Databricks Contracts in the UK excluding London

Databricks
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 179 278 273
Rank change year-on-year +99 -5 +61
Contract jobs citing Databricks 165 122 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.29% 0.59% 0.81%
As % of the Vendors category 2.65% 1.38% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 93 150
10th Percentile £375 £407 £412
25th Percentile £463 £440 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -9.00% +3.29%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £39.03
25th Percentile - £51.25 £45.06
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year - -4.98% +57.86%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £65.56
90th Percentile - - £71.68
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% -12.50%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,222 8,861 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.74% 42.66% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 5,339 7,359
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 940 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.79 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.63 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Databricks as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Databricks in the UK excluding London

Databricks
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Databricks in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Databricks in the UK excluding London

Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in the UK excluding London

Databricks
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Databricks in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Databricks in the UK excluding London

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 Databricks within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +50 63 £525 +3.96% 408
South East +71 47 £550 - 460
North West +26 32 £500 -1.96% 177
Midlands +23 23 £525 -12.50% 433
Yorkshire +20 19 £575 +15.00% 187
West Midlands +19 16 £550 -15.38% 196
Scotland -3 14 £643 +40.74% 38
North East +11 12 £550 - 46
South West +42 11 £500 +11.11% 79
Wales +7 10 £375 -31.82% 13
East Midlands +6 7 £444 -1.39% 228
East of England +29 1 £775 +61.46% 74
Databricks
UK

Databricks
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (7.88%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.24%) Apache
3 2 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.21%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 118 (71.52%) Azure
2 46 (27.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 35 (21.21%) AWS
4 34 (20.61%) Power Platform
5 25 (15.15%) GCP
6 14 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.48%) Snowflake
7 13 (7.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (4.24%) Serverless
9 6 (3.64%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (3.64%) PaaS
10 5 (3.03%) GitHub
11 4 (2.42%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (2.42%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.42%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.42%) Google Compute Engine
12 3 (1.82%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.21%) LAN
1 2 (1.21%) SMS
1 2 (1.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (19.39%) Power BI
2 28 (16.97%) Data Lake
3 23 (13.94%) Big Data
4 22 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (11.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (10.30%) Metadata
7 15 (9.09%) SQL Server
8 8 (4.85%) Delta Lake
8 8 (4.85%) Metadata Repository
8 8 (4.85%) NoSQL
9 7 (4.24%) Tableau
10 6 (3.64%) BigQuery
10 6 (3.64%) Hadoop
11 5 (3.03%) MySQL
11 5 (3.03%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.82%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (9.70%) Git
2 7 (4.24%) ERwin
2 7 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.03%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.42%) ER Studio
4 4 (2.42%) JIRA
4 4 (2.42%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.21%) GitLab
General
1 31 (18.79%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.18%) Finance
3 23 (13.94%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.67%) Banking
6 10 (6.06%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.03%) Marketing
7 5 (3.03%) Retail
8 4 (2.42%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.82%) Electronics
9 3 (1.82%) Games
9 3 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Automotive
10 1 (0.61%) Front Office
10 1 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Legal
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (41.82%) Data Engineer
2 30 (18.18%) Architect
3 24 (14.55%) Azure Engineer
4 22 (13.33%) Senior
5 16 (9.70%) Azure Data Engineer
6 13 (7.88%) Data Architect
7 12 (7.27%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (6.06%) Developer
9 9 (5.45%) Data Scientist
9 9 (5.45%) Lead
10 7 (4.24%) Analyst
10 7 (4.24%) Data Modeller
11 6 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Azure Architect
11 6 (3.64%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Technical Architect
12 5 (3.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.03%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.03%) GCP Architect
12 5 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.15%) PySpark
2 8 (4.85%) Kafka
3 3 (1.82%) ADO
3 3 (1.82%) Gherkin
3 3 (1.82%) Middleware
4 2 (1.21%) Apache Avro
4 2 (1.21%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.21%) JSON
4 2 (1.21%) Pandas
4 2 (1.21%) Shiny
4 2 (1.21%) Spring
4 2 (1.21%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.61%) .NET
5 1 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.61%) Handlebars
5 1 (0.61%) LangChain
5 1 (0.61%) NumPy
5 1 (0.61%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
1 7 (4.24%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.42%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.21%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.61%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.61%) IoT
7 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.61%) NHS
7 1 (0.61%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.06%) Linux
2 8 (4.85%) Windows
3 5 (3.03%) Ubuntu
3 5 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (35.15%) Analytics
2 50 (30.30%) Data Modelling
3 47 (28.48%) ETL
4 46 (27.88%) Data Pipeline
5 43 (26.06%) Data Engineering
6 39 (23.64%) DevOps
7 37 (22.42%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (20.00%) Agile
9 32 (19.39%) Data Science
10 26 (15.76%) CI/CD
10 26 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (12.73%) Data Transformation
12 18 (10.91%) Artificial Intelligence
12 18 (10.91%) Data Governance
12 18 (10.91%) Data Integration
13 17 (10.30%) Machine Learning
14 15 (9.09%) Data Analytics
15 13 (7.88%) Decision-Making
16 12 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
16 12 (7.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 85 (51.52%) SQL
2 66 (40.00%) Python
3 9 (5.45%) Scala
4 7 (4.24%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.64%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.64%) R
6 5 (3.03%) Java
7 4 (2.42%) C#
7 4 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.61%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.61%) Groovy
8 1 (0.61%) Perl
8 1 (0.61%) Ruby
8 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (15.76%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.30%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.88%) Azure Certification
3 13 (7.88%) Degree
4 6 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.21%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (1.21%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.21%) PMP
8 1 (0.61%) CSPO
8 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.70%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.06%) QA
3 3 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.61%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (15.15%) Terraform
2 8 (4.85%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.24%) Ansible
Vendors
1 36 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.12%) Google
3 13 (7.88%) Virgin Media
4 4 (2.42%) Cloudera
4 4 (2.42%) IDERA
4 4 (2.42%) Informatica
4 4 (2.42%) SAP
4 4 (2.42%) Talend
5 3 (1.82%) Oracle
6 2 (1.21%) Brio
6 2 (1.21%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.61%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.61%) Apple
7 1 (0.61%) Criteo
7 1 (0.61%) Foundry
7 1 (0.61%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.61%) Pega
7 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.61%) Remedy
7 1 (0.61%) Spotify