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 17 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
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 79 88
Rank change year-on-year +23 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing Databricks 88 50 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.75% 2.67% 1.75%
As % of the Vendors category 8.70% 5.55% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 35 24
10th Percentile £425 £468 £416
25th Percentile £473 £491 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.23% -15.96%
75th Percentile £669 £678 £728
90th Percentile £756 £700 £750
Central London median daily rate £530 £600 £501
% change year-on-year -11.67% +19.88% -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 1,012 901 908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.08% 48.16% 44.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 584 634
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £674
90th Percentile £750 £750 £757
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 11
10th Percentile - £20.67 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +28.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £28.57 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.30 £86.23 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% +20.00%

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 17 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 8 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.41%) Apache
4 2 (2.27%) Confluence
4 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.14%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) BambooHR
2 2 (2.27%) SAP MDG
2 2 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 62 (70.45%) Azure
2 25 (28.41%) Power Platform
3 20 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (19.32%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (18.18%) AWS
6 15 (17.05%) Snowflake
7 8 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (7.95%) dbt
9 6 (6.82%) PaaS
10 5 (5.68%) Amazon S3
10 5 (5.68%) Azure AKS
10 5 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (5.68%) Dagster
10 5 (5.68%) Prefect
11 4 (4.55%) IaaS
11 4 (4.55%) SaaS
11 4 (4.55%) Serverless
12 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (3.41%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (3.41%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.27%) Power BI
2 16 (18.18%) Metadata
3 14 (15.91%) Data Lake
4 12 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (10.23%) Delta Lake
6 8 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (9.09%) Tableau
7 6 (6.82%) BigQuery
8 5 (5.68%) Big Data
8 5 (5.68%) Looker
8 5 (5.68%) SQL Server
9 4 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (4.55%) Data Mart
9 4 (4.55%) Oracle Database
10 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (2.27%) Data Mining
11 2 (2.27%) SAP BW
11 2 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (2.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Git
2 2 (2.27%) JIRA
3 1 (1.14%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.14%) GitLab
3 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (37.50%) Finance
2 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.05%) Banking
4 6 (6.82%) Legal
4 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Marketing
6 4 (4.55%) Retail
6 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Law
8 1 (1.14%) Military
8 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (28.41%) Architect
2 17 (19.32%) Data Engineer
3 16 (18.18%) Data Architect
4 13 (14.77%) Analyst
5 12 (13.64%) Data Analyst
6 11 (12.50%) Senior
7 10 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (10.23%) Lead
9 8 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (9.09%) Consultant
10 6 (6.82%) Developer
10 6 (6.82%) Senior Developer
11 5 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.55%) Azure Consultant
12 4 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.55%) DevOps Consultant
12 4 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
12 4 (4.55%) Python Developer
12 4 (4.55%) Senior Python Developer
12 4 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.64%) PySpark
2 6 (6.82%) .NET
3 5 (5.68%) YAML
4 4 (4.55%) Kafka
4 4 (4.55%) Middleware
4 4 (4.55%) React
5 2 (2.27%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.27%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.27%) JSON
5 2 (2.27%) Node.js
5 2 (2.27%) pytest
6 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (1.14%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.14%) Flask
6 1 (1.14%) NumPy
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.14%) Pandas
6 1 (1.14%) REST
6 1 (1.14%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.14%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.45%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.68%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (4.55%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.41%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.27%) FMCG
5 2 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.14%) Life Science
6 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.14%) NHS
6 1 (1.14%) PMI
6 1 (1.14%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (48.86%) Analytics
2 35 (39.77%) Data Engineering
2 35 (39.77%) Data Modelling
3 31 (35.23%) CI/CD
4 30 (34.09%) DevOps
5 27 (30.68%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (28.41%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (28.41%) ETL
7 23 (26.14%) Data Governance
8 19 (21.59%) AI
8 19 (21.59%) Data Architecture
9 18 (20.45%) Decision-Making
9 18 (20.45%) Migration
9 18 (20.45%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (17.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (15.91%) Agile
11 14 (15.91%) Roadmaps
11 14 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (13.64%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 34 (38.64%) SQL
2 32 (36.36%) Python
3 8 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.68%) Bicep
4 5 (5.68%) Korn
5 4 (4.55%) C#
5 4 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.41%) Java
6 3 (3.41%) Scala
7 2 (2.27%) Bash
7 2 (2.27%) R
8 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.68%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.14%) CBAP
5 1 (1.14%) Degree
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.73%) Data Quality
2 11 (12.50%) GDPR
3 5 (5.68%) QA
4 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (13.64%) Terraform
2 6 (6.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.09%) Oracle
3 6 (6.82%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.68%) SAP
4 5 (5.68%) Workday
5 2 (2.27%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.27%) Informatica
5 2 (2.27%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.27%) Palantir
6 1 (1.14%) Adobe
6 1 (1.14%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.14%) Denodo
6 1 (1.14%) Foundry
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Teradata