Databricks Contract Job Trends 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 4 September 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
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 99 137
Rank change year-on-year +5 +38 +29
Contract jobs citing Databricks 22 17 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.39% 0.92% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 3.02% 2.33% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 8
10th Percentile £343 £452 £413
25th Percentile £438 £455 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +11.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £526
90th Percentile £645 £704 £574
UK median daily rate £549 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.27% -8.33% -

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 729 730 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 46.08% 39.42% 40.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 454 660
10th Percentile £222 £166 £213
25th Percentile £368 £280 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £613 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 38 27
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.47 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.19 £15.54 £12.50
Median hourly rate £19.23 £18.32 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.11 £55.00
90th Percentile £34.00 £47.33 £67.44
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -29.41% +85.43%

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

Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Databricks

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 September 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 4 September 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 -14 12 £475 +3.26% 7
Edinburgh +10 8 £600 -14.29% 2
Databricks
UK

Databricks
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (31.82%) Apache Spark
2 6 (27.27%) Apache
3 4 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
1 8 (36.36%) Snowflake
2 5 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 3 (13.64%) Collibra
4 3 (13.64%) dbt
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Stack
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (18.18%) Big Data
2 4 (18.18%) Hadoop
2 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 4 (18.18%) Power BI
2 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.09%) Data Vault
3 2 (9.09%) Metadata
3 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.55%) DB2
4 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) ERwin
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.55%) Front Office
5 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Data Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Python Data Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Python Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Data Modeller
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) DevOps Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) REST
1 4 (18.18%) RESTful
2 3 (13.64%) PySpark
3 2 (9.09%) NumPy
3 2 (9.09%) Pandas
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) BBC
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Data Modelling
2 10 (45.45%) Agile
3 9 (40.91%) ETL
4 8 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (31.82%) Analytics
5 7 (31.82%) Visualisation
6 6 (27.27%) Data Integration
6 6 (27.27%) Performance Monitoring
6 6 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (22.73%) DevOps
7 5 (22.73%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (18.18%) API Integration
8 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
8 4 (18.18%) Clean Code
8 4 (18.18%) Data Engineering
8 4 (18.18%) Data Governance
8 4 (18.18%) Sprint Review
9 3 (13.64%) Data Validation
9 3 (13.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 12 (54.55%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.09%) Cloudera
3 1 (4.55%) Greenplum
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce