Databricks Contracts

Databricks
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Databricks products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Databricks over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Databricks.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 229 220
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +36
Contract jobs citing Databricks 461 698 1,174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.21% 1.33%
As % of the Vendors category 2.54% 2.82% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 496 769
10th Percentile £425 £438 £425
25th Percentile £471 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +12.38%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £39.03 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +38.13% +4.58%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.56 £57.23
90th Percentile - £71.68 £77.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £55.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.98% +57.86% +34.62%

All Vendors
UK

Databricks is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,149 24,781 35,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.53% 42.99% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,244 16,575 23,424
10th Percentile £263 £270 £298
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £642 £637
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 681 898
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £12.05
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Databricks as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Databricks in the UK

Databricks
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Databricks.

Daily rate trend for Databricks in the UK

Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in the UK

Databricks
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Databricks.

Hourly rate trend for Databricks in the UK

Databricks
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Databricks within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -7 393 £560 -2.61% 250
London +7 288 £575 -4.17% 125
Work from Home +18 186 £575 +4.55% 132
UK excluding London +5 117 £501 -9.00% 137
North of England +12 29 £513 -14.58% 35
Scotland +54 28 £460 -10.68% 11
South East -9 23 £525 - 28
North West +28 22 £525 -19.23% 22
Midlands +14 20 £625 +31.58% 26
South West +2 15 £450 -20.00% 16
West Midlands +17 10 £700 +21.74% 14
East Midlands +13 10 £525 +16.67% 12
Yorkshire +10 6 £500 -18.37% 9
Wales +23 4 £550 -18.52% 6
East of England -5 2 £480 -20.00% 11
North East +8 1 - - 4

