Databricks Contracts in Scotland

Databricks
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 102 99 150
Rank change year-on-year -3 +51 +5
Contract jobs citing Databricks 14 30 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.86% 1.35% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 1.95% 3.38% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 9
10th Percentile £425 £415 £448
25th Percentile £431 £440 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £457 £515
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% -11.36% +3.00%
75th Percentile £700 £572 £613
90th Percentile - £704 £683
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% -12.50%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 719 888 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.25% 40.05% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 546 823
10th Percentile £234 £183 £175
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £465 £473
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -1.69% +5.11%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £538
90th Percentile £625 £688 £633
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 52 16
10th Percentile £16.11 £13.28 £21.26
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £43.86
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -70.35% +47.56%
75th Percentile £24.58 £55.63 £65.39
90th Percentile £28.22 £60.00 £69.38
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Databricks in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Databricks in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Databricks within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -3 7 £646 +44.74% 10
Edinburgh -4 7 £575 -14.81% 15
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Power BI
2 4 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) ER Studio
General
1 3 (21.43%) Banking
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Front Office
2 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Data Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Modeller
4 1 (7.14%) Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Principal Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Modeller
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) SQL BI Developer
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Data Transformation
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) ETL
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (28.57%) RBAC
4 4 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
6 2 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 2 (14.29%) ETRM
6 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (14.29%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Hitachi
2 1 (7.14%) IDERA
2 1 (7.14%) Pega
2 1 (7.14%) SAP