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 November 2025, 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 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 102 95
Rank change year-on-year +35 -7 +37
Contract jobs citing Databricks 60 26 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.37% 1.22% 1.92%
As % of the Vendors category 6.78% 2.80% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 13 41
10th Percentile £394 £410 £463
25th Percentile £463 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% -16.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £788
90th Percentile £735 £728 £850
Central London median daily rate £575 £513 £625
% change year-on-year +12.14% -17.96% +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 885 929 1,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.64% 43.45% 42.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 582 817
10th Percentile £326 £330 £316
25th Percentile £414 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -0.09%
75th Percentile £675 £673 £675
90th Percentile £738 £749 £788
Central London median daily rate £532 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -3.36% +0.92% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 7
10th Percentile £19.11 £18.70 -
25th Percentile £21.82 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £71.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.96% +216.67% +9.76%
75th Percentile £54.44 £118.38 £50.88
90th Percentile £63.93 £137.50 £62.80
Central London median hourly rate £26.99 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -46.03% +163.16% -7.32%

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 November 2025.

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 9 (15.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.67%) Apache
3 3 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.67%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (5.00%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.67%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (78.33%) Azure
2 21 (35.00%) AWS
3 13 (21.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (21.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 13 (21.67%) Power Platform
3 13 (21.67%) Snowflake
4 11 (18.33%) GCP
5 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (13.33%) dbt
6 4 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (6.67%) GitHub
6 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.00%) PaaS
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.33%) Google Analytics
8 2 (3.33%) Serverless
9 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.67%) LAN
1 1 (1.67%) Network Security
1 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) Power BI
2 11 (18.33%) Data Lake
3 8 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.00%) Delta Lake
4 6 (10.00%) Metadata
5 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.00%) Tableau
7 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.33%) Big Data
7 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.33%) Looker
7 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.33%) MySQL
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.33%) ERwin
4 1 (1.67%) JIRA
4 1 (1.67%) MLflow
4 1 (1.67%) Postman
4 1 (1.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 20 (33.33%) Finance
2 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.00%) Front Office
7 2 (3.33%) Law
7 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.67%) Back Office
8 1 (1.67%) Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Legal
8 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 15 (25.00%) Architect
3 10 (16.67%) Senior
4 9 (15.00%) Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Azure Architect
8 3 (5.00%) .NET Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Angular Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) Data Modeller
8 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
9 2 (3.33%) Analyst
9 2 (3.33%) Front Office Developer
9 2 (3.33%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (3.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) .NET
2 5 (8.33%) PySpark
3 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.00%) Kafka
3 3 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (5.00%) OAuth
3 3 (5.00%) RESTful
3 3 (5.00%) Web Services
4 2 (3.33%) JSON
4 2 (3.33%) Middleware
4 2 (3.33%) RxJS
4 2 (3.33%) XML
5 1 (1.67%) Hugging Face
5 1 (1.67%) LangChain
5 1 (1.67%) Playwright
5 1 (1.67%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.67%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) CMDB
4 1 (1.67%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.67%) FMCG
4 1 (1.67%) IoT
4 1 (1.67%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) Analytics
2 22 (36.67%) Data Modelling
3 21 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (31.67%) Data Governance
5 18 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (28.33%) Machine Learning
7 16 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (25.00%) AI
9 14 (23.33%) Agile
10 12 (20.00%) DevOps
10 12 (20.00%) ETL
11 9 (15.00%) Data Engineering
11 9 (15.00%) Roadmaps
12 8 (13.33%) Decision-Making
13 7 (11.67%) Data Architecture
13 7 (11.67%) Data Science
13 7 (11.67%) Migration
13 7 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
14 6 (10.00%) TOGAF
14 6 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (41.67%) Python
2 24 (40.00%) SQL
3 6 (10.00%) C#
4 3 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (5.00%) Scala
5 2 (3.33%) Java
5 2 (3.33%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.67%) Bicep
6 1 (1.67%) C++
6 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.67%) R
6 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.67%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.67%) GDPR
3 3 (5.00%) COBIT
3 3 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Terraform
2 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.00%) Dataiku
3 3 (5.00%) Google
3 3 (5.00%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.00%) SAP
3 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.00%) Workday
4 2 (3.33%) Guidewire
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.67%) Informatica