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 14 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
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 78 84
Rank change year-on-year +28 +6 +29
Contract jobs citing Databricks 93 46 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.87% 2.68% 1.89%
As % of the Vendors category 9.69% 5.97% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 29 27
10th Percentile £400 £475 £420
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +10.87% -
75th Percentile £653 £700 £731
90th Percentile £775 £736 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -17.65% +10.87% -2.87%

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 960 770 933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.95% 44.87% 43.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 470 681
10th Percentile £356 £315 £338
25th Percentile £436 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £668 £677 £683
90th Percentile £756 £752 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 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 £25.25 £53.75 £24.56
90th Percentile £42.48 £100.00 £63.53
Central London median hourly rate £22.71 £29.07 £21.75
% change year-on-year -21.87% +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 14 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 (8.60%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.30%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (3.23%) Apache
4 2 (2.15%) Confluence
5 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.38%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 59 (63.44%) Azure
2 24 (25.81%) Power Platform
3 16 (17.20%) Azure Data Factory
3 16 (17.20%) Snowflake
4 13 (13.98%) AWS
4 13 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.53%) Serverless
6 6 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (6.45%) dbt
6 6 (6.45%) GitHub
6 6 (6.45%) PaaS
7 5 (5.38%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.38%) Dagster
7 5 (5.38%) Prefect
7 5 (5.38%) SaaS
8 4 (4.30%) IaaS
8 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) DNS
1 1 (1.08%) Firewall
1 1 (1.08%) Network Security
1 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.73%) Power BI
2 11 (11.83%) Metadata
3 10 (10.75%) Tableau
4 8 (8.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (7.53%) Data Lake
5 7 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.45%) BigQuery
6 6 (6.45%) Delta Lake
7 5 (5.38%) Looker
7 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.23%) Data Mart
8 3 (3.23%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.15%) Big Data
9 2 (2.15%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.15%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (2.15%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (2.15%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Git
2 3 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (1.08%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.08%) ERwin
General
1 28 (30.11%) Finance
2 10 (10.75%) Banking
3 9 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.60%) Social Skills
5 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.45%) Legal
6 6 (6.45%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.15%) Law
7 2 (2.15%) Marketing
8 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (27.96%) Architect
2 19 (20.43%) Data Engineer
3 13 (13.98%) Data Architect
4 11 (11.83%) Analyst
4 11 (11.83%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (10.75%) Data Analyst
5 10 (10.75%) Senior
6 8 (8.60%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Consultant
7 6 (6.45%) Data Consultant
7 6 (6.45%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.38%) Lead
9 4 (4.30%) Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Python Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Data Governance Consultant
10 3 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.05%) PySpark
2 6 (6.45%) .NET
2 6 (6.45%) Middleware
3 4 (4.30%) React
4 3 (3.23%) Kafka
4 3 (3.23%) YAML
5 2 (2.15%) ADO
5 2 (2.15%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.15%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.15%) JSON
5 2 (2.15%) Node.js
5 2 (2.15%) pytest
6 1 (1.08%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.08%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.08%) Flask
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.08%) Pandas
6 1 (1.08%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.08%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.20%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.30%) Distributed Applications
2 4 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.30%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.23%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.15%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) Life Science
5 1 (1.08%) NHS
5 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.08%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.08%) PMI
5 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.08%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.08%) Linux
1 1 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (44.09%) Analytics
2 34 (36.56%) Data Engineering
3 29 (31.18%) Data Pipeline
4 28 (30.11%) Data Modelling
5 26 (27.96%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (27.96%) DevOps
6 23 (24.73%) CI/CD
7 18 (19.35%) AI
7 18 (19.35%) ETL
8 17 (18.28%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (16.13%) Data Governance
10 13 (13.98%) Data Architecture
10 13 (13.98%) Decision-Making
10 13 (13.98%) Roadmaps
11 12 (12.90%) Agile
11 12 (12.90%) Migration
12 11 (11.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (11.83%) TOGAF
13 9 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (9.68%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (45.16%) Python
2 35 (37.63%) SQL
3 5 (5.38%) Korn
3 5 (5.38%) Scala
4 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.23%) Bash
5 3 (3.23%) Bicep
6 2 (2.15%) C#
6 2 (2.15%) Java
6 2 (2.15%) R
7 1 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (24.73%) Security Cleared
2 22 (23.66%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.38%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.23%) Degree
5 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.08%) CBAP
6 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.43%) Data Quality
2 14 (15.05%) GDPR
3 5 (5.38%) QA
4 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.08%) PMO
5 1 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.08%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.23%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (11.83%) Terraform
2 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.68%) Salesforce
3 7 (7.53%) Oracle
4 5 (5.38%) Workday
5 4 (4.30%) Foundry
5 4 (4.30%) Palantir
6 3 (3.23%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.15%) SAP
8 1 (1.08%) Aderant
8 1 (1.08%) Adobe
8 1 (1.08%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.08%) Denodo
8 1 (1.08%) Google
8 1 (1.08%) Informatica
8 1 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud