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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 169 357
Rank change year-on-year -98 +188 +255
Permanent jobs citing dbt 124 303 198
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.74% 2.09% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 4.43% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 57 290 185
10th Percentile £66,091 £61,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,813 £73,125 £66,110
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £122,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £100,000 £82,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +21.95% +13.10%

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 6,269 6,843 13,058
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.42% 47.12% 45.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,279 4,683 11,390
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 £77,715
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 6 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 39 (31.45%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (10.48%) 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 61 (49.19%) AWS
4 47 (37.90%) 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 46 (37.10%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (14.52%) Snowflake Schema
4 16 (12.90%) Metadata
4 16 (12.90%) Power BI
5 15 (12.10%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (11.29%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (11.29%) BigQuery
7 13 (10.48%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (10.48%) Redis
8 11 (8.87%) Apache Arrow
8 11 (8.87%) Apache Iceberg
8 11 (8.87%) Data Lake
8 11 (8.87%) Dremio
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 64 (51.61%) Finance
2 50 (40.32%) Social Skills
3 26 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (8.87%) Front Office
6 10 (8.06%) Banking
7 9 (7.26%) Law
8 6 (4.84%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.42%) Music Industry
9 3 (2.42%) Retail
10 2 (1.61%) Marketing
11 1 (0.81%) International Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Publishing
11 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (50.00%) Senior
2 30 (24.19%) Data Engineer
3 19 (15.32%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (10.48%) Python Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (8.87%) AWS Software Engineer
6 11 (8.87%) Python Software Engineer
6 11 (8.87%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (8.87%) Software Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) Architect
8 9 (7.26%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) Site Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Developer
10 7 (5.65%) Lead
11 6 (4.84%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Snowflake Architect
12 5 (4.03%) AWS Developer
12 5 (4.03%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.90%) Kafka
2 13 (10.48%) Django
3 12 (9.68%) NumPy
3 12 (9.68%) Pandas
4 11 (8.87%) GraphQL
4 11 (8.87%) OAuth
4 11 (8.87%) OpenAPI
4 11 (8.87%) SciPy
4 11 (8.87%) Swagger
5 8 (6.45%) YAML
6 7 (5.65%) AngularJS
6 7 (5.65%) Node.js
6 7 (5.65%) React
6 7 (5.65%) Vue
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 11 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.87%) Equities
2 11 (8.87%) Fixed Income
2 11 (8.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (6.45%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.84%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (4.84%) Derivative
4 6 (4.84%) Hedge funds
4 6 (4.84%) Pricing Data
4 6 (4.84%) Social Media
5 5 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.42%) Blog
8 2 (1.61%) Contract for Difference
8 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.61%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
9 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 68 (54.84%) Agile
1 68 (54.84%) DevOps
2 67 (54.03%) CI/CD
3 65 (52.42%) Data Modelling
4 56 (45.16%) Asset Management
5 49 (39.52%) Analytics
6 47 (37.90%) Coaching
7 44 (35.48%) ETL
8 37 (29.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 36 (29.03%) Data Engineering
10 32 (25.81%) Mentoring
10 32 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (24.19%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (23.39%) Clean Code
12 29 (23.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (20.97%) AI
14 25 (20.16%) Migration
15 24 (19.35%) Data Governance
16 23 (18.55%) Observability
17 22 (17.74%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (58.87%) Python
2 62 (50.00%) SQL
3 30 (24.19%) Java
3 30 (24.19%) PowerShell
4 14 (11.29%) JavaScript
5 11 (8.87%) C#
5 11 (8.87%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.06%) Scala
7 6 (4.84%) C++
8 2 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.61%) Ruby
9 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 12 (9.68%) 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 13 (10.48%) 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