Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in Central London

Azure Databricks
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London 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 126 119 116
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +25
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 23 13 15
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.91% 0.65% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.24% 1.63% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 13
10th Percentile £425 £420 £430
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +3.64% -24.14%
75th Percentile £550 £680 £650
90th Percentile £638 £698 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -16.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,026 800 927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.54% 39.94% 40.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 537 647
10th Percentile £363 £337 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.65%
75th Percentile £653 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £750
London median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 3
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +25.93% -10.74%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 £59.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -36.84%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in Central London

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in Central London

Azure Databricks
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Databricks within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 August 2026. 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
City of London -9 22 £520 -8.77%
West End of London - 1 £538 -
City of Westminster - 1 £538 -
Azure Databricks
London

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.70%) Apache
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Power BI
2 5 (21.74%) Data Lake
2 5 (21.74%) Delta Lake
3 3 (13.04%) Metadata
3 3 (13.04%) Spark SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) MLflow
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Military
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Data Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Databricks Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Data Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Databricks Data Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Python Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Senior Python Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Data Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Data Governance Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Governance Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Security Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) PySpark
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 3 (13.04%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (4.35%) Django
4 1 (4.35%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.35%) Flask
4 1 (4.35%) NumPy
4 1 (4.35%) Pandas
4 1 (4.35%) React
4 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Data Engineering
2 11 (47.83%) Analytics
2 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
3 10 (43.48%) Data Governance
3 10 (43.48%) DevOps
4 8 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (26.09%) Data Modelling
5 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (26.09%) Lakehouse
6 5 (21.74%) ETL
6 5 (21.74%) Migration
6 5 (21.74%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (17.39%) Data Architecture
7 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
7 4 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
7 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (13.04%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) Bicep
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) Korn
3 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.70%) Scala
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.70%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Databricks
2 11 (47.83%) Microsoft