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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 206 99
Rank change year-on-year -156 -107 +338
Permanent jobs citing dbt 92 251 780
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 1.52% 2.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 4.16% 7.11%
Number of salaries quoted 62 249 768
10th Percentile £62,500 £68,250 £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% +46.03%
75th Percentile £78,709 £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% +64.29%

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 8,567 6,039 10,969
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.89% 36.69% 41.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,169 4,456 8,816
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,549 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 30 July 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 17 (18.48%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.17%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (40.22%) AWS
2 33 (35.87%) GCP
3 24 (26.09%) Azure
4 16 (17.39%) Snowflake
5 14 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (11.96%) Power Platform
7 10 (10.87%) Cloud Composer
7 10 (10.87%) PaaS
8 7 (7.61%) Dagster
9 6 (6.52%) SaaS
10 5 (5.43%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (5.43%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 5 (5.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (5.43%) AWS CodeBuild
10 5 (5.43%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (5.43%) Datadog
10 5 (5.43%) Fivetran
10 5 (5.43%) Pulumi
10 5 (5.43%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.22%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.57%) BigQuery
2 11 (11.96%) Power BI
3 10 (10.87%) Looker
4 9 (9.78%) Metadata
5 8 (8.70%) Data Lake
6 7 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (7.61%) Tableau
7 6 (6.52%) Semantic Layer
7 6 (6.52%) SQL Server
8 5 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (5.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (5.43%) Redis
9 4 (4.35%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.26%) Big Data
10 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
11 2 (2.17%) Delta Lake
11 2 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (1.09%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Git
2 5 (5.43%) Cucumber
2 5 (5.43%) JMeter
2 5 (5.43%) Locust
3 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (57.61%) Social Skills
2 45 (48.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (19.57%) Finance
4 13 (14.13%) Law
5 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.87%) Retail
6 7 (7.61%) Banking
7 6 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Marketing
8 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Legal
9 1 (1.09%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (35.87%) Data Engineer
2 30 (32.61%) Senior
3 25 (27.17%) Architect
4 14 (15.22%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (14.13%) ERP Architect
5 13 (14.13%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (11.96%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 11 (11.96%) Technical Architect
7 9 (9.78%) Python Engineer
7 9 (9.78%) Site Engineer
7 9 (9.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Lead
9 7 (7.61%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) Snowflake Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Test Leader
12 4 (4.35%) Principal Data Engineer
12 4 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
13 2 (2.17%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.87%) Kafka
2 5 (5.43%) Django
2 5 (5.43%) Gherkin
2 5 (5.43%) PySpark
3 3 (3.26%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.09%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.78%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.61%) Blog
2 7 (7.61%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.52%) Anti-Piracy
3 6 (6.52%) Social Media
4 5 (5.43%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.43%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.26%) Data Fabric
6 3 (3.26%) Replication
6 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.09%) Clustering
8 1 (1.09%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.09%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.30%) Linux
2 14 (15.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (33.70%) CI/CD
2 30 (32.61%) Analytics
3 29 (31.52%) Open Source
4 28 (30.43%) Data Modelling
5 27 (29.35%) Data Engineering
6 26 (28.26%) AI
7 25 (27.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (27.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (26.09%) Observability
8 24 (26.09%) Technical Architecture
9 23 (25.00%) Migration
10 22 (23.91%) Agile
11 20 (21.74%) Data Governance
11 20 (21.74%) DevOps
12 19 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (18.48%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (18.48%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (17.39%) Collaborative Culture
14 16 (17.39%) Incident Response
14 16 (17.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 53 (57.61%) Python
2 42 (45.65%) SQL
3 17 (18.48%) Java
4 6 (6.52%) C++
4 6 (6.52%) Scala
5 1 (1.09%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (42.39%) SC Cleared
1 39 (42.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.17%) SnowPro
3 1 (1.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.48%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.43%) QA
3 5 (5.43%) WCAG
4 1 (1.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (20.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (28.26%) Terraform
2 6 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.43%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (5.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (22.83%) Google
2 15 (16.30%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.96%) OpenAI
4 5 (5.43%) Databricks
5 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.09%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.09%) Braze
6 1 (1.09%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.09%) Marketo
6 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.09%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle
6 1 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud