Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in the South East

Azure Databricks
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure Databricks skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 164 158
Rank change year-on-year -56 -6 +37
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 11 5 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.17% 0.14% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 0.43% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £526 £405 £503
25th Percentile £528 £450 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% -4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £566 £638 £638
90th Percentile £571 - -
England median daily rate £501 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -7.74% +3.33% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
75th Percentile £50.12 - -
90th Percentile £73.30 - -
England median hourly rate £37.24 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,820 1,156 1,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.58% 32.25% 27.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 761 799
10th Percentile £263 £204 £262
25th Percentile £410 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £663 £663
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 46 22
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.50 £19.45
25th Percentile £25.00 £14.75 £23.44
Median hourly rate £55.00 £18.16 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +202.86% -61.77% +75.93%
75th Percentile £80.38 £27.50 £60.95
90th Percentile £101.90 £40.65 £64.73
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure Databricks in the South East over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure Databricks in the South East

Azure Databricks
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Databricks within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. 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
Hampshire -27 5 - - 5
Thames Valley -45 4 £550 -8.33% 1
Berkshire -20 3 £550 -8.33% 1
West Sussex -27 2 £537 -14.08%
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Azure Databricks
England

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Batch
3 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Power BI
2 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
3 2 (18.18%) Delta Lake
3 2 (18.18%) Neo4j
4 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (9.09%) Big Data
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) RStudio
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Billing
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Databricks Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 1 (9.09%) Databricks Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Databricks Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Architect
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) AI Agents
1 2 (18.18%) Autonomous Agent
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (72.73%) Data Engineering
3 7 (63.64%) Analytics
4 6 (54.55%) Agile
5 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
6 4 (36.36%) Data Science
6 4 (36.36%) DevOps
6 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (27.27%) AI
7 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
7 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
7 3 (27.27%) Lakehouse
7 3 (27.27%) LLM
7 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
7 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (27.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 3 (27.27%) Security Management
8 2 (18.18%) Graph Analytics
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Bicep
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 3 (27.27%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) Gremlin
4 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Databricks
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) OpenAI