dbt: rynek
dbt (data build tool) is the standard for in-warehouse transformations: data models are written in SQL, versioned in git, tested and documented as code. We track 2 385 open positions listing dbt, 2 229 of them fresh. dbt gave rise to the analytics-engineer profession and became a mandatory part of the modern data stack next to Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks. Most of the demand comes from Data, Analytics Engineer and ML/AI roles. It most often appears next to SQL, Python and Airflow. 41% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured dbt demand.
Rynek dbt ma obecnie 2385 otwartych ról, w tym świeżo zaobserwowanych: 2229. Median salary $9719/mo. Observed candidate pool — 211.
41% of dbt postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 252 of 2385 jobs; remote share from 2087 with a stated format; 2229 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many dbt postings appeared each week since Aug 10, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 118
New sources connected: Aug 17 +14 · Aug 24 +12 · Aug 31 +11 · Sep 7 +7 · Sep 14 +8 · Sep 21 +18 · Sep 28 +11 · Oct 5 +4 · Oct 12 +6 · Oct 19 +12
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses. A posting belongs to the technology by its stack tag; the series starts on 10 Aug 2026 — earlier tags were assigned differently and are not comparable. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median dbt salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of dbt postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of dbt postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Popyt i obserwowana podaż
| Otwarty popyt | 2385 |
| Obserwowana podaż | 211 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Rozkład wynagrodzeń
Co dziesiąta osoba zarabia poniżej $4515, co dziesiąta powyżej $16 608. Połowa rynku mieści się między $5978 a $14 583. Próba: 252.
The range histogram for dbt postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Geografia popytu
| kraj | oferty |
|---|---|
| US | 683 |
| PL | 301 |
| GB | 136 |
| IN | 134 |
| DE | 122 |
| CA | 79 |
| FR | 50 |
| RU | 37 |
| ES | 37 |
| BR | 33 |
The top country for dbt demand is the US (683 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Używana razem z
dbt most often appears next to SQL, Python and Airflow. Airflow and Snowflake alongside — dbt almost always runs inside orchestration and a cloud warehouse.
Role, które jej używają
| rola | oferty |
|---|---|
| Data | 1181 |
| Analytics Engineer | 517 |
| ML/AI | 174 |
| Architect | 71 |
| DevOps | 66 |
| Product | 64 |
| Fullstack | 57 |
| AI Engineer | 37 |
| Backend | 31 |
| Platform Engineer | 20 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Popyt według poziomu
| poziom | oferty |
|---|---|
| senior | 988 |
| principal | 223 |
| lead | 180 |
| middle | 101 |
| junior | 53 |
Senior-and-above is about 90% of 1 545 graded dbt postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Pracodawcy
Popyt rozkłada się na 1226 pracodawców. Największy odpowiada za 5.0%, pierwsza dziesiątka za 13.6%; pozostałe 86.5% to długi ogon.
| udział | wartość |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 5.0% |
| top-3 | 8.3% |
| top-10 | 13.6% |
| długi ogon | 86.5% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Gdzie Zorky widzi ten rynek
Obserwowane w 88 źródłach; największe odpowiada za 33.0% — ten rynek nie opiera się na jednym kanale.
dbt postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Najnowsze ogłoszenia
- Senior Data Engineer (Data Infrastructure & Business Insights) · US
- Organizational Change Management (OCM) Lead · US
- Principal AI Engineer
- Phantom · RU
- Аналитик данных · RU
- Data Engineer (Remote - Latin America) · US
- Lead Analytics Engineer · US · $13 125
- Administrator / Administratorka Systemów Integracji Danych · PL
Sąsiednie rynki
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
Jak to mierzymy
- Oferta
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Obserwowany kandydat
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Kandydat do dopasowania
- not counted yet
- Okno
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
O danych
- Część przekrojów jest ukryta: pokrycie danymi jest jeszcze niewystarczające.
- Statystyki pokazujemy tylko tam, gdzie próba przechodzi próg jakości.
- Brak bloku nie oznacza wartości zero.
Obecnie ukryte przekroje: 7.
Dane na dzień 2026-10-27
Najczęściej zadawane pytania
Common questions about the dbt market — short answers from the same data slice.
What is asked about dbt in interviews?
Models and materializations (view, table, incremental), ref and source, tests and docs, Jinja macros, snapshots, layer organization (staging, intermediate, marts) and CI for models.
Who needs dbt?
Analytics engineers — as the main tool; data engineers — for the transformation layer; advanced analysts — to maintain marts themselves.
How big is the dbt market?
The slice tracks 2 385 open dbt positions; demand grows as analytics moves to cloud warehouses.