Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Azure Databricks
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 176 132 122
Rank change year-on-year -44 -10 +27
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 17 12 7
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.36% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 1.55% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 7
10th Percentile £389 £375 £363
25th Percentile £475 £401 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £443 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.56% +10.63% -4.76%
75th Percentile £641 £499 £475
90th Percentile £740 £523 £520
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,440 774 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.17% 30.16% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 522 493
10th Percentile £300 £300 £205
25th Percentile £402 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £588 £575 £612
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 14 12
10th Percentile £13.51 £17.00 £14.43
25th Percentile £16.72 £20.54 £16.47
Median hourly rate £21.50 £21.39 £26.69
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% -19.85% +36.86%
75th Percentile £33.99 £34.71 £39.23
90th Percentile £67.84 £51.58 £54.69
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 the Midlands

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in the Midlands

Azure Databricks
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -43 8 £500 +25.00%
East Midlands -10 5 £500 +9.29%
Azure Databricks
England

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (58.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 9 (52.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (47.06%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (41.18%) Power Platform
6 6 (35.29%) Serverless
7 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (29.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (29.41%) GitHub
7 5 (29.41%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (23.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
10 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
10 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
11 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (5.88%) IaaS
11 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Azure SQL Database
1 9 (52.94%) Delta Lake
2 7 (41.18%) Power BI
3 5 (29.41%) NoSQL
3 5 (29.41%) Oracle Database
4 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.88%) Big Data
5 1 (5.88%) Metadata
5 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.88%) Power Query
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Military
3 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.88%) Agriculture
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
1 7 (41.18%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Data Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Databricks Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Databricks Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Kafka
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) Express.js
2 1 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (5.88%) MERN Stack
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (29.41%) IoT
2 5 (29.41%) SCADA
3 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Analytics
2 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 11 (64.71%) Data Modelling
4 9 (52.94%) Data Governance
4 9 (52.94%) DevOps
5 8 (47.06%) ETL
6 7 (41.18%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (41.18%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (41.18%) Migration
7 6 (35.29%) AI
7 6 (35.29%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven
7 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
7 6 (35.29%) RBAC
8 5 (29.41%) Agile
8 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
8 5 (29.41%) Data Mapping
8 5 (29.41%) Data Transformation
8 5 (29.41%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) Bicep
3 3 (17.65%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Ada
4 1 (5.88%) Apex Code
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) Data Quality
2 5 (29.41%) GDPR
2 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Databricks
2 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
3 8 (47.06%) Informatica
4 5 (29.41%) Oracle
4 5 (29.41%) SAP
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce