Databricks Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer - Databricks
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer - Databricks daily rate in the UK excluding London is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 364 371
Rank change year-on-year -86 +7 -
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Data Engineer 15 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.045% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.050% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 2
10th Percentile £431 £494 £454
25th Percentile £438 £525 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £457
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +20.48% -
75th Percentile £573 £650 £458
90th Percentile £588 £688 £459
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +13.16%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 25,439 13,888 16,641
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 90.05% 92.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,286 8,508 9,942
10th Percentile £304 £213 £220
25th Percentile £413 £361 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,090 1,260 1,573
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.46 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.27 £16.30 £18.40
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -42.84% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

Databricks Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Databricks Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Databricks Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Databricks Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Databricks Data Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Databricks Data Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Databricks Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Databricks Data Engineer
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 Databricks Data Engineer 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
Scotland -18 4 - - 7
Midlands -47 3 £510 -21.54%
East of England - 3 £565 -
West Midlands -42 2 £461 -29.04%
Yorkshire -45 2 £475 -
North of England -73 2 £475 -7.32% 1
South West - 2 £450 - 1
South East -62 1 £525 -16.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 £650 -
Databricks Data Engineer
UK

Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, Databricks Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Databricks Data Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Databricks
2 10 (66.67%) Analytics
2 10 (66.67%) SQL
3 9 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (60.00%) ETL
4 8 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (53.33%) Power BI
4 8 (53.33%) Power Platform
4 8 (53.33%) Python
5 7 (46.67%) Azure
5 7 (46.67%) Data Engineering
5 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
6 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
6 6 (40.00%) Git
6 6 (40.00%) Snowflake
6 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
7 5 (33.33%) AI
8 4 (26.67%) Big Data
8 4 (26.67%) Data Analytics
8 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
8 4 (26.67%) Data Integration
8 4 (26.67%) Grafana
8 4 (26.67%) Kafka
8 4 (26.67%) Lakehouse
8 4 (26.67%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (26.67%) Use Case
8 4 (26.67%) User Experience
8 4 (26.67%) Validation
9 3 (20.00%) Azure Databricks
9 3 (20.00%) CI/CD

Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Power Platform
2 7 (46.67%) Azure
3 6 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Databricks
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.67%) dbt
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) Big Data
2 4 (26.67%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Newman
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
General
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (26.67%) Banking
1 4 (26.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) PySpark
3 1 (6.67%) Great Expectations
3 1 (6.67%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) pytest
3 1 (6.67%) XML
3 1 (6.67%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Life Science
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Analytics
2 9 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (60.00%) ETL
3 8 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (46.67%) Data Engineering
4 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
5 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 5 (33.33%) AI
7 4 (26.67%) Data Analytics
7 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
7 4 (26.67%) Data Integration
7 4 (26.67%) Lakehouse
7 4 (26.67%) Use Case
7 4 (26.67%) User Experience
7 4 (26.67%) Validation
8 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 2 (13.33%) Data Transformation
9 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (13.33%) Migration
9 2 (13.33%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft