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 27 July 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
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 65 86
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 +16
Contract jobs citing Databricks 83 54 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.48% 2.86% 1.88%
As % of the Vendors category 8.43% 6.07% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 37 28
10th Percentile £425 £475 £421
25th Percentile £501 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £638 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% +13.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £738
90th Percentile £754 £722 £750
Central London median daily rate £530 £638 £550
% change year-on-year -16.86% +15.91% -12.00%

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 984 890 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.31% 47.19% 44.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 565 652
10th Percentile £351 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.45%
75th Percentile £663 £685 £671
90th Percentile £750 £751 £763
Central London median daily rate £539 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.05% +2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 11
10th Percentile - £22.53 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £19.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +42.87% -25.52%
75th Percentile £25.12 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.13 £89.67 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £32.83 £34.25
% change year-on-year -31.45% -4.16% +37.00%

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 27 July 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 7 (8.43%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.61%) Apache
4 2 (2.41%) Confluence
4 2 (2.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) BambooHR
2 2 (2.41%) SAP MDG
2 2 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 53 (63.86%) Azure
2 23 (27.71%) Power Platform
3 18 (21.69%) Snowflake
4 13 (15.66%) AWS
4 13 (15.66%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (15.66%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.23%) dbt
5 6 (7.23%) PaaS
6 5 (6.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (6.02%) Dagster
6 5 (6.02%) Prefect
6 5 (6.02%) SaaS
6 5 (6.02%) Serverless
7 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.82%) IaaS
8 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (3.61%) GCP
8 3 (3.61%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.51%) Power BI
2 14 (16.87%) Metadata
3 11 (13.25%) Data Lake
4 8 (9.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (9.64%) Tableau
5 7 (8.43%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (7.23%) BigQuery
7 5 (6.02%) Delta Lake
7 5 (6.02%) Looker
8 4 (4.82%) Big Data
8 4 (4.82%) Data Mart
8 4 (4.82%) Oracle Database
8 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.41%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.41%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.41%) SAP BW
9 2 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (2.41%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Git
2 2 (2.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.20%) ERwin
General
1 28 (33.73%) Finance
2 13 (15.66%) Banking
3 11 (13.25%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.23%) Legal
5 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.82%) Marketing
6 4 (4.82%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.41%) Law
7 2 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.41%) Retail
8 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (31.33%) Architect
2 16 (19.28%) Data Architect
3 14 (16.87%) Analyst
4 13 (15.66%) Data Analyst
4 13 (15.66%) Data Engineer
5 11 (13.25%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (9.64%) Consultant
6 8 (9.64%) Senior
7 7 (8.43%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Data Consultant
8 6 (7.23%) Lead
9 5 (6.02%) Technical Architect
10 4 (4.82%) Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Senior Python Developer
11 3 (3.61%) Data Governance Consultant
11 3 (3.61%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) PySpark
2 6 (7.23%) .NET
2 6 (7.23%) Middleware
3 4 (4.82%) React
4 3 (3.61%) Kafka
4 3 (3.61%) YAML
5 2 (2.41%) ADO
5 2 (2.41%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.41%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.41%) JSON
5 2 (2.41%) Node.js
5 2 (2.41%) pytest
6 1 (1.20%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.20%) Django
6 1 (1.20%) REST
6 1 (1.20%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.20%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.28%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.82%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.61%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.61%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) FMCG
5 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Life Science
6 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.20%) NHS
6 1 (1.20%) PMI
6 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.20%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.20%) Linux
1 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (49.40%) Analytics
2 34 (40.96%) Data Modelling
3 31 (37.35%) Data Engineering
4 28 (33.73%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (28.92%) CI/CD
5 24 (28.92%) DevOps
6 22 (26.51%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (24.10%) AI
8 19 (22.89%) Data Architecture
9 18 (21.69%) Data Governance
9 18 (21.69%) ETL
9 18 (21.69%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (18.07%) Roadmaps
11 14 (16.87%) Migration
12 13 (15.66%) Decision-Making
13 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (14.46%) TOGAF
14 11 (13.25%) Data Integration
14 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 10 (12.05%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.96%) Python
2 33 (39.76%) SQL
3 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.61%) Bash
4 3 (3.61%) Bicep
4 3 (3.61%) Korn
5 2 (2.41%) C#
5 2 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.41%) Java
5 2 (2.41%) R
5 2 (2.41%) Scala
6 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.61%) Degree
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.20%) CBAP
6 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.69%) Data Quality
2 13 (15.66%) GDPR
3 5 (6.02%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) PMO
4 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (10.84%) Terraform
2 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.64%) Salesforce
3 7 (8.43%) Oracle
4 5 (6.02%) SAP
4 5 (6.02%) Workday
5 3 (3.61%) Palantir
6 2 (2.41%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.41%) Foundry
6 2 (2.41%) Informatica
6 2 (2.41%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.20%) Aderant
7 1 (1.20%) Adobe
7 1 (1.20%) Denodo
7 1 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud