Databricks Contracts in the Midlands

Databricks
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of Databricks products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Databricks over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Databricks.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 111 135
Rank change year-on-year +23 +24 +41
Contract jobs citing Databricks 23 22 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.20% 0.80% 0.93%
As % of the Vendors category 2.67% 1.86% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 27
10th Percentile £365 £363 £410
25th Percentile £402 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £588
90th Percentile £649 £760 £650
England median daily rate £545 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%

All Vendors
Midlands

Databricks falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 862 1,185 1,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.04% 42.98% 50.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 750 1,154
10th Percentile £200 £212 £209
25th Percentile £326 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £661 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 78 58
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.92 £13.13
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £15.61 £20.20
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -22.75% +18.82%
75th Percentile £23.00 £26.50 £37.69
90th Percentile £31.33 £47.42 £65.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Databricks as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Databricks in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Databricks in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Databricks in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in the Midlands

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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 Databricks within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +19 16 £550 -15.38% 159
East Midlands +6 7 £444 -1.39% 203
Databricks
England

Databricks
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
6 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub
6 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (4.35%) IaaS
7 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Power BI
2 4 (17.39%) Big Data
2 4 (17.39%) Data Lake
3 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.70%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (8.70%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
4 2 (8.70%) Flink
4 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
4 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.70%) Parquet
4 2 (8.70%) Tableau
5 1 (4.35%) Data Mining
5 1 (4.35%) Metadata
5 1 (4.35%) Power Query
5 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 6 (26.09%) Banking
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Investment Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Games
4 1 (4.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Data Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Scientist
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Scala Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Avro
1 2 (8.70%) JSON
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) NumPy
2 1 (4.35%) Pandas
2 1 (4.35%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
1 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Analytics
1 7 (30.43%) ETL
2 6 (26.09%) Open Source
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
3 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
4 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (17.39%) Data Governance
4 4 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (13.04%) Data Integration
5 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
5 3 (13.04%) Data Science
5 3 (13.04%) Visualisation
6 2 (8.70%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) SQL
2 11 (47.83%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) R
3 3 (13.04%) Scala
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
1 4 (17.39%) Virgin Media
2 1 (4.35%) Google