Databricks Contracts in the Thames Valley

Databricks
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 May 2025, 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 134 118
Rank change year-on-year +64 -16 +22
Contract jobs citing Databricks 32 11 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.12% 0.41% 1.13%
As % of the Vendors category 4.03% 0.85% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 21
10th Percentile - £243 £463
25th Percentile £500 £379 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £469 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -18.48% +5.99%
75th Percentile £589 £510 £631
90th Percentile £700 £553 £831
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £75.50

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Databricks as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Databricks in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Databricks in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Databricks in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Databricks in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Databricks in the Thames Valley

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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 Databricks within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Berkshire +48 27 £550 +17.33% 26
Buckinghamshire +18 3 £545 - 100
Oxfordshire - 2 £700 - 12
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (15.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (84.38%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (28.13%) AWS
3 9 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.50%) GitHub
5 3 (9.38%) GCP
5 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.38%) Snowflake
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.13%) Collibra
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (50.00%) Big Data
2 7 (21.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (18.75%) Data Lake
4 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (9.38%) Power BI
6 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (3.13%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.13%) HBase
7 1 (3.13%) HDInsight
7 1 (3.13%) Impala
7 1 (3.13%) Metadata
7 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Git
2 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 10 (31.25%) Finance
1 10 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Electronics
4 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.38%) Marketing
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Games
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior
4 5 (15.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Software Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Gen AI Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Gen AI Software Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Python Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Python Software Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Test Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Tester
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (40.63%) PySpark
2 3 (9.38%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 4 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) IoT
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
2 6 (18.75%) Windows
3 5 (15.63%) Ubuntu
3 5 (15.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Analytics
1 11 (34.38%) DevOps
2 10 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (28.13%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (21.88%) Agile
5 7 (21.88%) ETL
5 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
6 6 (18.75%) High Availability
6 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) Configuration Management
7 5 (15.63%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (15.63%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 5 (15.63%) Customer-Centricity
7 5 (15.63%) Open Source
7 5 (15.63%) Server Building
8 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (62.50%) Python
2 17 (53.13%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.38%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) Perl
5 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) PMI Certification
2 2 (6.25%) PMP
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Flume
1 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Ansible
1 5 (15.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (28.13%) Virgin Media
3 3 (9.38%) Google
3 3 (9.38%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.13%) StreamSets