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 24 August 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
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 72 87
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing Databricks 92 52 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.96% 2.83% 1.79%
As % of the Vendors category 9.26% 5.84% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 36 24
10th Percentile £425 £434 £416
25th Percentile £488 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.23% -15.96%
75th Percentile £664 £676 £728
90th Percentile £738 £700 £750
Central London median daily rate £545 £588 £501
% change year-on-year -7.23% +17.38% -19.92%

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 994 890 913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.81% 48.50% 44.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 577 620
10th Percentile £362 £318 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
Central London median daily rate £540 £538 £543
% change year-on-year +0.47% -0.92% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile - £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £21.75 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.23% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -20.33% +7.67% -25.52%

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 24 August 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 10 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.70%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.26%) Apache
4 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.09%) Confluence
5 1 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.09%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.43%) BambooHR
2 2 (2.17%) SAP MDG
2 2 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.09%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 66 (71.74%) Azure
2 26 (28.26%) Power Platform
3 21 (22.83%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (21.74%) AWS
5 18 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (19.57%) Snowflake
6 11 (11.96%) dbt
7 9 (9.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (6.52%) GCP
8 6 (6.52%) PaaS
9 5 (5.43%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.43%) Azure AKS
9 5 (5.43%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (5.43%) Dagster
9 5 (5.43%) Prefect
10 4 (4.35%) IaaS
10 4 (4.35%) SaaS
10 4 (4.35%) Serverless
11 3 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.26%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (27.17%) Power BI
2 16 (17.39%) Metadata
3 15 (16.30%) Data Lake
4 14 (15.22%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (9.78%) Delta Lake
6 8 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (8.70%) Tableau
7 6 (6.52%) BigQuery
8 5 (5.43%) Big Data
8 5 (5.43%) Looker
8 5 (5.43%) SQL Server
9 4 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (4.35%) Data Mart
9 4 (4.35%) Oracle Database
10 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
10 3 (3.26%) Spark SQL
11 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (2.17%) Data Mining
11 2 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (2.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Git
2 1 (1.09%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.09%) GitLab
2 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.09%) JIRA
2 1 (1.09%) MLflow
2 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (39.13%) Finance
2 19 (20.65%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.48%) Banking
4 6 (6.52%) Legal
4 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.43%) Marketing
5 5 (5.43%) Retail
6 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.09%) Law
8 1 (1.09%) Military
8 1 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (27.17%) Architect
2 20 (21.74%) Data Engineer
3 18 (19.57%) Data Architect
4 13 (14.13%) Senior
5 12 (13.04%) Analyst
6 11 (11.96%) Data Analyst
7 10 (10.87%) Lead
7 10 (10.87%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Consultant
9 6 (6.52%) Developer
9 6 (6.52%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Azure Consultant
11 4 (4.35%) Data Consultant
11 4 (4.35%) DevOps Consultant
11 4 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Python Developer
11 4 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.22%) PySpark
1 14 (15.22%) Terraform
2 6 (6.52%) .NET
2 6 (6.52%) Kafka
3 5 (5.43%) YAML
4 4 (4.35%) React
5 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.17%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.17%) JSON
5 2 (2.17%) Middleware
5 2 (2.17%) Node.js
5 2 (2.17%) pytest
6 1 (1.09%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.09%) ADO
6 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.09%) Django
6 1 (1.09%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.09%) REST
6 1 (1.09%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.35%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.17%) FMCG
5 2 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.09%) Life Science
6 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.09%) NHS
6 1 (1.09%) PMI
6 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (48.91%) Analytics
2 40 (43.48%) Data Engineering
3 35 (38.04%) CI/CD
3 35 (38.04%) Data Modelling
4 32 (34.78%) DevOps
5 28 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (28.26%) ETL
7 24 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (26.09%) Data Governance
8 22 (23.91%) AI
8 22 (23.91%) Decision-Making
9 21 (22.83%) Data Architecture
10 20 (21.74%) Migration
11 18 (19.57%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (19.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (15.22%) Agile
13 14 (15.22%) Data Transformation
13 14 (15.22%) Roadmaps
13 14 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (40.22%) SQL
2 35 (38.04%) Python
3 8 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.43%) Bicep
4 5 (5.43%) Korn
5 4 (4.35%) C#
5 4 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.35%) Java
5 4 (4.35%) Scala
6 2 (2.17%) Bash
6 2 (2.17%) R
7 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.48%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.09%) CBAP
5 1 (1.09%) Degree
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.09%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.78%) GDPR
3 5 (5.43%) QA
4 1 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.09%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (22.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.70%) Oracle
3 5 (5.43%) SAP
3 5 (5.43%) Workday
4 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.17%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.17%) Informatica
5 2 (2.17%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.17%) Palantir
6 1 (1.09%) Adobe
6 1 (1.09%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.09%) Denodo
6 1 (1.09%) Foundry
6 1 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) Teradata