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 31 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
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 73 89
Rank change year-on-year +22 +16 +8
Contract jobs citing Databricks 96 52 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.17% 2.87% 1.78%
As % of the Vendors category 9.65% 5.89% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 39 23
10th Percentile £425 £451 £415
25th Percentile £488 £478 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £501
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +19.88% -18.88%
75th Percentile £657 £678 £688
90th Percentile £738 £703 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +14.94% -19.96%

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 995 883 924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.24% 48.70% 44.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 578 614
10th Percentile £355 £319 £343
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £757
Central London median daily rate £540 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +0.61% -2.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 11
10th Percentile - £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.06% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £28.57 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.30 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -25.52%

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 31 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 11 (11.46%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (9.38%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.17%) Apache
4 2 (2.08%) SAS
4 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.04%) Confluence
5 1 (1.04%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) BambooHR
2 2 (2.08%) SAP MDG
2 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.04%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 68 (70.83%) Azure
2 28 (29.17%) Power Platform
3 23 (23.96%) Azure Data Factory
4 22 (22.92%) AWS
4 22 (22.92%) Azure Databricks
5 18 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (17.71%) Snowflake
7 13 (13.54%) dbt
8 10 (10.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.25%) GCP
9 6 (6.25%) PaaS
10 5 (5.21%) Azure AKS
10 5 (5.21%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (5.21%) Dagster
10 5 (5.21%) Prefect
10 5 (5.21%) Serverless
11 4 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.17%) IaaS
11 4 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.13%) Power BI
2 17 (17.71%) Metadata
3 15 (15.63%) Data Lake
3 15 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (10.42%) Delta Lake
5 8 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (8.33%) Tableau
6 6 (6.25%) BigQuery
7 5 (5.21%) Big Data
7 5 (5.21%) Looker
8 4 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (4.17%) Data Mart
8 4 (4.17%) Oracle Database
8 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.13%) Spark SQL
10 2 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (2.08%) Data Vault
10 2 (2.08%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (2.08%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (1.04%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.04%) GitLab
2 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.04%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) MLflow
2 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (40.63%) Finance
2 22 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.71%) Banking
4 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Legal
4 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.21%) Marketing
5 5 (5.21%) Retail
6 4 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.04%) Law
8 1 (1.04%) Military
8 1 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) Architect
2 22 (22.92%) Data Engineer
3 19 (19.79%) Data Architect
4 14 (14.58%) Senior
5 12 (12.50%) Analyst
6 11 (11.46%) Data Analyst
6 11 (11.46%) Lead
7 10 (10.42%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (9.38%) Consultant
9 8 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (8.33%) Databricks Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) Developer
10 6 (6.25%) Senior Developer
11 5 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (4.17%) Azure Consultant
12 4 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.17%) DevOps Consultant
12 4 (4.17%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.63%) PySpark
2 14 (14.58%) Terraform
3 6 (6.25%) .NET
3 6 (6.25%) Kafka
4 5 (5.21%) YAML
5 4 (4.17%) React
6 2 (2.08%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.08%) Great Expectations
6 2 (2.08%) JSON
6 2 (2.08%) Middleware
6 2 (2.08%) Node.js
6 2 (2.08%) pytest
7 1 (1.04%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (1.04%) Django
7 1 (1.04%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.04%) Flask
7 1 (1.04%) NumPy
7 1 (1.04%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.17%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.17%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (4.17%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.08%) FMCG
5 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) NHS
6 1 (1.04%) PMI
6 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (45.83%) Analytics
2 41 (42.71%) Data Engineering
3 36 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 36 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 34 (35.42%) DevOps
5 30 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (29.17%) ETL
7 26 (27.08%) Data Governance
8 25 (26.04%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (23.96%) Data Architecture
10 22 (22.92%) AI
10 22 (22.92%) Decision-Making
11 21 (21.88%) Migration
12 20 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (17.71%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (17.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (16.67%) Agile
16 15 (15.63%) Data Transformation
17 14 (14.58%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (40.63%) SQL
2 35 (36.46%) Python
3 8 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.21%) Bicep
4 5 (5.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (5.21%) Korn
5 4 (4.17%) C#
5 4 (4.17%) Java
6 3 (3.13%) Scala
7 2 (2.08%) Bash
7 2 (2.08%) R
8 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.04%) CBAP
5 1 (1.04%) Degree
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.04%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.38%) GDPR
3 4 (4.17%) QA
4 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.04%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.33%) Oracle
3 5 (5.21%) SAP
3 5 (5.21%) Workday
4 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.08%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.08%) Informatica
5 2 (2.08%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.08%) Palantir
5 2 (2.08%) Teradata
6 1 (1.04%) Adobe
6 1 (1.04%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.04%) Foundry
6 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud