Databricks Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Databricks
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 September 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
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Databricks 11 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 7.43% - 1.23%
As % of the Vendors category 17.74% - 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile £524 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +22.22% -16.28% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.24 - -

All Vendors
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 62 48 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 41.89% 36.09% 34.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 31 39
10th Percentile £126 £175 £232
25th Percentile £170 £338 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £630 £569 £600
90th Percentile £698 £638 £634
Hampshire median daily rate £546 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.05% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile £12.71 - £20.13
25th Percentile £33.75 - £25.94
Median hourly rate £37.24 - £38.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.72%
75th Percentile - - £53.44
90th Percentile £40.45 - £60.38
Hampshire median hourly rate £38.25 £33.89 £57.35
% change year-on-year +12.88% -40.92% +6.70%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in Southampton

Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Databricks

Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Batch
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Databricks
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQLPlus
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Military
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Azure Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) Databricks Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
2 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) DevSecOps
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (27.27%) Security Management
4 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Data Science
5 1 (9.09%) A/B Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Analytical Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) CRM
5 1 (9.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
5 1 (9.09%) Exploratory Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) Feature Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Measurement
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bicep
2 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) Scala
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality