Databricks Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Data Engineer - Databricks
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Data Engineer - Databricks daily rate in Cambridge is £565, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £558 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - -
75th Percentile £573 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £565 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cambridge with a recognized job title 143 152 140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 80.79% 88.89% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 78 68
10th Percentile £327 £354 £225
25th Percentile £410 £428 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £534 £420
Median % change year-on-year -11.01% +27.08% -9.43%
75th Percentile £535 £625 £550
90th Percentile £625 £708 £638
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £510 £520 £442
% change year-on-year -1.92% +17.65% -1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 17
10th Percentile £18.38 £17.11 £22.52
25th Percentile £24.99 £44.61 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.44 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.27% +14.29% +196.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.75 £68.25
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.88 £16.36 £21.37
% change year-on-year -2.90% -23.47% +20.60%

Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, Databricks Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridge region featuring Databricks Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation

Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
Databricks Data Engineer jobs