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 30 March 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
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 85 98
Rank change year-on-year +37 +13 +9
Contract jobs citing Databricks 87 36 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.06% 2.07% 1.30%
As % of the Vendors category 9.28% 4.60% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 19 20
10th Percentile £392 £509 £520
25th Percentile £416 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.24% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £750
90th Percentile £765 £775 £764
Central London median daily rate £525 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -16.00% - +8.70%

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 937 783 984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.68% 44.97% 42.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 510 719
10th Percentile £360 £313 £312
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -2.31%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 6
10th Percentile - £32.09 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.72 £13.81
Median hourly rate £20.36 £48.58 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -58.10% +134.10% -1.19%
75th Percentile £33.76 £94.69 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.94 £150.38 £36.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £18.97
% change year-on-year -17.84% +63.46% -11.79%

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 30 March 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 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 7 (8.05%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.60%) Apache
4 3 (3.45%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.15%) Confluence
5 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (63.22%) Azure
2 18 (20.69%) Power Platform
3 17 (19.54%) AWS
3 17 (19.54%) Snowflake
4 16 (18.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (10.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (9.20%) dbt
7 7 (8.05%) GitHub
8 6 (6.90%) GCP
8 6 (6.90%) Serverless
9 4 (4.60%) Azure Functions
9 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.45%) Dagster
10 3 (3.45%) PaaS
10 3 (3.45%) Prefect
10 3 (3.45%) SaaS
11 2 (2.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) DNS
1 1 (1.15%) Firewall
1 1 (1.15%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.15%) Network Security
1 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.69%) Power BI
2 9 (10.34%) Data Lake
2 9 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (9.20%) Metadata
4 7 (8.05%) Tableau
5 6 (6.90%) Delta Lake
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.60%) BigQuery
6 4 (4.60%) Looker
7 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.30%) Big Data
8 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.15%) MySQL
9 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (13.79%) Git
2 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.15%) ERwin
3 1 (1.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 21 (24.14%) Finance
2 10 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.20%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.75%) Legal
4 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.75%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.60%) Banking
6 3 (3.45%) Law
6 3 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Front Office
7 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing
7 1 (1.15%) Military
7 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (31.03%) Data Engineer
2 18 (20.69%) Architect
3 9 (10.34%) Senior
4 8 (9.20%) Consultant
5 7 (8.05%) Data Consultant
5 7 (8.05%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.90%) Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Technical Architect
7 5 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Data Governance Consultant
8 3 (3.45%) Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Governance Consultant
8 3 (3.45%) Principal Consultant
8 3 (3.45%) Security Consultant
9 2 (2.30%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.54%) PySpark
2 6 (6.90%) Middleware
3 4 (4.60%) .NET
4 3 (3.45%) JSON
4 3 (3.45%) Kafka
4 3 (3.45%) OAuth
4 3 (3.45%) React
5 2 (2.30%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.30%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.30%) Node.js
5 2 (2.30%) pytest
6 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.15%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.15%) Flask
6 1 (1.15%) LangChain
6 1 (1.15%) NumPy
6 1 (1.15%) Pandas
6 1 (1.15%) Playwright
6 1 (1.15%) RxJS
6 1 (1.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.30%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.15%) FMCG
4 1 (1.15%) Life Science
4 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.15%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (41.38%) Data Pipeline
2 31 (35.63%) Data Engineering
3 30 (34.48%) Analytics
4 25 (28.74%) Data Modelling
5 22 (25.29%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (22.99%) CI/CD
6 20 (22.99%) Data Governance
7 19 (21.84%) AI
7 19 (21.84%) ETL
8 17 (19.54%) DevOps
9 12 (13.79%) Agile
9 12 (13.79%) Machine Learning
10 11 (12.64%) TOGAF
11 10 (11.49%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (10.34%) Decision-Making
12 9 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (10.34%) Roadmaps
13 8 (9.20%) Data Architecture
13 8 (9.20%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (9.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 39 (44.83%) Python
2 36 (41.38%) SQL
3 9 (10.34%) Scala
4 4 (4.60%) C#
5 3 (3.45%) Java
6 2 (2.30%) Korn
7 1 (1.15%) Bash
7 1 (1.15%) C++
7 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.15%) R
7 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.45%) Degree
4 2 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.59%) Data Quality
2 11 (12.64%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) QA
4 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.15%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Docker
1 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (13.79%) Terraform
2 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (25.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.20%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.60%) Oracle
4 3 (3.45%) Foundry
4 3 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.45%) Palantir
4 3 (3.45%) Workday
5 2 (2.30%) Google
5 2 (2.30%) Guidewire
5 2 (2.30%) Informatica
5 2 (2.30%) SAP
6 1 (1.15%) Aderant
6 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.15%) Denodo
6 1 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud