Job market reports · Skill · August 2026
dbt
323 live US technical postings name dbt in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 323 postings naming dbt that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Data Engineer53.9%
- 2Data Analyst14.6%
- 3Software Engineer14.2%
- 4Data Scientist9.9%
- 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.7%
- 6Machine Learning Engineer2.2%
What postings asking for it pay
Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote23.8%
- 2New York, NY22.9%
- 3San Francisco, CA16.1%
- 4Boston, MA3.7%
- 5Silicon Valley, CA2.8%
- 6Austin, TX2.5%
- 7Atlanta, GA1.2%
How we counted
457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.