Databricks Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Data Engineer - Databricks
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Data Engineer - Databricks daily rate in Leeds is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 74 61
Rank change year-on-year -9 -13 -
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Data Engineer 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.57% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £479 - -
25th Percentile £484 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £522 - -
90th Percentile £531 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £538 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 993 659 646
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 96.77% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 428 407
10th Percentile £363 £304 £325
25th Percentile £425 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £648
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 30
10th Percentile £15.70 £21.63 £17.89
25th Percentile £19.34 £23.80 £19.50
Median hourly rate £26.25 £25.50 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +3.70% +15.39%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.06 £46.25
90th Percentile - £28.08 £48.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £27.50 £26.25
% change year-on-year -6.29% +4.76% +31.25%

Databricks Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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 Leeds.

Databricks Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Databricks Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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 Leeds region featuring Databricks Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (100.00%) Databricks
2 5 (83.33%) Delta Lake
2 5 (83.33%) ETL
2 5 (83.33%) PySpark
2 5 (83.33%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (50.00%) AWS
4 3 (50.00%) Azure
4 3 (50.00%) Git
4 3 (50.00%) Lakehouse
4 3 (50.00%) Migration
4 3 (50.00%) Spark SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Validation
5 2 (33.33%) AI
5 2 (33.33%) Apache
5 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
5 2 (33.33%) Foundry
5 2 (33.33%) Palantir
5 2 (33.33%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (33.33%) pytest
5 2 (33.33%) QA
5 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
5 2 (33.33%) Storage Management

Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
2 2 (33.33%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Delta Lake
2 3 (50.00%) Spark SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata
3 1 (16.67%) Parquet
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) PySpark
2 2 (33.33%) pytest
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (83.33%) ETL
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (50.00%) Lakehouse
4 3 (50.00%) Migration
4 3 (50.00%) Validation
5 2 (33.33%) AI
5 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
5 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
5 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
5 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Analytics
6 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Foundry
2 2 (33.33%) Palantir