Databricks Contract Job Trends 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 21 December 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
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 188 307
Rank change year-on-year -19 +119 -6
Contract jobs citing Databricks 187 176 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.03% 1.18% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 2.20% 2.57% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 134 87
10th Percentile £400 £406 £404
25th Percentile £425 £475 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% -6.96%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £634
90th Percentile £650 £675 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% -5.00%

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 8,492 6,839 9,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.80% 46.04% 47.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,501 4,089 5,846
10th Percentile £220 £213 £208
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% - +0.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 670 366 519
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.49 £16.40 £17.88
Median hourly rate £21.97 £25.86 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -42.79% +100.93%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.44 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £45.21
% change year-on-year -14.14% -38.62% +75.85%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in the UK excluding London

Databricks
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 21 December 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 -49 46 £500 -13.04% 40
Scotland +37 40 £500 -23.08% 5
South East -36 40 £555 +0.91% 77
Midlands -26 32 £505 -8.18% 23
Yorkshire -52 21 £550 -8.33% 9
South West 0 18 £563 +12.50% 20
East Midlands -9 18 £430 -14.00% 4
West Midlands -30 14 £550 -8.33% 19
North West -35 14 £488 +0.52% 24
North East -2 11 £500 -16.32% 7
East of England - 10 £515 - 4
Wales -17 5 £638 +27.50% 2
Databricks
UK

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 33 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 21 (11.23%) Apache
3 13 (6.95%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 114 (60.96%) Azure
2 43 (22.99%) Power Platform
3 42 (22.46%) AWS
4 36 (19.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 28 (14.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (12.30%) Snowflake
7 22 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (9.09%) GitHub
9 16 (8.56%) GCP
10 15 (8.02%) Serverless
11 14 (7.49%) Amazon S3
12 13 (6.95%) dbt
13 12 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (4.28%) Collibra
15 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 7 (3.74%) AWS Step Functions
17 6 (3.21%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) Firewall
1 1 (0.53%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.93%) Power BI
2 37 (19.79%) Data Lake
3 31 (16.58%) Delta Lake
4 29 (15.51%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (8.02%) Big Data
6 14 (7.49%) Metadata
7 8 (4.28%) Hadoop
8 7 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (3.74%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (2.67%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.67%) Data Vault
10 5 (2.67%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.67%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.67%) Spark SQL
10 5 (2.67%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.67%) Tableau
11 4 (2.14%) Aerospike
11 4 (2.14%) DataStage
11 4 (2.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (9.63%) Git
2 11 (5.88%) GitLab
3 10 (5.35%) MLflow
4 7 (3.74%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.07%) ERwin
5 2 (1.07%) JIRA
6 1 (0.53%) JUnit
6 1 (0.53%) Poetry
6 1 (0.53%) Pylint
6 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.51%) Finance
3 24 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.67%) Banking
6 5 (2.67%) Retail
7 3 (1.60%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.60%) Legal
7 3 (1.60%) Marketing
7 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.07%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.07%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.53%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.53%) Automotive
9 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 79 (42.25%) Data Engineer
2 43 (22.99%) Senior
3 20 (10.70%) Architect
4 18 (9.63%) Senior Data Engineer
5 17 (9.09%) Lead
6 16 (8.56%) Analyst
7 13 (6.95%) Data Scientist
7 13 (6.95%) Developer
8 12 (6.42%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (5.88%) Data Analyst
9 11 (5.88%) Data Architect
10 8 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.28%) Azure Data Engineer
10 8 (4.28%) Python Data Engineer
10 8 (4.28%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.74%) Data Manager
11 7 (3.74%) Technical Leader
12 6 (3.21%) Enterprise Architect
12 6 (3.21%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (27.27%) PySpark
2 12 (6.42%) REST
3 10 (5.35%) Kafka
4 8 (4.28%) Pandas
5 7 (3.74%) RESTful
6 6 (3.21%) scikit-learn
6 6 (3.21%) TensorFlow
7 5 (2.67%) FastAPI
7 5 (2.67%) Node.js
7 5 (2.67%) NumPy
8 4 (2.14%) pytest
9 3 (1.60%) JSON
9 3 (1.60%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.60%) React
10 2 (1.07%) FHIR
10 2 (1.07%) XML
11 1 (0.53%) Great Expectations
11 1 (0.53%) Jest
11 1 (0.53%) MERN Stack
11 1 (0.53%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.16%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.28%) Algorithms
3 7 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.74%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.21%) IoT
4 6 (3.21%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.14%) FMCG
6 4 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.14%) NHS
7 3 (1.60%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.07%) BBC
8 2 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.53%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.53%) Life Science
9 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.35%) Linux
2 2 (1.07%) VMS
3 1 (0.53%) Unix
3 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (38.50%) Analytics
2 63 (33.69%) Data Pipeline
3 56 (29.95%) Data Engineering
4 54 (28.88%) CI/CD
5 53 (28.34%) Data Modelling
5 53 (28.34%) ETL
6 45 (24.06%) Business Intelligence
7 41 (21.93%) Agile
8 40 (21.39%) DevOps
9 34 (18.18%) Data Governance
10 31 (16.58%) AI
11 29 (15.51%) Machine Learning
12 28 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (12.83%) Data Architecture
13 24 (12.83%) Data Science
14 22 (11.76%) Migration
15 20 (10.70%) Visualisation
16 19 (10.16%) Validation
17 18 (9.63%) Data Transformation
18 17 (9.09%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 101 (54.01%) Python
2 94 (50.27%) SQL
3 11 (5.88%) Scala
4 6 (3.21%) R
5 5 (2.67%) Java
6 4 (2.14%) Bicep
6 4 (2.14%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.14%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.07%) C#
8 2 (1.07%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.53%) Bash
9 1 (0.53%) C++
9 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (7.49%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.28%) Azure Certification
2 8 (4.28%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.74%) Degree
4 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.53%) CBAP
6 1 (0.53%) PhD
6 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.53%) PMP
6 1 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.58%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.88%) GDPR
3 7 (3.74%) QA
4 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.07%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) Basel II
6 1 (0.53%) Basel III
6 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.53%) NCSC
6 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (3.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (11.76%) Terraform
2 7 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.60%) Grafana
3 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.28%) Informatica
3 6 (3.21%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.21%) Talend
3 6 (3.21%) Virgin Media
4 5 (2.67%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.14%) Cloudera
5 4 (2.14%) SAP
6 3 (1.60%) Foundry
6 3 (1.60%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.60%) Palantir
7 2 (1.07%) Brio
7 2 (1.07%) Google
8 1 (0.53%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle
8 1 (0.53%) Vertica