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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 85 361
Rank change year-on-year -131 +276 +322
Permanent jobs citing dbt 223 782 156
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.38% 3.37% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.89% 8.29% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 215 775 144
10th Percentile £87,500 £64,682 £54,032
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,800 £115,000 £74,045
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% +55.31% -12.89%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £89,813
90th Percentile - £165,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +64.29% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 5,729 9,436 12,118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.40% 40.70% 48.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,120 6,603 10,485
10th Percentile £31,735 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,522 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,125 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing dbt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

dbt trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing dbt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing dbt

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing dbt over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

dbt salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 195 (87.44%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (40.81%) Apache
3 3 (1.35%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 204 (91.48%) AWS
2 111 (49.78%) Snowflake
3 105 (47.09%) GCP
4 25 (11.21%) Azure
5 13 (5.83%) Power Platform
6 11 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.04%) GitHub
8 6 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.24%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (2.24%) SaaS
10 4 (1.79%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.79%) Fivetran
10 4 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.79%) Google Data Studio
11 3 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.45%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (0.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (82.06%) Amazon Athena
1 183 (82.06%) Apache Arrow
1 183 (82.06%) Apache Iceberg
1 183 (82.06%) Dremio
2 97 (43.50%) PostgreSQL
3 90 (40.36%) Data Lake
4 88 (39.46%) Apache Ignite
5 18 (8.07%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (5.83%) Power BI
7 11 (4.93%) Tableau
8 7 (3.14%) Looker
8 7 (3.14%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (2.24%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.79%) Big Data
10 4 (1.79%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.35%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.45%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.45%) Metabase
12 1 (0.45%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 6 (2.69%) Git
1 6 (2.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.45%) MLflow
General
1 198 (88.79%) Finance
2 183 (82.06%) Front Office
3 89 (39.91%) Banking
4 88 (39.46%) Investment Banking
5 17 (7.62%) Social Skills
6 9 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.59%) Retail
8 6 (2.69%) Marketing
9 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Law
10 1 (0.45%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 183 (82.06%) AWS Engineer
1 183 (82.06%) AWS Software Engineer
1 183 (82.06%) Software Engineer
2 160 (71.75%) Python Engineer
3 159 (71.30%) Python Software Engineer
4 112 (50.22%) Java Engineer
4 112 (50.22%) Java Software Engineer
5 99 (44.39%) Senior
6 96 (43.05%) Developer
7 95 (42.60%) AWS Developer
7 95 (42.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 88 (39.46%) Senior Java Engineer
8 88 (39.46%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 88 (39.46%) Senior Software Engineer
9 71 (31.84%) Python Developer
10 24 (10.76%) Java Developer
10 24 (10.76%) Java Software Developer
11 13 (5.83%) Data Engineer
12 6 (2.69%) Analyst
12 6 (2.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (84.75%) Pandas
2 188 (84.30%) NumPy
3 183 (82.06%) SciPy
4 96 (43.05%) React
5 95 (42.60%) AngularJS
5 95 (42.60%) Node.js
5 95 (42.60%) Vue
6 88 (39.46%) gRPC
6 88 (39.46%) Protocol Buffers
7 5 (2.24%) Kafka
7 5 (2.24%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.79%) Hugging Face
9 3 (1.35%) Django
10 2 (0.90%) PySpark
11 1 (0.45%) FastAPI
11 1 (0.45%) Flask
11 1 (0.45%) LightGBM
11 1 (0.45%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 183 (82.06%) Fixed Income
2 181 (81.17%) Equities
2 181 (81.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 88 (39.46%) Derivative
3 88 (39.46%) Hedge funds
3 88 (39.46%) Pricing Data
4 7 (3.14%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.14%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.45%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.45%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.45%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.45%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (87.00%) Agile
2 189 (84.75%) Asset Management
3 183 (82.06%) Investment Management
3 183 (82.06%) Software Engineering
4 101 (45.29%) Risk Management
5 100 (44.84%) Fintech
6 95 (42.60%) Order Management
6 95 (42.60%) Performance Attribution
7 21 (9.42%) Analytics
8 17 (7.62%) ETL
9 16 (7.17%) Data Modelling
9 16 (7.17%) Data Pipeline
10 15 (6.73%) Artificial Intelligence
10 15 (6.73%) DevOps
11 14 (6.28%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (5.38%) CI/CD
13 11 (4.93%) Data Engineering
13 11 (4.93%) Mentoring
14 8 (3.59%) Problem-Solving
15 7 (3.14%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 184 (82.51%) JavaScript
2 183 (82.06%) TypeScript
3 180 (80.72%) Python
4 114 (51.12%) Java
5 22 (9.87%) SQL
6 4 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.90%) Scala
8 1 (0.45%) LookML
8 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (1.35%) Degree
2 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
2 2 (0.90%) PhD
3 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.59%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.14%) NCSC
2 7 (3.14%) NIST
3 5 (2.24%) GDPR
4 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (2.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.14%) Terraform
2 3 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (2.24%) Google
2 4 (1.79%) Alteryx
2 4 (1.79%) HubSpot
2 4 (1.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.79%) OpenAI
2 4 (1.79%) Salesforce
2 4 (1.79%) Talend
2 4 (1.79%) Zoho
3 2 (0.90%) Databricks
4 1 (0.45%) Amplitude
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle