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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 164 352
Rank change year-on-year -113 +188 +239
Permanent jobs citing dbt 112 298 203
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.66% 2.21% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 4.65% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 50 286 190
10th Percentile £62,500 £64,471 £60,000
25th Percentile £68,813 £76,563 £69,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,588 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% - +23.53%
75th Percentile £87,500 £122,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £140,625 £155,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +23.53% +13.33%

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 6,323 6,410 13,600
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.50% 47.51% 45.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,270 4,718 11,840
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +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 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 18 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 33 (29.46%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (10.71%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.36%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.89%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 74 (66.07%) Azure
2 66 (58.93%) Snowflake
3 52 (46.43%) AWS
4 42 (37.50%) GCP
5 37 (33.04%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (16.96%) Azure Key Vault
7 17 (15.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (14.29%) Power Platform
9 15 (13.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (13.39%) GitHub
10 13 (11.61%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (11.61%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (11.61%) GitHub Copilot
10 13 (11.61%) Pulumi
11 11 (9.82%) Fivetran
12 10 (8.93%) Matillion
13 9 (8.04%) PaaS
14 7 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
15 6 (5.36%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.61%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.36%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (16.96%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (14.29%) Power BI
4 15 (13.39%) BigQuery
5 14 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (12.50%) Metadata
6 13 (11.61%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (11.61%) Redis
6 13 (11.61%) Snowflake Schema
7 9 (8.04%) Data Lake
8 8 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (6.25%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.46%) Data Vault
10 5 (4.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (3.57%) Apache Arrow
11 4 (3.57%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (3.57%) Apache Ignite
11 4 (3.57%) Dremio
11 4 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (11.61%) JIRA
2 4 (3.57%) Cucumber
2 4 (3.57%) JMeter
2 4 (3.57%) Locust
3 3 (2.68%) Git
General
1 52 (46.43%) Finance
2 46 (41.07%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (8.04%) Law
6 8 (7.14%) Banking
7 4 (3.57%) Front Office
7 4 (3.57%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.68%) Retail
9 2 (1.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.89%) International Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.89%) Publishing
10 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (51.79%) Senior
2 30 (26.79%) Data Engineer
3 19 (16.96%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (10.71%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (7.14%) Architect
5 8 (7.14%) Lead
5 8 (7.14%) Site Engineer
5 8 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Python Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Snowflake Architect
8 5 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) AWS Software Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.39%) Kafka
2 13 (11.61%) Django
3 11 (9.82%) GraphQL
3 11 (9.82%) OAuth
3 11 (9.82%) OpenAPI
3 11 (9.82%) Swagger
4 8 (7.14%) YAML
5 5 (4.46%) NumPy
5 5 (4.46%) Pandas
5 5 (4.46%) PySpark
6 4 (3.57%) Gherkin
6 4 (3.57%) gRPC
6 4 (3.57%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (3.57%) SciPy
7 2 (1.79%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.79%) CSS
7 2 (1.79%) HTML
7 2 (1.79%) Node.js
7 2 (1.79%) React
7 2 (1.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 31 (27.68%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 6 (5.36%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (5.36%) Social Media
5 5 (4.46%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.57%) Derivative
6 4 (3.57%) Equities
6 4 (3.57%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.57%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.57%) Pricing Data
7 3 (2.68%) Blog
8 2 (1.79%) Contract for Difference
8 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.79%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.89%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.89%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.29%) Linux
2 13 (11.61%) Unix
3 4 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 64 (57.14%) DevOps
2 59 (52.68%) Agile
2 59 (52.68%) Data Modelling
3 44 (39.29%) Asset Management
4 43 (38.39%) Analytics
5 42 (37.50%) Coaching
6 39 (34.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (33.93%) ETL
8 34 (30.36%) Data Engineering
9 29 (25.89%) Data Pipeline
9 29 (25.89%) Mentoring
9 29 (25.89%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (24.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (23.21%) Clean Code
12 24 (21.43%) Data Governance
13 23 (20.54%) Migration
13 23 (20.54%) Observability
14 21 (18.75%) AI
15 20 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (58.04%) Python
2 61 (54.46%) SQL
3 28 (25.00%) Java
3 28 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.82%) C#
5 9 (8.04%) Scala
6 7 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.36%) C++
8 4 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.79%) Ruby
10 1 (0.89%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (13.39%) SC Cleared
1 15 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.57%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.39%) Accessibility
2 13 (11.61%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.57%) QA
3 4 (3.57%) WCAG
4 1 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (18.75%) Docker
2 4 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (39.29%) Terraform
2 9 (8.04%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.46%) AWS Copilot
4 4 (3.57%) Grafana
5 2 (1.79%) Argo
Vendors
1 34 (30.36%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.18%) Google
3 12 (10.71%) Databricks
4 5 (4.46%) Talend
5 4 (3.57%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.57%) IBM
6 2 (1.79%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.89%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.89%) Apple
7 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle
7 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.89%) Spotify