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 2 April 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
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 81 98
Rank change year-on-year +29 +17 +7
Contract jobs citing Databricks 91 36 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.22% 2.08% 1.30%
As % of the Vendors category 9.67% 4.69% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 19 20
10th Percentile £395 £509 £520
25th Percentile £425 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.48% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £750
90th Percentile £748 £775 £764
Central London median daily rate £524 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -16.24% - +8.70%

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 941 768 986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.69% 44.37% 42.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 502 720
10th Percentile £357 £313 £309
25th Percentile £430 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £773 £751 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.82% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 6
10th Percentile - £32.09 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.72 £13.81
Median hourly rate £20.88 £48.58 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -57.01% +134.10% -1.19%
75th Percentile £37.76 £94.69 £23.75
90th Percentile £42.50 £150.38 £36.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £18.97
% change year-on-year -17.84% +63.46% -11.79%

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 2 April 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 (10.99%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.40%) Apache
4 3 (3.30%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.10%) Confluence
5 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.10%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (64.84%) Azure
2 19 (20.88%) Power Platform
3 17 (18.68%) AWS
3 17 (18.68%) Snowflake
4 16 (17.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (9.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (8.79%) dbt
7 8 (8.79%) GitHub
8 6 (6.59%) GCP
8 6 (6.59%) Serverless
9 5 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.40%) Azure Functions
10 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (3.30%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.30%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (3.30%) Dagster
11 3 (3.30%) PaaS
11 3 (3.30%) Prefect
11 3 (3.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) DNS
1 1 (1.10%) Firewall
1 1 (1.10%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.10%) Network Security
1 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.78%) Power BI
2 9 (9.89%) Data Lake
2 9 (9.89%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (8.79%) Metadata
4 7 (7.69%) Delta Lake
4 7 (7.69%) Tableau
5 4 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (4.40%) BigQuery
5 4 (4.40%) Looker
6 3 (3.30%) Big Data
6 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.10%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.10%) MySQL
8 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Git
2 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.30%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) ERwin
3 1 (1.10%) SpecFlow
General
1 21 (23.08%) Finance
2 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.79%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.49%) Legal
4 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.49%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.40%) Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Law
6 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Front Office
7 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Marketing
7 1 (1.10%) Military
7 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) Data Engineer
2 18 (19.78%) Architect
3 11 (12.09%) Senior
4 8 (8.79%) Consultant
5 7 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Data Consultant
5 7 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.59%) Analyst
6 6 (6.59%) Technical Architect
7 5 (5.49%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.49%) Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Data Governance Consultant
8 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.30%) Governance Consultant
8 3 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Principal Consultant
8 3 (3.30%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.30%) Security Consultant
8 3 (3.30%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.68%) PySpark
2 6 (6.59%) Middleware
3 4 (4.40%) .NET
4 3 (3.30%) JSON
4 3 (3.30%) Kafka
4 3 (3.30%) OAuth
4 3 (3.30%) React
5 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.20%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.20%) Node.js
5 2 (2.20%) pytest
6 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.10%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.10%) Flask
6 1 (1.10%) LangChain
6 1 (1.10%) NumPy
6 1 (1.10%) Pandas
6 1 (1.10%) Playwright
6 1 (1.10%) RxJS
6 1 (1.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.20%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.10%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.10%) FMCG
4 1 (1.10%) Life Science
4 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (40.66%) Data Pipeline
2 32 (35.16%) Data Engineering
3 31 (34.07%) Analytics
4 25 (27.47%) Data Modelling
5 22 (24.18%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 21 (23.08%) Data Governance
7 20 (21.98%) AI
7 20 (21.98%) ETL
8 18 (19.78%) DevOps
9 13 (14.29%) Agile
10 12 (13.19%) Machine Learning
10 12 (13.19%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (12.09%) TOGAF
12 9 (9.89%) Decision-Making
12 9 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (9.89%) Roadmaps
13 8 (8.79%) Data Architecture
13 8 (8.79%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (8.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (46.15%) Python
2 36 (39.56%) SQL
3 9 (9.89%) Scala
4 4 (4.40%) C#
5 3 (3.30%) Java
6 2 (2.20%) Bash
6 2 (2.20%) Korn
7 1 (1.10%) C++
7 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.10%) R
7 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.30%) Degree
4 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (26.37%) Data Quality
2 11 (12.09%) GDPR
3 3 (3.30%) QA
4 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.30%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (15.38%) Terraform
2 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (25.27%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.79%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.40%) Oracle
4 3 (3.30%) Foundry
4 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.30%) Palantir
4 3 (3.30%) Workday
5 2 (2.20%) Google
5 2 (2.20%) Guidewire
5 2 (2.20%) Informatica
5 2 (2.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.10%) Aderant
6 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.10%) Denodo
6 1 (1.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud