Databricks Contracts in the South East

Databricks
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 112 183 159
Rank change year-on-year +71 -24 +39
Contract jobs citing Databricks 47 22 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.56% 0.40% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 2.97% 0.84% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 16 43
10th Percentile £463 £334 £413
25th Percentile £500 £456 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £593 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £653 £673
England median daily rate £545 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,580 2,634 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.49% 47.39% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,606 1,967
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £406 £378 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 182 126
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.24 £22.04
Median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.38
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Databricks as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Databricks in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Databricks in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Databricks in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Databricks in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Databricks in the South East

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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 Databricks within the South East 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
Thames Valley +64 32 £550 +17.33% 128
Berkshire +48 27 £550 +17.33% 20
Surrey +16 6 £558 -10.08% 7
Hampshire +28 5 £575 -4.17% 14
Buckinghamshire +18 3 £545 - 103
East Sussex - 2 £475 - 120
Oxfordshire - 2 £700 - 9
West Sussex - 1 £625 - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (12.77%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 41 (87.23%) Azure
2 13 (27.66%) Azure Data Factory
3 11 (23.40%) Power Platform
4 9 (19.15%) AWS
4 9 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.64%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (10.64%) Snowflake
6 4 (8.51%) GitHub
7 3 (6.38%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.38%) GCP
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.13%) Collibra
8 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.13%) SaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) LAN
1 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) Big Data
2 9 (19.15%) Power BI
3 8 (17.02%) Data Lake
4 7 (14.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.13%) Apache Hive
8 1 (2.13%) HBase
8 1 (2.13%) HDInsight
8 1 (2.13%) Impala
8 1 (2.13%) Metadata
8 1 (2.13%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Git
2 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.51%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (27.66%) Finance
2 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Telecoms
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Electronics
5 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.38%) Marketing
6 1 (2.13%) Automotive
6 1 (2.13%) Games
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Data Engineer
2 13 (27.66%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Senior
4 5 (10.64%) Azure Data Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Data Scientist
4 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Gen AI Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Gen AI Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Python Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) PySpark
2 3 (6.38%) Gherkin
3 2 (4.26%) Kafka
4 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
1 4 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) IoT
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Linux
2 7 (14.89%) Windows
3 5 (10.64%) Ubuntu
3 5 (10.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) Analytics
2 16 (34.04%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (29.79%) DevOps
4 11 (23.40%) Agile
4 11 (23.40%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (21.28%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (19.15%) Data Modelling
7 8 (17.02%) ETL
7 8 (17.02%) Machine Learning
8 7 (14.89%) Data Science
8 7 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
9 6 (12.77%) Data Engineering
9 6 (12.77%) Data Governance
9 6 (12.77%) High Availability
10 5 (10.64%) Configuration Management
10 5 (10.64%) Continuous Delivery
10 5 (10.64%) Open Source
10 5 (10.64%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) Python
2 24 (51.06%) SQL
3 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.38%) C#
4 3 (6.38%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.26%) R
6 1 (2.13%) Perl
6 1 (2.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Degree
1 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (4.26%) PMI Certification
2 2 (4.26%) PMP
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.51%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Apache Flume
1 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Terraform
2 5 (10.64%) Ansible
3 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.15%) Virgin Media
3 3 (6.38%) Google
3 3 (6.38%) SAP
4 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.13%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.13%) StreamSets