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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 160 297
Rank change year-on-year -132 +137 +268
Permanent jobs citing dbt 107 279 305
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.60% 2.09% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 4.66% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 44 271 291
10th Percentile £61,800 £72,500 £60,200
25th Percentile £66,210 £87,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,651 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £137,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £92,125 £138,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +15.79% +26.67%

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 6,801 5,984 13,945
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.07% 44.84% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,569 4,688 11,987
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £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 21 April 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 28 (26.17%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (11.21%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.87%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 65 (60.75%) Azure
2 53 (49.53%) Snowflake
3 47 (43.93%) AWS
4 35 (32.71%) GCP
5 33 (30.84%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (17.76%) Azure Key Vault
7 16 (14.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (14.02%) Power Platform
9 13 (12.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (12.15%) GitHub
10 11 (10.28%) Amazon ECR
10 11 (10.28%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (10.28%) GitHub Copilot
10 11 (10.28%) Pulumi
11 10 (9.35%) PaaS
12 7 (6.54%) Cloud Composer
12 7 (6.54%) Matillion
13 6 (5.61%) Dagster
13 6 (5.61%) Fivetran
14 5 (4.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.28%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.61%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (28.97%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (14.02%) Power BI
4 14 (13.08%) BigQuery
4 14 (13.08%) Metadata
5 12 (11.21%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (10.28%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (10.28%) Redis
6 11 (10.28%) Snowflake Schema
7 9 (8.41%) Looker
8 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
8 7 (6.54%) Tableau
9 5 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (4.67%) Data Lake
9 5 (4.67%) Data Vault
10 4 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.80%) Big Data
11 3 (2.80%) Semantic Layer
12 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (10.28%) JIRA
2 5 (4.67%) Cucumber
2 5 (4.67%) JMeter
2 5 (4.67%) Locust
3 2 (1.87%) Git
General
1 49 (45.79%) Finance
2 42 (39.25%) Social Skills
3 25 (23.36%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (17.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (12.15%) Law
6 7 (6.54%) Banking
6 7 (6.54%) Retail
7 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.93%) Publishing
9 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (44.86%) Senior
2 30 (28.04%) Data Engineer
3 19 (17.76%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (9.35%) Lead
4 10 (9.35%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Architect
6 6 (5.61%) Site Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Snowflake Architect
7 5 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Test Leader
8 4 (3.74%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Applications Support
8 4 (3.74%) Applications Support Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Data Scientist
8 4 (3.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.80%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.02%) Kafka
2 11 (10.28%) Django
2 11 (10.28%) GraphQL
2 11 (10.28%) OAuth
2 11 (10.28%) OpenAPI
2 11 (10.28%) Swagger
3 8 (7.48%) YAML
4 5 (4.67%) Gherkin
4 5 (4.67%) PySpark
5 2 (1.87%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.87%) CSS
5 2 (1.87%) HTML
5 2 (1.87%) Node.js
5 2 (1.87%) React
5 2 (1.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (27.10%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.48%) Data Structures
2 8 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.54%) Blog
4 6 (5.61%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (5.61%) Social Media
5 5 (4.67%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.87%) Contract for Difference
6 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.87%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.08%) Linux
2 11 (10.28%) Unix
3 4 (3.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (55.14%) DevOps
2 57 (53.27%) Data Modelling
3 56 (52.34%) CI/CD
4 52 (48.60%) Agile
5 43 (40.19%) Analytics
6 38 (35.51%) Coaching
6 38 (35.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (33.64%) Asset Management
8 34 (31.78%) Data Engineering
8 34 (31.78%) ETL
9 30 (28.04%) Data Pipeline
10 28 (26.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (23.36%) Mentoring
12 24 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (21.50%) Data Governance
14 22 (20.56%) Clean Code
14 22 (20.56%) Observability
15 20 (18.69%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (17.76%) AI
16 19 (17.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 61 (57.01%) SQL
2 57 (53.27%) Python
3 26 (24.30%) PowerShell
4 25 (23.36%) Java
5 11 (10.28%) C#
6 9 (8.41%) Scala
7 6 (5.61%) C++
8 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.87%) Ruby
10 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (12.15%) SC Cleared
1 13 (12.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.74%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.87%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.08%) Accessibility
2 13 (12.15%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.67%) QA
3 5 (4.67%) WCAG
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (19.63%) Docker
2 4 (3.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (38.32%) Terraform
2 10 (9.35%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.67%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (4.67%) Grafana
4 2 (1.87%) Argo
Vendors
1 29 (27.10%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.15%) Google
3 9 (8.41%) Databricks
4 4 (3.74%) Ab Initio
4 4 (3.74%) IBM
5 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.87%) Talend
6 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.93%) Apple
6 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.93%) Spotify