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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 166 359
Rank change year-on-year -100 +193 +248
Permanent jobs citing dbt 124 302 186
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 2.09% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 4.48% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 58 289 173
10th Percentile £66,091 £61,250 £54,000
25th Percentile £68,813 £75,000 £65,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +13.51% +8.82%
75th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £154,500
UK median annual salary £75,338 £102,500 £77,700
% change year-on-year -26.50% +31.92% +7.17%

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 6,194 6,746 13,069
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.53% 46.76% 45.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,224 4,597 11,400
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,264 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.16% +10.02% -11.54%

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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 3 March 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 40 (32.26%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (9.68%) Apache Spark
3 9 (7.26%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.81%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 79 (63.71%) Azure
2 72 (58.06%) Snowflake
3 62 (50.00%) AWS
4 49 (39.52%) GCP
5 42 (33.87%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (15.32%) Azure Key Vault
7 18 (14.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (14.52%) GitHub
8 16 (12.90%) GitHub Copilot
8 16 (12.90%) Power Platform
9 15 (12.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (10.48%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (10.48%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (10.48%) Pulumi
11 11 (8.87%) Fivetran
12 10 (8.06%) Matillion
13 8 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (6.45%) PaaS
14 6 (4.84%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (4.84%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.48%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.84%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (36.29%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (20.97%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (14.52%) Snowflake Schema
4 17 (13.71%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (12.90%) Metadata
5 16 (12.90%) Power BI
6 14 (11.29%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (11.29%) BigQuery
7 13 (10.48%) Apache Arrow
7 13 (10.48%) Apache Iceberg
7 13 (10.48%) Dremio
7 13 (10.48%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (10.48%) Redis
8 11 (8.87%) Data Lake
9 7 (5.65%) Data Vault
9 7 (5.65%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.84%) Apache Ignite
11 5 (4.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (12.90%) JIRA
2 3 (2.42%) Cucumber
2 3 (2.42%) Git
2 3 (2.42%) JMeter
2 3 (2.42%) Locust
General
1 66 (53.23%) Finance
2 50 (40.32%) Social Skills
3 26 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.48%) Front Office
4 13 (10.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.06%) Banking
6 9 (7.26%) Law
7 6 (4.84%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.42%) Music Industry
8 3 (2.42%) Retail
9 2 (1.61%) Marketing
10 1 (0.81%) International Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Publishing
10 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (50.00%) Senior
2 28 (22.58%) Data Engineer
3 19 (15.32%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (12.10%) Python Engineer
5 14 (11.29%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (10.48%) AWS Software Engineer
6 13 (10.48%) Python Software Engineer
6 13 (10.48%) Software Engineer
7 11 (8.87%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (8.06%) Architect
9 9 (7.26%) Developer
9 9 (7.26%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) Site Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) AWS Developer
11 7 (5.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) Lead
11 7 (5.65%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.84%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.84%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.10%) Kafka
2 14 (11.29%) NumPy
2 14 (11.29%) Pandas
3 13 (10.48%) Django
3 13 (10.48%) SciPy
4 11 (8.87%) GraphQL
4 11 (8.87%) OAuth
4 11 (8.87%) OpenAPI
4 11 (8.87%) Swagger
5 9 (7.26%) AngularJS
5 9 (7.26%) Node.js
5 9 (7.26%) React
5 9 (7.26%) Vue
6 8 (6.45%) YAML
7 6 (4.84%) gRPC
7 6 (4.84%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (4.84%) PySpark
8 3 (2.42%) Gherkin
9 2 (1.61%) CSS
9 2 (1.61%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (27.42%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.48%) Equities
2 13 (10.48%) Fixed Income
2 13 (10.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.45%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.84%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (4.84%) Derivative
5 6 (4.84%) Hedge funds
5 6 (4.84%) Pricing Data
5 6 (4.84%) Social Media
6 5 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.42%) Blog
9 2 (1.61%) Contract for Difference
9 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.61%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.90%) Linux
2 13 (10.48%) Unix
3 4 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (56.45%) Agile
2 68 (54.84%) DevOps
3 67 (54.03%) CI/CD
4 65 (52.42%) Data Modelling
5 58 (46.77%) Asset Management
6 48 (38.71%) Analytics
7 47 (37.90%) Coaching
8 43 (34.68%) ETL
9 37 (29.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 35 (28.23%) Data Engineering
11 32 (25.81%) Mentoring
11 32 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (23.39%) Clean Code
12 29 (23.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (23.39%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (20.97%) AI
14 25 (20.16%) Migration
15 24 (19.35%) Data Governance
15 24 (19.35%) Software Engineering
16 23 (18.55%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 74 (59.68%) Python
2 60 (48.39%) SQL
3 30 (24.19%) Java
3 30 (24.19%) PowerShell
4 16 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 13 (10.48%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.87%) C#
7 10 (8.06%) Scala
8 6 (4.84%) C++
9 2 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.61%) Ruby
10 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (12.10%) SC Cleared
1 15 (12.10%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.23%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.61%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.90%) Accessibility
2 11 (8.87%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.42%) QA
3 3 (2.42%) WCAG
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (15.32%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (35.48%) Terraform
2 8 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.03%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (2.42%) Grafana
5 2 (1.61%) Argo
Vendors
1 36 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.90%) Google
3 12 (9.68%) Databricks
4 5 (4.03%) Talend
5 4 (3.23%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.23%) IBM
6 2 (1.61%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.81%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.81%) Apple
7 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle
7 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.81%) Spotify