Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Azure Databricks
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 152 115 120
Rank change year-on-year -37 +5 +23
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.095% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.32% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £610 -
25th Percentile £513 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% - -
75th Percentile £538 £675 -
90th Percentile - £690 -
South East median daily rate £531 £613 £625
% change year-on-year -13.31% -2.00% +19.05%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 904 622 661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.67% 37.11% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 370 456
10th Percentile £325 £250 £363
25th Percentile £425 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £615
90th Percentile £650 £663 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 20 18
10th Percentile £18.00 £14.60 £18.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £17.19 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +336.43% -59.56% +31.58%
75th Percentile £87.96 £32.12 £60.95
90th Percentile £110.75 £41.34 £64.73
South East median hourly rate £64.24 £18.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +241.34% -46.23% +15.78%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 £525 -
Berkshire -19 1 - - 3
Azure Databricks
South East

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) People Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks