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 7 September 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
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 69 85
Rank change year-on-year +17 +16 +6
Contract jobs citing Databricks 94 51 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.12% 2.85% 1.78%
As % of the Vendors category 9.49% 5.80% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 39 23
10th Percentile £420 £406 £415
25th Percentile £488 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £501
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +19.88% -18.88%
75th Percentile £652 £684 £650
90th Percentile £738 £714 £748
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +14.94% -19.96%

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 991 880 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.46% 49.16% 44.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 579 607
10th Percentile £338 £319 £350
25th Percentile £446 £413 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% +0.09%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £673
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
Central London median daily rate £538 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -25.52%

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 7 September 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 11 (11.70%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (10.64%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.32%) Apache
4 2 (2.13%) SAS
4 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.06%) Confluence
5 1 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) BambooHR
1 2 (2.13%) SAP MDG
1 2 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.06%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 68 (72.34%) Azure
2 25 (26.60%) AWS
3 24 (25.53%) Azure Data Factory
3 24 (25.53%) Power Platform
4 21 (22.34%) Azure Databricks
5 18 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (18.09%) Snowflake
7 13 (13.83%) dbt
8 11 (11.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (7.45%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.45%) GCP
10 6 (6.38%) Serverless
11 5 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.32%) Azure AKS
11 5 (5.32%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (5.32%) PaaS
12 3 (3.19%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (3.19%) IaaS
12 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (3.19%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.47%) Power BI
2 19 (20.21%) Metadata
3 16 (17.02%) Data Lake
4 13 (13.83%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (11.70%) Delta Lake
6 7 (7.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.32%) Big Data
7 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
7 5 (5.32%) Tableau
8 4 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (4.26%) Data Mart
8 4 (4.26%) Oracle Database
9 3 (3.19%) BigQuery
9 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.19%) Spark SQL
10 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.13%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.13%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.13%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Git
2 1 (1.06%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.06%) GitLab
2 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) MLflow
2 1 (1.06%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (39.36%) Finance
2 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.15%) Banking
4 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.32%) Marketing
6 5 (5.32%) Retail
7 3 (3.19%) Legal
8 2 (2.13%) Billing
8 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.06%) Law
9 1 (1.06%) Military
9 1 (1.06%) Publishing
9 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (27.66%) Architect
2 22 (23.40%) Data Engineer
3 21 (22.34%) Data Architect
4 15 (15.96%) Senior
5 12 (12.77%) Analyst
6 11 (11.70%) Data Analyst
6 11 (11.70%) Lead
7 9 (9.57%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Consultant
8 8 (8.51%) Databricks Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.32%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Azure Consultant
11 4 (4.26%) DevOps Consultant
11 4 (4.26%) Python Developer
11 4 (4.26%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.02%) PySpark
2 15 (15.96%) Terraform
3 7 (7.45%) Kafka
4 5 (5.32%) .NET
4 5 (5.32%) YAML
5 4 (4.26%) React
6 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.13%) Great Expectations
6 2 (2.13%) JSON
6 2 (2.13%) Node.js
6 2 (2.13%) pytest
7 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.06%) ADO
7 1 (1.06%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.06%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.06%) Django
7 1 (1.06%) Middleware
7 1 (1.06%) REST
7 1 (1.06%) Snowpark
7 1 (1.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.26%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.26%) Reference Data
5 3 (3.19%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (3.19%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.13%) FMCG
6 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.06%) NHS
7 1 (1.06%) PMI
7 1 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.81%) Analytics
2 39 (41.49%) Data Engineering
3 38 (40.43%) CI/CD
4 35 (37.23%) Data Modelling
4 35 (37.23%) DevOps
5 28 (29.79%) Data Pipeline
6 27 (28.72%) Data Governance
6 27 (28.72%) ETL
7 25 (26.60%) Data Architecture
8 24 (25.53%) Migration
9 23 (24.47%) AI
10 22 (23.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 21 (22.34%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (21.28%) Decision-Making
13 19 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (19.15%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (18.09%) Agile
16 16 (17.02%) Data Transformation
16 16 (17.02%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.49%) SQL
2 33 (35.11%) Python
3 8 (8.51%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.32%) Bicep
4 5 (5.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (5.32%) Java
4 5 (5.32%) Korn
5 4 (4.26%) C#
5 4 (4.26%) Scala
6 2 (2.13%) Bash
6 2 (2.13%) R
7 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 18 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.06%) CBAP
5 1 (1.06%) Degree
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.06%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.06%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.53%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.32%) GDPR
3 4 (4.26%) QA
4 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.06%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.51%) Oracle
3 5 (5.32%) SAP
4 3 (3.19%) Informatica
4 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.13%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.13%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.13%) Palantir
5 2 (2.13%) Teradata
5 2 (2.13%) Workday
6 1 (1.06%) Adobe
6 1 (1.06%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.06%) Foundry
6 1 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Talend