Databricks Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Databricks
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 2 July 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
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 68 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 -
Contract jobs citing Databricks 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.54% 0.18% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 1.23% 0.34% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £405 - £479
25th Percentile £442 £469 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £488 £553
Median % change year-on-year +8.31% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £586 £506 £594
90th Percentile £594 - £616
North West median daily rate £523 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +5.82% -1.25% -2.44%

All Vendors
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 326 291 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 43.70% 52.06% 46.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 211 165
10th Percentile £346 £313 £272
25th Percentile £413 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £505
Median % change year-on-year +5.44% -10.89% +1.00%
75th Percentile £599 £522 £594
90th Percentile £653 £635 £638
North West median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% +5.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 11
10th Percentile £16.75 £12.82 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £14.37 £12.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £50.00 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% +189.27% -22.16%
75th Percentile £34.46 £85.81 £17.72
90th Percentile £55.08 £86.00 £17.78
North West median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £16.06
% change year-on-year -6.25% +99.25% -43.05%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Databricks

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks in Cheshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in Cheshire

Databricks
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Databricks within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Warrington -11 2 £538 +10.26% 5
Knutsford - 2 £481 -
Databricks
North West

Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) LangSmith
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Physics
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) EXASOL