Which roles ask for dbt at tech companies · 77 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
77 roles counted that list dbt, one per company, title and level; 183 postings in the window.
In short
dbt: listed in 77 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 47 and preferred in 30. The largest group is data engineer roles: 25 of 77 (32%).
- Required
- 47 of 77 (61%)
- Of the roles that list dbt
- Preferred
- 30 of 77 (39%)
- Of the roles that list dbt
- Largest group
- 25 of 77 (32%)
- Data engineer
Roles that ask for dbt
Roles listing dbt, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Data engineer | 25 | 25 of 99 (25%) |
| Data scientist | 17 | 17 of 112 (15%) |
| Analytics engineer | 14 | 14 of 28 |
| Data analyst | 8 | 8 of 47 |
| Software engineer | 7 | 7 of 719 (1%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 3 | 3 of 79 (4%) |
| Data architect | 1 | 1 of 11 |
| DevOps engineer | 1 | 1 of 58 (2%) |
| Software architect | 1 | 1 of 32 |
Companies that ask for it most
Asked alongside
Out of the 77 dbt roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| SQL | 65 of 77 (84%) |
| Python | 54 of 77 (70%) |
| Data Modeling | 34 of 77 (44%) |
| Snowflake | 28 of 77 (36%) |
| AI | 26 of 77 (34%) |
| Airflow | 20 of 77 (26%) |
| ETL | 18 of 77 (23%) |
| BigQuery | 17 of 77 (22%) |
| CI/CD | 15 of 77 (19%) |
| AWS | 14 of 77 (18%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| BigQuery | 12 of 77 (16%) |
| Airflow | 11 of 77 (14%) |
| Looker | 11 of 77 (14%) |
| Data Modeling | 8 of 77 (10%) |
| Data Warehousing | 8 of 77 (10%) |
| GCP | 8 of 77 (10%) |
| Snowflake | 8 of 77 (10%) |
| Business Intelligence | 7 of 77 (9%) |
| Data Pipelines | 7 of 77 (9%) |
| LLMs | 7 of 77 (9%) |
Experience
Of the 48 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 47 of 48
- 2+ years
- 47 of 48
- 3+ years
- 45 of 48
- 5+ years
- 33 of 48
- 8+ years
- 6 of 48
- 10+ years
- 1 of 48
Degree
Of the 65 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 7 of 65 (11%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 8 of 65 (12%)
- Preferred
- 2 of 65 (3%)
- Not mentioned
- 48 of 65 (74%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 77 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 43 of 77 (56%)
- Remote roles
- 47 of 77 (61%)
How we count: 77 roles from 56 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology