Databricks Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Data Engineer - Databricks
England > London

The median Data Engineer - Databricks daily rate in London is £506, 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 387 352 379
Rank change year-on-year -35 +27 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Data Engineer 63 21 15
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.16% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.17% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 17 12
10th Percentile £409 £475 £451
25th Percentile £431 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +2.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £638
90th Percentile £654 £723 £671
England median daily rate £505 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -9.42% +1.36% +15.79%

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 Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Databricks Data Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Databricks Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Databricks Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks Data Engineer in London

Databricks Data Engineer
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 Data Engineer 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 -17 6 £450 -10.00%
East London - 2 £450 -
Databricks Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 August 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 London region featuring Databricks Data Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (100.00%) Databricks
2 47 (74.60%) Azure
3 44 (69.84%) Data Pipeline
4 39 (61.90%) Python
5 36 (57.14%) Data Engineering
5 36 (57.14%) SQL
6 31 (49.21%) ETL
7 26 (41.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 26 (41.27%) CI/CD
8 24 (38.10%) DevOps
9 23 (36.51%) PySpark
10 22 (34.92%) Analytics
10 22 (34.92%) Delta Lake
11 21 (33.33%) Data Quality
12 20 (31.75%) Data Modelling
13 19 (30.16%) Data Governance
14 18 (28.57%) Lakehouse
15 16 (25.40%) Agile
15 16 (25.40%) AWS
15 16 (25.40%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
16 14 (22.22%) Apache Spark
16 14 (22.22%) Azure Databricks
17 13 (20.63%) AI
18 12 (19.05%) Data Lake
18 12 (19.05%) Machine Learning
19 11 (17.46%) Apache
19 11 (17.46%) Data Architecture
19 11 (17.46%) Kafka
19 11 (17.46%) Performance Optimisation

Databricks Data Engineer 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 14 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 11 (17.46%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 47 (74.60%) Azure
2 26 (41.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 16 (25.40%) AWS
3 16 (25.40%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (22.22%) Azure Databricks
5 7 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (9.52%) GCP
6 6 (9.52%) GitHub
7 5 (7.94%) Fivetran
7 5 (7.94%) Power Platform
8 4 (6.35%) Prefect
8 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
9 3 (4.76%) dbt
9 3 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.59%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.92%) Delta Lake
2 12 (19.05%) Data Lake
3 8 (12.70%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (12.70%) Spark SQL
4 6 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (9.52%) BigQuery
5 5 (7.94%) SQL Server
6 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (6.35%) Power BI
7 3 (4.76%) Metadata
8 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.17%) Big Data
9 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (15.87%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) MLflow
2 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.59%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.59%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.59%) ERwin
3 1 (1.59%) GitLab
General
1 17 (26.98%) Finance
2 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (36.51%) PySpark
2 11 (17.46%) Kafka
3 10 (15.87%) Terraform
4 3 (4.76%) YAML
5 2 (3.17%) pytest
6 1 (1.59%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (1.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 6 (9.52%) Reinsurance
2 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.17%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.59%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.59%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.59%) Replication
4 1 (1.59%) Tandem
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (69.84%) Data Pipeline
2 36 (57.14%) Data Engineering
3 31 (49.21%) ETL
4 26 (41.27%) CI/CD
5 24 (38.10%) DevOps
6 22 (34.92%) Analytics
7 20 (31.75%) Data Modelling
8 19 (30.16%) Data Governance
9 18 (28.57%) Lakehouse
10 16 (25.40%) Agile
11 13 (20.63%) AI
12 12 (19.05%) Machine Learning
13 11 (17.46%) Data Architecture
13 11 (17.46%) Performance Optimisation
14 10 (15.87%) Data Transformation
15 9 (14.29%) Migration
15 9 (14.29%) Validation
16 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 8 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
17 7 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (61.90%) Python
2 36 (57.14%) SQL
3 6 (9.52%) Scala
4 3 (4.76%) Korn
5 1 (1.59%) Bicep
5 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 9 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.52%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.17%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) QA
System Software
1 6 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Control-M
2 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 63 (100.00%) Databricks
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (1.59%) Informatica
3 1 (1.59%) SAP
3 1 (1.59%) Talend
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