Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in the South West

Azure Databricks
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 150 113 141
Rank change year-on-year -37 +28 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 6 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.16% 0.052% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.17% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £430 - £424
25th Percentile £438 £538 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £525 £613 £613
90th Percentile £732 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 976 580 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.57% 29.90% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 397 501
10th Percentile £325 £213 £250
25th Percentile £425 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -10.88% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £613
90th Percentile £730 £678 £675
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 38 46
10th Percentile £13.93 £18.13 £12.63
25th Percentile £15.24 £18.51 £30.75
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -73.04% +76.99%
75th Percentile £46.42 £34.50 -
90th Percentile £98.82 £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £34.18 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.95% -12.33% -9.09%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in the South West

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in the South West

Azure Databricks
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Bristol -17 5 £450 -21.74%
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Azure Databricks
England

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Data Vault
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) MLflow
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Local Government
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) Keras
2 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 2 (33.33%) Lakehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lineage
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Feature Extraction
3 1 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) MLOps
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft