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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 215 94
Rank change year-on-year -140 -121 +336
Permanent jobs citing dbt 96 252 778
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 1.53% 3.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 4.18% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 65 250 767
10th Percentile £62,500 £66,125 £71,075
25th Percentile £67,908 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,654 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.13% -4.35% +43.75%
75th Percentile £78,467 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £90,750 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £74,830 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -31.97% -4.35% +58.62%

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 8,673 6,033 10,378
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.67% 36.56% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,255 4,451 8,195
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,478 £43,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% -3.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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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 5 August 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 17 (17.71%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.29%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.08%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (41.67%) AWS
2 37 (38.54%) GCP
3 27 (28.13%) Azure
4 18 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 11 (11.46%) Power Platform
7 10 (10.42%) Cloud Composer
7 10 (10.42%) PaaS
8 7 (7.29%) Dagster
9 6 (6.25%) Fivetran
9 6 (6.25%) SaaS
10 5 (5.21%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (5.21%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 5 (5.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (5.21%) AWS CodeBuild
10 5 (5.21%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (5.21%) Datadog
10 5 (5.21%) Pulumi
10 5 (5.21%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.75%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.75%) BigQuery
2 11 (11.46%) Power BI
3 10 (10.42%) Looker
4 9 (9.38%) Data Lake
4 9 (9.38%) Metadata
5 8 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.25%) Semantic Layer
6 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.25%) Tableau
7 5 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (5.21%) Redis
8 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.13%) Big Data
9 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.08%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Git
2 5 (5.21%) Cucumber
2 5 (5.21%) JMeter
2 5 (5.21%) Locust
3 3 (3.13%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 45 (46.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (20.83%) Finance
4 13 (13.54%) Law
5 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (11.46%) Retail
6 7 (7.29%) Banking
7 6 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Marketing
9 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Legal
10 1 (1.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (35.42%) Senior
2 33 (34.38%) Data Engineer
3 25 (26.04%) Architect
4 14 (14.58%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) ERP Architect
5 13 (13.54%) Python Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) Site Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (11.46%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 11 (11.46%) Technical Architect
7 8 (8.33%) Lead
8 7 (7.29%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Test Leader
11 4 (4.17%) Principal Data Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
12 2 (2.08%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.42%) Kafka
2 5 (5.21%) Django
2 5 (5.21%) Gherkin
2 5 (5.21%) PySpark
3 3 (3.13%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.04%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.54%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.33%) Blog
3 6 (6.25%) Anti-Piracy
3 6 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.25%) Social Media
4 5 (5.21%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.21%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.13%) Data Fabric
6 3 (3.13%) Replication
6 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.04%) Clustering
8 1 (1.04%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.79%) Linux
2 18 (18.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 31 (32.29%) Analytics
3 30 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (30.21%) Open Source
5 28 (29.17%) AI
5 28 (29.17%) Observability
6 27 (28.13%) Data Engineering
6 27 (28.13%) Data Modelling
7 25 (26.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (25.00%) DevOps
8 24 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
9 23 (23.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (23.96%) Migration
10 21 (21.88%) Agile
11 20 (20.83%) Collaborative Culture
11 20 (20.83%) Incident Response
11 20 (20.83%) Mentoring
12 19 (19.79%) Clean Code
12 19 (19.79%) Data Governance
13 17 (17.71%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (60.42%) Python
2 43 (44.79%) SQL
3 17 (17.71%) Java
4 6 (6.25%) C++
4 6 (6.25%) Scala
5 1 (1.04%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (44.79%) SC Cleared
1 43 (44.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.08%) Degree
2 2 (2.08%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.71%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.21%) QA
3 5 (5.21%) WCAG
4 1 (1.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (19.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (32.29%) Terraform
2 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.21%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (5.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (27.08%) Google
2 15 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.46%) OpenAI
4 5 (5.21%) Databricks
5 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.04%) Braze
6 1 (1.04%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.04%) Marketo
6 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.04%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle
6 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud