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 13 July 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
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 73 89
Rank change year-on-year +22 +16 +19
Contract jobs citing Databricks 88 55 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.61% 2.93% 1.81%
As % of the Vendors category 8.72% 6.24% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 35 29
10th Percentile £414 £475 £423
25th Percentile £466 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +10.87% -8.00%
75th Percentile £669 £690 £738
90th Percentile £749 £726 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £638 £563
% change year-on-year -17.65% +13.33% -10.00%

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 1,009 882 961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.42% 47.07% 44.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 557 689
10th Percentile £362 £321 £336
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% -1.70%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £777
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 10
10th Percentile - £22.53 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £16.63
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +60.73% -33.79%
75th Percentile £25.77 £63.75 £52.69
90th Percentile £41.95 £89.67 £98.13
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £32.83 £27.00
% change year-on-year -31.45% +21.57% +8.00%

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 13 July 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 8 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.55%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (3.41%) Apache
4 2 (2.27%) Confluence
5 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 57 (64.77%) Azure
2 23 (26.14%) Power Platform
3 18 (20.45%) Snowflake
4 14 (15.91%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (14.77%) AWS
6 7 (7.95%) Serverless
7 6 (6.82%) dbt
7 6 (6.82%) GitHub
7 6 (6.82%) PaaS
8 5 (5.68%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (5.68%) Dagster
8 5 (5.68%) Prefect
8 5 (5.68%) SaaS
9 4 (4.55%) IaaS
10 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.41%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (3.41%) GCP
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 22 (25.00%) Power BI
2 12 (13.64%) Metadata
3 10 (11.36%) Data Lake
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%) Delta Lake
7 5 (5.68%) Looker
7 5 (5.68%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.55%) Big Data
8 4 (4.55%) Data Mart
8 4 (4.55%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.27%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (2.27%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (2.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (3.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.14%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.14%) ERwin
General
1 30 (34.09%) Finance
2 13 (14.77%) Banking
3 8 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.82%) Legal
5 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.27%) Law
6 2 (2.27%) Marketing
6 2 (2.27%) Military
7 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (29.55%) Architect
2 18 (20.45%) Data Engineer
3 15 (17.05%) Data Architect
4 11 (12.50%) Analyst
4 11 (12.50%) Senior
5 10 (11.36%) Data Analyst
5 10 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (9.09%) Consultant
7 7 (7.95%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) Data Consultant
8 6 (6.82%) Lead
9 5 (5.68%) Technical Architect
10 4 (4.55%) Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Python Developer
11 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.50%) PySpark
2 6 (6.82%) .NET
2 6 (6.82%) Middleware
3 4 (4.55%) React
4 3 (3.41%) Kafka
4 3 (3.41%) YAML
5 2 (2.27%) ADO
5 2 (2.27%) AngularJS
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%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.14%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.14%) Flask
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.14%) Pandas
6 1 (1.14%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.14%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.68%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.41%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.27%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Life Science
6 1 (1.14%) NHS
6 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.14%) PMI
6 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.14%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Linux
1 1 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (48.86%) Analytics
2 33 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 32 (36.36%) Data Modelling
4 26 (29.55%) Business Intelligence
4 26 (29.55%) DevOps
5 25 (28.41%) Data Pipeline
6 23 (26.14%) CI/CD
7 20 (22.73%) AI
8 18 (20.45%) Data Architecture
8 18 (20.45%) ETL
9 17 (19.32%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (17.05%) Data Governance
11 14 (15.91%) Decision-Making
11 14 (15.91%) Roadmaps
12 13 (14.77%) Migration
13 12 (13.64%) TOGAF
14 11 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
15 10 (11.36%) Performance Optimisation
15 10 (11.36%) Thought Leadership
16 9 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 40 (45.45%) Python
2 35 (39.77%) SQL
3 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.55%) Scala
4 3 (3.41%) Bash
4 3 (3.41%) Bicep
4 3 (3.41%) Korn
5 2 (2.27%) C#
5 2 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.27%) Java
5 2 (2.27%) R
6 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.68%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.41%) Degree
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.14%) CBAP
5 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 13 (14.77%) GDPR
3 5 (5.68%) QA
4 1 (1.14%) PMO
4 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 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 11 (12.50%) Terraform
2 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.09%) Oracle
2 8 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.68%) Palantir
3 5 (5.68%) Workday
4 4 (4.55%) Foundry
5 3 (3.41%) SAP
6 2 (2.27%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.14%) Aderant
7 1 (1.14%) Adobe
7 1 (1.14%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.14%) Denodo
7 1 (1.14%) Informatica
7 1 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud