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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 209 113
Rank change year-on-year -146 -96 +340
Permanent jobs citing dbt 84 250 770
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 1.51% 2.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 4.08% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 56 247 753
10th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £71,200
25th Percentile £67,493 £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 £78,852 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £91,250 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% -4.35% +64.29%

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 8,368 6,121 12,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.87% 37.04% 41.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,978 4,520 10,250
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,950 £46,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.56% -6.40%

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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 20 July 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 19 (22.62%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.38%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 31 (36.90%) AWS
2 25 (29.76%) GCP
3 18 (21.43%) Azure
4 13 (15.48%) Snowflake
5 11 (13.10%) Power Platform
6 10 (11.90%) Cloud Composer
6 10 (11.90%) PaaS
7 7 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (8.33%) Dagster
8 6 (7.14%) SaaS
9 5 (5.95%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (5.95%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 5 (5.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (5.95%) AWS CodeBuild
9 5 (5.95%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (5.95%) Datadog
9 5 (5.95%) Pulumi
9 5 (5.95%) Sentry
10 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.24%) BigQuery
2 11 (13.10%) Power BI
3 10 (11.90%) Looker
4 9 (10.71%) Metadata
5 7 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (7.14%) Data Lake
6 6 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
6 6 (7.14%) Tableau
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.95%) Redis
8 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.57%) Big Data
9 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.38%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.19%) Airbyte
11 1 (1.19%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Cucumber
1 5 (5.95%) Git
1 5 (5.95%) JMeter
1 5 (5.95%) Locust
2 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (52.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 43 (51.19%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.05%) Finance
4 15 (17.86%) Law
5 11 (13.10%) Retail
6 9 (10.71%) Banking
7 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Marketing
9 1 (1.19%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (40.48%) Data Engineer
2 25 (29.76%) Architect
3 22 (26.19%) Senior
4 15 (17.86%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (15.48%) ERP Architect
5 13 (15.48%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (13.10%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 11 (13.10%) Technical Architect
7 8 (9.52%) Lead
8 7 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (7.14%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Test Leader
11 4 (4.76%) Principal Data Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
12 3 (3.57%) Data Scientist
13 2 (2.38%) Analyst
13 2 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 2 (2.38%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) Kafka
2 5 (5.95%) Django
2 5 (5.95%) Gherkin
2 5 (5.95%) PySpark
3 1 (1.19%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.19%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.71%) Blog
2 8 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 7 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.14%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (7.14%) Social Media
5 5 (5.95%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.57%) Data Fabric
8 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.38%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.19%) Clustering
9 1 (1.19%) Contract for Difference
9 1 (1.19%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.19%) Replication
9 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.90%) Linux
2 7 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.52%) Open Source
2 27 (32.14%) Analytics
3 25 (29.76%) Data Engineering
3 25 (29.76%) Data Modelling
4 24 (28.57%) Agile
4 24 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 24 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
5 23 (27.38%) AI
5 23 (27.38%) Migration
6 21 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 17 (20.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (20.24%) Observability
7 17 (20.24%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (19.05%) Data Governance
8 16 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (19.05%) Prototyping
9 15 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (16.67%) Visualisation
11 13 (15.48%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 45 (53.57%) Python
2 42 (50.00%) SQL
3 19 (22.62%) Java
4 6 (7.14%) C++
4 6 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (1.19%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 32 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.38%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.95%) QA
3 5 (5.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (20.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (23.81%) Terraform
2 8 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.95%) AWS Copilot
3 5 (5.95%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.10%) Google
2 11 (13.10%) OpenAI
3 5 (5.95%) Databricks
4 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle
4 1 (1.19%) Salesforce