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 20 October 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
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 87 93
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 +44
Contract jobs citing Databricks 49 39 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.90% 1.85% 1.91%
As % of the Vendors category 5.79% 4.17% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 24 35
10th Percentile £406 £404 £440
25th Percentile £475 £469 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +14.14% -19.96% +8.70%
75th Percentile £688 £641 £788
90th Percentile £725 £734 £850
Central London median daily rate £567 £500 £638
% change year-on-year +13.40% -21.57% +10.87%

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 847 936 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 50.12% 44.44% 41.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 594 823
10th Percentile £325 £338 £319
25th Percentile £421 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £788
Central London median daily rate £545 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -0.64% -0.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 9
10th Percentile £18.43 £18.70 £16.05
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £71.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.61% +216.67% +8.43%
75th Percentile £56.75 £118.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £64.11 £137.50 £57.90
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £50.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -51.00% +140.96% -1.19%

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 20 October 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 4 (8.16%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.08%) Apache
3 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.04%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (6.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (79.59%) Azure
2 12 (24.49%) AWS
3 11 (22.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 11 (22.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 11 (22.45%) Power Platform
4 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (14.29%) GCP
6 6 (12.24%) Snowflake
7 5 (10.20%) dbt
8 4 (8.16%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (8.16%) GitHub
9 3 (6.12%) Collibra
9 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
9 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (6.12%) PaaS
10 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (4.08%) Google Analytics
11 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) LAN
1 1 (2.04%) Network Security
1 1 (2.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.45%) Data Lake
1 11 (22.45%) Power BI
2 7 (14.29%) Delta Lake
3 6 (12.24%) Metadata
4 5 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.12%) Tableau
7 2 (4.08%) BigQuery
7 2 (4.08%) Looker
8 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.04%) MySQL
8 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Git
2 2 (4.08%) ERwin
2 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.04%) MLflow
3 1 (2.04%) Postman
General
1 14 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.08%) Front Office
6 1 (2.04%) Back Office
6 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (34.69%) Data Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) Architect
3 9 (18.37%) Developer
3 9 (18.37%) Senior
4 7 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Data Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.12%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Angular Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Consultant
7 3 (6.12%) Data Modeller
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Product Owner
8 2 (4.08%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) .NET
1 7 (14.29%) PySpark
2 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.12%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (6.12%) RESTful
2 3 (6.12%) Web Services
3 2 (4.08%) Kafka
3 2 (4.08%) RxJS
4 1 (2.04%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.04%) JSON
4 1 (2.04%) LangChain
4 1 (2.04%) Middleware
4 1 (2.04%) OAuth
4 1 (2.04%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.04%) XML
4 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.04%) CMDB
3 1 (2.04%) IoT
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Pricing Data
3 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.04%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.69%) Data Modelling
2 16 (32.65%) Analytics
2 16 (32.65%) Data Governance
3 15 (30.61%) CI/CD
4 14 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (24.49%) DevOps
6 11 (22.45%) Data Engineering
7 10 (20.41%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (20.41%) Machine Learning
8 9 (18.37%) Agile
8 9 (18.37%) AI
8 9 (18.37%) ETL
8 9 (18.37%) Roadmaps
9 7 (14.29%) Data Architecture
10 5 (10.20%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (10.20%) Data Ingestion
10 5 (10.20%) Data Science
10 5 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (10.20%) Visualisation
11 4 (8.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) Python
1 18 (36.73%) SQL
2 5 (10.20%) C#
3 4 (8.16%) Scala
4 3 (6.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.04%) Bicep
5 1 (2.04%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) COBIT
2 3 (6.12%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) QA
4 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.12%) Dataiku
3 3 (6.12%) Google
3 3 (6.12%) Informatica
3 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.12%) Workday
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle
4 2 (4.08%) SAP
5 1 (2.04%) OpenAI