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 February 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 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 91 90
Rank change year-on-year +37 -1 +28
Contract jobs citing Databricks 73 25 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.86% 1.34% 1.60%
As % of the Vendors category 8.17% 3.12% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 9 27
10th Percentile £365 £489 £448
25th Percentile £413 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £675
90th Percentile £788 £780 £738
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 893 801 1,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 47.27% 43.04% 42.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 486 726
10th Percentile £338 £305 £310
25th Percentile £413 £459 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile £20.02 £55.40 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £76.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.99% +489.47% -7.78%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £23.75
90th Percentile £44.16 - £54.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -8.23%

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 February 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 2 (2.74%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.37%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (65.75%) Azure
2 20 (27.40%) AWS
3 13 (17.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (17.81%) Power Platform
4 12 (16.44%) Snowflake
5 11 (15.07%) GCP
6 10 (13.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (9.59%) dbt
8 6 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (8.22%) GitHub
9 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (6.85%) Serverless
10 4 (5.48%) Azure Functions
10 4 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.74%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.74%) Google Analytics
13 1 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (1.37%) Azure Storage
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 13 (17.81%) Power BI
2 9 (12.33%) Data Lake
2 9 (12.33%) Metadata
3 6 (8.22%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (8.22%) Delta Lake
4 5 (6.85%) Tableau
5 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.74%) Big Data
6 2 (2.74%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.74%) Looker
6 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.74%) MySQL
6 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.37%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.37%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (16.44%) Git
2 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.74%) ERwin
3 2 (2.74%) JIRA
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
4 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Law
7 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Front Office
7 2 (2.74%) Legal
7 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.37%) Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Military
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (35.62%) Data Engineer
2 17 (23.29%) Architect
3 9 (12.33%) Senior
4 6 (8.22%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.85%) Data Architect
5 5 (6.85%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Consultant
6 4 (5.48%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Azure Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Developer
7 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Data Architect
8 2 (2.74%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.74%) Lead
8 2 (2.74%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Senior Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.18%) PySpark
2 3 (4.11%) Kafka
2 3 (4.11%) Middleware
2 3 (4.11%) OAuth
3 1 (1.37%) .NET
3 1 (1.37%) ADO
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%) 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 3 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.11%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.37%) FMCG
4 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.37%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.37%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.37%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.36%) Data Pipeline
2 24 (32.88%) Analytics
3 21 (28.77%) Data Engineering
4 20 (27.40%) Data Governance
5 19 (26.03%) CI/CD
6 18 (24.66%) Data Modelling
7 17 (23.29%) ETL
8 16 (21.92%) AI
9 14 (19.18%) Machine Learning
10 13 (17.81%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (17.81%) DevOps
11 12 (16.44%) Agile
12 8 (10.96%) Data Architecture
12 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (9.59%) Data Integration
13 7 (9.59%) Decision-Making
13 7 (9.59%) Metadata Management
13 7 (9.59%) Performance Tuning
13 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 6 (8.22%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 28 (38.36%) 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 16 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.81%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) Degree
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%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.85%) GDPR
3 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.74%) QA
4 1 (1.37%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) Terraform
2 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (23.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.48%) Google
2 4 (5.48%) OpenAI
2 4 (5.48%) Salesforce
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
5 1 (1.37%) Aderant
5 1 (1.37%) Atlassian