Databricks Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Databricks
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 16 January 2026, 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
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Databricks 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 5.19% 4.05% 2.50%
As % of the Vendors category 11.11% 8.57% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £459 £430 £303
25th Percentile £509 £438 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £463 £375
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £500 £388
90th Percentile - £515 -
Leicestershire median daily rate £575 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +35.29% +13.33% -16.67%

All Vendors
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36 35 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 46.75% 47.30% 44.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 26 37
10th Percentile £351 £205 £130
25th Percentile £360 £286 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% +7.65% +7.59%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £625
90th Percentile £625 £715 £698
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 £428 £425
% change year-on-year +8.19% +0.59% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.30
25th Percentile - - £25.25
Median hourly rate £13.84 - £39.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.00%
75th Percentile - - £52.25
90th Percentile - - £59.90
Leicestershire median hourly rate £23.71 - £14.00
% change year-on-year - - -76.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Databricks relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Databricks job vacancy trend in Leicester

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Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Databricks

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks in Leicester over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in Leicester

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) dbt
2 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus