Databricks Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Databricks
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 22 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
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 93 92
Rank change year-on-year +38 -1 +28
Contract jobs citing Databricks 77 28 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.94% 1.52% 1.51%
As % of the Vendors category 8.52% 3.53% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 13 24
10th Percentile £372 £512 £425
25th Percentile £413 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £681
90th Percentile £788 £775 £755
Central London median daily rate £525 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Vendors
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 904 793 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.31% 43.14% 42.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 487 723
10th Percentile £353 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £456 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 9
10th Percentile £18.75 £35.10 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.82 £41.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.02 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.56% +489.47% -8.88%
75th Percentile £41.80 - £23.75
90th Percentile £43.61 £157.30 £54.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -9.52%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in the City of London

Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in the City of London

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 9 (11.69%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.19%) Apache
2 4 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.90%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.30%) Confluence
4 1 (1.30%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (62.34%) Azure
2 19 (24.68%) AWS
3 14 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 13 (16.88%) Snowflake
5 10 (12.99%) GCP
6 9 (11.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (9.09%) GitHub
8 6 (7.79%) dbt
8 6 (7.79%) Serverless
9 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (5.19%) Azure Functions
10 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.60%) Google Analytics
13 1 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (1.30%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) DNS
1 1 (1.30%) Firewall
1 1 (1.30%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.30%) Network Security
1 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.18%) Power BI
2 10 (12.99%) Metadata
3 9 (11.69%) Data Lake
4 6 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.79%) Delta Lake
5 5 (6.49%) Tableau
6 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.60%) Big Data
7 2 (2.60%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.60%) Looker
7 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.60%) MySQL
7 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.60%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (16.88%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.90%) JIRA
3 2 (2.60%) ERwin
4 1 (1.30%) MLflow
4 1 (1.30%) SpecFlow
General
1 20 (25.97%) Finance
2 12 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.90%) Law
7 2 (2.60%) Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Front Office
7 2 (2.60%) Legal
7 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Military
8 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (32.47%) Data Engineer
2 18 (23.38%) Architect
3 10 (12.99%) Senior
4 6 (7.79%) Analyst
4 6 (7.79%) Consultant
4 6 (7.79%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (7.79%) Technical Architect
5 5 (6.49%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.19%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.19%) Data Consultant
7 3 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Principal Consultant
7 3 (3.90%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) Lead
8 2 (2.60%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (19.48%) PySpark
2 5 (6.49%) Middleware
3 3 (3.90%) Kafka
3 3 (3.90%) OAuth
4 1 (1.30%) .NET
4 1 (1.30%) ADO
4 1 (1.30%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.30%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.30%) JSON
4 1 (1.30%) LangChain
4 1 (1.30%) Playwright
4 1 (1.30%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.30%) RxJS
4 1 (1.30%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.30%) XML
4 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.90%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.30%) FMCG
4 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.30%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.30%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.66%) Data Pipeline
2 28 (36.36%) Analytics
3 23 (29.87%) Data Engineering
4 21 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 21 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 20 (25.97%) AI
5 20 (25.97%) Data Governance
6 19 (24.68%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (22.08%) ETL
8 15 (19.48%) DevOps
9 14 (18.18%) Machine Learning
10 13 (16.88%) Agile
11 9 (11.69%) Data Architecture
11 9 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (10.39%) Metadata Management
12 8 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (10.39%) Roadmaps
12 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (10.39%) TOGAF
13 7 (9.09%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 33 (42.86%) Python
2 32 (41.56%) SQL
3 8 (10.39%) Scala
4 3 (3.90%) C#
5 2 (2.60%) Java
5 2 (2.60%) Korn
5 2 (2.60%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.30%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) C++
6 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.30%) R
6 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (20.78%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Degree
4 2 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (24.68%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.09%) GDPR
3 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.60%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.90%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (15.58%) Terraform
2 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (24.68%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.19%) Google
3 4 (5.19%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.90%) Foundry
4 3 (3.90%) Oracle
4 3 (3.90%) Palantir
4 3 (3.90%) SAP
5 2 (2.60%) Guidewire
5 2 (2.60%) Informatica
6 1 (1.30%) Aderant
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian