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 12 October 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
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 67 90
Rank change year-on-year +14 +23 +8
Contract jobs citing Databricks 98 54 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.59% 3.16% 1.78%
As % of the Vendors category 9.84% 6.29% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 42 23
10th Percentile £400 £407 £415
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £501
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +17.38% -18.88%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £644
90th Percentile £738 £718 £735
Central London median daily rate £550 £571 £500
% change year-on-year -3.68% +14.14% -19.96%

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 996 859 935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.65% 50.23% 43.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 597 589
10th Percentile £329 £325 £348
25th Percentile £448 £418 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% +0.09%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £545 £550
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.11 £16.75
25th Percentile £19.31 £20.63 £22.13
Median hourly rate £23.58 £26.33 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% -47.35% +42.86%
75th Percentile £38.69 £50.13 £112.00
90th Percentile £55.95 £63.93 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.13 £26.33 £42.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% -37.32% +20.00%

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 12 October 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 10 (10.20%) Apache Spark
2 9 (9.18%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.08%) Apache
4 2 (2.04%) SAS
4 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.02%) Confluence
5 1 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) SAP MDG
1 2 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.02%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.02%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 67 (68.37%) Azure
2 27 (27.55%) AWS
3 25 (25.51%) Power Platform
4 23 (23.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (18.37%) Snowflake
6 16 (16.33%) Azure Databricks
7 13 (13.27%) dbt
8 12 (12.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (12.24%) GCP
9 8 (8.16%) Serverless
10 7 (7.14%) Azure AKS
11 6 (6.12%) Amazon S3
12 5 (5.10%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (5.10%) PaaS
13 4 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (4.08%) GitHub
13 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (3.06%) Azure Machine Learning
14 3 (3.06%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.47%) Power BI
2 19 (19.39%) Metadata
3 14 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 11 (11.22%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (11.22%) Delta Lake
5 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.10%) Big Data
7 4 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (4.08%) Data Mart
7 4 (4.08%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.08%) Oracle Database
7 4 (4.08%) Star Schema
7 4 (4.08%) Tableau
8 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.06%) Spark SQL
9 2 (2.04%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.04%) SAP BW
9 2 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (11.22%) Git
2 3 (3.06%) GitLab
3 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.04%) JIRA
4 1 (1.02%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.02%) Gatling
4 1 (1.02%) JMeter
4 1 (1.02%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.02%) MLflow
4 1 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (41.84%) Finance
2 29 (29.59%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.39%) Banking
4 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.10%) Marketing
5 5 (5.10%) Retail
6 4 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.04%) Billing
7 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.04%) Legal
7 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.02%) Law
8 1 (1.02%) Military
8 1 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (27.55%) Architect
1 27 (27.55%) Data Engineer
2 22 (22.45%) Data Architect
3 15 (15.31%) Senior
4 13 (13.27%) Analyst
5 12 (12.24%) Lead
6 11 (11.22%) Data Analyst
7 9 (9.18%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Databricks Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (6.12%) Consultant
9 6 (6.12%) Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Azure Consultant
11 4 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (4.08%) DevOps Consultant
11 4 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Lead Data Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.31%) PySpark
1 15 (15.31%) Terraform
2 9 (9.18%) Kafka
3 6 (6.12%) YAML
4 3 (3.06%) .NET
5 2 (2.04%) JSON
5 2 (2.04%) Middleware
5 2 (2.04%) REST
6 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.02%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.02%) OAuth
6 1 (1.02%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.02%) pytest
6 1 (1.02%) React
6 1 (1.02%) RESTful
6 1 (1.02%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.51%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.12%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.10%) AI Agents
4 5 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.08%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.06%) Reinsurance
7 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.04%) FMCG
7 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.02%) NHS
8 1 (1.02%) PMI
8 1 (1.02%) Replication
8 1 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.92%) CI/CD
2 43 (43.88%) Analytics
3 39 (39.80%) Data Engineering
4 37 (37.76%) DevOps
5 34 (34.69%) Data Modelling
6 33 (33.67%) Data Governance
7 31 (31.63%) Data Pipeline
8 29 (29.59%) Migration
9 27 (27.55%) Data Architecture
9 27 (27.55%) ETL
10 26 (26.53%) AI
10 26 (26.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (22.45%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (22.45%) Decision-Making
11 22 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (21.43%) Agile
13 20 (20.41%) Data Transformation
14 18 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (18.37%) Lakehouse
14 18 (18.37%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 47 (47.96%) SQL
2 36 (36.73%) Python
3 9 (9.18%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.16%) Korn
5 7 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (5.10%) Bicep
6 5 (5.10%) Scala
7 4 (4.08%) Java
8 3 (3.06%) C#
9 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.04%) R
10 1 (1.02%) Bash
10 1 (1.02%) C
10 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.10%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.06%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.02%) CBAP
6 1 (1.02%) CISA
6 1 (1.02%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.02%) Degree
6 1 (1.02%) GSEC
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.02%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.02%) SSCP
6 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (26.53%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.10%) QA
3 3 (3.06%) GDPR
4 1 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.02%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (5.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.18%) Oracle
3 5 (5.10%) Informatica
3 5 (5.10%) SAP
4 2 (2.04%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.04%) Foundry
4 2 (2.04%) Palantir
4 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.04%) Teradata
5 1 (1.02%) Adobe
5 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.02%) IBM
5 1 (1.02%) New Relic
5 1 (1.02%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.02%) Splunk
5 1 (1.02%) Talend