Databricks Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Databricks
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 9 May 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
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 46 -
Rank change year-on-year -50 - -
Contract jobs citing Databricks 12 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.10% 0.82% -
As % of the Vendors category 2.14% 1.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile - £508 -
25th Percentile £550 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% - -
75th Percentile £600 £606 -
90th Percentile - £610 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -23.08%

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 561 175 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 51.52% 47.68% 56.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 118 156
10th Percentile £359 £150 £229
25th Percentile £413 £353 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £431 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.36% -9.21% -9.52%
75th Percentile £558 £560 £561
90th Percentile £638 £650 £631
Yorkshire median daily rate £494 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +9.78% -8.16% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £15.27 - £12.63
25th Percentile £15.29 £18.10 £12.68
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.21 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +1.14% -4.56%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.41 £26.97
90th Percentile £19.07 £18.47 £46.56
Yorkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £21.24 £14.63
% change year-on-year +100.09% +45.23% -33.52%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in South Yorkshire

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 Databricks within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 May 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 -43 12 £588 +2.17% 2
Databricks
Yorkshire

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 6 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Big Data
2 4 (33.33%) Delta Lake
3 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (16.67%) Power BI
4 2 (16.67%) Spark SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (8.33%) Parquet
5 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Software Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (8.33%) Flask
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (8.33%) Data Fabric
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (75.00%) Analytics
3 7 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (41.67%) AI
4 5 (41.67%) Data Engineering
4 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Prototyping
5 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 4 (33.33%) Threat Detection
5 4 (33.33%) Use Case
6 3 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (25.00%) Data Science
6 3 (25.00%) ETL
6 3 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
6 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) CISM
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat