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 22 January 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
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 93 90
Rank change year-on-year +35 -3 +37
Contract jobs citing Databricks 73 23 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.90% 1.22% 1.74%
As % of the Vendors category 8.12% 2.85% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 9 30
10th Percentile £366 £489 £425
25th Percentile £413 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £788 £672 £775
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 899 806 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 48.07% 42.71% 41.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 496 724
10th Percentile £350 £307 £327
25th Percentile £416 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £762 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 8
10th Percentile £20.02 £20.25 £15.73
25th Percentile £20.50 £33.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £77.25 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -66.64% +272.29% +1.22%
75th Percentile £41.85 £112.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £44.16 - £57.38
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -40.07% +123.68% -7.78%

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 22 January 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 (12.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.48%) Apache
2 4 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.37%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (67.12%) Azure
2 22 (30.14%) AWS
3 14 (19.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (19.18%) Power Platform
4 12 (16.44%) Snowflake
5 11 (15.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (15.07%) GCP
6 7 (9.59%) dbt
6 7 (9.59%) GitHub
7 6 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (6.85%) Serverless
9 4 (5.48%) Azure Functions
10 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.74%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.74%) Google Analytics
12 1 (1.37%) Azure Storage
12 1 (1.37%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) DNS
1 1 (1.37%) Firewall
1 1 (1.37%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.37%) Network Security
1 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.18%) Power BI
2 10 (13.70%) Data Lake
3 8 (10.96%) Metadata
4 7 (9.59%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (9.59%) Delta Lake
5 5 (6.85%) Tableau
6 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.74%) Big Data
7 2 (2.74%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.74%) Looker
7 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.74%) MySQL
7 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.37%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.37%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (16.44%) Git
2 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.74%) JIRA
4 1 (1.37%) ERwin
4 1 (1.37%) MLflow
4 1 (1.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (21.92%) Finance
2 9 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.96%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Front Office
6 2 (2.74%) Law
6 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.37%) Banking
7 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.37%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Military
7 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (39.73%) Data Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) Architect
3 8 (10.96%) Senior
4 5 (6.85%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.48%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Consultant
5 4 (5.48%) Data Architect
6 3 (4.11%) Analyst
6 3 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 3 (4.11%) Azure Architect
6 3 (4.11%) Developer
6 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (2.74%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (2.74%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.74%) Digital Analyst
7 2 (2.74%) Digital Analytics Analyst
7 2 (2.74%) Digital Analytics Consultant
7 2 (2.74%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.55%) PySpark
2 3 (4.11%) Kafka
2 3 (4.11%) OAuth
3 1 (1.37%) .NET
3 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.37%) Hugging Face
3 1 (1.37%) JSON
3 1 (1.37%) LangChain
3 1 (1.37%) Middleware
3 1 (1.37%) Playwright
3 1 (1.37%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.37%) RxJS
3 1 (1.37%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.37%) XML
3 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.70%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.37%) FMCG
5 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.37%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.37%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.37%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.10%) Data Pipeline
2 27 (36.99%) Analytics
3 22 (30.14%) CI/CD
3 22 (30.14%) Data Governance
4 21 (28.77%) Data Engineering
5 18 (24.66%) Data Modelling
5 18 (24.66%) ETL
6 16 (21.92%) AI
7 15 (20.55%) DevOps
8 14 (19.18%) Machine Learning
9 12 (16.44%) Agile
9 12 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (10.96%) Data Science
10 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (9.59%) Data Architecture
11 7 (9.59%) Data Integration
11 7 (9.59%) Decision-Making
11 7 (9.59%) Metadata Management
11 7 (9.59%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 29 (39.73%) Python
2 27 (36.99%) SQL
3 8 (10.96%) Scala
4 3 (4.11%) C#
5 2 (2.74%) Java
5 2 (2.74%) Korn
5 2 (2.74%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.37%) C++
6 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.37%) R
6 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.37%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.37%) Degree
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.11%) GDPR
3 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.74%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (15.07%) Terraform
2 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.48%) Google
2 4 (5.48%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.11%) Oracle
3 3 (4.11%) SAP
4 2 (2.74%) Foundry
4 2 (2.74%) Guidewire
4 2 (2.74%) Informatica
4 2 (2.74%) Palantir
4 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.37%) Atlassian