Databricks Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Databricks
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 19 December 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
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 49 57
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +23
Contract jobs citing Databricks 18 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.05% 1.34% 1.23%
As % of the Vendors category 4.50% 3.09% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 9
10th Percentile £394 £345 £348
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £775
90th Percentile £610 £662 -
England median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 400 259 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 45.45% 43.46% 50.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 158 243
10th Percentile £163 £237 £241
25th Percentile £341 £356 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.37% - +6.74%
75th Percentile £518 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £651 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 12 22
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.70 £11.27
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.53 £13.00
Median hourly rate £21.25 £17.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.68% -11.73%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.80 £27.49
90th Percentile - £52.68 £88.75
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in the East Midlands

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 Databricks within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
Northamptonshire -13 8 £401 -21.76% 2
Leicestershire -8 5 £575 +15.00% 1
Derbyshire - 3 - - 2
Lincolnshire - 2 £553 -
Databricks
England

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) AWS
3 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (22.22%) GitHub
4 4 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) dbt
5 3 (16.67%) GCP
5 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
7 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Power BI
2 4 (22.22%) Aerospike
2 4 (22.22%) Big Data
3 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.11%) Delta Lake
4 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (11.11%) Redis
5 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.56%) Power Query
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) GitLab
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) JUnit
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Aerospace
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Agriculture
5 1 (5.56%) Publishing
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Data Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Data Scientist
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Database Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Junior
5 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Node.js
2 4 (22.22%) Kafka
3 3 (16.67%) Pandas
3 3 (16.67%) pytest
3 3 (16.67%) scikit-learn
3 3 (16.67%) TensorFlow
4 2 (11.11%) PySpark
5 1 (5.56%) Express.js
5 1 (5.56%) Jest
5 1 (5.56%) MERN Stack
5 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
1 5 (27.78%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Analytics
2 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 7 (38.89%) Data Engineering
4 6 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (33.33%) Fraud Detection
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (27.78%) Data Science
5 5 (27.78%) Migration
5 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
6 4 (22.22%) Backtesting
6 4 (22.22%) Data Management
6 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
6 4 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 4 (22.22%) Secure Coding
6 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) R
4 2 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft