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 6 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
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 68 87
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 +13
Contract jobs citing Databricks 90 54 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.69% 2.97% 1.83%
As % of the Vendors category 8.94% 6.41% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 34 29
10th Percentile £404 £475 £423
25th Percentile £465 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +10.87% -8.00%
75th Percentile £658 £695 £738
90th Percentile £746 £728 £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 1,007 843 953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.30% 46.37% 44.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 523 692
10th Percentile £366 £313 £339
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £552
Median % change year-on-year - -0.32% -1.91%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £787
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 8
10th Percentile - £22.53 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £15.19
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +92.88% -44.83%
75th Percentile £27.08 £63.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £42.13 £89.67 £63.53
Central London median hourly rate £22.08 £32.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.73% +64.13% -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 6 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 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.44%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (3.33%) Apache
4 2 (2.22%) Confluence
5 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.56%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 59 (65.56%) Azure
2 23 (25.56%) Power Platform
3 18 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 14 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (14.44%) AWS
5 13 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (7.78%) Serverless
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (6.67%) dbt
7 6 (6.67%) GitHub
7 6 (6.67%) PaaS
8 5 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.56%) Dagster
8 5 (5.56%) Prefect
8 5 (5.56%) SaaS
9 4 (4.44%) GCP
9 4 (4.44%) IaaS
10 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) DNS
1 1 (1.11%) Firewall
1 1 (1.11%) Network Security
1 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (24.44%) Power BI
2 12 (13.33%) Metadata
3 10 (11.11%) Tableau
4 9 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 8 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (6.67%) BigQuery
7 6 (6.67%) Delta Lake
8 5 (5.56%) Looker
8 5 (5.56%) SQL Server
9 4 (4.44%) Big Data
9 4 (4.44%) Data Mart
9 4 (4.44%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.22%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.22%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (2.22%) Metadata Repository
10 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (2.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Git
2 3 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.11%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.11%) ERwin
General
1 30 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (14.44%) Banking
3 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.89%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.67%) Legal
5 6 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.22%) Law
6 2 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (30.00%) Architect
2 18 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 15 (16.67%) Data Architect
4 11 (12.22%) Analyst
4 11 (12.22%) Senior
5 10 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 10 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (10.00%) Consultant
7 8 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Data Consultant
9 6 (6.67%) Lead
9 6 (6.67%) Technical Architect
10 4 (4.44%) Developer
10 4 (4.44%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Python Developer
11 3 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.33%) PySpark
2 6 (6.67%) .NET
2 6 (6.67%) Middleware
3 4 (4.44%) React
4 3 (3.33%) Kafka
4 3 (3.33%) YAML
5 2 (2.22%) ADO
5 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.22%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.22%) JSON
5 2 (2.22%) Node.js
5 2 (2.22%) pytest
6 1 (1.11%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.11%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.11%) Flask
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.11%) Pandas
6 1 (1.11%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.11%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.22%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Life Science
6 1 (1.11%) NHS
6 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.11%) PMI
6 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Linux
1 1 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (48.89%) Analytics
2 35 (38.89%) Data Engineering
3 31 (34.44%) Data Modelling
4 27 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 26 (28.89%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (27.78%) DevOps
7 22 (24.44%) AI
7 22 (24.44%) CI/CD
8 18 (20.00%) Data Architecture
8 18 (20.00%) ETL
9 16 (17.78%) Data Governance
9 16 (17.78%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (16.67%) Decision-Making
11 14 (15.56%) Roadmaps
12 13 (14.44%) Migration
13 12 (13.33%) TOGAF
14 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
15 10 (11.11%) Agile
15 10 (11.11%) Generative AI
15 10 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.56%) Python
2 35 (38.89%) SQL
3 4 (4.44%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.44%) Scala
4 3 (3.33%) Bash
4 3 (3.33%) Bicep
4 3 (3.33%) Korn
5 2 (2.22%) C#
5 2 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.22%) Java
5 2 (2.22%) R
6 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.11%) CBAP
5 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.89%) Data Quality
2 14 (15.56%) GDPR
3 5 (5.56%) QA
4 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.11%) PMO
4 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (12.22%) Terraform
2 3 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 8 (8.89%) Oracle
4 5 (5.56%) Palantir
4 5 (5.56%) Workday
5 4 (4.44%) Foundry
6 3 (3.33%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.33%) SAP
7 1 (1.11%) Aderant
7 1 (1.11%) Adobe
7 1 (1.11%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.11%) Denodo
7 1 (1.11%) Google
7 1 (1.11%) Informatica
7 1 (1.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud