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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 211 106
Rank change year-on-year -148 -105 +347
Permanent jobs citing dbt 86 249 776
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 1.51% 2.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 4.09% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 56 246 761
10th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £71,075
25th Percentile £67,493 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,654 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.13% -4.35% +43.75%
75th Percentile £78,852 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £91,250 - £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 8,450 6,082 11,854
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.99% 36.89% 41.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,038 4,483 9,649
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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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 23 July 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 19 (22.09%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (8.14%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 31 (36.05%) AWS
2 27 (31.40%) GCP
3 18 (20.93%) Azure
4 15 (17.44%) Snowflake
5 11 (12.79%) Power Platform
6 10 (11.63%) Cloud Composer
6 10 (11.63%) PaaS
7 7 (8.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (8.14%) Dagster
8 6 (6.98%) SaaS
9 5 (5.81%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (5.81%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 5 (5.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (5.81%) AWS CodeBuild
9 5 (5.81%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (5.81%) Datadog
9 5 (5.81%) Pulumi
9 5 (5.81%) Sentry
10 4 (4.65%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.98%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.93%) BigQuery
2 11 (12.79%) Power BI
3 10 (11.63%) Looker
3 10 (11.63%) Metadata
4 7 (8.14%) Data Lake
4 7 (8.14%) Tableau
5 6 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.98%) Semantic Layer
6 5 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (5.81%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (5.81%) Redis
6 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.49%) Big Data
8 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.49%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.33%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.16%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Git
2 5 (5.81%) Cucumber
2 5 (5.81%) JMeter
2 5 (5.81%) Locust
3 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (52.33%) Social Skills
2 44 (51.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (19.77%) Finance
4 14 (16.28%) Law
5 11 (12.79%) Retail
6 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (9.30%) Banking
7 6 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Marketing
8 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Legal
9 1 (1.16%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (40.70%) Data Engineer
2 25 (29.07%) Architect
3 24 (27.91%) Senior
4 16 (18.60%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (15.12%) ERP Architect
5 13 (15.12%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (12.79%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 11 (12.79%) Technical Architect
7 8 (9.30%) Lead
8 7 (8.14%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Test Leader
11 4 (4.65%) Principal Data Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
12 3 (3.49%) Analyst
12 3 (3.49%) Data Scientist
13 2 (2.33%) Data Analyst
13 2 (2.33%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.79%) Kafka
2 5 (5.81%) Django
2 5 (5.81%) Gherkin
2 5 (5.81%) PySpark
3 2 (2.33%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.16%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Blog
1 8 (9.30%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.98%) Anti-Piracy
2 6 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.98%) Social Media
3 5 (5.81%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.49%) Data Fabric
6 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.33%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.33%) Replication
6 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.16%) Clustering
7 1 (1.16%) Contract for Difference
7 1 (1.16%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.47%) Linux
2 7 (8.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.72%) Analytics
1 29 (33.72%) Open Source
2 28 (32.56%) Data Engineering
3 27 (31.40%) Data Modelling
4 25 (29.07%) AI
5 24 (27.91%) Agile
5 24 (27.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (27.91%) Technical Architecture
6 23 (26.74%) CI/CD
6 23 (26.74%) Migration
7 18 (20.93%) Data Governance
7 18 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (19.77%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (19.77%) Observability
8 17 (19.77%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (18.60%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (18.60%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (18.60%) Prototyping
10 15 (17.44%) Visualisation
11 13 (15.12%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 46 (53.49%) Python
2 43 (50.00%) SQL
3 18 (20.93%) Java
4 6 (6.98%) C++
4 6 (6.98%) Scala
5 1 (1.16%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (37.21%) SC Cleared
1 32 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.33%) SnowPro
3 1 (1.16%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.93%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.14%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.81%) QA
3 5 (5.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (20.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (23.26%) Terraform
2 7 (8.14%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.81%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (5.81%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.12%) Google
3 11 (12.79%) OpenAI
4 5 (5.81%) Databricks
5 1 (1.16%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.16%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle
5 1 (1.16%) Salesforce