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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 166 335
Rank change year-on-year -56 +169 +293
Permanent jobs citing dbt 149 334 164
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.97% 2.03% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.67% 4.36% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 94 322 154
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,495 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £71,200 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £105,000 £75,075
Median % change year-on-year - +39.86% -11.68%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £149,875
UK median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £73,090
% change year-on-year -10.53% +29.98% -2.55%

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 5,584 7,655 10,645
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.47% 46.57% 46.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,960 4,871 9,216
10th Percentile £31,635 £36,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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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 18 January 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 66 (44.30%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (18.79%) Apache
3 8 (5.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.67%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.68%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 97 (65.10%) Snowflake
2 86 (57.72%) AWS
3 83 (55.70%) Azure
4 55 (36.91%) GCP
5 49 (32.89%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (16.78%) GitHub
7 20 (13.42%) Power Platform
8 19 (12.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (12.75%) Azure Key Vault
8 19 (12.75%) GitHub Copilot
9 14 (9.40%) Fivetran
10 10 (6.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (6.71%) Matillion
11 9 (6.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (5.37%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (5.37%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (5.37%) Pulumi
13 4 (2.68%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (2.68%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (2.68%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.37%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (34.90%) Data Warehouse
2 51 (34.23%) Amazon Athena
3 47 (31.54%) Apache Arrow
3 47 (31.54%) Apache Iceberg
3 47 (31.54%) Dremio
4 35 (23.49%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (20.13%) Data Lake
6 24 (16.11%) Apache Ignite
7 20 (13.42%) Power BI
7 20 (13.42%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (6.04%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (6.04%) BigQuery
8 9 (6.04%) Looker
8 9 (6.04%) Tableau
9 8 (5.37%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (5.37%) Redis
10 7 (4.70%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (4.70%) Metadata
11 6 (4.03%) Data Vault
11 6 (4.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (12.75%) JIRA
2 7 (4.70%) Git
General
1 106 (71.14%) Finance
2 50 (33.56%) Social Skills
3 47 (31.54%) Front Office
4 31 (20.81%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (17.45%) Banking
6 24 (16.11%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.03%) Retail
8 5 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.36%) Marketing
9 3 (2.01%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.67%) International Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Law
10 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (46.31%) Senior
2 49 (32.89%) Python Engineer
3 47 (31.54%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (31.54%) AWS Software Engineer
3 47 (31.54%) Python Software Engineer
3 47 (31.54%) Software Engineer
4 25 (16.78%) Developer
5 24 (16.11%) Java Engineer
5 24 (16.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 23 (15.44%) AWS Developer
6 23 (15.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 23 (15.44%) Python Developer
7 22 (14.77%) Senior Java Engineer
7 22 (14.77%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 22 (14.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 19 (12.75%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (12.08%) Data Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) Architect
11 8 (5.37%) Site Engineer
11 8 (5.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (35.57%) Pandas
2 52 (34.90%) NumPy
3 47 (31.54%) SciPy
4 25 (16.78%) AngularJS
4 25 (16.78%) Node.js
4 25 (16.78%) React
4 25 (16.78%) Vue
5 24 (16.11%) gRPC
5 24 (16.11%) Protocol Buffers
6 11 (7.38%) GraphQL
6 11 (7.38%) OAuth
6 11 (7.38%) OpenAPI
6 11 (7.38%) Swagger
7 10 (6.71%) Django
8 8 (5.37%) Kafka
8 8 (5.37%) YAML
9 6 (4.03%) PySpark
10 5 (3.36%) scikit-learn
11 4 (2.68%) Hugging Face
12 2 (1.34%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (31.54%) Equities
1 47 (31.54%) Fixed Income
1 47 (31.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (24.16%) Cloud Native
3 24 (16.11%) Derivative
3 24 (16.11%) Hedge funds
3 24 (16.11%) Pricing Data
4 12 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.67%) Blog
7 1 (0.67%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.67%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.67%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.04%) Linux
2 8 (5.37%) Unix
3 4 (2.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (64.43%) Agile
2 95 (63.76%) Asset Management
3 68 (45.64%) DevOps
4 63 (42.28%) CI/CD
5 58 (38.93%) Data Modelling
5 58 (38.93%) Software Engineering
6 51 (34.23%) Analytics
7 49 (32.89%) Coaching
8 47 (31.54%) Investment Management
9 42 (28.19%) ETL
10 36 (24.16%) Mentoring
11 35 (23.49%) AI
12 33 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (20.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (20.81%) Data Pipeline
14 29 (19.46%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (18.12%) Clean Code
15 27 (18.12%) Data Engineering
16 26 (17.45%) Fintech
17 24 (16.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (63.76%) Python
2 55 (36.91%) SQL
3 50 (33.56%) JavaScript
4 47 (31.54%) TypeScript
5 33 (22.15%) Java
6 30 (20.13%) PowerShell
7 11 (7.38%) C#
8 6 (4.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.36%) Scala
10 2 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (6.71%) SC Cleared
1 10 (6.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.68%) SnowPro
3 3 (2.01%) Degree
4 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.72%) Accessibility
2 11 (7.38%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.01%) NCSC
3 3 (2.01%) NIST
4 2 (1.34%) GDPR
4 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (6.71%) Docker
2 4 (2.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (23.49%) Terraform
2 3 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.34%) Argo
Vendors
1 38 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.74%) Google
3 13 (8.72%) Databricks
4 9 (6.04%) Talend
5 4 (2.68%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.68%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.68%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.68%) IBM
5 4 (2.68%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.68%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.68%) Zoho
6 2 (1.34%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.67%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.67%) Apple
7 1 (0.67%) Spotify