Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Azure Databricks
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 416 342 338
Rank change year-on-year -74 -4 +50
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 49 29 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 0.60% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 22 24
10th Percentile £400 £378 £383
25th Percentile £458 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £613
90th Percentile £750 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £503 £548 £525
% change year-on-year -8.17% +4.29% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £37.24 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,183 4,801 4,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.47% 31.13% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,258 3,198 3,294
10th Percentile £274 £250 £243
25th Percentile £405 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £592 £569 £600
90th Percentile £675 £640 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 183 157
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.04
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.95 £16.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £19.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +71.05% -21.42% -10.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.05 £60.60
90th Percentile £83.72 £67.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.75 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.37% -4.17% -14.29%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Databricks in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in the UK excluding London

Azure Databricks
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Midlands -44 17 £503 +13.56% 5
North of England -65 14 £475 +0.53% 9
Yorkshire -40 10 £475 -20.57% 4
West Midlands -43 8 £500 +25.00% 3
South East -59 8 £531 -13.31% 4
South West -37 6 £450 -21.74% 3
East Midlands -10 5 £500 +9.29% 2
North West -55 4 £600 +34.83% 3
Wales -13 3 £500 -14.89% 3
East of England -24 1 £505 -4.27% 1
Scotland - 1 - - 1
Azure Databricks
UK

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (10.20%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.12%) Apache
3 2 (4.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (44.90%) Azure Data Factory
3 18 (36.73%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (32.65%) Power Platform
5 14 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (18.37%) Serverless
7 8 (16.33%) GitHub
8 7 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (14.29%) Entra ID
9 6 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (10.20%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (8.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (6.12%) Azure Batch
12 3 (6.12%) Azure Functions
12 3 (6.12%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
13 2 (4.08%) dbt
13 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) DNS
2 1 (2.04%) Network Security
2 1 (2.04%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.65%) Power BI
2 13 (26.53%) Delta Lake
3 12 (24.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (18.37%) Data Lake
5 6 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (10.20%) NoSQL
6 5 (10.20%) Oracle Database
7 4 (8.16%) Big Data
7 4 (8.16%) Metadata
8 3 (6.12%) Spark SQL
9 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
10 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
10 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (2.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Git
2 2 (4.08%) MLflow
3 1 (2.04%) RStudio
3 1 (2.04%) Toad
General
1 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Finance
4 4 (8.16%) Military
5 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.04%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.04%) Billing
5 1 (2.04%) Local Government
5 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (34.69%) Data Engineer
2 12 (24.49%) Architect
3 10 (20.41%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) Data Architect
4 8 (16.33%) Databricks Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (12.24%) Senior
6 5 (10.20%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Analyst
7 4 (8.16%) Azure Data Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Lead
8 3 (6.12%) Consultant
8 3 (6.12%) Data Analyst
8 3 (6.12%) Databricks Consultant
8 3 (6.12%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Data Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Cloud Specialist
10 1 (2.04%) Databricks Architect
10 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) Terraform
2 8 (16.33%) Kafka
2 8 (16.33%) PySpark
3 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.04%) Express.js
3 1 (2.04%) Keras
3 1 (2.04%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.04%) MERN Stack
3 1 (2.04%) Node.js
3 1 (2.04%) Pandas
3 1 (2.04%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.04%) React
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.20%) IoT
2 5 (10.20%) SCADA
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) Analytics
2 26 (53.06%) Data Pipeline
3 23 (46.94%) Data Modelling
4 22 (44.90%) DevOps
5 20 (40.82%) CI/CD
6 17 (34.69%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (34.69%) ETL
7 16 (32.65%) Data Engineering
7 16 (32.65%) Data Governance
8 14 (28.57%) Agile
8 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (22.45%) AI
9 11 (22.45%) Lakehouse
9 11 (22.45%) Migration
10 10 (20.41%) Data Architecture
10 10 (20.41%) Data Ingestion
10 10 (20.41%) Machine Learning
11 9 (18.37%) Data Integration
11 9 (18.37%) Data Transformation
12 7 (14.29%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 30 (61.22%) SQL
2 19 (38.78%) Python
3 8 (16.33%) Bicep
4 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.12%) Scala
6 2 (4.08%) Bash
6 2 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (2.04%) Ada
7 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.04%) R
7 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (32.65%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.24%) GDPR
2 6 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (8.16%) QA
4 1 (2.04%) NIST
4 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.08%) Grafana
2 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (100.00%) Databricks
2 19 (38.78%) Microsoft
3 8 (16.33%) Informatica
4 5 (10.20%) Oracle
4 5 (10.20%) SAP
5 2 (4.08%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.04%) Red Hat