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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 208 168
Rank change year-on-year -157 -40 +320
Permanent jobs citing dbt 58 252 641
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.29% 1.63% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.76% 4.26% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 31 249 622
10th Percentile £61,500 £69,750 £71,200
25th Percentile £66,091 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,301 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.45% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £90,625 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £138,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% -4.35% +58.62%

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 7,630 5,915 14,640
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.88% 38.22% 42.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5,367 4,306 12,168
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,549 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

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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 20 June 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 22 (37.93%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (15.52%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.17%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 31 (53.45%) AWS
2 25 (43.10%) GCP
3 14 (24.14%) Azure
4 10 (17.24%) Cloud Composer
4 10 (17.24%) PaaS
4 10 (17.24%) Snowflake
5 8 (13.79%) Power Platform
6 7 (12.07%) Dagster
7 6 (10.34%) SaaS
8 5 (8.62%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (8.62%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (8.62%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 5 (8.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (8.62%) AWS CodeBuild
8 5 (8.62%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (8.62%) Datadog
8 5 (8.62%) Pulumi
8 5 (8.62%) Sentry
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) Broadband
2 5 (8.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.31%) BigQuery
2 10 (17.24%) Looker
3 9 (15.52%) Metadata
4 8 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (13.79%) Power BI
5 6 (10.34%) Semantic Layer
5 6 (10.34%) Tableau
6 5 (8.62%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (8.62%) Data Lake
6 5 (8.62%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (8.62%) Redis
6 5 (8.62%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.17%) Big Data
7 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Cucumber
1 5 (8.62%) JMeter
1 5 (8.62%) Locust
2 2 (3.45%) Git
General
1 20 (34.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.59%) Law
3 14 (24.14%) Finance
4 10 (17.24%) Banking
4 10 (17.24%) Retail
5 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (55.17%) Data Engineer
2 18 (31.03%) Senior
3 13 (22.41%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) Lead
5 6 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Test Leader
7 4 (6.90%) Data Scientist
7 4 (6.90%) Principal Data Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Snowflake Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Snowflake Architect
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) Kafka
2 5 (8.62%) Django
2 5 (8.62%) Gherkin
3 3 (5.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 10 (17.24%) Blog
3 8 (13.79%) Data Structures
4 6 (10.34%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (10.34%) Social Media
5 5 (8.62%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.45%) Contract for Difference
6 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.45%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.72%) Clustering
7 1 (1.72%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.52%) Linux
2 5 (8.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Data Engineering
2 26 (44.83%) Analytics
2 26 (44.83%) Data Modelling
3 17 (29.31%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (27.59%) CI/CD
4 16 (27.59%) Platform Engineering
5 15 (25.86%) Observability
6 14 (24.14%) Data Governance
6 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (24.14%) Visualisation
7 13 (22.41%) Agile
8 12 (20.69%) Data Science
8 12 (20.69%) DevOps
8 12 (20.69%) ETL
8 12 (20.69%) Fintech
8 12 (20.69%) Machine Learning
8 12 (20.69%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (18.97%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (17.24%) Continuous Delivery
10 10 (17.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 40 (68.97%) Python
2 39 (67.24%) SQL
3 22 (37.93%) Java
4 8 (13.79%) Scala
5 6 (10.34%) C++
6 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
1 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.62%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.62%) QA
2 5 (8.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (27.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (31.03%) Terraform
2 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.62%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (8.62%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) Google
2 4 (6.90%) Databricks
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.72%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) Salesforce