Databricks
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (11.93%) Apache Spark
2 21 (4.56%) Apache
2 21 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.17%) Confluence
4 6 (1.30%) Tornado
5 5 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.65%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.22%) Maximo
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 366 (79.39%) Azure
2 142 (30.80%) Azure Data Factory
3 130 (28.20%) Power Platform
4 81 (17.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 76 (16.49%) AWS
6 41 (8.89%) Snowflake
7 34 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (5.42%) Serverless
9 24 (5.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 22 (4.77%) PowerApps
11 21 (4.56%) GCP
12 18 (3.90%) Azure Key Vault
13 16 (3.47%) Amazon S3
13 16 (3.47%) Azure Functions
14 15 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (3.04%) Power Automate
16 12 (2.60%) Azure Stack
17 11 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
17 11 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.08%) LAN
1 5 (1.08%) WAN
2 4 (0.87%) Firewall
2 4 (0.87%) VPN
3 1 (0.22%) DNS
3 1 (0.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (31.02%) Data Lake
2 129 (27.98%) Power BI
3 95 (20.61%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (16.27%) Big Data
5 52 (11.28%) SQL Server
6 36 (7.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 32 (6.94%) Delta Lake
8 19 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (3.90%) Relational Database
10 14 (3.04%) Metadata
10 14 (3.04%) NoSQL
10 14 (3.04%) Spark SQL
11 13 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (2.60%) Hadoop
12 12 (2.60%) Power Query
13 11 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (2.39%) Star Schema
14 10 (2.17%) Parquet
15 9 (1.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.95%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (4.12%) Git
2 13 (2.82%) JIRA
3 8 (1.74%) MLflow
4 5 (1.08%) GitLab
4 5 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.87%) Deequ
6 3 (0.65%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.43%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.22%) Maven
8 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 121 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 102 (22.13%) Finance
3 57 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.38%) Banking
5 18 (3.90%) Marketing
6 15 (3.25%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.04%) Retail
8 11 (2.39%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.52%) Front Office
12 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.08%) Legal
13 4 (0.87%) Police
14 3 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.43%) Back Office
15 2 (0.43%) Games
15 2 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 186 (40.35%) Data Engineer
2 102 (22.13%) Azure Engineer
3 89 (19.31%) Architect
4 81 (17.57%) Azure Data Engineer
5 57 (12.36%) Data Architect
6 50 (10.85%) Developer
7 44 (9.54%) Lead
8 37 (8.03%) Senior
9 31 (6.72%) Azure Architect
10 30 (6.51%) Analyst
11 26 (5.64%) Data Analyst
12 23 (4.99%) Lead Data Engineer
13 21 (4.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 20 (4.34%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (4.12%) Power BI Developer
16 18 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
16 18 (3.90%) Azure Data Architect
17 16 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
18 15 (3.25%) Python Engineer
18 15 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (23.21%) PySpark
2 27 (5.86%) Kafka
3 19 (4.12%) .NET
4 10 (2.17%) Middleware
5 9 (1.95%) Apache Avro
5 9 (1.95%) Django
5 9 (1.95%) Flask
6 8 (1.74%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.52%) FastAPI
7 7 (1.52%) Pandas
7 7 (1.52%) pytest
7 7 (1.52%) React
7 7 (1.52%) Svelte
8 6 (1.30%) Bokeh
8 6 (1.30%) Node.js
8 6 (1.30%) OAuth
8 6 (1.30%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.08%) Great Expectations
9 5 (1.08%) JSON Schema
9 5 (1.08%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (1.52%) Algorithms
3 7 (1.52%) Data Fabric
3 7 (1.52%) Data Structures
3 7 (1.52%) Public Cloud
4 6 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (1.30%) Derivative
5 5 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.08%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.08%) Product Ownership
6 4 (0.87%) IoT
6 4 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (0.65%) Grid Computing
7 3 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.65%) Market Risk
7 3 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.95%) Linux
2 8 (1.74%) Windows
3 4 (0.87%) Unix
4 2 (0.43%) zOS
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (35.57%) Analytics
2 148 (32.10%) Data Modelling
3 129 (27.98%) Business Intelligence
4 122 (26.46%) ETL
5 120 (26.03%) Data Engineering
6 118 (25.60%) DevOps
7 117 (25.38%) Data Pipeline
8 115 (24.95%) Agile
9 69 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
10 68 (14.75%) CI/CD
11 61 (13.23%) Data Science
12 57 (12.36%) Data Integration
13 51 (11.06%) Migration
14 49 (10.63%) Visualisation
15 46 (9.98%) Data Architecture
15 46 (9.98%) Data Governance
16 39 (8.46%) Computer Science
17 38 (8.24%) Machine Learning
18 37 (8.03%) Data Migration
19 35 (7.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 245 (53.15%) SQL
2 230 (49.89%) Python
3 58 (12.58%) Scala
4 30 (6.51%) Java
5 20 (4.34%) C#
5 20 (4.34%) T-SQL
6 12 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (2.17%) R
8 8 (1.74%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.52%) Bicep
9 7 (1.52%) MATLAB
9 7 (1.52%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.65%) Bash
11 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.43%) U-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 33 (7.16%) Degree
2 32 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.34%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.60%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.60%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.52%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.87%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.43%) PhD
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (14.75%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.17%) QA
3 5 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.87%) GDPR
5 3 (0.65%) NCSC
5 3 (0.65%) NIST
6 2 (0.43%) GxP
6 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) CDISC
System Software
1 35 (7.59%) Docker
2 7 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 42 (9.11%) Terraform
3 3 (0.65%) Ansible
4 2 (0.43%) Ambari
4 2 (0.43%) Oozie
5 1 (0.22%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.22%) Kibana
5 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 84 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.42%) Oracle
3 17 (3.69%) Informatica
4 12 (2.60%) Google
5 9 (1.95%) SAP
6 8 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.30%) Confluent
8 4 (0.87%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.87%) Foundry
8 4 (0.87%) Palantir
9 3 (0.65%) IDERA
9 3 (0.65%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.65%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.65%) Talend
9 3 (0.65%) Teradata
10 2 (0.43%) Adobe
10 2 (0.43%) F5
10 2 (0.43%) IBM
10 2 (0.43%) Sybase
11 1 (0.22%) Splunk