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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 223 80
Rank change year-on-year -141 -143 +259
Permanent jobs citing dbt 99 209 720
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 1.27% 3.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 3.64% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 68 194 710
10th Percentile £62,500 £69,169 £60,200
25th Percentile £67,908 £100,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,830 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.97% -4.35% +53.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £137,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £98,750 - £148,750
UK median annual salary £74,830 £110,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -31.97% - +50.50%

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 8,739 5,737 9,004
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.71% 34.93% 43.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,378 4,063 5,897
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,738
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +4.00%

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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 16 October 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 (17.17%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (9.09%) Apache
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Superset
3 1 (1.01%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.35%) GCP
2 32 (32.32%) AWS
3 30 (30.30%) Snowflake
4 27 (27.27%) Azure
5 18 (18.18%) Power Platform
6 13 (13.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (9.09%) SaaS
8 8 (8.08%) Fivetran
9 7 (7.07%) Cloud Composer
10 5 (5.05%) GitHub
11 4 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (4.04%) Serverless
12 3 (3.03%) Alation
12 3 (3.03%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (3.03%) Dataform
12 3 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (3.03%) Google Ads
12 3 (3.03%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.01%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.18%) BigQuery
1 18 (18.18%) Power BI
2 16 (16.16%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (10.10%) Looker
3 10 (10.10%) Semantic Layer
4 9 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 9 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 8 (8.08%) Metadata
6 5 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (4.04%) Airbyte
7 4 (4.04%) Flink
7 4 (4.04%) OLTP
7 4 (4.04%) Tableau
8 3 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (3.03%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (3.03%) SSDT
9 2 (2.02%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 10 (10.10%) Git
2 3 (3.03%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.03%) GitLab
2 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.03%) JIRA
2 3 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (2.02%) CircleCI
General
1 55 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 35 (35.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 30 (30.30%) Finance
4 20 (20.20%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (12.12%) Retail
6 9 (9.09%) Marketing
7 6 (6.06%) Legal
8 5 (5.05%) Banking
8 5 (5.05%) Law
9 4 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.03%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.01%) Advertising
11 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.01%) Tech for Good
11 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (35.35%) Senior
2 32 (32.32%) Data Engineer
3 28 (28.28%) Architect
4 13 (13.13%) ERP Architect
4 13 (13.13%) Python Engineer
4 13 (13.13%) Site Engineer
4 13 (13.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 13 (13.13%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (12.12%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 11 (11.11%) Technical Architect
7 8 (8.08%) Analyst
8 6 (6.06%) Lead
9 5 (5.05%) Principal Data Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Data Analyst
10 4 (4.04%) Data Architect
10 4 (4.04%) Data Scientist
10 4 (4.04%) Product Analyst
11 3 (3.03%) Onboarding Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (27.27%) Terraform
2 7 (7.07%) PySpark
3 4 (4.04%) Apache Beam
4 3 (3.03%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.02%) Kafka
6 1 (1.01%) NumPy
6 1 (1.01%) Pandas
6 1 (1.01%) pgvector
6 1 (1.01%) PostGIS
6 1 (1.01%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.01%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.05%) Blog
3 5 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.03%) Replication
4 3 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.02%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Clustering
6 1 (1.01%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.01%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.01%) Multi-touch
6 1 (1.01%) PMI
6 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.14%) Linux
2 13 (13.13%) Unix
3 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (46.46%) AI
2 43 (43.43%) Analytics
3 36 (36.36%) Data Modelling
4 33 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 31 (31.31%) Data Engineering
6 27 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (26.26%) Mentoring
8 25 (25.25%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (24.24%) Open Source
9 24 (24.24%) Technical Architecture
10 22 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (22.22%) Observability
11 21 (21.21%) Agile
12 20 (20.20%) Collaborative Culture
12 20 (20.20%) Machine Learning
13 19 (19.19%) Migration
14 18 (18.18%) Data Architecture
14 18 (18.18%) Data Governance
15 17 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 58 (58.59%) Python
2 56 (56.57%) SQL
3 5 (5.05%) Java
4 4 (4.04%) Scala
4 4 (4.04%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.03%) C#
5 3 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (38.38%) SC Cleared
1 38 (38.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.02%) Degree
2 2 (2.02%) SnowPro
3 1 (1.01%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (30.30%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.05%) GDPR
3 4 (4.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 11 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.03%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 28 (28.28%) Google
2 21 (21.21%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.12%) OpenAI
4 10 (10.10%) Databricks
5 4 (4.04%) New Relic
5 4 (4.04%) Splunk
6 3 (3.03%) RedGate
7 2 (2.02%) Apple
7 2 (2.02%) Braze
7 2 (2.02%) Dataiku
8 1 (1.01%) Infor
8 1 (1.01%) Marketo
8 1 (1.01%) Optimizely
8 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) Trend Micro