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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 213 92
Rank change year-on-year -147 -121 +332
Permanent jobs citing dbt 94 255 778
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 1.54% 3.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 4.20% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 64 253 767
10th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £71,075
25th Percentile £67,908 £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 £78,790 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £91,250 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £74,830 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -31.97% -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 8,634 6,078 10,328
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.78% 36.65% 40.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6,217 4,486 8,220
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% -3.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £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% - -4.00%

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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 2 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 (17.02%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.45%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.13%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.43%) AWS
2 34 (36.17%) GCP
3 25 (26.60%) Azure
4 16 (17.02%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (17.02%) Snowflake
5 11 (11.70%) Power Platform
6 10 (10.64%) Cloud Composer
6 10 (10.64%) PaaS
7 7 (7.45%) Dagster
8 6 (6.38%) Fivetran
8 6 (6.38%) SaaS
9 5 (5.32%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (5.32%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 5 (5.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (5.32%) AWS CodeBuild
9 5 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (5.32%) Datadog
9 5 (5.32%) Pulumi
9 5 (5.32%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.02%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.15%) BigQuery
2 11 (11.70%) Power BI
3 10 (10.64%) Looker
4 8 (8.51%) Data Lake
4 8 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (8.51%) Metadata
5 7 (7.45%) Tableau
6 6 (6.38%) Semantic Layer
6 6 (6.38%) SQL Server
7 5 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.32%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (5.32%) Redis
8 4 (4.26%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.19%) Big Data
9 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.13%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (1.06%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 8 (8.51%) Git
2 5 (5.32%) Cucumber
2 5 (5.32%) JMeter
2 5 (5.32%) Locust
3 3 (3.19%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (57.45%) Social Skills
2 45 (47.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (20.21%) Finance
4 13 (13.83%) Law
5 11 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (10.64%) Retail
7 7 (7.45%) Banking
8 6 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.13%) Marketing
9 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Legal
10 1 (1.06%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (34.04%) Data Engineer
2 31 (32.98%) Senior
3 25 (26.60%) Architect
4 13 (13.83%) ERP Architect
4 13 (13.83%) Senior Data Engineer
4 13 (13.83%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (11.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 11 (11.70%) Python Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Site Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Technical Architect
6 8 (8.51%) Lead
7 7 (7.45%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Test Leader
10 4 (4.26%) Principal Data Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Principal Engineer
11 2 (2.13%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.64%) Kafka
2 5 (5.32%) Django
2 5 (5.32%) Gherkin
2 5 (5.32%) PySpark
3 3 (3.19%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.06%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.70%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.51%) Blog
3 6 (6.38%) Anti-Piracy
3 6 (6.38%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.38%) Social Media
4 5 (5.32%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.32%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.19%) Data Fabric
6 3 (3.19%) Replication
6 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.06%) Clustering
8 1 (1.06%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.06%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.09%) Linux
2 16 (17.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.11%) CI/CD
2 30 (31.91%) Analytics
3 29 (30.85%) Open Source
4 28 (29.79%) Data Modelling
5 27 (28.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (27.66%) AI
6 26 (27.66%) Data Engineering
6 26 (27.66%) Observability
7 25 (26.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (25.53%) Technical Architecture
9 23 (24.47%) Migration
10 22 (23.40%) DevOps
11 21 (22.34%) Agile
11 21 (22.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (20.21%) Data Governance
13 18 (19.15%) Collaborative Culture
13 18 (19.15%) Incident Response
13 18 (19.15%) Mentoring
14 17 (18.09%) Clean Code
14 17 (18.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (57.45%) Python
2 42 (44.68%) SQL
3 17 (18.09%) Java
4 6 (6.38%) C++
4 6 (6.38%) Scala
5 1 (1.06%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (43.62%) SC Cleared
1 41 (43.62%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.13%) SnowPro
3 1 (1.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.09%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.51%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.32%) QA
3 5 (5.32%) WCAG
4 1 (1.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (20.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (29.79%) Terraform
2 6 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.32%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (5.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (24.47%) Google
2 15 (15.96%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.70%) OpenAI
4 5 (5.32%) Databricks
5 2 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.06%) Braze
6 1 (1.06%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.06%) Marketo
6 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.06%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle
6 1 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud