Databricks Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Databricks Architect
England > London

The median Databricks Architect daily rate in London is £661, 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 409 367 383
Rank change year-on-year -42 +16 +72
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Architect 41 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.045% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.048% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 5 8
10th Percentile £500 £585 £544
25th Percentile £544 £613 £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £661 £640 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% -1.54% +4.84%
75th Percentile £724 £700 -
90th Percentile £813 £729 -
England median daily rate £661 £633 £650
% change year-on-year +4.51% -2.69% +4.84%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 18,896 12,518 15,218
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 92.97% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,217 8,426 10,484
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 208 192
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.41% -12.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.31 £50.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%

Databricks Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Databricks Architect job vacancy trend in London

Databricks Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Databricks Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Databricks Architect job vacancies in London

Databricks Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks Architect in London

Databricks Architect
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 Databricks Architect 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 -15 4 £563 -5.62% 1
Databricks Architect
England

Databricks Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, Databricks Architect 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 London region featuring Databricks Architect in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Databricks
2 17 (41.46%) Analytics
2 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 17 (41.46%) Data Architecture
3 16 (39.02%) Data Engineering
3 16 (39.02%) Data Governance
4 15 (36.59%) AI
4 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
5 14 (34.15%) AWS
5 14 (34.15%) Migration
6 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
7 12 (29.27%) Lakehouse
8 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
9 9 (21.95%) Data Modelling
9 9 (21.95%) Delta Lake
9 9 (21.95%) Machine Learning
10 8 (19.51%) Azure Databricks
10 8 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (19.51%) Data Integration
10 8 (19.51%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (17.07%) Data Ingestion
11 7 (17.07%) Data Quality
11 7 (17.07%) DevOps
11 7 (17.07%) GCP
11 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (17.07%) Integration Patterns
11 7 (17.07%) SQL
11 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (17.07%) Terraform
11 7 (17.07%) Use Case

Databricks Architect Skill Set
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 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.88%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 14 (34.15%) AWS
3 8 (19.51%) Azure Databricks
4 7 (17.07%) GCP
5 5 (12.20%) Snowflake
6 4 (9.76%) dbt
7 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.32%) Fivetran
7 3 (7.32%) Serverless
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.88%) GitHub
8 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) Delta Lake
2 8 (19.51%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (14.63%) Data Lake
4 5 (12.20%) Spark SQL
5 2 (4.88%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (4.88%) BigQuery
5 2 (4.88%) Metadata
5 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.88%) Power BI
5 2 (4.88%) Star Schema
5 2 (4.88%) Tableau
6 1 (2.44%) Big Data
6 1 (2.44%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) RStudio
2 2 (4.88%) MLflow
3 1 (2.44%) PowerDesigner
General
1 12 (29.27%) Finance
2 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Retail
4 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Back Office
6 1 (2.44%) Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Billing
6 1 (2.44%) Front Office
6 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) Terraform
2 6 (14.63%) PySpark
3 1 (2.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) Educational Technology
2 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.88%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.88%) Clustering
3 2 (4.88%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Analytics
1 17 (41.46%) Data Architecture
2 16 (39.02%) Data Engineering
2 16 (39.02%) Data Governance
3 15 (36.59%) AI
4 14 (34.15%) Migration
5 12 (29.27%) Lakehouse
6 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
7 9 (21.95%) Data Modelling
7 9 (21.95%) Machine Learning
8 8 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (19.51%) Data Integration
9 7 (17.07%) Data Ingestion
9 7 (17.07%) DevOps
9 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (17.07%) Integration Patterns
9 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (17.07%) Use Case
10 6 (14.63%) Cost Optimisation
10 6 (14.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) SQL
2 2 (4.88%) Python
3 1 (2.44%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.32%) GDPR
3 2 (4.88%) Solvency II
4 1 (2.44%) COPPA
4 1 (2.44%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.44%) SLA
Vendors
1 41 (100.00%) Databricks
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) IBM
3 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.88%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) OpenAI