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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 178 359
Rank change year-on-year -77 +181 +270
Permanent jobs citing dbt 136 310 179
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 1.99% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 4.25% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 69 297 167
10th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £51,250
25th Percentile £71,626 £76,250 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £105,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £144,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £100,000 £73,090
% change year-on-year -20.00% +36.82% +0.81%

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 6,170 7,298 12,673
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.70% 46.84% 45.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,240 4,721 11,090
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,219
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 February 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 51 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (10.29%) Apache
2 14 (10.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.74%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 82 (60.29%) Azure
2 79 (58.09%) Snowflake
3 71 (52.21%) AWS
4 56 (41.18%) GCP
5 44 (32.35%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (14.71%) GitHub
7 19 (13.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (13.97%) Azure Key Vault
8 18 (13.24%) GitHub Copilot
9 16 (11.76%) Power Platform
10 15 (11.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (9.56%) Amazon ECR
11 13 (9.56%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (9.56%) Pulumi
12 11 (8.09%) Fivetran
13 10 (7.35%) Matillion
14 9 (6.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (4.41%) Cloud Composer
15 6 (4.41%) Dagster
16 5 (3.68%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.56%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (24.26%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (20.59%) Amazon Athena
4 24 (17.65%) Apache Arrow
4 24 (17.65%) Apache Iceberg
4 24 (17.65%) Dremio
5 19 (13.97%) Snowflake Schema
6 16 (11.76%) Data Lake
6 16 (11.76%) Power BI
7 15 (11.03%) Metadata
8 14 (10.29%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (10.29%) BigQuery
9 13 (9.56%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (9.56%) Redis
10 10 (7.35%) Apache Ignite
11 7 (5.15%) Relational Database
12 6 (4.41%) Data Vault
13 5 (3.68%) Looker
13 5 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (13.24%) JIRA
2 3 (2.21%) Git
General
1 79 (58.09%) Finance
2 53 (38.97%) Social Skills
3 29 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (17.65%) Front Office
5 14 (10.29%) Banking
6 10 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (7.35%) Investment Banking
7 9 (6.62%) Law
8 3 (2.21%) Music Industry
8 3 (2.21%) Retail
9 2 (1.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.74%) International Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Publishing
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (50.00%) Senior
2 28 (20.59%) Data Engineer
3 26 (19.12%) Python Engineer
4 24 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
4 24 (17.65%) AWS Software Engineer
4 24 (17.65%) Python Software Engineer
4 24 (17.65%) Software Engineer
5 19 (13.97%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (11.76%) Developer
7 14 (10.29%) AWS Developer
7 14 (10.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 14 (10.29%) Python Developer
8 11 (8.09%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (7.35%) Architect
9 10 (7.35%) Java Engineer
9 10 (7.35%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (6.62%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.38%) NumPy
1 25 (18.38%) Pandas
2 24 (17.65%) SciPy
3 16 (11.76%) AngularJS
3 16 (11.76%) Kafka
3 16 (11.76%) Node.js
3 16 (11.76%) React
3 16 (11.76%) Vue
4 13 (9.56%) Django
5 11 (8.09%) GraphQL
5 11 (8.09%) OAuth
5 11 (8.09%) OpenAPI
5 11 (8.09%) Swagger
6 10 (7.35%) gRPC
6 10 (7.35%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (5.88%) YAML
8 6 (4.41%) PySpark
9 2 (1.47%) CSS
9 2 (1.47%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (27.21%) Cloud Native
2 24 (17.65%) Equities
2 24 (17.65%) Fixed Income
2 24 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (7.35%) Derivative
4 10 (7.35%) Hedge funds
4 10 (7.35%) Pricing Data
5 8 (5.88%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.41%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (4.41%) Social Media
7 5 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.21%) Blog
10 2 (1.47%) Contract for Difference
10 2 (1.47%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.47%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.74%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.74%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.74%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.76%) Linux
2 13 (9.56%) Unix
3 4 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (58.82%) Agile
2 71 (52.21%) Asset Management
3 68 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 66 (48.53%) CI/CD
4 66 (48.53%) DevOps
5 53 (38.97%) Analytics
6 49 (36.03%) Coaching
7 45 (33.09%) ETL
8 36 (26.47%) Data Engineering
8 36 (26.47%) Mentoring
9 35 (25.74%) Software Engineering
10 34 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (22.79%) Clean Code
12 30 (22.06%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (21.32%) AI
14 28 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (19.12%) Migration
16 24 (17.65%) Data Governance
16 24 (17.65%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (61.03%) Python
2 61 (44.85%) SQL
3 32 (23.53%) Java
4 30 (22.06%) PowerShell
5 27 (19.85%) JavaScript
6 24 (17.65%) TypeScript
7 11 (8.09%) C#
7 11 (8.09%) Scala
8 6 (4.41%) C++
9 2 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.47%) Ruby
10 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (11.03%) SC Cleared
1 15 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.94%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.56%) Accessibility
1 13 (9.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.74%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (11.03%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (30.88%) Terraform
2 5 (3.68%) AWS Copilot
2 5 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 36 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.76%) Google
3 13 (9.56%) Databricks
4 5 (3.68%) Talend
5 4 (2.94%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.94%) IBM
6 2 (1.47%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.74%) Apple
7 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.74%) Spotify