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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 203 230
Rank change year-on-year -123 +27 +304
Permanent jobs citing dbt 79 259 455
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 1.77% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 4.47% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 35 253 436
10th Percentile £60,600 £70,000 £67,375
25th Percentile £66,091 £97,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £137,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £138,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £74,931 £110,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year -31.88% -2.22% +50.00%

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 7,134 5,792 14,004
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.95% 39.64% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,893 4,178 11,916
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,175 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,987
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 22 May 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 25 (31.65%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (13.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.27%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 35 (44.30%) AWS
1 35 (44.30%) Azure
2 29 (36.71%) Snowflake
3 28 (35.44%) GCP
4 15 (18.99%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (13.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (12.66%) Azure Key Vault
6 10 (12.66%) Cloud Composer
6 10 (12.66%) PaaS
6 10 (12.66%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.59%) Dagster
7 6 (7.59%) Matillion
8 5 (6.33%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (6.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 5 (6.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (6.33%) AWS CodeBuild
8 5 (6.33%) Datadog
8 5 (6.33%) Pulumi
8 5 (6.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.59%) Broadband
2 5 (6.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.52%) BigQuery
2 14 (17.72%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (13.92%) Looker
4 10 (12.66%) Metadata
4 10 (12.66%) Power BI
5 8 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (7.59%) Data Lake
6 6 (7.59%) Semantic Layer
6 6 (7.59%) Tableau
7 5 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (6.33%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (6.33%) Redis
7 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
8 4 (5.06%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.80%) Big Data
10 2 (2.53%) Data Vault
11 1 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.27%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Cucumber
1 5 (6.33%) JMeter
1 5 (6.33%) Locust
2 2 (2.53%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) JIRA
General
1 32 (40.51%) Finance
2 26 (32.91%) Social Skills
3 20 (25.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (20.25%) Law
5 15 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (12.66%) Banking
6 10 (12.66%) Retail
7 6 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.53%) Marketing
9 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (39.24%) Data Engineer
2 27 (34.18%) Senior
3 10 (12.66%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (12.66%) Lead
3 10 (12.66%) Senior Data Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) Architect
4 6 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) Snowflake Architect
5 5 (6.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Test Leader
6 4 (5.06%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Applications Support
6 4 (5.06%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Data Scientist
6 4 (5.06%) Principal Data Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Snowflake Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.99%) Kafka
2 5 (6.33%) Django
2 5 (6.33%) Gherkin
2 5 (6.33%) GraphQL
2 5 (6.33%) OAuth
2 5 (6.33%) OpenAPI
2 5 (6.33%) PySpark
2 5 (6.33%) Swagger
2 5 (6.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.32%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.66%) Blog
3 8 (10.13%) Data Structures
4 6 (7.59%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (7.59%) Social Media
5 5 (6.33%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.53%) Contract for Difference
6 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.53%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.27%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.39%) Linux
2 5 (6.33%) Unix
3 4 (5.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (53.16%) Data Modelling
2 33 (41.77%) CI/CD
3 32 (40.51%) Data Engineering
4 31 (39.24%) DevOps
5 30 (37.97%) Agile
6 28 (35.44%) Analytics
7 24 (30.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (27.85%) ETL
9 20 (25.32%) Data Pipeline
9 20 (25.32%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (22.78%) Data Governance
11 17 (21.52%) Coaching
11 17 (21.52%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (20.25%) Asset Management
13 15 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (18.99%) Visualisation
14 14 (17.72%) Data Science
14 14 (17.72%) Machine Learning
14 14 (17.72%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (69.62%) SQL
2 47 (59.49%) Python
3 23 (29.11%) Java
4 17 (21.52%) PowerShell
5 9 (11.39%) Scala
6 6 (7.59%) C++
7 5 (6.33%) C#
8 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.27%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (6.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.27%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.46%) Data Quality
2 10 (12.66%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.33%) QA
3 5 (6.33%) WCAG
4 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (20.25%) Docker
2 4 (5.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (35.44%) Terraform
2 9 (11.39%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.33%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (6.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.39%) Google
3 7 (8.86%) Databricks
4 4 (5.06%) Ab Initio
4 4 (5.06%) IBM
5 1 (1.27%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle
5 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.27%) Talend