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 17 May 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
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 72 92
Rank change year-on-year +20 +20 +10
Contract jobs citing Databricks 88 44 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.81% 2.52% 1.48%
As % of the Vendors category 9.25% 5.63% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 26 22
10th Percentile £400 £475 £433
25th Percentile £450 £486 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.17% +2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £620 £672 £738
90th Percentile £688 £744 £761
Central London median daily rate £521 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -13.17% +2.13% +6.82%

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 951 781 937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.17% 44.71% 43.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 480 690
10th Percentile £366 £313 £313
25th Percentile £438 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -2.22% -0.88%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 6
10th Percentile - £23.40 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.39 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% +75.44% -5.95%
75th Percentile £25.77 £63.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.65 £117.50 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £30.04 £19.75
% change year-on-year -25.87% +52.08% -5.95%

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 17 May 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 6 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.41%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.27%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) Apache
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 56 (63.64%) Azure
2 19 (21.59%) Power Platform
3 17 (19.32%) Snowflake
4 16 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (15.91%) AWS
6 8 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (9.09%) Serverless
7 7 (7.95%) dbt
8 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.68%) Dagster
9 5 (5.68%) GitHub
9 5 (5.68%) PaaS
9 5 (5.68%) Prefect
10 4 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (4.55%) SaaS
11 3 (3.41%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (3.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) DNS
1 1 (1.14%) Firewall
1 1 (1.14%) Network Security
1 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.45%) Power BI
2 11 (12.50%) Metadata
3 10 (11.36%) Tableau
4 8 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.82%) BigQuery
6 6 (6.82%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.68%) Delta Lake
7 5 (5.68%) Looker
8 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.27%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (2.27%) Big Data
9 2 (2.27%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (2.27%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.14%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Git
2 3 (3.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.14%) ERwin
General
1 21 (23.86%) Finance
2 10 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.95%) Banking
5 6 (6.82%) Legal
5 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.68%) Social Skills
7 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.27%) Marketing
8 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.14%) Law
9 1 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (28.41%) Architect
2 21 (23.86%) Data Engineer
3 11 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 10 (11.36%) Senior
4 10 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (10.23%) Analyst
5 9 (10.23%) Data Analyst
6 8 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Consultant
7 6 (6.82%) Data Consultant
7 6 (6.82%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Python Developer
9 3 (3.41%) Data Governance Consultant
9 3 (3.41%) Governance Consultant
9 3 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.18%) PySpark
2 6 (6.82%) Middleware
3 4 (4.55%) .NET
4 3 (3.41%) React
5 2 (2.27%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.27%) JSON
5 2 (2.27%) Node.js
5 2 (2.27%) pytest
6 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.14%) ADO
6 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.14%) Django
6 1 (1.14%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.14%) Flask
6 1 (1.14%) Kafka
6 1 (1.14%) NumPy
6 1 (1.14%) Pandas
6 1 (1.14%) REST
6 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.41%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (3.41%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.14%) Life Science
5 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.14%) PMI
5 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.14%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.14%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Linux
1 1 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (38.64%) Analytics
2 31 (35.23%) Data Engineering
2 31 (35.23%) Data Pipeline
3 22 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 21 (23.86%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (22.73%) DevOps
6 17 (19.32%) AI
7 16 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 16 (18.18%) Data Governance
8 15 (17.05%) ETL
9 13 (14.77%) Roadmaps
10 12 (13.64%) TOGAF
11 11 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (11.36%) Decision-Making
12 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 9 (10.23%) Agile
13 9 (10.23%) Data Architecture
13 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (9.09%) Data Analysis
14 8 (9.09%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (39.77%) Python
2 29 (32.95%) SQL
3 7 (7.95%) Scala
4 3 (3.41%) Korn
5 2 (2.27%) Bash
5 2 (2.27%) Bicep
5 2 (2.27%) Java
5 2 (2.27%) R
6 1 (1.14%) C#
6 1 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 28 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.41%) Degree
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) CBAP
6 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (23.86%) Data Quality
2 13 (14.77%) GDPR
3 3 (3.41%) QA
4 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.14%) PMO
5 1 (1.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (10.23%) Terraform
2 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (30.68%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.68%) OpenAI
3 5 (5.68%) Workday
4 3 (3.41%) Foundry
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle
4 3 (3.41%) Palantir
5 2 (2.27%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.14%) Aderant
6 1 (1.14%) Denodo
6 1 (1.14%) Google
6 1 (1.14%) Informatica
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) SAP