Databricks Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Databricks Engineer
England > London

The median Databricks Engineer daily rate in London is £513, 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 350 343 369
Rank change year-on-year -7 +26 +64
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Engineer 100 30 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.24% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 21 20
10th Percentile £425 £475 £461
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £565 £638
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -11.37% +34.21%
75th Percentile £606 £663 £675
90th Percentile £671 £713 £739
England median daily rate £513 £550 £612
% change year-on-year -6.82% -10.17% +25.59%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Databricks Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Databricks Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Databricks Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks Engineer in London

Databricks 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 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 -15 8 £450 -10.00% 2
East London - 2 £450 -
Databricks Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, Databricks 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 100 (100.00%) Databricks
2 62 (62.00%) Azure
3 51 (51.00%) Data Pipeline
3 51 (51.00%) Python
4 45 (45.00%) SQL
5 43 (43.00%) Data Engineering
6 40 (40.00%) CI/CD
7 35 (35.00%) ETL
8 33 (33.00%) DevOps
9 30 (30.00%) PySpark
10 29 (29.00%) Delta Lake
11 27 (27.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 26 (26.00%) Analytics
13 25 (25.00%) AWS
13 25 (25.00%) Data Modelling
13 25 (25.00%) Data Quality
13 25 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (23.00%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (23.00%) Data Governance
14 23 (23.00%) Terraform
15 20 (20.00%) Azure Databricks
15 20 (20.00%) Lakehouse
16 19 (19.00%) AI
17 17 (17.00%) Agile
17 17 (17.00%) Infrastructure as Code
17 17 (17.00%) SC Cleared
17 17 (17.00%) Security Cleared
18 16 (16.00%) Git
19 15 (15.00%) Apache Spark
20 14 (14.00%) Apache Airflow

Databricks 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 15 (15.00%) Apache Spark
2 14 (14.00%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (13.00%) Apache
4 2 (2.00%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.00%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (62.00%) Azure
2 27 (27.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 25 (25.00%) AWS
4 23 (23.00%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (20.00%) Azure Databricks
6 10 (10.00%) GitHub
7 8 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (8.00%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.00%) GCP
8 6 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (5.00%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.00%) Fivetran
9 5 (5.00%) Snowflake
10 4 (4.00%) dbt
10 4 (4.00%) Prefect
11 3 (3.00%) Serverless
12 2 (2.00%) Amazon Bedrock
12 2 (2.00%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (2.00%) AWS KMS
12 2 (2.00%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.00%) Delta Lake
2 13 (13.00%) Data Lake
3 9 (9.00%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (9.00%) Spark SQL
4 6 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (6.00%) BigQuery
4 6 (6.00%) Metadata
4 6 (6.00%) Power BI
4 6 (6.00%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.00%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.00%) Big Data
7 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.00%) Parquet
8 1 (1.00%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (16.00%) Git
2 3 (3.00%) GitLab
3 2 (2.00%) MLflow
3 2 (2.00%) RStudio
3 2 (2.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.00%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.00%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.00%) ERwin
4 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (21.00%) Finance
2 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.00%) Banking
5 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.00%) Back Office
6 1 (1.00%) Billing
6 1 (1.00%) Front Office
6 1 (1.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.00%) PySpark
2 23 (23.00%) Terraform
3 11 (11.00%) Kafka
4 3 (3.00%) REST
4 3 (3.00%) YAML
5 2 (2.00%) JSON
5 2 (2.00%) pytest
6 1 (1.00%) .NET
6 1 (1.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.00%) CSS
6 1 (1.00%) CSS3
6 1 (1.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.00%) HTML
6 1 (1.00%) HTML5
6 1 (1.00%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (1.00%) Node.js
6 1 (1.00%) OAuth
6 1 (1.00%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.00%) React
6 1 (1.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.00%) Reinsurance
3 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.00%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.00%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.00%) Clustering
6 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.00%) Pricing Data
7 1 (1.00%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.00%) Replication
7 1 (1.00%) Tandem
7 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (51.00%) Data Pipeline
2 43 (43.00%) Data Engineering
3 40 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 35 (35.00%) ETL
5 33 (33.00%) DevOps
6 26 (26.00%) Analytics
7 25 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 25 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
8 23 (23.00%) Data Governance
9 20 (20.00%) Lakehouse
10 19 (19.00%) AI
11 17 (17.00%) Agile
11 17 (17.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (14.00%) Machine Learning
13 13 (13.00%) Performance Optimisation
14 11 (11.00%) Data Architecture
14 11 (11.00%) Data Transformation
14 11 (11.00%) Migration
15 10 (10.00%) Software Engineering
15 10 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 51 (51.00%) Python
2 45 (45.00%) SQL
3 6 (6.00%) Scala
4 5 (5.00%) Bash
5 3 (3.00%) Korn
6 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.00%) Bicep
7 1 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.00%) Java
7 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.00%) R
7 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) SC Cleared
1 17 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.00%) GDPR
2 2 (2.00%) QA
3 1 (1.00%) COPPA
3 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (13.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.00%) Control-M
2 1 (1.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 100 (100.00%) Databricks
2 6 (6.00%) Foundry
3 5 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle
5 2 (2.00%) Palantir
5 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.00%) IBM
6 1 (1.00%) Informatica
6 1 (1.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.00%) SAP
6 1 (1.00%) Talend