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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 127 300
Rank change year-on-year -78 +173 +346
Permanent jobs citing dbt 178 430 170
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.16% 2.48% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.19% 5.39% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 124 419 162
10th Percentile £64,656 £56,495 £59,505
25th Percentile £79,000 £71,225 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +40.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £129,375
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £100,000 £73,090
% change year-on-year -10.00% +36.82% -2.55%

All Cloud 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 5,583 7,985 9,354
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.50% 46.13% 47.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,053 5,224 8,020
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,255 £36,270
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £104,750 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%

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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 December 2025.

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 91 (51.12%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (25.28%) Apache
3 7 (3.93%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.56%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.25%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 114 (64.04%) Snowflake
2 109 (61.24%) AWS
3 84 (47.19%) Azure
4 63 (35.39%) GCP
5 48 (26.97%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (14.04%) GitHub
7 21 (11.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (11.80%) Power Platform
8 19 (10.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 19 (10.67%) GitHub Copilot
9 14 (7.87%) Fivetran
10 10 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (4.49%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.49%) Matillion
12 8 (4.49%) Pulumi
13 4 (2.25%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.25%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.49%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (43.26%) Amazon Athena
2 73 (41.01%) Apache Arrow
2 73 (41.01%) Apache Iceberg
2 73 (41.01%) Dremio
3 53 (29.78%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (26.40%) Data Lake
5 44 (24.72%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (23.03%) Apache Ignite
7 21 (11.80%) Power BI
7 21 (11.80%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (5.06%) Looker
8 9 (5.06%) Tableau
9 8 (4.49%) BigQuery
9 8 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (4.49%) Redis
10 7 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (3.93%) Metadata
11 6 (3.37%) Data Vault
11 6 (3.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (10.67%) JIRA
2 8 (4.49%) Git
General
1 131 (73.60%) Finance
2 73 (41.01%) Front Office
3 48 (26.97%) Social Skills
4 43 (24.16%) Banking
5 41 (23.03%) Investment Banking
6 30 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.37%) Retail
8 5 (2.81%) Marketing
9 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.69%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.56%) International Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (49.44%) Senior
2 75 (42.13%) Python Engineer
3 73 (41.01%) AWS Engineer
3 73 (41.01%) AWS Software Engineer
3 73 (41.01%) Python Software Engineer
3 73 (41.01%) Software Engineer
4 41 (23.03%) Java Engineer
4 41 (23.03%) Java Software Engineer
5 39 (21.91%) Senior Java Engineer
5 39 (21.91%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 39 (21.91%) Senior Software Engineer
6 34 (19.10%) Developer
7 32 (17.98%) AWS Developer
7 32 (17.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 32 (17.98%) Python Developer
8 19 (10.67%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (10.67%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Site Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (44.38%) Pandas
2 78 (43.82%) NumPy
3 73 (41.01%) SciPy
4 41 (23.03%) gRPC
4 41 (23.03%) Protocol Buffers
5 34 (19.10%) AngularJS
5 34 (19.10%) Node.js
5 34 (19.10%) React
5 34 (19.10%) Vue
6 11 (6.18%) GraphQL
6 11 (6.18%) OAuth
6 11 (6.18%) OpenAPI
6 11 (6.18%) Swagger
7 10 (5.62%) Django
8 8 (4.49%) YAML
9 7 (3.93%) Kafka
10 5 (2.81%) PySpark
10 5 (2.81%) scikit-learn
11 4 (2.25%) Hugging Face
12 2 (1.12%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 73 (41.01%) Equities
1 73 (41.01%) Fixed Income
1 73 (41.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 41 (23.03%) Derivative
2 41 (23.03%) Hedge funds
2 41 (23.03%) Pricing Data
3 33 (18.54%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.93%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.56%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.49%) Linux
1 8 (4.49%) Unix
2 4 (2.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (69.10%) Agile
2 121 (67.98%) Asset Management
3 84 (47.19%) Software Engineering
4 73 (41.01%) Investment Management
5 68 (38.20%) DevOps
6 63 (35.39%) CI/CD
7 56 (31.46%) Data Modelling
8 50 (28.09%) Analytics
9 49 (27.53%) Coaching
10 42 (23.60%) ETL
11 38 (21.35%) Risk Management
12 36 (20.22%) Mentoring
13 35 (19.66%) AI
13 35 (19.66%) Fintech
14 33 (18.54%) Data Pipeline
14 33 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (17.98%) Order Management
15 32 (17.98%) Performance Attribution
16 31 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 29 (16.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 121 (67.98%) Python
2 76 (42.70%) JavaScript
3 73 (41.01%) TypeScript
4 55 (30.90%) SQL
5 48 (26.97%) Java
6 29 (16.29%) PowerShell
7 11 (6.18%) C#
8 6 (3.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.25%) Scala
10 2 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.12%) Ruby
11 1 (0.56%) LookML
Qualifications
1 10 (5.62%) SC Cleared
1 10 (5.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.25%) SnowPro
3 3 (1.69%) Degree
4 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.30%) Accessibility
2 11 (6.18%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.93%) NCSC
3 7 (3.93%) NIST
4 6 (3.37%) GDPR
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (6.18%) Docker
2 4 (2.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (19.66%) Terraform
2 3 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.12%) Argo
Vendors
1 37 (20.79%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.99%) Google
3 11 (6.18%) Databricks
4 9 (5.06%) Talend
5 4 (2.25%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.25%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.25%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.25%) IBM
5 4 (2.25%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.25%) Zoho
6 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.56%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.56%) Apple
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle
7 1 (0.56%) Spotify