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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 172 356
Rank change year-on-year -90 +184 +256
Permanent jobs citing dbt 123 302 198
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.73% 2.05% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.96% 4.33% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 57 290 185
10th Percentile £66,091 £61,250 £56,020
25th Percentile £68,813 £73,125 £66,110
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £122,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £102,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -26.83% +24.24% +13.79%

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 6,266 6,978 13,329
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.39% 47.30% 45.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,284 4,822 11,615
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 £103,750 £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 7 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 39 (31.71%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (10.57%) Apache Spark
3 9 (7.32%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.81%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 78 (63.41%) Azure
2 71 (57.72%) Snowflake
3 61 (49.59%) AWS
4 47 (38.21%) GCP
5 41 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (15.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 18 (14.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (13.82%) GitHub
9 16 (13.01%) Power Platform
10 15 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (12.20%) GitHub Copilot
11 13 (10.57%) Amazon ECR
11 13 (10.57%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (10.57%) Pulumi
12 11 (8.94%) Fivetran
13 10 (8.13%) Matillion
14 8 (6.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (6.50%) PaaS
15 6 (4.88%) Cloud Composer
15 6 (4.88%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.57%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (36.59%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (19.51%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (13.82%) Snowflake Schema
4 16 (13.01%) Metadata
4 16 (13.01%) Power BI
5 15 (12.20%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (11.38%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (11.38%) BigQuery
7 13 (10.57%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (10.57%) Redis
8 11 (8.94%) Apache Arrow
8 11 (8.94%) Apache Iceberg
8 11 (8.94%) Data Lake
8 11 (8.94%) Dremio
9 7 (5.69%) Data Vault
9 7 (5.69%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.88%) Apache Ignite
11 5 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (3.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (3.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (12.20%) JIRA
2 3 (2.44%) Cucumber
2 3 (2.44%) Git
2 3 (2.44%) JMeter
2 3 (2.44%) Locust
General
1 63 (51.22%) Finance
2 50 (40.65%) Social Skills
3 25 (20.33%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (8.94%) Front Office
6 10 (8.13%) Banking
7 9 (7.32%) Law
8 6 (4.88%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.44%) Music Industry
9 3 (2.44%) Retail
10 2 (1.63%) Marketing
11 1 (0.81%) International Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Publishing
11 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (49.59%) Senior
2 30 (24.39%) Data Engineer
3 19 (15.45%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (10.57%) Python Engineer
5 12 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (8.94%) AWS Software Engineer
6 11 (8.94%) Python Software Engineer
6 11 (8.94%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (8.94%) Software Engineer
7 10 (8.13%) Architect
8 9 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) Site Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (5.69%) Developer
10 7 (5.69%) Lead
11 6 (4.88%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.88%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (4.88%) Snowflake Architect
12 5 (4.07%) AWS Developer
12 5 (4.07%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.01%) Kafka
2 13 (10.57%) Django
3 12 (9.76%) NumPy
3 12 (9.76%) Pandas
4 11 (8.94%) GraphQL
4 11 (8.94%) OAuth
4 11 (8.94%) OpenAPI
4 11 (8.94%) SciPy
4 11 (8.94%) Swagger
5 8 (6.50%) YAML
6 7 (5.69%) AngularJS
6 7 (5.69%) Node.js
6 7 (5.69%) React
6 7 (5.69%) Vue
7 6 (4.88%) gRPC
7 6 (4.88%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (4.88%) PySpark
8 3 (2.44%) Gherkin
9 2 (1.63%) CSS
9 2 (1.63%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (26.83%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.94%) Equities
2 11 (8.94%) Fixed Income
2 11 (8.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (6.50%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.88%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (4.88%) Derivative
4 6 (4.88%) Hedge funds
4 6 (4.88%) Pricing Data
4 6 (4.88%) Social Media
5 5 (4.07%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.44%) Blog
8 2 (1.63%) Contract for Difference
8 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.63%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.01%) Linux
2 13 (10.57%) Unix
3 4 (3.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (54.47%) Agile
1 67 (54.47%) DevOps
2 66 (53.66%) CI/CD
3 64 (52.03%) Data Modelling
4 55 (44.72%) Asset Management
5 48 (39.02%) Analytics
6 46 (37.40%) Coaching
7 43 (34.96%) ETL
8 37 (30.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 36 (29.27%) Data Engineering
10 32 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (25.20%) Mentoring
12 30 (24.39%) Data Pipeline
13 28 (22.76%) Clean Code
13 28 (22.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (20.33%) AI
15 24 (19.51%) Data Governance
15 24 (19.51%) Migration
16 23 (18.70%) Observability
17 22 (17.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (59.35%) Python
2 62 (50.41%) SQL
3 30 (24.39%) Java
3 30 (24.39%) PowerShell
4 14 (11.38%) JavaScript
5 11 (8.94%) C#
5 11 (8.94%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.13%) Scala
7 6 (4.88%) C++
8 2 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.63%) Ruby
9 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (12.20%) SC Cleared
1 15 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.25%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.01%) Accessibility
2 12 (9.76%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.44%) QA
3 3 (2.44%) WCAG
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (15.45%) Docker
2 4 (3.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (35.77%) Terraform
2 8 (6.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.07%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (2.44%) Grafana
5 2 (1.63%) Argo
Vendors
1 36 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.01%) Google
3 13 (10.57%) Databricks
4 5 (4.07%) Talend
5 4 (3.25%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.25%) IBM
6 2 (1.63%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.81%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.81%) Apple
7 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle
7 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.81%) Spotify