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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 229 87
Rank change year-on-year -143 -142 +269
Permanent jobs citing dbt 94 218 736
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 1.30% 3.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 3.78% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 64 205 727
10th Percentile £62,500 £76,580 £64,471
25th Percentile £67,908 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,742 £117,800 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.55% +2.43% +57.34%
75th Percentile £81,957 £137,500 £145,625
90th Percentile £91,250 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £74,830 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -31.97% -4.35% +57.34%

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 8,699 5,772 9,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.97% 34.30% 41.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,384 4,090 6,204
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
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 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 3 October 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 14 (14.89%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.38%) Apache
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Superset
3 1 (1.06%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.17%) GCP
2 28 (29.79%) AWS
3 27 (28.72%) Snowflake
4 25 (26.60%) Azure
5 16 (17.02%) Power Platform
6 13 (13.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (8.51%) Fivetran
7 8 (8.51%) SaaS
8 6 (6.38%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (3.19%) Alation
9 3 (3.19%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.19%) Dataform
9 3 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.19%) GitHub
9 3 (3.19%) Google Ads
9 3 (3.19%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.13%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.13%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.83%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.06%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.15%) BigQuery
2 16 (17.02%) Power BI
3 15 (15.96%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (13.83%) Looker
5 11 (11.70%) Semantic Layer
6 9 (9.57%) SQL Server
7 8 (8.51%) Data Lake
7 8 (8.51%) Metadata
8 6 (6.38%) Tableau
9 4 (4.26%) Airbyte
9 4 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (4.26%) OLTP
10 3 (3.19%) Flink
10 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
10 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (3.19%) SSDT
11 2 (2.13%) Delta Lake
12 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Git
2 3 (3.19%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.19%) JIRA
2 3 (3.19%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.06%) GitLab
General
1 53 (56.38%) Social Skills
2 34 (36.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 30 (31.91%) Finance
4 21 (22.34%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (13.83%) Retail
6 9 (9.57%) Marketing
7 5 (5.32%) Banking
7 5 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.32%) Law
7 5 (5.32%) Legal
8 4 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.06%) Advertising
10 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.06%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (37.23%) Senior
2 27 (28.72%) Architect
3 26 (27.66%) Data Engineer
4 13 (13.83%) ERP Architect
4 13 (13.83%) Python Engineer
4 13 (13.83%) Site Engineer
4 13 (13.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 13 (13.83%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (12.77%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (11.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 11 (11.70%) Technical Architect
7 8 (8.51%) Analyst
8 6 (6.38%) Lead
9 5 (5.32%) Data Scientist
10 4 (4.26%) Data Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) Product Analyst
11 3 (3.19%) Database Developer
11 3 (3.19%) Principal Data Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Senior Database Developer
11 3 (3.19%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (24.47%) Terraform
2 4 (4.26%) PySpark
3 3 (3.19%) Apache Beam
3 3 (3.19%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.13%) Kafka
5 1 (1.06%) NumPy
5 1 (1.06%) Pandas
5 1 (1.06%) pgvector
5 1 (1.06%) PostGIS
5 1 (1.06%) Snowpark
5 1 (1.06%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.38%) Blog
3 5 (5.32%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.19%) Replication
4 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.13%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.06%) Clustering
6 1 (1.06%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.06%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.06%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.89%) Linux
2 13 (13.83%) Unix
3 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (44.68%) AI
2 40 (42.55%) Analytics
3 32 (34.04%) Data Modelling
4 28 (29.79%) CI/CD
5 27 (28.72%) Data Engineering
5 27 (28.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (25.53%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (25.53%) Open Source
6 24 (25.53%) Technical Architecture
7 23 (24.47%) Mentoring
8 21 (22.34%) Observability
9 20 (21.28%) Collaborative Culture
10 19 (20.21%) Agile
10 19 (20.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (20.21%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (19.15%) Machine Learning
11 18 (19.15%) Migration
12 17 (18.09%) Data Governance
13 16 (17.02%) Collaborative Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (57.45%) Python
2 53 (56.38%) SQL
3 4 (4.26%) Java
4 3 (3.19%) C#
4 3 (3.19%) Scala
4 3 (3.19%) Shell Script
4 3 (3.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (40.43%) SC Cleared
1 38 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.13%) Degree
2 2 (2.13%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.53%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.32%) GDPR
3 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 10 (10.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 27 (28.72%) Google
2 20 (21.28%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.77%) OpenAI
4 8 (8.51%) Databricks
5 3 (3.19%) New Relic
5 3 (3.19%) RedGate
5 3 (3.19%) Splunk
6 2 (2.13%) Apple
6 2 (2.13%) Braze
6 2 (2.13%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.06%) Infor
7 1 (1.06%) Marketo
7 1 (1.06%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Trend Micro