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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 174 353
Rank change year-on-year -78 +179 +284
Permanent jobs citing dbt 131 315 181
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 1.97% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.24% 4.22% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 72 302 172
10th Percentile £64,939 £64,471 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £73,125 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +39.72% -11.59%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £97,500 £73,090
% change year-on-year -17.95% +33.40% +0.81%

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 5,846 7,472 12,662
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.92% 46.74% 45.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,054 4,742 11,079
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 3 February 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 49 (37.40%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (14.50%) Apache
3 8 (6.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 84 (64.12%) Snowflake
2 79 (60.31%) Azure
3 66 (50.38%) AWS
4 45 (34.35%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (33.59%) GCP
6 21 (16.03%) GitHub
7 19 (14.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (14.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 19 (14.50%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (11.45%) Power Platform
9 10 (7.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (7.63%) Fivetran
9 10 (7.63%) Matillion
10 9 (6.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (6.11%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.11%) Pulumi
12 3 (2.29%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.29%) Dataform
13 2 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (37.40%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (25.19%) Amazon Athena
3 29 (22.14%) Apache Arrow
3 29 (22.14%) Apache Iceberg
3 29 (22.14%) Dremio
4 28 (21.37%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (16.03%) Data Lake
6 20 (15.27%) Snowflake Schema
7 15 (11.45%) Apache Ignite
7 15 (11.45%) Power BI
8 9 (6.87%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (6.87%) Metadata
9 8 (6.11%) BigQuery
9 8 (6.11%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (6.11%) Redis
10 7 (5.34%) Relational Database
11 6 (4.58%) Data Vault
12 5 (3.82%) Looker
13 4 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (3.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (14.50%) JIRA
2 3 (2.29%) Git
General
1 85 (64.89%) Finance
2 47 (35.88%) Social Skills
3 29 (22.14%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (22.14%) Front Office
4 19 (14.50%) Banking
5 15 (11.45%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.29%) Law
7 3 (2.29%) Music Industry
7 3 (2.29%) Retail
8 2 (1.53%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) International Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (48.09%) Senior
2 31 (23.66%) Python Engineer
3 29 (22.14%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (22.14%) AWS Software Engineer
3 29 (22.14%) Python Software Engineer
3 29 (22.14%) Software Engineer
4 22 (16.79%) Data Engineer
5 19 (14.50%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (12.21%) Developer
7 15 (11.45%) Java Engineer
7 15 (11.45%) Java Software Engineer
8 14 (10.69%) AWS Developer
8 14 (10.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 14 (10.69%) Python Developer
9 13 (9.92%) Senior Java Engineer
9 13 (9.92%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 13 (9.92%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (6.87%) Architect
11 8 (6.11%) Site Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (22.90%) NumPy
1 30 (22.90%) Pandas
2 29 (22.14%) SciPy
3 16 (12.21%) AngularJS
3 16 (12.21%) Node.js
3 16 (12.21%) React
3 16 (12.21%) Vue
4 15 (11.45%) gRPC
4 15 (11.45%) Protocol Buffers
5 11 (8.40%) GraphQL
5 11 (8.40%) OAuth
5 11 (8.40%) OpenAPI
5 11 (8.40%) Swagger
6 10 (7.63%) Django
6 10 (7.63%) Kafka
7 8 (6.11%) YAML
8 6 (4.58%) PySpark
9 2 (1.53%) CSS
9 2 (1.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (29.01%) Cloud Native
2 29 (22.14%) Equities
2 29 (22.14%) Fixed Income
2 29 (22.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (11.45%) Derivative
3 15 (11.45%) Hedge funds
3 15 (11.45%) Pricing Data
4 12 (9.16%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.29%) Blog
7 2 (1.53%) Contract for Difference
7 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.53%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.76%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.76%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.76%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.40%) Linux
2 8 (6.11%) Unix
3 4 (3.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (61.83%) Agile
2 77 (58.78%) Asset Management
3 64 (48.85%) DevOps
4 62 (47.33%) CI/CD
5 61 (46.56%) Data Modelling
6 50 (38.17%) Coaching
7 48 (36.64%) Analytics
8 40 (30.53%) ETL
8 40 (30.53%) Software Engineering
9 37 (28.24%) Mentoring
10 34 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (23.66%) AI
11 31 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (22.14%) Data Engineering
12 29 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (22.14%) Investment Management
13 27 (20.61%) Clean Code
14 26 (19.85%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (16.79%) Migration
16 21 (16.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 76 (58.02%) Python
2 57 (43.51%) SQL
3 32 (24.43%) JavaScript
4 30 (22.90%) PowerShell
5 29 (22.14%) TypeScript
6 26 (19.85%) Java
7 11 (8.40%) C#
8 5 (3.82%) Scala
9 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (7.63%) SC Cleared
1 10 (7.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.05%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.92%) Accessibility
1 13 (9.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.53%) NCSC
2 2 (1.53%) NIST
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (7.63%) Docker
2 4 (3.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (28.24%) Terraform
2 5 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 38 (29.01%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.92%) Databricks
3 11 (8.40%) Google
4 5 (3.82%) Talend
5 4 (3.05%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.05%) IBM
6 2 (1.53%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.76%) Apple
7 1 (0.76%) Spotify