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 23 December 2025, 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
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 94 90
Rank change year-on-year +27 -4 +33
Contract jobs citing Databricks 62 25 45
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.37% 1.22% 1.79%
As % of the Vendors category 6.78% 2.81% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 12 36
10th Percentile £363 £457 £444
25th Percentile £413 £512 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £613 £615
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% -0.41% +6.96%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £778
90th Percentile £704 £750 £819
Central London median daily rate £559 £613 £615
% change year-on-year -8.82% -0.41% +6.96%

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 914 890 1,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.65% 43.29% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 553 769
10th Percentile £325 £313 £312
25th Percentile £413 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +1.94% -2.70%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 5
10th Percentile £20.06 £17.05 -
25th Percentile £20.66 £41.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £85.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.19% +347.37% -7.32%
75th Percentile £49.81 £112.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £58.85 £137.50 £66.00
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £57.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.70% +202.63% -7.32%

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 23 December 2025.

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 (14.52%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.45%) Apache
3 3 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.61%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.61%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 44 (70.97%) Azure
2 20 (32.26%) AWS
3 14 (22.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (20.97%) Snowflake
5 11 (17.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (17.74%) GCP
5 11 (17.74%) Power Platform
6 8 (12.90%) dbt
7 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.45%) GitHub
8 4 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (4.84%) Serverless
10 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (3.23%) Google Analytics
11 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.74%) Power BI
2 9 (14.52%) Data Lake
3 8 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (11.29%) Delta Lake
4 7 (11.29%) Metadata
5 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.84%) Tableau
6 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.23%) Big Data
6 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.23%) Looker
6 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.23%) MySQL
6 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (16.13%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.23%) ERwin
4 1 (1.61%) JIRA
4 1 (1.61%) MLflow
4 1 (1.61%) Postman
4 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 15 (24.19%) Finance
2 10 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Front Office
6 2 (3.23%) Law
6 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.61%) Back Office
7 1 (1.61%) Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (38.71%) Data Engineer
2 12 (19.35%) Architect
3 6 (9.68%) Senior
4 5 (8.06%) Data Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Developer
5 4 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Consultant
6 3 (4.84%) Data Modeller
6 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (3.23%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Analytics Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Digital Analytics Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Digital Analytics Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Front Office Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Lead
7 2 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) PySpark
2 3 (4.84%) .NET
2 3 (4.84%) Kafka
2 3 (4.84%) OAuth
3 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.23%) JSON
3 2 (3.23%) RxJS
3 2 (3.23%) XML
4 1 (1.61%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.61%) LangChain
4 1 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.61%) Middleware
4 1 (1.61%) Playwright
4 1 (1.61%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.61%) RESTful
4 1 (1.61%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.61%) Web Services
4 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.61%) FMCG
5 1 (1.61%) IoT
5 1 (1.61%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.61%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.61%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.61%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.71%) Data Pipeline
2 23 (37.10%) Analytics
3 22 (35.48%) Data Governance
4 21 (33.87%) CI/CD
5 20 (32.26%) Data Modelling
6 17 (27.42%) ETL
7 15 (24.19%) AI
8 14 (22.58%) Machine Learning
9 12 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (19.35%) Data Engineering
10 11 (17.74%) Agile
10 11 (17.74%) DevOps
11 8 (12.90%) Data Architecture
11 8 (12.90%) Data Science
12 7 (11.29%) Migration
13 6 (9.68%) Data Integration
13 6 (9.68%) Data Transformation
13 6 (9.68%) Metadata Management
13 6 (9.68%) Performance Tuning
13 6 (9.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (35.48%) Python
1 22 (35.48%) SQL
2 6 (9.68%) Scala
3 4 (6.45%) C#
4 2 (3.23%) Java
4 2 (3.23%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.61%) C++
5 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.61%) R
5 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) Degree
3 2 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (25.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.23%) GDPR
2 2 (3.23%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (14.52%) Terraform
2 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) Google
2 3 (4.84%) OpenAI
2 3 (4.84%) SAP
3 2 (3.23%) Guidewire
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle
3 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.61%) Informatica
4 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.61%) Workday