Databricks Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Databricks
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 21 February 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
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 30 36
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +18
Contract jobs citing Databricks 5 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.29% 2.65% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 3.38% 7.08% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 4
10th Percentile £593 £199 -
25th Percentile £675 £230 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £328 £550
Median % change year-on-year +113.11% -40.28% -20.29%
75th Percentile £801 £580 £563
90th Percentile - £594 -
Wales median daily rate £538 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% -20.29%

All Vendors
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 148 113 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 38.14% 37.42% 37.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 84 105
10th Percentile £277 £186 £194
25th Percentile £304 £235 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £411 £508
Median % change year-on-year +7.49% -19.06% +6.84%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £646 £616 £625
Wales median daily rate £413 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 9
10th Percentile - £21.25 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.21 £23.75 £11.15
Median hourly rate £15.70 £37.50 £27.17
Median % change year-on-year -58.15% +38.05% +59.51%
75th Percentile £30.00 £41.25 £87.80
90th Percentile £86.00 £42.75 £101.60
Wales median hourly rate £18.75 £32.50 £27.17
% change year-on-year -42.31% +19.64% +59.51%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in South Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Databricks

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks in South Wales over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 21 February 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
Cardiff -9 5 £700 +113.11% 4
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Wales

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (40.00%) RBAC
1 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) API Design
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) VB.NET