Databricks Contracts in the North West

Databricks
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 88 114 134
Rank change year-on-year +26 +20 +27
Contract jobs citing Databricks 32 23 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.63% 0.83% 0.72%
As % of the Vendors category 3.06% 2.10% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 20
10th Percentile £406 £413 £263
25th Percentile £444 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £588
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -13.19% +5.10%
75th Percentile £538 £656 £681
90th Percentile £680 £750 £701
England median daily rate £545 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%

All Vendors
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,046 1,096 1,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.15% 39.78% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 645 866
10th Percentile £250 £269 £288
25th Percentile £393 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £587
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 149 57
10th Percentile £16.43 £10.95 £15.41
25th Percentile £24.46 £12.00 £22.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.39 £49.40
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.18 £54.57
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Databricks in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Databricks in the North West

Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Databricks within the North West 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
Manchester +27 26 £475 -9.52% 42
Cheshire -2 3 £575 +1.32% 28
Lancashire - 1 £475 - 11
Merseyside - 1 £650 - 66
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England

Databricks
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (12.50%) Apache
1 4 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (90.63%) Azure
2 15 (46.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (21.88%) Power Platform
4 5 (15.63%) GCP
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (9.38%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (6.25%) AWS
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Functions
7 2 (6.25%) Serverless
7 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Storage
8 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.13%) Google Ads
8 1 (3.13%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (21.88%) Power BI
2 6 (18.75%) Data Lake
2 6 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (18.75%) Delta Lake
2 6 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 5 (15.63%) MySQL
4 4 (12.50%) Metadata
4 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (9.38%) Big Data
5 3 (9.38%) Bigtable
5 3 (9.38%) Data Vault
5 3 (9.38%) Dremio
5 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (9.38%) RDBMS
5 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
6 2 (6.25%) Tableau
7 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) ERwin
2 5 (15.63%) Git
2 5 (15.63%) Visual Studio
3 3 (9.38%) ER Studio
3 3 (9.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Advertising
5 1 (3.13%) Games
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Data Modeller
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Principal Data Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) QA Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Modeller
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Lead
6 1 (3.13%) Lead Data Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) PySpark
2 3 (9.38%) ADO
3 1 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
3 1 (3.13%) Shiny
3 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Data Modelling
2 15 (46.88%) Data Pipeline
3 13 (40.63%) ETL
4 11 (34.38%) Analytics
5 10 (31.25%) Data Engineering
5 10 (31.25%) Data Transformation
6 8 (25.00%) Agile
6 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 8 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (15.63%) Data Management
7 5 (15.63%) Data Science
7 5 (15.63%) DevOps
7 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (12.50%) Data Analytics
8 4 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (12.50%) Inmon Methodology
8 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 4 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) SQL
2 11 (34.38%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 4 (12.50%) QA
3 3 (9.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Informatica
2 4 (12.50%) Talend
3 3 (9.38%) IDERA
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle
4 2 (6.25%) Brio
5 1 (3.13%) Apple
5 1 (3.13%) Criteo
5 1 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) Hitachi
5 1 (3.13%) Pega
5 1 (3.13%) SAP