Databricks Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Databricks Architect
UK > England

The median Databricks Architect daily rate in England is £661, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 500 515
Rank change year-on-year -67 +15 +88
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Architect 49 8 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.029% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.031% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 6 11
10th Percentile £500 £546 £475
25th Percentile £525 £578 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £661 £633 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% -2.69% +4.84%
75th Percentile £710 £690 -
90th Percentile £813 £724 -
UK median daily rate £661 £633 £650
% change year-on-year +4.51% -2.69% +4.84%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 42,495 25,403 30,688
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.55% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,539 16,406 19,727
10th Percentile £325 £281 £302
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,263 1,363 1,634
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.20 £17.33 £20.74
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

Databricks Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Databricks Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Databricks Architect job vacancy trend in England

Databricks Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Databricks Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Databricks Architect job vacancies in England

Databricks Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks Architect in England

Databricks Architect
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 Databricks Architect 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 -42 41 £661 +3.28%
South East - 7 £588 -
Databricks Architect
UK

Databricks Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, Databricks Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Databricks Architect in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) Databricks
2 21 (42.86%) Data Architecture
3 20 (40.82%) Analytics
3 20 (40.82%) Azure
4 18 (36.73%) Data Governance
5 17 (34.69%) Data Engineering
6 16 (32.65%) Data Modelling
6 16 (32.65%) Lakehouse
7 15 (30.61%) AI
7 15 (30.61%) Migration
7 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
8 14 (28.57%) AWS
9 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
10 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
10 11 (22.45%) Delta Lake
10 11 (22.45%) Integration Patterns
10 11 (22.45%) Use Case
11 10 (20.41%) Azure Databricks
12 9 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (18.37%) Data Integration
12 9 (18.37%) Data Quality
12 9 (18.37%) Machine Learning
12 9 (18.37%) SQL
13 8 (16.33%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (16.33%) PySpark
14 7 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
14 7 (14.29%) DevOps
14 7 (14.29%) GCP
14 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
14 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement

Databricks Architect Skill Set
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 3 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.08%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.82%) Azure
2 14 (28.57%) AWS
3 10 (20.41%) Azure Databricks
4 7 (14.29%) GCP
5 5 (10.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (10.20%) Snowflake
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (8.16%) dbt
7 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) Fivetran
7 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.12%) Serverless
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.08%) GitHub
8 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.45%) Delta Lake
2 8 (16.33%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (12.24%) Data Lake
4 5 (10.20%) Spark SQL
5 3 (6.12%) Metadata
5 3 (6.12%) Power BI
5 3 (6.12%) Tableau
6 2 (4.08%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (4.08%) BigQuery
6 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.08%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.04%) Big Data
7 1 (2.04%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) RStudio
2 2 (4.08%) MLflow
3 1 (2.04%) PowerDesigner
General
1 16 (32.65%) Finance
2 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.20%) Retail
5 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Back Office
7 1 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Billing
7 1 (2.04%) Front Office
7 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) PySpark
2 7 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Educational Technology
2 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.08%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.08%) Clustering
3 2 (4.08%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Data Architecture
2 20 (40.82%) Analytics
3 18 (36.73%) Data Governance
4 17 (34.69%) Data Engineering
5 16 (32.65%) Data Modelling
5 16 (32.65%) Lakehouse
6 15 (30.61%) AI
6 15 (30.61%) Migration
7 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
7 11 (22.45%) Integration Patterns
7 11 (22.45%) Use Case
8 9 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (18.37%) Data Integration
8 9 (18.37%) Machine Learning
9 7 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
9 7 (14.29%) DevOps
9 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (12.24%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.37%) SQL
2 3 (6.12%) Python
3 1 (2.04%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) Solvency II
4 1 (2.04%) COPPA
4 1 (2.04%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.04%) SLA
Vendors
1 49 (100.00%) Databricks
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.08%) IBM
3 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.08%) SAP
4 1 (2.04%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.04%) Teradata