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 16 April 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
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 76 104
Rank change year-on-year +22 +28 +2
Contract jobs citing Databricks 89 38 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.01% 2.17% 1.29%
As % of the Vendors category 9.42% 4.87% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 20 20
10th Percentile £392 £510 £520
25th Percentile £431 £551 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £639 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% +6.46% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £676 £750
90th Percentile £765 £775 £764
Central London median daily rate £521 £639 £600
% change year-on-year -18.43% +6.46% +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 945 781 966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.61% 44.65% 43.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 495 710
10th Percentile £362 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £657 £675 £680
90th Percentile £760 £751 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 7
10th Percentile - £32.81 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.28 £14.38
Median hourly rate £19.50 £52.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.86% +176.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £33.76 £90.94 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.94 £143.75 £25.05
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £34.65 £18.97
% change year-on-year -26.49% +82.70% -9.69%

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 16 April 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 7 (7.87%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (7.87%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.49%) Apache
3 3 (3.37%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.12%) Confluence
4 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.12%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (65.17%) Azure
2 19 (21.35%) Power Platform
3 17 (19.10%) Snowflake
4 16 (17.98%) AWS
4 16 (17.98%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (11.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.99%) dbt
7 7 (7.87%) GitHub
8 6 (6.74%) Serverless
9 5 (5.62%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.62%) Dagster
9 5 (5.62%) GCP
9 5 (5.62%) Prefect
10 4 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.37%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.37%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (3.37%) PaaS
11 3 (3.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) DNS
1 1 (1.12%) Firewall
1 1 (1.12%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.12%) Network Security
1 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.22%) Power BI
2 10 (11.24%) Data Lake
2 10 (11.24%) Metadata
3 9 (10.11%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (7.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (7.87%) Delta Lake
4 7 (7.87%) Tableau
5 5 (5.62%) BigQuery
5 5 (5.62%) Looker
6 3 (3.37%) Big Data
6 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.12%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.24%) Git
2 3 (3.37%) JIRA
3 1 (1.12%) ERwin
3 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (24.72%) Finance
2 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (10.11%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.87%) Legal
4 6 (6.74%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.74%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.49%) Banking
5 4 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.37%) Law
7 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Front Office
8 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Marketing
8 1 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Data Engineer
2 19 (21.35%) Architect
3 10 (11.24%) Senior
4 8 (8.99%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.87%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) Analyst
6 6 (6.74%) Consultant
6 6 (6.74%) Data Analyst
6 6 (6.74%) Data Consultant
6 6 (6.74%) Technical Architect
7 5 (5.62%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.49%) Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.37%) Governance Consultant
9 3 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Security Consultant
9 3 (3.37%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.10%) PySpark
2 6 (6.74%) Middleware
3 3 (3.37%) .NET
3 3 (3.37%) JSON
3 3 (3.37%) React
4 2 (2.25%) Great Expectations
4 2 (2.25%) Node.js
4 2 (2.25%) OAuth
4 2 (2.25%) pytest
5 1 (1.12%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.12%) ADO
5 1 (1.12%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.12%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.12%) Django
5 1 (1.12%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.12%) Flask
5 1 (1.12%) NumPy
5 1 (1.12%) Playwright
5 1 (1.12%) XML
5 1 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.37%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.25%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.12%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.12%) FMCG
4 1 (1.12%) Life Science
4 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.12%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Linux
1 1 (1.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.57%) Data Pipeline
2 33 (37.08%) Analytics
3 31 (34.83%) Data Engineering
4 26 (29.21%) Data Modelling
5 22 (24.72%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (23.60%) ETL
7 19 (21.35%) CI/CD
8 18 (20.22%) Data Governance
9 17 (19.10%) AI
9 17 (19.10%) DevOps
10 11 (12.36%) Agile
10 11 (12.36%) Decision-Making
10 11 (12.36%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (12.36%) TOGAF
11 10 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (10.11%) Machine Learning
13 8 (8.99%) Data Architecture
13 8 (8.99%) Roadmaps
13 8 (8.99%) Use Case
14 7 (7.87%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 41 (46.07%) Python
2 34 (38.20%) SQL
3 9 (10.11%) Scala
4 3 (3.37%) Java
5 2 (2.25%) Bash
5 2 (2.25%) C#
5 2 (2.25%) Korn
6 1 (1.12%) Bicep
6 1 (1.12%) C++
6 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.12%) R
6 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 22 (24.72%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.37%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (26.97%) Data Quality
2 14 (15.73%) GDPR
3 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.25%) QA
4 1 (1.12%) PMO
4 1 (1.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.37%) Docker
2 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (12.36%) Terraform
2 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (26.97%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.99%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.62%) Workday
4 4 (4.49%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.49%) Oracle
5 3 (3.37%) Foundry
5 3 (3.37%) Palantir
6 2 (2.25%) Guidewire
6 2 (2.25%) Informatica
7 1 (1.12%) Aderant
7 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.12%) Denodo
7 1 (1.12%) Google
7 1 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) SAP