Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Azure Databricks
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 120 111 110
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 22 13 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.95% 0.72% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.34% 1.75% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 13
10th Percentile £425 £420 £430
25th Percentile £444 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +3.64% -24.14%
75th Percentile £572 £680 £650
90th Percentile £639 £698 £750
Central London median daily rate £520 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -8.77% +3.64% -24.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 939 741 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.40% 40.87% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 500 570
10th Percentile £375 £339 £375
25th Percentile £463 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £552
Median % change year-on-year - -0.32% -4.04%
75th Percentile £656 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +25.93% -10.74%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in the City of London

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.09%) Apache
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) Power Platform
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Data Lake
1 5 (22.73%) Delta Lake
1 5 (22.73%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) Metadata
2 3 (13.64%) Spark SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) MLflow
General
1 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Military
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Data Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Databricks Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Consultant
3 4 (18.18%) Data Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Databricks Data Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Python Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Python Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Data Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Data Governance Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Governance Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Security Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) PySpark
2 5 (22.73%) Terraform
3 3 (13.64%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) .NET
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (4.55%) Django
4 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.55%) Flask
4 1 (4.55%) NumPy
4 1 (4.55%) Pandas
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Data Engineering
2 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (45.45%) Analytics
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
4 9 (40.91%) Data Governance
5 8 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (27.27%) Lakehouse
7 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (22.73%) ETL
7 5 (22.73%) Migration
7 5 (22.73%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (18.18%) Data Architecture
8 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven
8 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (13.64%) AI
9 3 (13.64%) Data Integration
9 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Bicep
3 2 (9.09%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) Korn
3 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) Scala
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.09%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Databricks
2 11 (50.00%) Microsoft