Databricks Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Databricks
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 9 May 2026, 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
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 46 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs citing Databricks 12 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.21% 0.95% -
As % of the Vendors category 2.35% 1.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile - £508 -
25th Percentile £550 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% - -
75th Percentile £600 £606 -
90th Percentile - £610 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £588 £575 -
% change year-on-year +2.17% - -

All Vendors
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 510 159 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 51.31% 50.48% 54.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 105 115
10th Percentile £366 £161 £360
25th Percentile £425 £352 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £560 £525 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £648
South Yorkshire median daily rate £498 £431 £475
% change year-on-year +15.36% -9.21% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £15.74 - £15.44
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.10 £19.66
Median hourly rate £18.01 £18.21 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -17.25% +16.65%
75th Percentile £19.01 £18.41 £26.97
90th Percentile £19.21 £18.47 £35.91
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £18.21 £18.00
% change year-on-year -8.43% +1.14% -4.56%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Databricks

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks in Sheffield over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in Sheffield

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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 6 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Big Data
2 4 (33.33%) Delta Lake
3 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (16.67%) Power BI
4 2 (16.67%) Spark SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (8.33%) Parquet
5 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Software Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (8.33%) Flask
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (8.33%) Data Fabric
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (75.00%) Analytics
3 7 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (41.67%) AI
4 5 (41.67%) Data Engineering
4 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Prototyping
5 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 4 (33.33%) Threat Detection
5 4 (33.33%) Use Case
6 3 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (25.00%) Data Science
6 3 (25.00%) ETL
6 3 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
6 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) CISM
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat