Databricks Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Data Engineer - Databricks
UK > England

The median Data Engineer - Databricks daily rate in England is £505, 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 540 481 514
Rank change year-on-year -59 +33 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Data Engineer 76 27 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.097% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.11% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 22 12
10th Percentile £411 £475 £451
25th Percentile £438 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +1.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £589 £666 £638
90th Percentile £650 £711 £671
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +13.16%

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 Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Databricks Data Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Databricks Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Databricks Data Engineer job vacancies in England

Databricks Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks Data Engineer in England

Databricks Data Engineer
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 Data Engineer 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 -35 63 £506 -10.40% 14
Midlands -47 3 £510 -21.54%
East of England - 3 £565 -
West Midlands -42 2 £461 -29.04%
Yorkshire -45 2 £475 -
North of England -73 2 £475 -7.32% 1
South West - 2 £450 - 1
South East -62 1 £525 -16.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 £650 -
Databricks Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, Databricks Data Engineer 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 Data Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) Databricks
2 56 (73.68%) Azure
3 51 (67.11%) Data Pipeline
4 45 (59.21%) Python
5 42 (55.26%) SQL
6 40 (52.63%) Data Engineering
7 36 (47.37%) ETL
8 30 (39.47%) CI/CD
9 29 (38.16%) Analytics
10 28 (36.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (36.84%) Data Modelling
11 27 (35.53%) Data Quality
12 26 (34.21%) PySpark
13 24 (31.58%) Data Governance
13 24 (31.58%) DevOps
14 23 (30.26%) Delta Lake
15 22 (28.95%) Lakehouse
16 19 (25.00%) Azure Databricks
17 16 (21.05%) Agile
17 16 (21.05%) AWS
17 16 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
18 15 (19.74%) Apache Airflow
19 14 (18.42%) AI
19 14 (18.42%) Apache Spark
19 14 (18.42%) Data Lake
19 14 (18.42%) Validation
20 12 (15.79%) Data Architecture
20 12 (15.79%) Data Transformation
20 12 (15.79%) Git
20 12 (15.79%) Machine Learning

Databricks Data Engineer 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 15 (19.74%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (18.42%) Apache Spark
3 11 (14.47%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 56 (73.68%) Azure
2 28 (36.84%) Azure Data Factory
3 19 (25.00%) Azure Databricks
4 16 (21.05%) AWS
4 16 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (13.16%) Power Platform
6 7 (9.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (9.21%) GitHub
7 6 (7.89%) GCP
7 6 (7.89%) Snowflake
8 5 (6.58%) Fivetran
9 4 (5.26%) dbt
9 4 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.26%) Prefect
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.63%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.32%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (30.26%) Delta Lake
2 14 (18.42%) Data Lake
3 9 (11.84%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (11.84%) Power BI
3 9 (11.84%) Spark SQL
4 6 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (7.89%) BigQuery
4 6 (7.89%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.26%) Metadata
5 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.63%) Big Data
7 2 (2.63%) Tableau
8 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Git
2 2 (2.63%) MLflow
2 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.32%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.32%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.32%) ERwin
3 1 (1.32%) GitLab
3 1 (1.32%) Newman
3 1 (1.32%) Postman
General
1 19 (25.00%) Finance
2 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Banking
5 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Law
5 1 (1.32%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (34.21%) PySpark
2 11 (14.47%) Kafka
3 10 (13.16%) Terraform
4 3 (3.95%) pytest
4 3 (3.95%) YAML
5 2 (2.63%) REST
6 1 (1.32%) Great Expectations
6 1 (1.32%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (1.32%) Pandas
6 1 (1.32%) XML
6 1 (1.32%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Cloud Native
1 6 (7.89%) Reinsurance
2 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.63%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.32%) Life Science
5 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.32%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.32%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.32%) Replication
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.32%) Tandem
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (67.11%) Data Pipeline
2 40 (52.63%) Data Engineering
3 36 (47.37%) ETL
4 30 (39.47%) CI/CD
5 29 (38.16%) Analytics
6 28 (36.84%) Data Modelling
7 24 (31.58%) Data Governance
7 24 (31.58%) DevOps
8 22 (28.95%) Lakehouse
9 16 (21.05%) Agile
10 14 (18.42%) AI
10 14 (18.42%) Validation
11 12 (15.79%) Data Architecture
11 12 (15.79%) Data Transformation
11 12 (15.79%) Machine Learning
11 12 (15.79%) Migration
12 11 (14.47%) Performance Optimisation
13 10 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (11.84%) Data Ingestion
14 9 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (59.21%) Python
2 42 (55.26%) SQL
3 6 (7.89%) Scala
4 3 (3.95%) Korn
5 1 (1.32%) Bicep
5 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 12 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.63%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.32%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (35.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.95%) QA
System Software
1 7 (9.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.32%) Control-M
2 1 (1.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (100.00%) Databricks
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle
4 1 (1.32%) Informatica
4 1 (1.32%) SAP
4 1 (1.32%) Talend