Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in London

Azure Databricks
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Azure Databricks skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 302 324
Rank change year-on-year -37 +22 +49
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 111 71 70
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.53% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 1.22% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 56 55
10th Percentile £413 £419 £454
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £650 £651 £602
90th Percentile £738 £788 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

Azure Databricks falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,354 5,813 6,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.27% 43.17% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,712 3,981 4,762
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 91 51
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -36.84%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.42 £72.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £34.18 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.95% -12.33% -9.09%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in London

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in London

Azure Databricks
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Databricks within the London 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
Central London -7 23 £520 -8.77%
Azure Databricks
England

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 11 (9.91%) Apache Spark
2 9 (8.11%) Apache
2 9 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 54 (48.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 33 (29.73%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (19.82%) GitHub
5 21 (18.92%) Power Platform
6 15 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (11.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (8.11%) Serverless
9 8 (7.21%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.41%) AWS
10 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (4.50%) Azure AKS
11 5 (4.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (2.70%) dbt
13 3 (2.70%) SaaS
14 2 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
14 2 (1.80%) Snowflake
14 2 (1.80%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) HTTP
2 1 (0.90%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.52%) Delta Lake
2 24 (21.62%) Data Lake
3 16 (14.41%) Metadata
3 16 (14.41%) Power BI
4 11 (9.91%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (9.91%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.41%) Spark SQL
5 6 (5.41%) Star Schema
6 4 (3.60%) MySQL
6 4 (3.60%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.70%) Power Query
8 2 (1.80%) Big Data
8 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.80%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.90%) Db2
9 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (11.71%) Git
2 8 (7.21%) GitLab
3 7 (6.31%) ERwin
4 6 (5.41%) ER Studio
4 6 (5.41%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.60%) RStudio
6 2 (1.80%) MLflow
7 1 (0.90%) JIRA
7 1 (0.90%) Selenium
7 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (38.74%) Finance
2 34 (30.63%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.11%) Banking
4 9 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.70%) Billing
7 3 (2.70%) Retail
8 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.80%) Front Office
8 2 (1.80%) Marketing
8 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Legal
9 1 (0.90%) Local Government
9 1 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 27 (24.32%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (23.42%) Architect
4 20 (18.02%) Databricks Engineer
5 15 (13.51%) Azure Data Engineer
6 14 (12.61%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 14 (12.61%) Developer
6 14 (12.61%) Senior
7 10 (9.01%) Data Architect
7 10 (9.01%) Lead
7 10 (9.01%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (7.21%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Databricks Architect
10 7 (6.31%) Azure Architect
10 7 (6.31%) Python Developer
10 7 (6.31%) Senior Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Platform Architect
12 5 (4.50%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (31.53%) PySpark
2 18 (16.22%) Terraform
3 10 (9.01%) REST
4 9 (8.11%) YAML
5 6 (5.41%) .NET
5 6 (5.41%) AngularJS
5 6 (5.41%) Kafka
5 6 (5.41%) React
5 6 (5.41%) Vue
6 5 (4.50%) ARM Templates
7 4 (3.60%) NumPy
7 4 (3.60%) Pandas
8 3 (2.70%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.70%) CSS
8 3 (2.70%) CSS3
8 3 (2.70%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.70%) HTML
8 3 (2.70%) HTML5
8 3 (2.70%) Node.js
8 3 (2.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.31%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.31%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.31%) Reference Data
3 6 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.50%) Pricing Data
4 5 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.70%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.80%) Housing Association
6 2 (1.80%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.90%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.90%) IoT
7 1 (0.90%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.90%) Tandem
7 1 (0.90%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.31%) Linux
2 5 (4.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (45.95%) CI/CD
2 47 (42.34%) Data Engineering
3 45 (40.54%) DevOps
4 41 (36.94%) Analytics
5 36 (32.43%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (25.23%) Lakehouse
7 27 (24.32%) Data Governance
7 27 (24.32%) Data Modelling
8 23 (20.72%) Data Architecture
8 23 (20.72%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (19.82%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (18.92%) AI
10 21 (18.92%) Migration
11 20 (18.02%) Agile
12 19 (17.12%) ETL
12 19 (17.12%) Performance Optimisation
13 17 (15.32%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (13.51%) Use Case
16 13 (11.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 53 (47.75%) Python
2 51 (45.95%) SQL
3 11 (9.91%) Bicep
3 11 (9.91%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.21%) Bash
5 7 (6.31%) Scala
6 6 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (4.50%) Java
7 5 (4.50%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.60%) C#
8 4 (3.60%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.70%) R
9 3 (2.70%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.80%) Korn
Qualifications
1 31 (27.93%) Security Cleared
2 30 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.21%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.50%) Degree
5 2 (1.80%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (22.52%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.70%) GDPR
2 3 (2.70%) SLA
3 2 (1.80%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (8.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.31%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.41%) Puppet
3 4 (3.60%) Ansible
3 4 (3.60%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.80%) Control-M
4 2 (1.80%) Grafana
5 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (100.00%) Databricks
2 32 (28.83%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.60%) Cloudera
3 4 (3.60%) Hortonworks
4 3 (2.70%) Informatica
4 3 (2.70%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.70%) Oracle
5 2 (1.80%) Foundry
5 2 (1.80%) IBM
5 2 (1.80%) Talend
6 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.90%) Bloomberg