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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 226 86
Rank change year-on-year -133 -140 +324
Permanent jobs citing dbt 96 230 801
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 1.38% 3.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 3.86% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 62 227 792
10th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £71,075
25th Percentile £66,664 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,654 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.13% -4.35% +48.39%
75th Percentile £78,312 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £91,125 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £74,830 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -31.97% -4.35% +53.33%

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 8,638 5,955 10,188
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.03% 35.86% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,255 4,370 7,956
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,125 £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 £81,250 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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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 14 August 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 16 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.08%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.42%) AWS
2 33 (34.38%) GCP
3 22 (22.92%) Azure
4 17 (17.71%) Snowflake
5 13 (13.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (12.50%) Power Platform
7 9 (9.38%) Cloud Composer
8 6 (6.25%) Dagster
8 6 (6.25%) Fivetran
8 6 (6.25%) SaaS
9 5 (5.21%) Datadog
9 5 (5.21%) PaaS
10 3 (3.13%) Alation
10 3 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.13%) Google Ads
10 3 (3.13%) Google Analytics
11 2 (2.08%) AppsFlyer
11 2 (2.08%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (2.08%) GitHub
11 2 (2.08%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.54%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.71%) BigQuery
2 12 (12.50%) Power BI
3 11 (11.46%) Metadata
4 10 (10.42%) Looker
5 9 (9.38%) Data Lake
5 9 (9.38%) Semantic Layer
6 8 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (7.29%) SQL Server
7 7 (7.29%) Tableau
8 5 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.13%) Big Data
10 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
11 2 (2.08%) Airbyte
11 2 (2.08%) Delta Lake
11 2 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (1.04%) Data Vault
12 1 (1.04%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Git
2 5 (5.21%) Cucumber
2 5 (5.21%) JMeter
2 5 (5.21%) Locust
3 3 (3.13%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (59.38%) Social Skills
2 40 (41.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (25.00%) Finance
4 16 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (12.50%) Law
6 11 (11.46%) Retail
7 7 (7.29%) Banking
7 7 (7.29%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.17%) Marketing
9 2 (2.08%) Legal
9 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.04%) Advertising
10 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (34.38%) Data Engineer
2 30 (31.25%) Senior
3 25 (26.04%) Architect
4 14 (14.58%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) ERP Architect
5 13 (13.54%) Python Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) Site Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (12.50%) Lead
7 11 (11.46%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 11 (11.46%) Technical Architect
8 6 (6.25%) Analyst
8 6 (6.25%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Test Leader
10 4 (4.17%) Principal Data Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Product Analyst
11 3 (3.13%) Onboarding Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.38%) Kafka
2 5 (5.21%) Gherkin
2 5 (5.21%) PySpark
3 3 (3.13%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.04%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.54%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.33%) Blog
3 5 (5.21%) Anti-Piracy
3 5 (5.21%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.21%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.21%) Social Media
4 4 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.13%) Data Fabric
5 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.13%) Replication
5 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.04%) Clustering
7 1 (1.04%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.04%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.58%) Linux
2 13 (13.54%) Unix
3 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.50%) Analytics
2 32 (33.33%) AI
2 32 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 29 (30.21%) Data Engineering
4 27 (28.13%) Data Modelling
5 25 (26.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (26.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (25.00%) Open Source
6 24 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
7 23 (23.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (23.96%) Observability
8 21 (21.88%) Mentoring
9 20 (20.83%) Collaborative Culture
9 20 (20.83%) Data Governance
10 19 (19.79%) DevOps
11 18 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (18.75%) Migration
11 18 (18.75%) Visualisation
12 17 (17.71%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (16.67%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 54 (56.25%) Python
2 47 (48.96%) SQL
3 11 (11.46%) Java
4 5 (5.21%) C++
4 5 (5.21%) Scala
5 1 (1.04%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (39.58%) SC Cleared
1 38 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.08%) Degree
2 2 (2.08%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.83%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.38%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.21%) QA
3 5 (5.21%) WCAG
4 1 (1.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (14.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (27.08%) Terraform
2 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (23.96%) Google
2 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.46%) OpenAI
4 6 (6.25%) Databricks
5 2 (2.08%) Braze
5 2 (2.08%) Dataiku
5 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.04%) Marketo
6 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.04%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle
6 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud