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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 98 304
Rank change year-on-year -99 +206 +376
Permanent jobs citing dbt 191 603 187
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.26% 3.06% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.46% 6.90% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 159 595 179
10th Percentile £68,813 £60,200 £57,265
25th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +43.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £105,000 £105,000 £73,090
% change year-on-year - +43.66% -2.55%

All Cloud 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 5,517 8,745 10,445
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.40% 44.43% 48.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,129 5,655 8,928
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 17 November 2025.

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
1 128 (67.02%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (33.51%) Apache
3 3 (1.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 146 (76.44%) AWS
2 109 (57.07%) Snowflake
3 81 (42.41%) GCP
4 57 (29.84%) Azure
5 30 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (10.99%) GitHub
7 17 (8.90%) Power Platform
8 15 (7.85%) GitHub Copilot
9 12 (6.28%) Fivetran
10 10 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (4.19%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.19%) Pulumi
13 7 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (2.09%) Google Data Studio
15 4 (2.09%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.19%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.05%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (62.83%) Amazon Athena
2 116 (60.73%) Apache Arrow
2 116 (60.73%) Apache Iceberg
2 116 (60.73%) Dremio
3 67 (35.08%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (34.03%) Data Lake
5 61 (31.94%) Apache Ignite
6 38 (19.90%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (8.90%) Power BI
7 17 (8.90%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (4.71%) Tableau
9 8 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (4.19%) Looker
9 8 (4.19%) Redis
10 7 (3.66%) BigQuery
11 6 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (3.14%) Metadata
12 5 (2.62%) SQL Server
13 4 (2.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (7.85%) JIRA
2 7 (3.66%) Git
General
1 152 (79.58%) Finance
2 116 (60.73%) Front Office
3 63 (32.98%) Banking
4 61 (31.94%) Investment Banking
5 40 (20.94%) Social Skills
6 19 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.14%) Retail
8 5 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.62%) Marketing
9 3 (1.57%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.52%) International Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 116 (60.73%) AWS Engineer
1 116 (60.73%) AWS Software Engineer
1 116 (60.73%) Software Engineer
2 110 (57.59%) Python Engineer
3 108 (56.54%) Python Software Engineer
4 95 (49.74%) Senior
5 69 (36.13%) Java Engineer
5 69 (36.13%) Java Software Engineer
6 59 (30.89%) Senior Java Engineer
6 59 (30.89%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 59 (30.89%) Senior Software Engineer
7 57 (29.84%) Developer
8 55 (28.80%) AWS Developer
8 55 (28.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 47 (24.61%) Python Developer
10 16 (8.38%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.19%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.19%) Java Software Developer
11 8 (4.19%) Site Engineer
11 8 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (63.87%) Pandas
2 121 (63.35%) NumPy
3 116 (60.73%) SciPy
4 61 (31.94%) gRPC
4 61 (31.94%) Protocol Buffers
5 58 (30.37%) React
6 57 (29.84%) AngularJS
6 57 (29.84%) Node.js
6 57 (29.84%) Vue
7 11 (5.76%) Django
8 5 (2.62%) GraphQL
8 5 (2.62%) OAuth
8 5 (2.62%) OpenAPI
8 5 (2.62%) scikit-learn
8 5 (2.62%) Swagger
9 4 (2.09%) Hugging Face
9 4 (2.09%) Kafka
10 2 (1.05%) HTML
10 2 (1.05%) PySpark
10 2 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 116 (60.73%) Equities
1 116 (60.73%) Fixed Income
1 116 (60.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 61 (31.94%) Derivative
2 61 (31.94%) Hedge funds
2 61 (31.94%) Pricing Data
3 21 (10.99%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.66%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.52%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.19%) Linux
1 8 (4.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (76.96%) Agile
2 144 (75.39%) Asset Management
3 121 (63.35%) Software Engineering
4 116 (60.73%) Investment Management
5 61 (31.94%) Risk Management
6 58 (30.37%) Fintech
7 55 (28.80%) Order Management
7 55 (28.80%) Performance Attribution
8 45 (23.56%) DevOps
9 42 (21.99%) CI/CD
10 41 (21.47%) Analytics
11 34 (17.80%) Data Modelling
12 30 (15.71%) AI
13 29 (15.18%) Coaching
13 29 (15.18%) ETL
14 26 (13.61%) Mentoring
15 23 (12.04%) Clean Code
15 23 (12.04%) Data Pipeline
16 20 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
17 19 (9.95%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 144 (75.39%) Python
2 120 (62.83%) JavaScript
3 116 (60.73%) TypeScript
4 73 (38.22%) Java
5 34 (17.80%) SQL
6 11 (5.76%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.62%) C#
7 5 (2.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.05%) Ruby
8 2 (1.05%) Scala
9 1 (0.52%) LookML
Qualifications
1 11 (5.76%) SC Cleared
1 11 (5.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.57%) Degree
2 3 (1.57%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.19%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.66%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.66%) NCSC
2 7 (3.66%) NIST
3 5 (2.62%) GDPR
4 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (6.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (12.57%) Terraform
2 4 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.05%) Argo
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.38%) Google
3 8 (4.19%) Talend
4 6 (3.14%) Databricks
5 4 (2.09%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.09%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.09%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.09%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.09%) Zoho
6 2 (1.05%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.52%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.52%) Apple
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle
7 1 (0.52%) Spotify