Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Azure Databricks
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 99 71 60
Rank change year-on-year -28 -11 -
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.36% 0.63% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 2.00% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £371 £390 -
25th Percentile £430 £468 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £598 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.30% -4.32% -
75th Percentile £550 £599 £638
90th Percentile - £600 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £598 £500
% change year-on-year -20.57% +19.60% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 421 200 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 37.72% 31.45% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 150 99
10th Percentile £350 £280 £290
25th Percentile £436 £353 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £465 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.72% -9.37% -14.58%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £589
90th Percentile £688 £600 £639
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.26%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £91.69 £21.00
% change year-on-year -73.82% +336.62% -1.20%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in South Yorkshire

Azure Databricks
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield -21 4 £513 -14.30% 1
Azure Databricks
Yorkshire

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (75.00%) Power BI
3 2 (50.00%) Big Data
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (50.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat