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 7 June 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
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 71 85
Rank change year-on-year +20 +14 +27
Contract jobs citing Databricks 90 46 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.79% 2.70% 1.75%
As % of the Vendors category 9.37% 5.96% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 30 26
10th Percentile £400 £475 £419
25th Percentile £456 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +10.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £734
90th Percentile £768 £741 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -17.65% +10.87% +4.55%

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 961 772 939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.46% 45.28% 43.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 467 692
10th Percentile £350 £314 £313
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -1.30% -3.09%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £684
90th Percentile £763 £755 £790
Central London median daily rate £535 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -1.47% -1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 8
10th Percentile - £22.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.25 £15.19
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +42.53% -56.50%
75th Percentile £24.22 £53.75 £24.56
90th Percentile £39.70 £100.00 £63.53
Central London median hourly rate £20.88 £29.07 £21.75
% change year-on-year -28.16% +33.66% -42.00%

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 7 June 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 8 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.33%) Apache
3 3 (3.33%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (2.22%) Confluence
5 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.56%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 59 (65.56%) Azure
2 21 (23.33%) Power Platform
3 16 (17.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 13 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (13.33%) AWS
7 7 (7.78%) Serverless
8 6 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (6.67%) dbt
8 6 (6.67%) GitHub
8 6 (6.67%) PaaS
9 5 (5.56%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.56%) Dagster
9 5 (5.56%) Prefect
9 5 (5.56%) SaaS
10 4 (4.44%) IaaS
10 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.33%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) DNS
1 1 (1.11%) Firewall
1 1 (1.11%) Network Security
1 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.22%) Power BI
2 11 (12.22%) Metadata
3 10 (11.11%) Tableau
4 8 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (6.67%) BigQuery
5 6 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.67%) Delta Lake
6 5 (5.56%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.56%) Looker
6 5 (5.56%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (2.22%) Big Data
7 2 (2.22%) Data Mart
7 2 (2.22%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.22%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (2.22%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.22%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Git
2 3 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.11%) ERwin
General
1 27 (30.00%) Finance
2 9 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (10.00%) Banking
3 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.78%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.67%) Legal
4 6 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.22%) Law
5 2 (2.22%) Marketing
6 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (26.67%) Architect
2 20 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 11 (12.22%) Data Architect
3 11 (12.22%) Solutions Architect
4 10 (11.11%) Analyst
4 10 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 9 (10.00%) Senior
6 8 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Consultant
7 6 (6.67%) Data Consultant
7 6 (6.67%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Senior Python Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Data Governance Consultant
9 3 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Salesforce Architect
9 3 (3.33%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) PySpark
2 6 (6.67%) .NET
2 6 (6.67%) Middleware
3 4 (4.44%) React
4 3 (3.33%) Kafka
4 3 (3.33%) YAML
5 2 (2.22%) ADO
5 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.22%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.22%) JSON
5 2 (2.22%) Node.js
5 2 (2.22%) pytest
6 1 (1.11%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.11%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.11%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.11%) Django
6 1 (1.11%) NumPy
6 1 (1.11%) REST
6 1 (1.11%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.44%) Distributed Applications
2 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Life Science
5 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.11%) PMI
5 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Linux
1 1 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.11%) Analytics
2 31 (34.44%) Data Engineering
3 30 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (27.78%) Data Modelling
4 25 (27.78%) DevOps
5 23 (25.56%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (24.44%) CI/CD
7 17 (18.89%) ETL
8 16 (17.78%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (16.67%) AI
9 15 (16.67%) Data Governance
10 13 (14.44%) Roadmaps
11 12 (13.33%) Decision-Making
12 11 (12.22%) Data Architecture
12 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (12.22%) TOGAF
13 10 (11.11%) Agile
13 10 (11.11%) Migration
14 9 (10.00%) Data Analysis
14 9 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (42.22%) Python
2 31 (34.44%) SQL
3 7 (7.78%) Scala
4 5 (5.56%) Korn
5 4 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.33%) Bash
6 3 (3.33%) Bicep
7 2 (2.22%) C#
7 2 (2.22%) Java
7 2 (2.22%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.33%) Degree
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.11%) CBAP
6 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 13 (14.44%) GDPR
3 5 (5.56%) QA
4 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.11%) PMO
5 1 (1.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (12.22%) Terraform
2 3 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.56%) Oracle
3 5 (5.56%) Workday
4 3 (3.33%) Foundry
4 3 (3.33%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.33%) Palantir
5 1 (1.11%) Aderant
5 1 (1.11%) Denodo
5 1 (1.11%) Google
5 1 (1.11%) Informatica
5 1 (1.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) SAP