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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 208 182
Rank change year-on-year -148 -26 +316
Permanent jobs citing dbt 64 250 591
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.32% 1.64% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.86% 4.28% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 33 246 572
10th Percentile £60,300 £69,375 £71,200
25th Percentile £66,091 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,301 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.45% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £138,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% -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 7,465 5,843 14,568
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.80% 38.34% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,193 4,244 12,151
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,375 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% +2.29% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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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 13 June 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 24 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (14.06%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.69%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.00%) AWS
2 25 (39.06%) GCP
3 19 (29.69%) Azure
4 14 (21.88%) Snowflake
5 10 (15.63%) Cloud Composer
5 10 (15.63%) PaaS
5 10 (15.63%) Power Platform
6 7 (10.94%) Dagster
7 6 (9.38%) SaaS
8 5 (7.81%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (7.81%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (7.81%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 5 (7.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (7.81%) AWS CodeBuild
8 5 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (7.81%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (7.81%) Datadog
8 5 (7.81%) Pulumi
8 5 (7.81%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Broadband
2 5 (7.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.56%) BigQuery
2 10 (15.63%) Looker
2 10 (15.63%) Power BI
3 9 (14.06%) Metadata
4 8 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (9.38%) Data Lake
5 6 (9.38%) Semantic Layer
5 6 (9.38%) Tableau
6 5 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (7.81%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (7.81%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (7.81%) Redis
6 5 (7.81%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.69%) Big Data
7 3 (4.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Cucumber
1 5 (7.81%) JMeter
1 5 (7.81%) Locust
2 2 (3.13%) Git
General
1 21 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 20 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (28.13%) Finance
4 16 (25.00%) Law
5 10 (15.63%) Banking
5 10 (15.63%) Retail
6 8 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.13%) Marketing
9 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (51.56%) Data Engineer
2 20 (31.25%) Senior
3 13 (20.31%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (14.06%) Lead
5 6 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Test Leader
7 4 (6.25%) Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Data Scientist
7 4 (6.25%) Principal Data Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Snowflake Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Snowflake Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Lead Data Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) AWS Data Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.44%) Kafka
2 5 (7.81%) Django
2 5 (7.81%) Gherkin
3 4 (6.25%) PySpark
4 1 (1.56%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.56%) OAuth
4 1 (1.56%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.56%) Swagger
4 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) Cloud Native
2 10 (15.63%) Blog
3 8 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 6 (9.38%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (9.38%) Social Media
5 5 (7.81%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.13%) Contract for Difference
6 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.13%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.56%) Clustering
7 1 (1.56%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.56%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.06%) Linux
2 5 (7.81%) Unix
3 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (48.44%) Data Modelling
2 30 (46.88%) Data Engineering
3 27 (42.19%) Analytics
4 20 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 19 (29.69%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (26.56%) DevOps
6 17 (26.56%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (25.00%) Agile
7 16 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (23.44%) Data Governance
8 15 (23.44%) ETL
8 15 (23.44%) Observability
8 15 (23.44%) Visualisation
9 13 (20.31%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (20.31%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (18.75%) Data Science
10 12 (18.75%) Fintech
10 12 (18.75%) Machine Learning
11 10 (15.63%) Continuous Delivery
11 10 (15.63%) Disruptive Innovation
Programming Languages
1 44 (68.75%) SQL
2 43 (67.19%) Python
3 22 (34.38%) Java
4 8 (12.50%) Scala
5 6 (9.38%) C++
6 5 (7.81%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.56%) C#
7 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.38%) Accessibility
3 5 (7.81%) QA
3 5 (7.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (31.25%) Terraform
2 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.81%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (7.81%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) Google
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.81%) Databricks
4 1 (1.56%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.56%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.56%) IBM
4 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle
4 1 (1.56%) Salesforce