3.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (10.62%) JIRA
2 5 (4.42%) Cucumber
2 5 (4.42%) JMeter
2 5 (4.42%) Locust
3 3 (2.65%) Git
General
1 52 (46.02%) Finance
2 45 (39.82%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.35%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (14.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.85%) Law
6 9 (7.96%) Banking
7 4 (3.54%) Front Office
7 4 (3.54%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.54%) Retail
8 2 (1.77%) Marketing
9 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.88%) International Banking
9 1 (0.88%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.88%) Publishing
9 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (49.56%) Senior
2 31 (27.43%) Data Engineer
3 19 (16.81%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (10.62%) Senior Data Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Lead
6 8 (7.08%) Architect
6 8 (7.08%) Site Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Python Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Snowflake Architect
8 5 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Test Leader
9 4 (3.54%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.27%) Kafka
2 13 (11.50%) Django
3 11 (9.73%) GraphQL
3 11 (9.73%) OAuth
3 11 (9.73%) OpenAPI
3 11 (9.73%) Swagger
4 8 (7.08%) YAML
5 5 (4.42%) Gherkin
5 5 (4.42%) PySpark
6 4 (3.54%) gRPC
6 4 (3.54%) NumPy
6 4 (3.54%) Pandas
6 4 (3.54%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (3.54%) SciPy
7 2 (1.77%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.77%) CSS
7 2 (1.77%) HTML
7 2 (1.77%) Node.js
7 2 (1.77%) React
7 2 (1.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.55%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.85%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.08%) Data Structures
4 6 (5.31%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (5.31%) Social Media
5 5 (4.42%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.54%) Blog
6 4 (3.54%) Derivative
6 4 (3.54%) Equities
6 4 (3.54%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.54%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.54%) Pricing Data
7 2 (1.77%) Contract for Difference
7 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.77%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.16%) Linux
2 13 (11.50%) Unix
3 4 (3.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (55.75%) CI/CD
1 63 (55.75%) DevOps
2 60 (53.10%) Data Modelling
3 59 (52.21%) Agile
4 44 (38.94%) Analytics
5 42 (37.17%) Asset Management
6 40 (35.40%) Coaching
6 40 (35.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (31.86%) ETL
8 34 (30.09%) Data Engineering
9 29 (25.66%) Data Pipeline
10 28 (24.78%) Mentoring
10 28 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (23.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (22.12%) Clean Code
12 25 (22.12%) Data Governance
13 24 (21.24%) Observability
14 22 (19.47%) Migration
15 20 (17.70%) Platform Engineering
15 20 (17.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (56.64%) Python
2 61 (53.98%) SQL
3 29 (25.66%) Java
4 27 (23.89%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.73%) C#
6 9 (7.96%) Scala
7 7 (6.19%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.31%) C++
9 4 (3.54%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.77%) Ruby
11 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (13.27%) SC Cleared
1 15 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.54%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.27%) Accessibility
2 14 (12.39%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.42%) QA
3 5 (4.42%) WCAG
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (19.47%) Docker
2 4 (3.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (38.94%) Terraform
2 10 (8.85%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.42%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (4.42%) Grafana
4 2 (1.77%) Argo
Vendors
1 33 (29.20%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.04%) Google
3 12 (10.62%) Databricks
4 5 (4.42%) Talend
5 4 (3.54%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.54%) IBM
6 2 (1.77%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.88%) Apple
7 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.88%) Spotify