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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 171 358
Rank change year-on-year -89 +187 +260
Permanent jobs citing dbt 128 307 176
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 2.05% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.08% 4.38% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 62 294 162
10th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,078 £76,250 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +27.27% -2.94%
75th Percentile £111,875 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £141,375 £143,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £105,000 £75,400
% change year-on-year -23.81% +39.26% +4.00%

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 6,166 7,015 12,793
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.60% 46.73% 46.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,215 4,648 11,199
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,284
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 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 24 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 46 (35.94%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (10.16%) Apache Spark
3 11 (8.59%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.78%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 80 (62.50%) Azure
2 75 (58.59%) Snowflake
3 65 (50.78%) AWS
4 52 (40.63%) GCP
5 43 (33.59%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (14.84%) Azure Key Vault
6 19 (14.84%) GitHub
7 18 (14.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (13.28%) GitHub Copilot
9 15 (11.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (11.72%) Power Platform
10 13 (10.16%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (10.16%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (10.16%) Pulumi
11 11 (8.59%) Fivetran
12 10 (7.81%) Matillion
13 8 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (4.69%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (4.69%) Dagster
15 5 (3.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.16%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (35.94%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (23.44%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (17.97%) Amazon Athena
4 19 (14.84%) Apache Arrow
4 19 (14.84%) Apache Iceberg
4 19 (14.84%) Dremio
5 18 (14.06%) Snowflake Schema
6 15 (11.72%) Metadata
6 15 (11.72%) Power BI
7 14 (10.94%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (10.94%) BigQuery
8 13 (10.16%) Data Lake
8 13 (10.16%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (10.16%) Redis
9 8 (6.25%) Apache Ignite
10 7 (5.47%) Relational Database
11 6 (4.69%) Data Vault
12 5 (3.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (3.13%) Looker
14 3 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 17 (13.28%) JIRA
2 3 (2.34%) Git
General
1 73 (57.03%) Finance
2 51 (39.84%) Social Skills
3 27 (21.09%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (14.84%) Front Office
5 12 (9.38%) Banking
6 10 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (7.03%) Law
8 8 (6.25%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.34%) Music Industry
9 3 (2.34%) Retail
10 2 (1.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.78%) International Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Publishing
11 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (50.78%) Senior
2 27 (21.09%) Data Engineer
3 21 (16.41%) Python Engineer
4 19 (14.84%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (14.84%) AWS Software Engineer
4 19 (14.84%) Azure Engineer
4 19 (14.84%) Python Software Engineer
4 19 (14.84%) Software Engineer
5 13 (10.16%) Developer
6 11 (8.59%) AWS Developer
6 11 (8.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 11 (8.59%) Python Developer
6 11 (8.59%) Senior Data Engineer
7 10 (7.81%) Architect
8 9 (7.03%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) Java Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) Site Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (4.69%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.63%) NumPy
1 20 (15.63%) Pandas
2 19 (14.84%) SciPy
3 15 (11.72%) Kafka
4 13 (10.16%) AngularJS
4 13 (10.16%) Django
4 13 (10.16%) Node.js
4 13 (10.16%) React
4 13 (10.16%) Vue
5 11 (8.59%) GraphQL
5 11 (8.59%) OAuth
5 11 (8.59%) OpenAPI
5 11 (8.59%) Swagger
6 8 (6.25%) gRPC
6 8 (6.25%) Protocol Buffers
6 8 (6.25%) YAML
7 5 (3.91%) PySpark
8 2 (1.56%) CSS
8 2 (1.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (27.34%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.84%) Equities
2 19 (14.84%) Fixed Income
2 19 (14.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.25%) Derivative
4 8 (6.25%) Hedge funds
4 8 (6.25%) Pricing Data
5 6 (4.69%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (4.69%) Social Media
6 5 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.34%) Blog
9 2 (1.56%) Contract for Difference
9 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.56%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.78%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.78%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.78%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.50%) Linux
2 13 (10.16%) Unix
3 4 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (57.81%) Agile
2 66 (51.56%) Data Modelling
3 65 (50.78%) Asset Management
3 65 (50.78%) CI/CD
3 65 (50.78%) DevOps
4 50 (39.06%) Analytics
5 48 (37.50%) Coaching
6 43 (33.59%) ETL
7 35 (27.34%) Data Engineering
8 34 (26.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 34 (26.56%) Mentoring
9 32 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (23.44%) Clean Code
10 30 (23.44%) Software Engineering
11 28 (21.88%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (21.09%) AI
12 27 (21.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (19.53%) Migration
14 24 (18.75%) Data Governance
15 21 (16.41%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 77 (60.16%) Python
2 60 (46.88%) SQL
3 30 (23.44%) PowerShell
4 29 (22.66%) Java
5 22 (17.19%) JavaScript
6 19 (14.84%) TypeScript
7 11 (8.59%) C#
8 10 (7.81%) Scala
9 6 (4.69%) C++
10 2 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.56%) Ruby
11 1 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (11.72%) SC Cleared
1 15 (11.72%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.13%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.16%) Accessibility
2 11 (8.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (11.72%) Docker
2 4 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (32.81%) Terraform
2 5 (3.91%) AWS Copilot
2 5 (3.91%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 36 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.50%) Google
3 12 (9.38%) Databricks
4 5 (3.91%) Talend
5 4 (3.13%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.13%) IBM
6 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.78%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.78%) Apple
7 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle
7 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.78%) Spotify