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 21 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
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 72 92
Rank change year-on-year +24 +20 0
Contract jobs citing Databricks 102 49 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.58% 2.83% 1.76%
As % of the Vendors category 10.24% 5.74% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 37 23
10th Percentile £418 £405 £415
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £501
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +19.88% -19.92%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £650
90th Percentile £738 £716 £748
Central London median daily rate £545 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -9.17% +19.94% -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 996 853 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.74% 49.28% 44.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 569 606
10th Percentile £336 £320 £345
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -0.05% +0.05%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £740 £755
Central London median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 13
10th Percentile £17.41 £20.01 £16.50
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £35.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.69% -38.26% +177.11%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £112.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £28.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -15.79% -31.33% +100.00%

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 21 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 (10.78%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (9.80%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.90%) Apache
4 2 (1.96%) SAS
4 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.98%) Confluence
5 1 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) BambooHR
1 2 (1.96%) SAP MDG
1 2 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.98%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.98%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 73 (71.57%) Azure
2 28 (27.45%) AWS
3 26 (25.49%) Power Platform
4 24 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (21.57%) Azure Databricks
6 20 (19.61%) Snowflake
7 18 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (14.71%) dbt
9 11 (10.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (10.78%) GCP
10 8 (7.84%) Serverless
11 7 (6.86%) Amazon S3
12 5 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.90%) Azure AKS
12 5 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (4.90%) PaaS
13 4 (3.92%) GitHub
13 4 (3.92%) IaaS
14 3 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (2.94%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.53%) Power BI
2 19 (18.63%) Metadata
3 15 (14.71%) Data Lake
4 13 (12.75%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (12.75%) Delta Lake
5 7 (6.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (5.88%) Tableau
7 5 (4.90%) Big Data
7 5 (4.90%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.92%) Data Mart
8 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.94%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.94%) Spark SQL
9 3 (2.94%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.96%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.96%) SAP BW
10 2 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (8.82%) Git
2 2 (1.96%) GitLab
2 2 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.96%) JIRA
3 1 (0.98%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.98%) Gatling
3 1 (0.98%) JMeter
3 1 (0.98%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.98%) MLflow
3 1 (0.98%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (41.18%) Finance
2 28 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.63%) Banking
4 10 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.90%) Retail
6 4 (3.92%) Marketing
7 3 (2.94%) Legal
8 2 (1.96%) Billing
8 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.98%) Law
9 1 (0.98%) Military
9 1 (0.98%) Publishing
9 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (27.45%) Architect
2 26 (25.49%) Data Engineer
3 22 (21.57%) Data Architect
4 16 (15.69%) Senior
5 12 (11.76%) Analyst
5 12 (11.76%) Lead
6 11 (10.78%) Data Analyst
7 10 (9.80%) Databricks Engineer
8 9 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (7.84%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 7 (6.86%) Consultant
10 7 (6.86%) Developer
10 7 (6.86%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.92%) Azure Consultant
12 4 (3.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.92%) DevOps Consultant
12 4 (3.92%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.69%) Terraform
2 15 (14.71%) PySpark
3 8 (7.84%) Kafka
4 5 (4.90%) YAML
5 4 (3.92%) .NET
6 2 (1.96%) Middleware
6 2 (1.96%) pytest
6 2 (1.96%) React
7 1 (0.98%) ADO
7 1 (0.98%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.98%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.98%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.98%) JSON
7 1 (0.98%) Node.js
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.98%) REST
7 1 (0.98%) RESTful
7 1 (0.98%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.98%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.51%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.90%) AI Agents
3 5 (4.90%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.92%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.94%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.94%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.96%) FMCG
6 2 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.98%) NHS
7 1 (0.98%) PMI
7 1 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (45.10%) CI/CD
2 45 (44.12%) Analytics
3 42 (41.18%) Data Engineering
4 38 (37.25%) DevOps
5 35 (34.31%) Data Modelling
6 33 (32.35%) Data Pipeline
7 30 (29.41%) Data Governance
8 29 (28.43%) ETL
9 26 (25.49%) AI
9 26 (25.49%) Data Architecture
9 26 (25.49%) Migration
10 25 (24.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (22.55%) Decision-Making
12 22 (21.57%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (20.59%) Agile
14 20 (19.61%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (18.63%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (18.63%) Lakehouse
16 18 (17.65%) Data Transformation
16 18 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (42.16%) SQL
2 38 (37.25%) Python
3 8 (7.84%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.86%) Korn
5 6 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (4.90%) Bicep
6 5 (4.90%) Java
6 5 (4.90%) Scala
7 3 (2.94%) C#
8 2 (1.96%) Bash
8 2 (1.96%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.96%) R
9 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.90%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.98%) CBAP
6 1 (0.98%) CISA
6 1 (0.98%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.98%) Degree
6 1 (0.98%) GSEC
6 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.98%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.98%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.98%) SSCP
6 1 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (26.47%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.90%) GDPR
2 5 (4.90%) QA
3 1 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.98%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.98%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (21.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.86%) Oracle
3 5 (4.90%) SAP
4 4 (3.92%) Informatica
5 2 (1.96%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.96%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.96%) Palantir
5 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.96%) Teradata
5 2 (1.96%) Workday
6 1 (0.98%) Adobe
6 1 (0.98%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.98%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.98%) Foundry
6 1 (0.98%) IBM
6 1 (0.98%) New Relic
6 1 (0.98%) Splunk
6 1 (0.98%) Talend