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 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 81 91
Rank change year-on-year +24 +10 +17
Contract jobs citing Databricks 85 38 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.69% 2.18% 1.60%
As % of the Vendors category 8.83% 4.87% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 20 25
10th Percentile £400 £510 £445
25th Percentile £450 £551 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £639 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% +6.46% +6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £676 £738
90th Percentile £736 £775 £763
Central London median daily rate £521 £639 £600
% change year-on-year -18.43% +6.46% +9.09%

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 963 781 950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.82% 44.76% 43.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 487 700
10th Percentile £364 £313 £313
25th Percentile £431 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £683
90th Percentile £775 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 6
10th Percentile - £25.77 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £30.10 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +95.32% -5.95%
75th Percentile £25.77 £72.81 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.65 £126.25 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £31.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year -28.18% +63.76% -11.95%

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 May 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 6 (7.06%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.53%) Apache
3 3 (3.53%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (2.35%) Confluence
5 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.88%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (67.06%) Azure
2 19 (22.35%) Power Platform
3 17 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (18.82%) AWS
5 14 (16.47%) Snowflake
6 10 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (9.41%) dbt
7 8 (9.41%) Serverless
8 7 (8.24%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.88%) Dagster
9 5 (5.88%) GitHub
9 5 (5.88%) Prefect
10 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.71%) GCP
10 4 (4.71%) PaaS
10 4 (4.71%) SaaS
11 3 (3.53%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (3.53%) IaaS
11 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) DNS
1 1 (1.18%) Firewall
1 1 (1.18%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.18%) Network Security
1 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.18%) Power BI
2 13 (15.29%) Metadata
3 10 (11.76%) Data Lake
4 9 (10.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (9.41%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (8.24%) Delta Lake
6 7 (8.24%) Tableau
7 5 (5.88%) BigQuery
7 5 (5.88%) Looker
8 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.35%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.35%) Big Data
9 2 (2.35%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.35%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (2.35%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Git
2 3 (3.53%) JIRA
3 1 (1.18%) ERwin
General
1 21 (24.71%) Finance
2 10 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.24%) Legal
4 7 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.06%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.71%) Banking
6 4 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.35%) Law
7 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Front Office
8 1 (1.18%) Marketing
8 1 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (27.06%) Data Engineer
2 22 (25.88%) Architect
3 11 (12.94%) Senior
4 9 (10.59%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.24%) Analyst
5 7 (8.24%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.06%) Consultant
6 6 (7.06%) Data Architect
6 6 (7.06%) Data Consultant
6 6 (7.06%) Technical Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Senior Python Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.53%) Governance Consultant
9 3 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.00%) PySpark
2 6 (7.06%) Middleware
3 4 (4.71%) .NET
4 3 (3.53%) JSON
4 3 (3.53%) React
5 2 (2.35%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.35%) Node.js
5 2 (2.35%) pytest
6 1 (1.18%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.18%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.18%) Django
6 1 (1.18%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.18%) Flask
6 1 (1.18%) Kafka
6 1 (1.18%) NumPy
6 1 (1.18%) Pandas
6 1 (1.18%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.18%) Vue
6 1 (1.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.53%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.18%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.18%) FMCG
5 1 (1.18%) Life Science
5 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.18%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.18%) PMI
5 1 (1.18%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.18%) Linux
1 1 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.00%) Analytics
2 33 (38.82%) Data Pipeline
3 31 (36.47%) Data Engineering
4 25 (29.41%) Data Modelling
5 21 (24.71%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (21.18%) Data Governance
6 18 (21.18%) DevOps
6 18 (21.18%) ETL
7 15 (17.65%) AI
7 15 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 12 (14.12%) TOGAF
9 11 (12.94%) Decision-Making
10 10 (11.76%) Agile
10 10 (11.76%) Data Architecture
11 9 (10.59%) Machine Learning
11 9 (10.59%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (10.59%) Roadmaps
12 8 (9.41%) Metadata Management
12 8 (9.41%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (44.71%) Python
2 31 (36.47%) SQL
3 7 (8.24%) Scala
4 3 (3.53%) Java
5 2 (2.35%) Bash
5 2 (2.35%) Bicep
5 2 (2.35%) Korn
6 1 (1.18%) C#
6 1 (1.18%) C++
6 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.18%) R
6 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.88%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.53%) Degree
4 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.18%) CBAP
5 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (28.24%) Data Quality
2 14 (16.47%) GDPR
3 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.35%) QA
4 1 (1.18%) PMO
4 1 (1.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (10.59%) Terraform
2 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (28.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.88%) OpenAI
3 5 (5.88%) Workday
4 4 (4.71%) Oracle
5 3 (3.53%) Foundry
5 3 (3.53%) Palantir
6 2 (2.35%) Guidewire
6 2 (2.35%) Informatica
7 1 (1.18%) Aderant
7 1 (1.18%) Denodo
7 1 (1.18%) Google
7 1 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) SAP