Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Azure Databricks
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Azure Databricks skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 68 62
Rank change year-on-year -10 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.39% 0.39% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 1.42% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £371 £415 £370
25th Percentile £388 £429 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +14.38% -4.76%
75th Percentile £508 £484 -
90th Percentile £586 £498 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

Azure Databricks falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 377 212 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.78% 27.68% 25.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 161 123
10th Percentile £213 £308 £182
25th Percentile £381 £368 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.23% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £575 £500 £593
90th Percentile £656 £563 £644
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 8 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.97 £14.76
25th Percentile £14.88 £17.96 £16.63
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.95 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% +14.33% -8.40%
75th Percentile £19.03 £21.39 £51.91
90th Percentile £25.75 - £53.76
England median hourly rate £34.18 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.95% -12.33% -9.09%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Databricks relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Databricks in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in the East Midlands

Azure Databricks
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Databricks within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire - 2 £450 -
Leicestershire - 2 £493 - 1
Lincolnshire -16 1 £505 -
Azure Databricks
England

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Power Query
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Agriculture
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) ETL Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (20.00%) Express.js
1 1 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (20.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Micro Frontends
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Databricks
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce