Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Azure Databricks
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield 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 93 72 54
Rank change year-on-year -21 -18 -
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.40% 0.69% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 2.17% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £371 £390 -
25th Percentile £430 £468 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £598 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.30% -4.32% -
75th Percentile £550 £599 £638
90th Percentile - £600 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £598 £625
% change year-on-year -14.30% -4.32% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 399 184 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 39.43% 31.56% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 137 84
10th Percentile £353 £290 £400
25th Percentile £443 £355 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £469 £523
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -10.24% -12.92%
75th Percentile £600 £537 £601
90th Percentile £688 £600 £643
South Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £465 £513
% change year-on-year +10.72% -9.37% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate - - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.26%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.50
% change year-on-year - - +10.26%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in Sheffield

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (75.00%) Power BI
3 2 (50.00%) Big Data
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (50.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat