Job market reports · Skill · September 2026
dbt
666 live US technical postings name dbt in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 666 postings naming dbt that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Data Engineer50.6%
- 2Data Scientist14.6%
- 3Data Analyst14.1%
- 4Software Engineer12.8%
- 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.6%
- 6Machine Learning Engineer2.1%
- 7AI Engineer1.2%
- 8Backend Engineer1.1%
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.
- 1New York, NY23.1%
- 2Remote21.3%
- 3San Francisco, CA17.1%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA3.2%
- 5Boston, MA2.7%
- 6Austin, TX2%
- 7Los Angeles, CA1.7%
- 8Denver, CO1.5%
How we counted
668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.