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 20 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
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 71 88
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 +16
Contract jobs citing Databricks 83 54 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.43% 2.87% 1.83%
As % of the Vendors category 8.33% 6.09% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 36 28
10th Percentile £425 £475 £421
25th Percentile £481 £509 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £631 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +12.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £738
90th Percentile £754 £724 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £631 £550
% change year-on-year -16.83% +14.77% -12.00%

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 996 887 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.17% 47.21% 44.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 664 563 679
10th Percentile £357 £325 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -2.77% +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 11
10th Percentile - £22.53 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £17.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +42.87% -25.52%
75th Percentile £25.12 £63.75 £76.88
90th Percentile £42.13 £89.67 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £21.75 £32.83 £27.00
% change year-on-year -33.74% +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 20 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 (9.64%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.61%) Apache
4 2 (2.41%) Confluence
4 2 (2.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.20%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (63.86%) Azure
2 22 (26.51%) Power Platform
3 18 (21.69%) Snowflake
4 14 (16.87%) AWS
5 13 (15.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.23%) dbt
7 6 (7.23%) PaaS
8 5 (6.02%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.02%) Dagster
8 5 (6.02%) Prefect
8 5 (6.02%) SaaS
8 5 (6.02%) Serverless
9 4 (4.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (4.82%) GitHub
9 4 (4.82%) IaaS
10 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.61%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) DNS
1 1 (1.20%) Firewall
1 1 (1.20%) Network Security
1 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.30%) Power BI
2 13 (15.66%) Metadata
3 10 (12.05%) Data Lake
4 8 (9.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (9.64%) Tableau
5 7 (8.43%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (7.23%) BigQuery
7 5 (6.02%) Delta Lake
7 5 (6.02%) Looker
8 4 (4.82%) Big Data
8 4 (4.82%) Data Mart
8 4 (4.82%) Oracle Database
8 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.41%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.41%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (2.41%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (2.41%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Git
2 2 (2.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.20%) ERwin
General
1 28 (33.73%) Finance
2 13 (15.66%) Banking
3 9 (10.84%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.23%) Legal
4 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.82%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.61%) Marketing
7 2 (2.41%) Law
8 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Military
8 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (31.33%) Architect
2 15 (18.07%) Data Architect
3 13 (15.66%) Analyst
3 13 (15.66%) Data Engineer
4 12 (14.46%) Data Analyst
5 10 (12.05%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (9.64%) Consultant
6 8 (9.64%) Senior
7 6 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Data Consultant
7 6 (7.23%) Lead
8 5 (6.02%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.82%) Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Senior Python Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) PySpark
2 6 (7.23%) .NET
2 6 (7.23%) Middleware
3 4 (4.82%) React
4 3 (3.61%) Kafka
4 3 (3.61%) YAML
5 2 (2.41%) ADO
5 2 (2.41%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.41%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.41%) JSON
5 2 (2.41%) Node.js
5 2 (2.41%) pytest
6 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.20%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.20%) Flask
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.20%) Pandas
6 1 (1.20%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.20%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.07%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.82%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.61%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.41%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.20%) FMCG
6 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Life Science
6 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.20%) NHS
6 1 (1.20%) PMI
6 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.20%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.20%) Linux
1 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.99%) Analytics
2 32 (38.55%) Data Modelling
3 31 (37.35%) Data Engineering
4 27 (32.53%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (27.71%) CI/CD
5 23 (27.71%) DevOps
6 22 (26.51%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (24.10%) AI
8 18 (21.69%) Data Architecture
8 18 (21.69%) ETL
9 17 (20.48%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (19.28%) Data Governance
11 14 (16.87%) Roadmaps
12 13 (15.66%) Decision-Making
12 13 (15.66%) Migration
13 12 (14.46%) TOGAF
14 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 10 (12.05%) Performance Optimisation
15 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 10 (12.05%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (42.17%) Python
2 31 (37.35%) SQL
3 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.82%) Scala
4 3 (3.61%) Bash
4 3 (3.61%) Bicep
4 3 (3.61%) Korn
5 2 (2.41%) C#
5 2 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.41%) Java
5 2 (2.41%) R
6 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.61%) Degree
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.20%) CBAP
5 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.28%) Data Quality
2 13 (15.66%) GDPR
3 5 (6.02%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) PMO
4 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (10.84%) Terraform
2 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.64%) Salesforce
3 7 (8.43%) Oracle
4 5 (6.02%) Workday
5 4 (4.82%) SAP
6 3 (3.61%) Palantir
7 2 (2.41%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.41%) Foundry
7 2 (2.41%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.20%) Aderant
8 1 (1.20%) Adobe
8 1 (1.20%) Denodo
8 1 (1.20%) Informatica
8 1 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud