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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 166 331
Rank change year-on-year -59 +165 +314
Permanent jobs citing dbt 152 338 158
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.01% 2.07% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.77% 4.46% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 98 326 150
10th Percentile £63,906 £56,495 £53,125
25th Percentile £75,000 £71,200 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £102,500 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +36.39% -11.59%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £152,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +26.67% -

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 5,478 7,582 10,195
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.44% 46.33% 46.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,901 4,830 8,799
10th Percentile £32,000 £36,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,306
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 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -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 13 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 70 (46.05%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (21.71%) Apache
3 8 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.66%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.63%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 101 (66.45%) Snowflake
2 89 (58.55%) AWS
3 82 (53.95%) Azure
4 54 (35.53%) GCP
5 48 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (16.45%) GitHub
7 19 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 19 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
7 19 (12.50%) Power Platform
8 14 (9.21%) Fivetran
9 10 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (5.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (5.92%) Matillion
11 8 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (5.26%) Pulumi
12 4 (2.63%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.63%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (36.84%) Amazon Athena
2 52 (34.21%) Apache Arrow
2 52 (34.21%) Apache Iceberg
2 52 (34.21%) Data Warehouse
2 52 (34.21%) Dremio
3 35 (23.03%) Data Lake
4 34 (22.37%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (19.08%) Apache Ignite
6 20 (13.16%) Snowflake Schema
7 19 (12.50%) Power BI
8 9 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (5.92%) Looker
8 9 (5.92%) Tableau
9 8 (5.26%) BigQuery
9 8 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (5.26%) Redis
10 7 (4.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (4.61%) Metadata
11 6 (3.95%) Data Vault
11 6 (3.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (12.50%) JIRA
2 7 (4.61%) Git
General
1 109 (71.71%) Finance
2 52 (34.21%) Front Office
3 49 (32.24%) Social Skills
4 30 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (19.74%) Banking
5 29 (19.08%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.29%) Marketing
6 5 (3.29%) Retail
7 4 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.97%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.66%) International Banking
9 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (48.68%) Senior
2 54 (35.53%) Python Engineer
3 52 (34.21%) AWS Engineer
3 52 (34.21%) AWS Software Engineer
3 52 (34.21%) Python Software Engineer
3 52 (34.21%) Software Engineer
4 29 (19.08%) Java Engineer
4 29 (19.08%) Java Software Engineer
5 27 (17.76%) Senior Java Engineer
5 27 (17.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 27 (17.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 25 (16.45%) Developer
7 23 (15.13%) AWS Developer
7 23 (15.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 23 (15.13%) Python Developer
8 19 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (10.53%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Architect
10 8 (5.26%) Site Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (38.16%) Pandas
2 57 (37.50%) NumPy
3 52 (34.21%) SciPy
4 29 (19.08%) gRPC
4 29 (19.08%) Protocol Buffers
5 25 (16.45%) AngularJS
5 25 (16.45%) Node.js
5 25 (16.45%) React
5 25 (16.45%) Vue
6 11 (7.24%) GraphQL
6 11 (7.24%) OAuth
6 11 (7.24%) OpenAPI
6 11 (7.24%) Swagger
7 10 (6.58%) Django
8 8 (5.26%) YAML
9 7 (4.61%) Kafka
10 5 (3.29%) PySpark
10 5 (3.29%) scikit-learn
11 4 (2.63%) Hugging Face
12 2 (1.32%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (34.21%) Equities
1 52 (34.21%) Fixed Income
1 52 (34.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (22.37%) Cloud Native
3 29 (19.08%) Derivative
3 29 (19.08%) Hedge funds
3 29 (19.08%) Pricing Data
4 12 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.66%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.66%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.66%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.26%) Linux
1 8 (5.26%) Unix
2 4 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (66.45%) Agile
2 100 (65.79%) Asset Management
3 67 (44.08%) DevOps
4 63 (41.45%) CI/CD
4 63 (41.45%) Software Engineering
5 56 (36.84%) Data Modelling
6 52 (34.21%) Investment Management
7 51 (33.55%) Analytics
8 49 (32.24%) Coaching
9 41 (26.97%) ETL
10 36 (23.68%) Mentoring
11 35 (23.03%) AI
12 32 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (20.39%) Data Pipeline
14 29 (19.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (17.76%) Clean Code
16 25 (16.45%) Data Engineering
16 25 (16.45%) Fintech
16 25 (16.45%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (64.47%) Python
2 55 (36.18%) JavaScript
3 53 (34.87%) SQL
4 52 (34.21%) TypeScript
5 37 (24.34%) Java
6 29 (19.08%) PowerShell
7 11 (7.24%) C#
8 6 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.29%) Scala
10 2 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (6.58%) SC Cleared
1 10 (6.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.63%) SnowPro
3 3 (1.97%) Degree
4 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.55%) Accessibility
2 11 (7.24%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.63%) NCSC
3 4 (2.63%) NIST
4 3 (1.97%) GDPR
5 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (6.58%) Docker
2 4 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (22.37%) Terraform
2 2 (1.32%) Argo
2 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (24.34%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.53%) Google
3 12 (7.89%) Databricks
4 9 (5.92%) Talend
5 4 (2.63%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.63%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.63%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.63%) IBM
5 4 (2.63%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.63%) Zoho
6 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.66%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.66%) Apple
7 1 (0.66%) Spotify