Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Azure Databricks
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 247 182 152
Rank change year-on-year -65 -30 +42
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 14 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.18% 0.17% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.55% 0.50% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 11
10th Percentile £429 £371 £413
25th Percentile £463 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -5.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £613
90th Percentile £645 £599 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,547 1,388 1,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.56% 34.55% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 997 871
10th Percentile £286 £300 £288
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.22% -4.90%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £618 £650
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 34 22
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £40.59 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.14% +62.36% -8.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £68.58
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 North of England

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in the North of England

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in the North of England

Azure Databricks
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
Yorkshire -40 10 £475 -20.57%
North West -55 4 £600 +34.83%
Azure Databricks
England

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
4 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (14.29%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) AWS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
6 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Power BI
2 4 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) Big Data
3 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (14.29%) Metadata
3 2 (14.29%) Spark SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) MLflow
2 1 (7.14%) Toad
General
1 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) PySpark
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (7.14%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Analytics
1 10 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (57.14%) ETL
3 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 6 (42.86%) DevOps
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
6 4 (28.57%) AI
6 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
6 4 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (28.57%) Data Integration
7 3 (21.43%) Data Architecture
7 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (21.43%) Migration
7 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (21.43%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Databricks
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat