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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 227 85
Rank change year-on-year -138 -142 +264
Permanent jobs citing dbt 93 212 716
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 1.26% 3.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 3.69% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 63 197 705
10th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £60,620
25th Percentile £67,908 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,830 £117,800 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.48% +2.43% +53.33%
75th Percentile £81,957 £137,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £91,250 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £74,830 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -31.97% -4.35% +57.34%

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 8,572 5,750 9,196
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.59% 34.24% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,289 4,073 6,052
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
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 £59,186 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -8.94% +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 9 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 15 (16.13%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.53%) Apache
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Superset
3 1 (1.08%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (37.63%) GCP
2 28 (30.11%) AWS
3 26 (27.96%) Snowflake
4 25 (26.88%) Azure
5 15 (16.13%) Power Platform
6 13 (13.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (9.68%) SaaS
8 8 (8.60%) Fivetran
9 7 (7.53%) Cloud Composer
10 3 (3.23%) Alation
10 3 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.23%) Dataform
10 3 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.23%) GitHub
10 3 (3.23%) Google Ads
10 3 (3.23%) Google Analytics
11 2 (2.15%) AppsFlyer
11 2 (2.15%) Google Data Studio
11 2 (2.15%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.98%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.08%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.35%) BigQuery
2 15 (16.13%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (16.13%) Power BI
3 12 (12.90%) Looker
4 10 (10.75%) Semantic Layer
5 9 (9.68%) SQL Server
6 8 (8.60%) Data Lake
6 8 (8.60%) Metadata
7 5 (5.38%) Tableau
8 4 (4.30%) Airbyte
8 4 (4.30%) Flink
8 4 (4.30%) OLTP
9 3 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.23%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (3.23%) SSDT
10 2 (2.15%) Delta Lake
11 1 (1.08%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Git
2 3 (3.23%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.23%) JIRA
2 3 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.08%) GitLab
General
1 52 (55.91%) Social Skills
2 33 (35.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (30.11%) Finance
4 21 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (12.90%) Retail
6 9 (9.68%) Marketing
7 5 (5.38%) Legal
8 4 (4.30%) Banking
8 4 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.30%) Law
9 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.08%) Advertising
10 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.08%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (37.63%) Senior
2 27 (29.03%) Architect
3 26 (27.96%) Data Engineer
4 13 (13.98%) ERP Architect
4 13 (13.98%) Python Engineer
4 13 (13.98%) Site Engineer
4 13 (13.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 13 (13.98%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (12.90%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (11.83%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 11 (11.83%) Technical Architect
7 8 (8.60%) Analyst
8 6 (6.45%) Data Scientist
8 6 (6.45%) Lead
9 4 (4.30%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) Product Analyst
10 3 (3.23%) Data Architect
10 3 (3.23%) Database Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Senior Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (25.81%) Terraform
2 4 (4.30%) Apache Beam
2 4 (4.30%) PySpark
3 3 (3.23%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.15%) Kafka
5 1 (1.08%) NumPy
5 1 (1.08%) Pandas
5 1 (1.08%) pgvector
5 1 (1.08%) PostGIS
5 1 (1.08%) Snowpark
5 1 (1.08%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.38%) Blog
2 5 (5.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.23%) Replication
3 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.15%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.08%) Clustering
5 1 (1.08%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.08%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.08%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.08%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.05%) Linux
2 13 (13.98%) Unix
3 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (46.24%) AI
2 39 (41.94%) Analytics
3 30 (32.26%) Data Modelling
4 28 (30.11%) CI/CD
5 27 (29.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 26 (27.96%) Data Engineering
7 24 (25.81%) Open Source
7 24 (25.81%) Technical Architecture
8 23 (24.73%) Business Intelligence
8 23 (24.73%) Mentoring
9 22 (23.66%) Observability
10 20 (21.51%) Collaborative Culture
10 20 (21.51%) Data Pipeline
11 19 (20.43%) Agile
11 19 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (20.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (19.35%) Machine Learning
12 18 (19.35%) Migration
13 17 (18.28%) Data Governance
14 16 (17.20%) Collaborative Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (58.06%) Python
2 52 (55.91%) SQL
3 5 (5.38%) Java
4 4 (4.30%) Scala
4 4 (4.30%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.23%) C#
5 3 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (40.86%) SC Cleared
1 38 (40.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.15%) Degree
2 2 (2.15%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (26.88%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.38%) GDPR
3 4 (4.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 11 (11.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.23%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 28 (30.11%) Google
2 20 (21.51%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.90%) OpenAI
4 8 (8.60%) Databricks
5 4 (4.30%) New Relic
5 4 (4.30%) Splunk
6 3 (3.23%) RedGate
7 2 (2.15%) Apple
7 2 (2.15%) Braze
7 2 (2.15%) Dataiku
8 1 (1.08%) Infor
8 1 (1.08%) Marketo
8 1 (1.08%) Optimizely
8 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) Trend Micro