dbt jobs and hiring demand

Core and required roles are separated from contextual and optional mentions so the headline does not overstate job intent.

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117core + required roles156context + optional mentions125remote-friendly▼ -13 this week

Employer concentration

EPAM accounts for 69 of 273 mentions (25%). The remaining 204 mentions span other employers.

dbt market intelligence visualization

AI & Data · responsibility and evidence

dbt market guide

dbt organizes data transformation using versioned models, dependencies, tests and documentation. It is associated with analytics engineering, where warehouse data is shaped into trustworthy analytical datasets. It does not replace every part of ingestion or orchestration around that transformation layer.

273 live roles60 hiring companies46% remote-friendly

Vacancy evidence map

Where dbt carries hiring weight

Each segment represents roles where dbt was parsed at that evidence tier. This keeps a required production skill separate from contextual stack language.

11 Core106 Required108 Supporting48 Optional
117core + required43% of mentions
4.6roles per company60 employers

Market interpretation

What dbt demand means in practice

dbt organizes data transformation using versioned models, dependencies, tests and documentation. It is associated with analytics engineering, where warehouse data is shaped into trustworthy analytical datasets. It does not replace every part of ingestion or orchestration around that transformation layer.

Describe the source and model grain, incremental behavior and tests that protect downstream users. Explain lineage, deployment and the effect of a changed schema. Strong evidence connects a model to a business definition and shows how correctness was checked, rather than only listing SQL statements or a warehouse provider.

Analytics EngineeringData Engineering
Technical references: dbt reference ↗

Reading the market

Signals to look for

  • Look for responsibility for model grain, lineage and business definitions.
  • Look for responsibility for incremental behavior and data-quality tests.
  • Look for responsibility for deployment and downstream schema-change handling.

Questions candidates ask

dbt hiring FAQ

What work does dbt represent?

dbt organizes data transformation using versioned models, dependencies, tests and documentation. It is associated with analytics engineering, where warehouse data is shaped into trustworthy analytical datasets. It does not replace every part of ingestion or orchestration around that transformation layer.

What evidence should I provide for a dbt role?

Describe the source and model grain, incremental behavior and tests that protect downstream users. Explain lineage, deployment and the effect of a changed schema. Strong evidence connects a model to a business definition and shows how correctness was checked, rather than only listing SQL statements or a warehouse provider.

How dbt appears in job requirements

Inferred from the title and requirement wording in 273 active roles; each role is counted once. Read the methodology.

Posting evidence, not a company-wide stack claim
Main / core
4%(11)
Required
39%(106)
Supporting / context
40%(108)
Nice-to-have
18%(48)

Skills mentioned with dbt

A shared posting does not always require both skills. Explicit alternatives are counted separately.

Role graph

Roles hiring for dbt