Databricks Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Databricks Engineer
UK > England

The median Databricks Engineer daily rate in England is £513, 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 488 468 498
Rank change year-on-year -20 +30 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Engineer 128 40 32
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.14% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.16% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 27 26
10th Percentile £425 £470 £463
25th Percentile £473 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -10.17% +25.59%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £675
90th Percentile £664 £705 £731
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -8.18% -2.22% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £37.24 - -

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Databricks Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Databricks Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Databricks Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks Engineer in England

Databricks Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Databricks Engineer job vacancies in England

Databricks 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 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 -7 100 £513 -9.29%
South East -54 9 £525 -16.00%
Yorkshire -42 5 £513 -
Midlands -46 5 £580 -10.77%
North of England -71 5 £513 +2.50%
West Midlands -42 3 £461 -29.04%
East of England - 3 £565 -
South West - 3 £450 -
East Midlands - 1 £650 -
Databricks Engineer
UK

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

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

1 128 (100.00%) Databricks
2 82 (64.06%) Azure
3 68 (53.13%) Data Pipeline
4 62 (48.44%) Python
5 53 (41.41%) SQL
6 49 (38.28%) Data Engineering
7 46 (35.94%) CI/CD
8 42 (32.81%) ETL
9 38 (29.69%) DevOps
10 34 (26.56%) Analytics
10 34 (26.56%) PySpark
11 33 (25.78%) Data Modelling
12 32 (25.00%) Data Quality
12 32 (25.00%) Delta Lake
13 31 (24.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 31 (24.22%) Azure Databricks
14 30 (23.44%) Data Governance
15 29 (22.66%) AWS
15 29 (22.66%) Platform Engineering
16 27 (21.09%) Azure DevOps
16 27 (21.09%) Terraform
17 25 (19.53%) Lakehouse
18 23 (17.97%) Infrastructure as Code
18 23 (17.97%) Security Cleared
19 22 (17.19%) Agile
20 21 (16.41%) AI
20 21 (16.41%) SC Cleared
21 18 (14.06%) Apache Spark
21 18 (14.06%) Git
22 17 (13.28%) Data Lake

Databricks 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 18 (14.06%) Apache Spark
2 16 (12.50%) Apache
3 15 (11.72%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.91%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 82 (64.06%) Azure
2 31 (24.22%) Azure Data Factory
2 31 (24.22%) Azure Databricks
3 29 (22.66%) AWS
4 27 (21.09%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (10.94%) Power Platform
6 11 (8.59%) GitHub
7 8 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.47%) Snowflake
9 6 (4.69%) GCP
10 5 (3.91%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.91%) dbt
10 5 (3.91%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.91%) Fivetran
11 4 (3.13%) Prefect
12 3 (2.34%) Azure Batch
12 3 (2.34%) Serverless
13 2 (1.56%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (1.56%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 17 (13.28%) Data Lake
3 12 (9.38%) Power BI
4 10 (7.81%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (7.81%) Spark SQL
5 8 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.47%) Metadata
7 6 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.69%) BigQuery
8 5 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.34%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.56%) Big Data
11 2 (1.56%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.56%) Parquet
11 2 (1.56%) Tableau
12 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (14.06%) Git
2 3 (2.34%) GitLab
2 3 (2.34%) MLflow
3 2 (1.56%) RStudio
3 2 (1.56%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.78%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.78%) ERwin
4 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.78%) Newman
4 1 (0.78%) Postman
General
1 23 (17.97%) Finance
2 16 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.69%) Banking
5 4 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.78%) Back Office
7 1 (0.78%) Billing
7 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Front Office
7 1 (0.78%) Law
7 1 (0.78%) Military
7 1 (0.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (26.56%) PySpark
2 27 (21.09%) Terraform
3 11 (8.59%) Kafka
4 4 (3.13%) REST
5 3 (2.34%) pytest
5 3 (2.34%) YAML
6 2 (1.56%) JSON
7 1 (0.78%) .NET
7 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.78%) CSS
7 1 (0.78%) CSS3
7 1 (0.78%) HTML
7 1 (0.78%) HTML5
7 1 (0.78%) Node.js
7 1 (0.78%) OAuth
7 1 (0.78%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.78%) Pandas
7 1 (0.78%) React
7 1 (0.78%) XML
7 1 (0.78%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.69%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.69%) Reinsurance
3 5 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.34%) Educational Technology
4 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.56%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.56%) Clustering
5 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.78%) Life Science
6 1 (0.78%) Pricing Data
6 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.78%) Replication
6 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.78%) Tandem
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (53.13%) Data Pipeline
2 49 (38.28%) Data Engineering
3 46 (35.94%) CI/CD
4 42 (32.81%) ETL
5 38 (29.69%) DevOps
6 34 (26.56%) Analytics
7 33 (25.78%) Data Modelling
8 30 (23.44%) Data Governance
9 29 (22.66%) Platform Engineering
10 25 (19.53%) Lakehouse
11 23 (17.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (17.19%) Agile
13 21 (16.41%) AI
14 16 (12.50%) Migration
14 16 (12.50%) Validation
15 15 (11.72%) Machine Learning
16 14 (10.94%) Data Transformation
16 14 (10.94%) Performance Optimisation
17 13 (10.16%) Business Intelligence
18 12 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (48.44%) Python
2 53 (41.41%) SQL
3 10 (7.81%) Scala
4 5 (3.91%) Bash
5 4 (3.13%) Bicep
5 4 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.34%) Korn
7 2 (1.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.78%) Ada
8 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.78%) Java
8 1 (0.78%) R
8 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (17.97%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.41%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.47%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.56%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.78%) Degree
5 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.13%) QA
3 2 (1.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) COPPA
4 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (10.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.78%) Control-M
2 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 128 (100.00%) Databricks
2 9 (7.03%) Foundry
3 7 (5.47%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.91%) Palantir
5 3 (2.34%) Oracle
6 2 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.78%) IBM
7 1 (0.78%) Informatica
7 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.78%) SAP
7 1 (0.78%) Talend