Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in England

Azure Databricks
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England 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 451 407 422
Rank change year-on-year -44 +15 +63
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 166 101 108
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 0.97% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 79 80
10th Percentile £411 £406 £411
25th Percentile £449 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £605
90th Percentile £738 £775 £664
UK median daily rate £503 £548 £525
% change year-on-year -8.17% +4.29% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £37.24 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,975 10,361 11,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.75% 37.34% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,671 7,016 7,872
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 268 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.88 £18.51 £18.07
Median hourly rate £34.18 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.95% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £58.39
90th Percentile £82.56 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.75 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.37% -4.17% -14.29%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in England

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in England

Azure Databricks
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London -37 111 £525 -4.55% 29
Midlands -44 17 £503 +13.56% 5
North of England -65 14 £475 +0.53% 9
Yorkshire -40 10 £475 -20.57% 4
West Midlands -43 8 £500 +25.00% 3
South East -59 8 £531 -13.31% 4
South West -37 6 £450 -21.74% 3
East Midlands -10 5 £500 +9.29% 2
North West -55 4 £600 +34.83% 3
East of England -24 1 £505 -4.27% 1
Azure Databricks
UK

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 17 (10.24%) Apache Spark
2 13 (7.83%) Apache
3 9 (5.42%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 166 (100.00%) Azure
2 76 (45.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 49 (29.52%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (24.10%) Power Platform
5 30 (18.07%) GitHub
6 28 (16.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 21 (12.65%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (10.84%) Serverless
9 15 (9.04%) Entra ID
10 11 (6.63%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (5.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (4.22%) AWS
13 7 (4.22%) Azure AKS
13 7 (4.22%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (3.01%) dbt
15 5 (3.01%) PowerApps
15 5 (3.01%) SaaS
15 5 (3.01%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.61%) Firewall
2 5 (3.01%) HTTP
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (24.10%) Delta Lake
2 37 (22.29%) Data Lake
3 32 (19.28%) Power BI
4 22 (13.25%) Metadata
5 16 (9.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (9.64%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (7.83%) SQL Server
7 9 (5.42%) Spark SQL
8 7 (4.22%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (4.22%) Star Schema
9 6 (3.61%) Big Data
10 5 (3.01%) Oracle Database
10 5 (3.01%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (2.41%) MySQL
11 4 (2.41%) Power Query
12 3 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.20%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 17 (10.24%) Git
2 8 (4.82%) GitLab
3 7 (4.22%) ERwin
4 6 (3.61%) ER Studio
4 6 (3.61%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.01%) MLflow
5 5 (3.01%) RStudio
6 1 (0.60%) JIRA
6 1 (0.60%) Selenium
6 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.60%) Toad
6 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (28.92%) Finance
2 40 (24.10%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.42%) Banking
5 9 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.01%) Military
7 4 (2.41%) Billing
7 4 (2.41%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.81%) Retail
9 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.20%) Front Office
9 2 (1.20%) Local Government
9 2 (1.20%) Marketing
9 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.60%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 58 (34.94%) Data Engineer
2 39 (23.49%) Azure Engineer
3 38 (22.89%) Architect
4 31 (18.67%) Databricks Engineer
5 21 (12.65%) Azure Data Engineer
6 20 (12.05%) Senior
7 19 (11.45%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 18 (10.84%) Developer
9 17 (10.24%) Data Architect
9 17 (10.24%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (8.43%) Lead
11 11 (6.63%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (6.02%) Databricks Architect
13 9 (5.42%) Azure Architect
13 9 (5.42%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 9 (5.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (5.42%) Senior Data Engineer
14 8 (4.82%) Consultant
15 7 (4.22%) Analyst
15 7 (4.22%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (27.71%) PySpark
2 27 (16.27%) Terraform
3 15 (9.04%) REST
4 13 (7.83%) Kafka
5 9 (5.42%) YAML
6 7 (4.22%) React
7 6 (3.61%) .NET
7 6 (3.61%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.61%) ARM Templates
7 6 (3.61%) Vue
8 5 (3.01%) Pandas
9 4 (2.41%) Node.js
9 4 (2.41%) NumPy
10 3 (1.81%) ASP.NET
10 3 (1.81%) CSS
10 3 (1.81%) CSS3
10 3 (1.81%) HTML
10 3 (1.81%) HTML5
10 3 (1.81%) OAuth
10 3 (1.81%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.86%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.42%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.22%) Reference Data
5 6 (3.61%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.61%) IoT
6 5 (3.01%) Low-Code
6 5 (3.01%) Pricing Data
6 5 (3.01%) SCADA
6 5 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.41%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.20%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.02%) Linux
2 5 (3.01%) Unix
3 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (45.18%) CI/CD
2 72 (43.37%) Analytics
3 68 (40.96%) Data Engineering
4 66 (39.76%) Data Pipeline
4 66 (39.76%) DevOps
5 53 (31.93%) Data Modelling
6 46 (27.71%) Data Governance
7 40 (24.10%) Business Intelligence
8 39 (23.49%) ETL
9 38 (22.89%) Lakehouse
10 36 (21.69%) Agile
10 36 (21.69%) Migration
11 34 (20.48%) Data Architecture
12 32 (19.28%) AI
13 31 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (16.87%) Performance Optimisation
15 26 (15.66%) Platform Engineering
16 21 (12.65%) Data Ingestion
16 21 (12.65%) Data Transformation
16 21 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (50.00%) SQL
2 77 (46.39%) Python
3 19 (11.45%) Bicep
4 17 (10.24%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.63%) Scala
6 10 (6.02%) Bash
7 6 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (3.01%) Java
8 5 (3.01%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.41%) C#
9 4 (2.41%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.41%) R
10 3 (1.81%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.20%) Korn
11 2 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.60%) Ada
12 1 (0.60%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 40 (24.10%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.02%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.61%) Degree
5 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.20%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (25.30%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.42%) GDPR
3 6 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.41%) QA
4 4 (2.41%) SLA
5 3 (1.81%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (7.83%) Docker
2 5 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (7.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.61%) Puppet
3 5 (3.01%) Ansible
3 5 (3.01%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.41%) Grafana
5 3 (1.81%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.20%) Control-M
7 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 166 (100.00%) Databricks
2 48 (28.92%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.63%) Informatica
4 8 (4.82%) Oracle
5 5 (3.01%) SAP
6 4 (2.41%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.41%) Hortonworks
7 3 (1.81%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.20%) Foundry
8 2 (1.20%) IBM
8 2 (1.20%) Talend
9 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.60%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.60%) Sparx