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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 222 84
Rank change year-on-year -150 -138 +317
Permanent jobs citing dbt 88 220 811
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 1.33% 3.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.01% 3.69% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 61 215 805
10th Percentile £61,500 £86,870 £71,075
25th Percentile £67,908 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,654 £117,800 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.63% +2.43% +53.33%
75th Percentile £78,312 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £91,250 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £74,862 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -31.94% -4.35% +64.29%

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 8,672 5,960 9,918
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.17% 36.09% 40.85%
Number of salaries quoted 6,347 4,353 7,332
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.53%

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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 31 August 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 9 (10.23%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.41%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Superset
3 1 (1.14%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.55%) GCP
2 24 (27.27%) AWS
3 21 (23.86%) Azure
4 16 (18.18%) Snowflake
5 13 (14.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (12.50%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.82%) Fivetran
8 4 (4.55%) Cloud Composer
8 4 (4.55%) SaaS
9 3 (3.41%) Alation
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.41%) GitHub
9 3 (3.41%) Google Ads
9 3 (3.41%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.27%) AppsFlyer
10 2 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.27%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.27%) Datadog
10 2 (2.27%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.77%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.64%) BigQuery
2 11 (12.50%) Power BI
3 10 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (11.36%) Looker
3 10 (11.36%) Semantic Layer
4 9 (10.23%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.82%) Tableau
6 5 (5.68%) Metadata
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.27%) Airbyte
9 2 (2.27%) Big Data
9 2 (2.27%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.14%) Metabase
10 1 (1.14%) Mixpanel
10 1 (1.14%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 8 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (3.41%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.41%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.27%) JMeter
3 2 (2.27%) Locust
General
1 54 (61.36%) Social Skills
2 37 (42.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (27.27%) Finance
4 18 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.50%) Retail
6 7 (7.95%) Banking
6 7 (7.95%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (7.95%) Law
7 4 (4.55%) Marketing
8 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Legal
8 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.14%) Advertising
9 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (31.82%) Data Engineer
2 26 (29.55%) Senior
3 24 (27.27%) Architect
4 13 (14.77%) ERP Architect
4 13 (14.77%) Python Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) Site Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 11 (12.50%) Technical Architect
6 10 (11.36%) Senior Data Engineer
7 9 (10.23%) Lead
8 7 (7.95%) Analyst
9 5 (5.68%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Principal Data Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Product Analyst
10 4 (4.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Data Analyst
11 3 (3.41%) Onboarding Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (26.14%) Terraform
2 4 (4.55%) PySpark
3 3 (3.41%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.41%) Kafka
4 2 (2.27%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.14%) NumPy
5 1 (1.14%) Pandas
5 1 (1.14%) pgvector
5 1 (1.14%) PostGIS
5 1 (1.14%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.77%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (9.09%) Blog
3 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.41%) Replication
5 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.27%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.14%) Clustering
7 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.14%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.14%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.91%) Linux
2 13 (14.77%) Unix
3 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (38.64%) AI
2 31 (35.23%) Analytics
3 28 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 26 (29.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (27.27%) Data Engineering
5 24 (27.27%) Open Source
5 24 (27.27%) Technical Architecture
6 23 (26.14%) Data Modelling
7 22 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 21 (23.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (22.73%) Collaborative Culture
9 20 (22.73%) Observability
10 17 (19.32%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (19.32%) Migration
11 16 (18.18%) Collaborative Engineering
11 16 (18.18%) Data Governance
11 16 (18.18%) DevOps
12 15 (17.05%) Incident Response
12 15 (17.05%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 45 (51.14%) Python
2 43 (48.86%) SQL
3 3 (3.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 38 (43.18%) SC Cleared
1 38 (43.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.27%) Degree
2 2 (2.27%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.41%) QA
4 2 (2.27%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (11.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (26.14%) Google
2 18 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 12 (13.64%) OpenAI
4 6 (6.82%) Databricks
5 2 (2.27%) Braze
5 2 (2.27%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.14%) Infor
6 1 (1.14%) Marketo
6 1 (1.14%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Trend Micro