Databricks Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Databricks
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 5 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
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 65 92
Rank change year-on-year +6 +27 +32
Contract jobs citing Databricks 8 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.29% 0.99% 0.46%
As % of the Vendors category 2.94% 2.54% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £525 £650 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £750 £563
90th Percentile £645 - £630
Scotland median daily rate £500 £555 £500
% change year-on-year -9.91% +11.00% -

All Vendors
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 272 315 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 43.80% 38.99% 41.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 176 282
10th Percentile £355 £156 £200
25th Percentile £425 £229 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.41% -10.53% +2.15%
75th Percentile £538 £527 £538
90th Percentile £622 £680 £588
Scotland median daily rate £461 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 27 3
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.38 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.25 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% +3.10% +0.62%
75th Percentile £37.50 £23.89 £35.74
90th Percentile £60.38 £24.18 £46.54
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £18.38 £17.72
% change year-on-year +4.65% +3.70% -

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Databricks as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Databricks in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Databricks

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 5 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (37.50%) Collibra
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
General
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Front Office
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modeller
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) BBC
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Data Capture
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) ETRM
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce