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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 173 367
Rank change year-on-year -84 +194 +257
Permanent jobs citing dbt 131 308 179
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.99% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.12% 4.25% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 64 295 166
10th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £51,250
25th Percentile £71,110 £75,000 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +31.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £100,000 £73,090
% change year-on-year -20.00% +36.82% +0.81%

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 6,185 7,250 12,702
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.70% 46.76% 45.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,234 4,740 11,116
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,135 £35,260
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,786
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%

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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 February 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 47 (35.88%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (10.69%) Apache Spark
3 13 (9.92%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 82 (62.60%) Azure
2 77 (58.78%) Snowflake
3 67 (51.15%) AWS
4 53 (40.46%) GCP
5 44 (33.59%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (15.27%) GitHub
7 19 (14.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (14.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 18 (13.74%) GitHub Copilot
9 15 (11.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (11.45%) Power Platform
10 13 (9.92%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (9.92%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (9.92%) Pulumi
11 11 (8.40%) Fivetran
12 10 (7.63%) Matillion
13 9 (6.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (4.58%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (4.58%) Dagster
15 5 (3.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.92%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.58%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (36.64%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (22.90%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (18.32%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (15.27%) Apache Arrow
4 20 (15.27%) Apache Iceberg
4 20 (15.27%) Dremio
5 19 (14.50%) Snowflake Schema
6 15 (11.45%) Data Lake
6 15 (11.45%) Metadata
6 15 (11.45%) Power BI
7 14 (10.69%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (10.69%) BigQuery
8 13 (9.92%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (9.92%) Redis
9 9 (6.87%) Apache Ignite
10 7 (5.34%) Relational Database
11 6 (4.58%) Data Vault
12 5 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (3.05%) Looker
14 3 (2.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (13.74%) JIRA
2 3 (2.29%) Git
General
1 75 (57.25%) Finance
2 52 (39.69%) Social Skills
3 28 (21.37%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (15.27%) Front Office
5 13 (9.92%) Banking
6 10 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (6.87%) Investment Banking
7 9 (6.87%) Law
8 3 (2.29%) Music Industry
8 3 (2.29%) Retail
9 2 (1.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.76%) International Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Publishing
10 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (51.15%) Senior
2 28 (21.37%) Data Engineer
3 22 (16.79%) Python Engineer
4 20 (15.27%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (15.27%) AWS Software Engineer
4 20 (15.27%) Python Software Engineer
4 20 (15.27%) Software Engineer
5 19 (14.50%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (9.92%) Developer
7 11 (8.40%) AWS Developer
7 11 (8.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Python Developer
7 11 (8.40%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) Architect
9 9 (6.87%) Java Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Site Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.03%) NumPy
1 21 (16.03%) Pandas
2 20 (15.27%) SciPy
3 16 (12.21%) Kafka
4 13 (9.92%) AngularJS
4 13 (9.92%) Django
4 13 (9.92%) Node.js
4 13 (9.92%) React
4 13 (9.92%) Vue
5 11 (8.40%) GraphQL
5 11 (8.40%) OAuth
5 11 (8.40%) OpenAPI
5 11 (8.40%) Swagger
6 9 (6.87%) gRPC
6 9 (6.87%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (6.11%) YAML
8 6 (4.58%) PySpark
9 2 (1.53%) CSS
9 2 (1.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (28.24%) Cloud Native
2 20 (15.27%) Equities
2 20 (15.27%) Fixed Income
2 20 (15.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (9.16%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.87%) Derivative
4 9 (6.87%) Hedge funds
4 9 (6.87%) Pricing Data
5 8 (6.11%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.58%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (4.58%) Social Media
7 5 (3.82%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.29%) Blog
10 2 (1.53%) Contract for Difference
10 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.53%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.76%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.76%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.76%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.21%) Linux
2 13 (9.92%) Unix
3 4 (3.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (58.02%) Agile
2 68 (51.91%) Data Modelling
3 67 (51.15%) Asset Management
4 66 (50.38%) CI/CD
4 66 (50.38%) DevOps
5 52 (39.69%) Analytics
6 49 (37.40%) Coaching
7 45 (34.35%) ETL
8 36 (27.48%) Data Engineering
8 36 (27.48%) Mentoring
9 34 (25.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (23.66%) Clean Code
11 31 (23.66%) Software Engineering
12 29 (22.14%) Data Pipeline
13 28 (21.37%) AI
13 28 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (19.85%) Migration
15 24 (18.32%) Data Governance
16 22 (16.79%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 79 (60.31%) Python
2 60 (45.80%) SQL
3 31 (23.66%) Java
4 30 (22.90%) PowerShell
5 23 (17.56%) JavaScript
6 20 (15.27%) TypeScript
7 11 (8.40%) C#
7 11 (8.40%) Scala
8 6 (4.58%) C++
9 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.53%) Ruby
10 1 (0.76%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (11.45%) SC Cleared
1 15 (11.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.05%) SnowPro
3 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.92%) Accessibility
2 12 (9.16%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (11.45%) Docker
2 4 (3.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (32.06%) Terraform
2 5 (3.82%) AWS Copilot
2 5 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 36 (27.48%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.21%) Google
3 13 (9.92%) Databricks
4 5 (3.82%) Talend
5 4 (3.05%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.05%) IBM
6 2 (1.53%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.76%) Apple
7 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle
7 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.76%) Spotify