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 3 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
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 73 89
Rank change year-on-year +20 +16 +7
Contract jobs citing Databricks 86 54 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.59% 2.86% 1.90%
As % of the Vendors category 8.58% 6.05% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 38 27
10th Percentile £425 £475 £420
25th Percentile £488 £516 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £631 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.44% +14.77% -12.00%
75th Percentile £669 £686 £731
90th Percentile £749 £719 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £631 £525
% change year-on-year -16.83% +20.18% -15.96%

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 1,002 893 900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.80% 47.27% 43.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 574 644
10th Percentile £357 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.22%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £751 £762
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 11
10th Percentile - £22.53 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £19.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +42.87% -25.52%
75th Percentile £25.12 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.13 £89.67 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £32.83 £34.25
% change year-on-year -31.45% -4.16% +37.00%

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 3 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 7 (8.14%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.81%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.49%) Apache
4 2 (2.33%) Confluence
4 2 (2.33%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.81%) BambooHR
2 2 (2.33%) SAP MDG
2 2 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 57 (66.28%) Azure
2 26 (30.23%) Power Platform
3 18 (20.93%) Azure Data Factory
3 18 (20.93%) Snowflake
4 16 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (15.12%) AWS
6 7 (8.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (6.98%) dbt
7 6 (6.98%) PaaS
8 5 (5.81%) Dagster
8 5 (5.81%) Prefect
8 5 (5.81%) Serverless
9 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.65%) IaaS
9 4 (4.65%) SaaS
10 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.49%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (3.49%) GCP
10 3 (3.49%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (29.07%) Power BI
2 13 (15.12%) Metadata
3 12 (13.95%) Data Lake
4 9 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (9.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (9.30%) Tableau
6 6 (6.98%) BigQuery
6 6 (6.98%) Delta Lake
7 5 (5.81%) Big Data
7 5 (5.81%) Looker
7 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.65%) Data Mart
8 4 (4.65%) Oracle Database
9 3 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (2.33%) Spark SQL
10 2 (2.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Git
2 2 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.16%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.16%) GitLab
3 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.16%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (36.05%) Finance
2 14 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.12%) Banking
4 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.81%) Legal
5 5 (5.81%) Marketing
5 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.65%) Retail
6 4 (4.65%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (29.07%) Architect
2 15 (17.44%) Data Architect
2 15 (17.44%) Data Engineer
3 14 (16.28%) Analyst
4 13 (15.12%) Data Analyst
5 11 (12.79%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (10.47%) Senior
7 8 (9.30%) Consultant
8 7 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Data Consultant
9 6 (6.98%) Developer
9 6 (6.98%) Lead
9 6 (6.98%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Technical Architect
11 4 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Python Developer
11 4 (4.65%) Senior Python Developer
12 3 (3.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.63%) PySpark
2 6 (6.98%) .NET
2 6 (6.98%) Middleware
3 4 (4.65%) Kafka
3 4 (4.65%) React
4 3 (3.49%) YAML
5 2 (2.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.33%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.33%) JSON
5 2 (2.33%) Node.js
5 2 (2.33%) pytest
6 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (1.16%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.16%) NumPy
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.16%) Pandas
6 1 (1.16%) REST
6 1 (1.16%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.16%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.65%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.49%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.49%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.33%) FMCG
5 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Life Science
6 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.16%) NHS
6 1 (1.16%) PMI
6 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.16%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.16%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
1 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (51.16%) Analytics
2 35 (40.70%) Data Modelling
3 33 (38.37%) Data Engineering
4 31 (36.05%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (33.72%) CI/CD
6 27 (31.40%) DevOps
7 25 (29.07%) Data Pipeline
8 22 (25.58%) ETL
9 21 (24.42%) AI
10 19 (22.09%) Data Governance
11 18 (20.93%) Data Architecture
11 18 (20.93%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (17.44%) Decision-Making
12 15 (17.44%) Roadmaps
13 14 (16.28%) Migration
14 13 (15.12%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (15.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 11 (12.79%) Data Integration
15 11 (12.79%) Performance Optimisation
15 11 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (40.70%) Python
1 35 (40.70%) SQL
2 6 (6.98%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.81%) Korn
4 4 (4.65%) Bicep
4 4 (4.65%) C#
4 4 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.49%) Bash
5 3 (3.49%) Java
5 3 (3.49%) Scala
6 2 (2.33%) R
7 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.77%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.16%) CBAP
5 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.09%) Data Quality
2 13 (15.12%) GDPR
3 5 (5.81%) QA
4 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (12.79%) Terraform
2 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.30%) Salesforce
3 7 (8.14%) Oracle
4 5 (5.81%) SAP
4 5 (5.81%) Workday
5 3 (3.49%) Palantir
6 2 (2.33%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.33%) Foundry
6 2 (2.33%) Informatica
6 2 (2.33%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.16%) Adobe
7 1 (1.16%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.16%) Denodo
7 1 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud