Databricks Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Databricks
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring knowledge or experience of Databricks products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Databricks over the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 19 29
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 +13
Contract jobs citing Databricks 5 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.99% 4.44% 1.68%
As % of the Vendors category 4.67% 12.12% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 4
10th Percentile £593 £199 -
25th Percentile £675 £230 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £328 £550
Median % change year-on-year +113.11% -40.28% -20.00%
75th Percentile £801 £580 £563
90th Percentile - £594 -
South Wales median daily rate £700 £328 £550
% change year-on-year +113.11% -40.28% -20.29%

All Vendors
Cardiff

Databricks falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 107 66 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 42.63% 36.67% 42.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 55 79
10th Percentile £275 £193 £297
25th Percentile £290 £253 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £528 £550 £553
90th Percentile £650 £594 £626
South Wales median daily rate £442 £411 £508
% change year-on-year +7.49% -19.06% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £12.21 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.73% - -
75th Percentile £16.29 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £19.08 - -
South Wales median hourly rate £15.70 £37.50 £27.17
% change year-on-year -58.15% +38.05% +59.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Databricks

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks in Cardiff over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in Cardiff

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 Pipelines
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (40.00%) RBAC
1 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) API Design
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) VB.NET