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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 90 94
Rank change year-on-year +19 +4 +57
Contract jobs citing Databricks 51 37 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.90% 1.79% 2.00%
As % of the Vendors category 5.95% 4.06% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 23 37
10th Percentile £406 £415 £463
25th Percentile £475 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £501 £625
Median % change year-on-year +19.88% -19.92% +8.70%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £788
90th Percentile £714 £748 £850
Central London median daily rate £600 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +19.94% -19.96% +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 857 911 1,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 48.72% 44.03% 41.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 591 879
10th Percentile £321 £350 £310
25th Percentile £413 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £551 £555
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% -0.81% +0.91%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £768 £790
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 8
10th Percentile £20.23 £16.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £23.75 £19.50 £16.90
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% +30.12% -1.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £65.21 £137.50 £60.35
Central London median hourly rate £31.58 £27.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +16.94% +30.12% -12.34%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Databricks as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Databricks 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 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in the City of London

Databricks
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.84%) Apache
1 4 (7.84%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.88%) Jupyter
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.92%) Confluence
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (5.88%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 44 (86.27%) Azure
2 12 (23.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 12 (23.53%) Power Platform
3 11 (21.57%) AWS
3 11 (21.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (13.73%) GCP
6 6 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (9.80%) Collibra
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (5.88%) dbt
8 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.88%) GitHub
8 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (5.88%) PaaS
8 3 (5.88%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.96%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) SSH
2 1 (1.96%) LAN
2 1 (1.96%) Network Security
2 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (31.37%) Data Lake
2 11 (21.57%) Power BI
3 10 (19.61%) Delta Lake
4 8 (15.69%) Metadata
5 4 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.92%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.96%) Big Data
8 1 (1.96%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.96%) Looker
8 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Git
1 4 (7.84%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) ERwin
2 2 (3.92%) RStudio
3 1 (1.96%) MLflow
3 1 (1.96%) Postman
General
1 13 (25.49%) Finance
2 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Back Office
6 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) Front Office
7 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (43.14%) Data Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) Architect
3 9 (17.65%) Azure Data Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Senior
5 7 (13.73%) Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (9.80%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Data Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Data Modeller
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
9 2 (3.92%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Angular Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 2 (3.92%) Implementation Manager
9 2 (3.92%) Implementation Project Manager
9 2 (3.92%) Project Implementation Manager
9 2 (3.92%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) PySpark
2 6 (11.76%) .NET
3 3 (5.88%) JSON
3 3 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (5.88%) RESTful
3 3 (5.88%) Web Services
3 3 (5.88%) YAML
4 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.92%) pydantic
4 2 (3.92%) XML
5 1 (1.96%) Hugging Face
5 1 (1.96%) Middleware
5 1 (1.96%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.96%) RxJS
5 1 (1.96%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.88%) Reference Data
2 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.92%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.96%) CMDB
3 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.96%) IoT
3 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.96%) PMI
3 1 (1.96%) Pricing Data
3 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.96%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 15 (29.41%) Analytics
2 15 (29.41%) Data Governance
2 15 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
3 14 (27.45%) Data Engineering
4 13 (25.49%) Agile
4 13 (25.49%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (25.49%) ETL
5 11 (21.57%) CI/CD
5 11 (21.57%) DevOps
6 9 (17.65%) Data Ingestion
6 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (15.69%) Data Architecture
7 8 (15.69%) Data Science
8 7 (13.73%) Machine Learning
8 7 (13.73%) Roadmaps
9 5 (9.80%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (9.80%) Scrum
10 4 (7.84%) CRM
10 4 (7.84%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (39.22%) Python
1 20 (39.22%) SQL
2 8 (15.69%) Scala
3 3 (5.88%) C#
3 3 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.92%) Bash
5 1 (1.96%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) Degree
2 4 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) PMI Certification
3 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) PMP
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.80%) GDPR
3 3 (5.88%) COBIT
4 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) Informatica
2 5 (9.80%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.88%) Dataiku
3 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.88%) Workday
4 2 (3.92%) Google
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.96%) SAP