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 5 October 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
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 73 88
Rank change year-on-year +22 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing Databricks 98 48 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.53% 2.78% 1.75%
As % of the Vendors category 9.90% 5.61% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 37 22
10th Percentile £400 £405 £414
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +19.94% -18.92%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £738 £726 £736
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -20.00%

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 990 855 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 45.77% 49.48% 44.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 695 581 588
10th Percentile £328 £325 £340
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.79 £16.75
25th Percentile £19.31 £21.09 £22.13
Median hourly rate £23.58 £28.15 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% -43.70% +122.22%
75th Percentile £38.69 £50.25 £112.00
90th Percentile £55.95 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.13 £28.15 £42.00
% change year-on-year -7.18% -32.98% +86.67%

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 5 October 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 (11.22%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (10.20%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.10%) Apache
4 2 (2.04%) SAS
4 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.02%) Confluence
5 1 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) BambooHR
1 2 (2.04%) SAP MDG
1 2 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.02%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.02%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 66 (67.35%) Azure
2 28 (28.57%) AWS
3 26 (26.53%) Power Platform
4 22 (22.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (21.43%) Snowflake
6 17 (17.35%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (16.33%) Azure Databricks
8 15 (15.31%) dbt
9 12 (12.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (12.24%) GCP
10 8 (8.16%) Serverless
11 7 (7.14%) Amazon S3
12 6 (6.12%) Azure AKS
13 5 (5.10%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (4.08%) GitHub
14 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (4.08%) PaaS
15 3 (3.06%) Azure Machine Learning
15 3 (3.06%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (24.49%) Power BI
2 20 (20.41%) Metadata
3 14 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 13 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (12.24%) Delta Lake
6 6 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.12%) Tableau
7 4 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (4.08%) Big Data
7 4 (4.08%) Data Mart
7 4 (4.08%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.08%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.06%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.06%) Spark SQL
8 3 (3.06%) Star Schema
9 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.04%) SAP BW
9 2 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (11.22%) Git
2 2 (2.04%) GitLab
2 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.04%) JIRA
3 1 (1.02%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.02%) Gatling
3 1 (1.02%) JMeter
3 1 (1.02%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.02%) MLflow
3 1 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (43.88%) Finance
2 30 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.39%) Banking
4 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.10%) Retail
6 4 (4.08%) Legal
6 4 (4.08%) Marketing
6 4 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.04%) Billing
7 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.02%) Law
8 1 (1.02%) Military
8 1 (1.02%) Publishing
8 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 27 (27.55%) Architect
3 22 (22.45%) Data Architect
4 15 (15.31%) Senior
5 13 (13.27%) Lead
6 12 (12.24%) Analyst
7 10 (10.20%) Data Analyst
7 10 (10.20%) Databricks Engineer
8 9 (9.18%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (6.12%) Consultant
11 5 (5.10%) Developer
12 4 (4.08%) Azure Consultant
12 4 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (4.08%) DevOps Consultant
12 4 (4.08%) Lead Data Engineer
13 3 (3.06%) Business Data Analyst
13 3 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
13 3 (3.06%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.31%) PySpark
2 14 (14.29%) Terraform
3 9 (9.18%) Kafka
4 6 (6.12%) YAML
5 3 (3.06%) .NET
6 2 (2.04%) JSON
6 2 (2.04%) Middleware
6 2 (2.04%) REST
7 1 (1.02%) ADO
7 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.02%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (1.02%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.02%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.02%) OAuth
7 1 (1.02%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.02%) RESTful
7 1 (1.02%) Snowpark
7 1 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.49%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.12%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.10%) AI Agents
4 5 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.08%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.06%) Reinsurance
7 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.04%) FMCG
7 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.02%) NHS
8 1 (1.02%) PMI
8 1 (1.02%) Replication
8 1 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.92%) CI/CD
2 44 (44.90%) Analytics
3 40 (40.82%) Data Engineering
4 36 (36.73%) DevOps
5 35 (35.71%) Data Modelling
6 32 (32.65%) Data Pipeline
7 31 (31.63%) Data Governance
8 29 (29.59%) ETL
8 29 (29.59%) Migration
9 27 (27.55%) Data Architecture
10 26 (26.53%) AI
11 25 (25.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 24 (24.49%) Decision-Making
13 23 (23.47%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (21.43%) Agile
16 20 (20.41%) Data Transformation
17 18 (18.37%) Lakehouse
17 18 (18.37%) Roadmaps
18 17 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 47 (47.96%) SQL
2 38 (38.78%) Python
3 8 (8.16%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.14%) Korn
5 6 (6.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (5.10%) Bicep
6 5 (5.10%) Scala
7 4 (4.08%) Java
8 3 (3.06%) C#
9 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.04%) R
10 1 (1.02%) Bash
10 1 (1.02%) C
10 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.10%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.06%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.02%) CBAP
6 1 (1.02%) CISA
6 1 (1.02%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.02%) Degree
6 1 (1.02%) GSEC
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.02%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.02%) SSCP
6 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.10%) GDPR
2 5 (5.10%) QA
3 1 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.02%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (5.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.18%) Oracle
3 5 (5.10%) Informatica
3 5 (5.10%) SAP
4 2 (2.04%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.04%) Foundry
4 2 (2.04%) Palantir
4 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.04%) Teradata
4 2 (2.04%) Workday
5 1 (1.02%) Adobe
5 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.02%) IBM
5 1 (1.02%) New Relic
5 1 (1.02%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.02%) Splunk
5 1 (1.02%) Talend