Databricks Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Databricks Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Databricks Engineer 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 433 362 362
Rank change year-on-year -71 0 -
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Engineer 32 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.058% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.065% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 11
10th Percentile - £485 £453
25th Percentile £425 £513 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £485
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +13.40% -
75th Percentile £538 £625 £600
90th Percentile £604 £685 £637
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -8.18% -2.22% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £37.24 - -

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Databricks Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Databricks Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Databricks Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks Engineer in the UK excluding London

Databricks 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 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
South East -54 9 £525 -16.00% 1
Yorkshire -42 5 £513 -
Midlands -46 5 £580 -10.77% 1
North of England -71 5 £513 +2.50% 2
Scotland -18 4 - - 10
West Midlands -42 3 £461 -29.04% 1
East of England - 3 £565 -
South West - 3 £450 - 3
Wales - 3 £450 -
East Midlands - 1 £650 -
Databricks Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, Databricks 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Databricks
2 22 (68.75%) Data Pipeline
3 20 (62.50%) Azure
4 16 (50.00%) Python
5 15 (46.88%) SQL
6 14 (43.75%) Analytics
7 12 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (37.50%) Power BI
7 12 (37.50%) Power Platform
8 11 (34.38%) Data Engineering
9 10 (31.25%) Data Modelling
9 10 (31.25%) Data Quality
9 10 (31.25%) ETL
10 9 (28.13%) Git
11 8 (25.00%) Azure Databricks
11 8 (25.00%) Lakehouse
12 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
13 6 (18.75%) AI
13 6 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (18.75%) Snowflake
13 6 (18.75%) Visualisation
14 5 (15.63%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (15.63%) Data Governance
14 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
14 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
14 5 (15.63%) Validation
15 4 (12.50%) Agile
15 4 (12.50%) AWS
15 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps

Databricks 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 3 (9.38%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (6.25%) Apache
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) Azure
2 12 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 8 (25.00%) Azure Databricks
4 6 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (18.75%) Snowflake
5 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
6 4 (12.50%) AWS
6 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Batch
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.13%) dbt
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) Power BI
2 5 (15.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
3 4 (12.50%) Big Data
3 4 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.25%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.13%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Newman
2 1 (3.13%) Postman
General
1 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Banking
2 4 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Military
4 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) Kafka
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) PySpark
4 1 (3.13%) Great Expectations
4 1 (3.13%) Pandas
4 1 (3.13%) pytest
4 1 (3.13%) XML
4 1 (3.13%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.13%) Life Science
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Data Pipeline
2 14 (43.75%) Analytics
3 12 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (34.38%) Data Engineering
5 10 (31.25%) Data Modelling
5 10 (31.25%) ETL
6 8 (25.00%) Lakehouse
7 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
8 6 (18.75%) AI
8 6 (18.75%) Visualisation
9 5 (15.63%) Data Governance
9 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (15.63%) Validation
10 4 (12.50%) Agile
10 4 (12.50%) Data Analytics
10 4 (12.50%) DevOps
10 4 (12.50%) Migration
10 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (12.50%) Use Case
10 4 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Python
2 15 (46.88%) SQL
3 3 (9.38%) Bicep
3 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.38%) Scala
4 1 (3.13%) Ada
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) Databricks
2 3 (9.38%) Foundry
2 3 (9.38%) Palantir
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft