Databricks Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Databricks
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 6 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 59 75
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 +7
Contract jobs citing Databricks 12 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.62% 1.14% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 3.43% 2.73% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 2
10th Percentile £329 £449 -
25th Percentile £375 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +8.24% -46.88%
75th Percentile £525 £675 £438
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £555 £500
% change year-on-year -9.91% +11.00% -

All Vendors
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 350 293 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 47.30% 41.92% 42.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 197 234
10th Percentile £300 £200 £264
25th Percentile £369 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £478
Median % change year-on-year - -5.76% +6.11%
75th Percentile £537 £586 £575
90th Percentile £588 £696 £675
Scotland median daily rate £461 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 15
10th Percentile - £16.01 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.15 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% +36.29% -43.30%
75th Percentile - £34.50 £38.84
90th Percentile - £48.23 £63.44
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £18.69 £17.72
% change year-on-year +2.90% +5.46% -

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Databricks in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Databricks

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 6 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (33.33%) Apache
2 4 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Snowflake
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) dbt
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (33.33%) Big Data
2 4 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (33.33%) Power BI
2 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (16.67%) Metadata
3 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (8.33%) DB2
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) ERwin
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modeller
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) REST
1 4 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) NumPy
2 2 (16.67%) Pandas
2 2 (16.67%) PySpark
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) ETL
3 6 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 5 (41.67%) Analytics
4 5 (41.67%) Data Integration
4 5 (41.67%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (33.33%) API Integration
5 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (33.33%) Sprint Review
6 3 (25.00%) Data Analytics
6 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
7 2 (16.67%) Data Lineage
7 2 (16.67%) Metadata Management
7 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Cloudera
3 1 (8.33%) Greenplum
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft