Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Azure Databricks
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Azure Databricks skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 64 70
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.37% 0.14% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 0.40% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £430 - £408
25th Percentile £438 £538 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £525 £613 £613
90th Percentile £732 - -
South West median daily rate £450 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -21.74% - -2.13%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Bristol

Azure Databricks falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 325 251 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 23.91% 36.32% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 160 164
10th Percentile £380 £283 £279
25th Percentile £463 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £452 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.68% -9.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £629 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £639 £734
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +10.53% -10.88% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 29 29
10th Percentile £13.65 £18.13 £30.77
25th Percentile £14.39 £18.51 -
Median hourly rate £19.42 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -73.04% +100.00%
75th Percentile £52.69 - -
90th Percentile £99.88 £37.50 -
South West median hourly rate £18.50 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.96% -73.04% +76.99%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Databricks relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in Bristol

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Databricks in Bristol over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in Bristol

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Local Government
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Lakehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft