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 9 March 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
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 83 94
Rank change year-on-year +31 +11 +18
Contract jobs citing Databricks 80 33 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.96% 1.83% 1.49%
As % of the Vendors category 8.71% 4.20% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 15 24
10th Percentile £383 £517 £436
25th Percentile £413 £525 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £738
90th Percentile £788 £775 £763
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

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 918 786 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 45.40% 43.52% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 500 726
10th Percentile £353 £313 £305
25th Percentile £425 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile - £35.10 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £41.25 £15.94
Median hourly rate £21.31 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.97% +489.47% -8.23%
75th Percentile £37.76 - £23.75
90th Percentile £42.50 £157.30 £31.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -9.52%

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 9 March 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 9 (11.25%) Apache Spark
2 7 (8.75%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (5.00%) Apache
4 3 (3.75%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.25%) Confluence
5 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.25%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (60.00%) Azure
2 17 (21.25%) AWS
2 17 (21.25%) Power Platform
2 17 (21.25%) Snowflake
3 13 (16.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (10.00%) dbt
4 8 (10.00%) GCP
5 7 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.75%) GitHub
6 6 (7.50%) Serverless
7 4 (5.00%) Azure Functions
7 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.75%) Dagster
8 3 (3.75%) Prefect
9 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.50%) PaaS
9 2 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) DNS
1 1 (1.25%) Firewall
1 1 (1.25%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.25%) Network Security
1 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.25%) Power BI
2 8 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 8 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (10.00%) Metadata
3 7 (8.75%) Tableau
4 6 (7.50%) Delta Lake
5 4 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.00%) BigQuery
5 4 (5.00%) Looker
6 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.50%) Big Data
7 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.50%) MySQL
7 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.75%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) ERwin
3 1 (1.25%) MLflow
3 1 (1.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (27.50%) Finance
2 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.25%) Legal
4 5 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Banking
6 3 (3.75%) Law
6 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Front Office
8 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Military
8 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (32.50%) Data Engineer
2 18 (22.50%) Architect
3 8 (10.00%) Senior
4 7 (8.75%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Consultant
5 6 (7.50%) Technical Architect
6 5 (6.25%) Analyst
6 5 (6.25%) Data Consultant
6 5 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Principal Consultant
9 2 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Lead
9 2 (2.50%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.75%) PySpark
2 6 (7.50%) Middleware
3 3 (3.75%) Kafka
3 3 (3.75%) OAuth
4 2 (2.50%) .NET
5 1 (1.25%) ADO
5 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.25%) JSON
5 1 (1.25%) LangChain
5 1 (1.25%) Playwright
5 1 (1.25%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.25%) RxJS
5 1 (1.25%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.25%) XML
5 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.25%) FMCG
4 1 (1.25%) Life Science
4 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.25%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (42.50%) Data Pipeline
2 30 (37.50%) Analytics
3 29 (36.25%) Data Engineering
4 22 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (27.50%) Data Modelling
5 21 (26.25%) CI/CD
6 19 (23.75%) AI
6 19 (23.75%) ETL
7 18 (22.50%) Data Governance
8 15 (18.75%) DevOps
9 13 (16.25%) Agile
9 13 (16.25%) Machine Learning
10 10 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 10 (12.50%) TOGAF
11 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (11.25%) Roadmaps
12 8 (10.00%) Data Architecture
12 8 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.00%) Python
2 35 (43.75%) SQL
3 9 (11.25%) Scala
4 3 (3.75%) C#
5 2 (2.50%) Java
5 2 (2.50%) Korn
5 2 (2.50%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) C++
6 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.25%) R
6 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) Degree
4 2 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (27.50%) Data Quality
2 11 (13.75%) GDPR
3 3 (3.75%) QA
4 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.25%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (15.00%) Terraform
2 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (23.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle
4 3 (3.75%) Foundry
4 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.75%) Palantir
4 3 (3.75%) Workday
5 2 (2.50%) Google
5 2 (2.50%) Guidewire
5 2 (2.50%) Informatica
5 2 (2.50%) SAP
6 1 (1.25%) Aderant
6 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.25%) Denodo