Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends

Azure Databricks
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 490 446 444
Rank change year-on-year -44 -2 +57
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 196 114 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.35% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 0.93% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 88 81
10th Percentile £400 £411 £413
25th Percentile £443 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £548 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% +4.29% -9.48%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £603
90th Percentile £738 £731 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,858 12,275 13,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.93% 37.25% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,491 8,176 9,031
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 314 224
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.44 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.75 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.37% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.42 £55.63
90th Percentile £81.55 £70.13 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +71.05% -21.42% -10.44%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in the UK

Azure Databricks
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Azure Databricks
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England -44 166 £525 -4.55%
London -37 111 £525 -4.55%
Work from Home -20 85 £500 -9.09%
UK excluding London -74 49 £500 -0.50%
Midlands -44 17 £503 +13.56%
North of England -65 14 £475 +0.53%
Yorkshire -40 10 £475 -20.57%
West Midlands -43 8 £500 +25.00%
South East -59 8 £531 -13.31%
South West -37 6 £450 -21.74%
East Midlands -10 5 £500 +9.29%
North West -55 4 £600 +34.83%
Wales -13 3 £500 -14.89%
East of England -24 1 £505 -4.27%
Scotland - 1 - -

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 18 (9.18%) Apache Spark
2 14 (7.14%) Apache
3 9 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.02%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.02%) nginx
5 1 (0.51%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.51%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 196 (100.00%) Azure
2 83 (42.35%) Azure Data Factory
3 56 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (27.04%) Power Platform
5 31 (15.82%) GitHub
6 29 (14.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 22 (11.22%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (10.71%) Serverless
9 17 (8.67%) Entra ID
10 11 (5.61%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (5.61%) Microsoft Purview
11 10 (5.10%) PowerApps
11 10 (5.10%) Workato
12 9 (4.59%) AWS
12 9 (4.59%) Azure AKS
12 9 (4.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (3.57%) dbt
14 6 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (2.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.10%) HTTP
2 7 (3.57%) Firewall
3 2 (1.02%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) DNS
4 1 (0.51%) IPsec
4 1 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (27.04%) Data Lake
2 43 (21.94%) Delta Lake
3 39 (19.90%) Power BI
4 25 (12.76%) Metadata
5 20 (10.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (9.18%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.63%) SQL Server
8 9 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (4.59%) Spark SQL
9 7 (3.57%) NoSQL
9 7 (3.57%) Star Schema
10 6 (3.06%) Big Data
11 5 (2.55%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.55%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.04%) MySQL
12 4 (2.04%) Power Query
13 3 (1.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (1.02%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 19 (9.69%) Git
2 9 (4.59%) ERwin
3 8 (4.08%) GitLab
4 6 (3.06%) ER Studio
4 6 (3.06%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.55%) MLflow
5 5 (2.55%) RStudio
6 3 (1.53%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.02%) JIRA
8 1 (0.51%) Selenium
8 1 (0.51%) Toad
8 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (28.57%) Finance
2 44 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.61%) Banking
6 9 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.55%) Military
8 4 (2.04%) Billing
8 4 (2.04%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.53%) Legal
9 3 (1.53%) Retail
10 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.02%) Front Office
10 2 (1.02%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.02%) Local Government
10 2 (1.02%) Marketing
10 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (35.71%) Data Engineer
2 49 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 44 (22.45%) Architect
4 37 (18.88%) Databricks Engineer
5 29 (14.80%) Azure Data Engineer
6 25 (12.76%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 23 (11.73%) Developer
8 22 (11.22%) Data Architect
9 21 (10.71%) Senior
10 18 (9.18%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (8.16%) Lead
12 12 (6.12%) Databricks Architect
13 11 (5.61%) Azure Architect
13 11 (5.61%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (5.10%) Senior Data Engineer
15 9 (4.59%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 9 (4.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (4.59%) Integration Developer
15 9 (4.59%) Python Engineer
16 8 (4.08%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (25.00%) PySpark
2 33 (16.84%) Terraform
3 21 (10.71%) REST
4 14 (7.14%) Kafka
5 12 (6.12%) YAML
6 8 (4.08%) ARM Templates
7 7 (3.57%) React
8 6 (3.06%) .NET
8 6 (3.06%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.06%) Vue
9 5 (2.55%) Pandas
10 4 (2.04%) Node.js
10 4 (2.04%) NumPy
11 3 (1.53%) ASP.NET
11 3 (1.53%) CSS
11 3 (1.53%) CSS3
11 3 (1.53%) HTML
11 3 (1.53%) HTML5
11 3 (1.53%) OAuth
11 3 (1.53%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.73%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.10%) Low-Code
3 9 (4.59%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.59%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.57%) Reference Data
6 6 (3.06%) IoT
7 5 (2.55%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.55%) Pricing Data
7 5 (2.55%) SCADA
7 5 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.02%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.51%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.10%) Linux
2 5 (2.55%) Unix
3 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (41.84%) CI/CD
2 80 (40.82%) Data Engineering
3 79 (40.31%) Analytics
4 74 (37.76%) DevOps
5 69 (35.20%) Data Pipeline
6 59 (30.10%) Data Modelling
7 54 (27.55%) Data Governance
8 45 (22.96%) ETL
9 44 (22.45%) Business Intelligence
10 43 (21.94%) Lakehouse
11 41 (20.92%) Migration
12 39 (19.90%) Agile
12 39 (19.90%) Data Architecture
13 37 (18.88%) AI
14 36 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
15 28 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
16 27 (13.78%) Platform Engineering
17 24 (12.24%) Data Transformation
18 23 (11.73%) Stakeholder Management
18 23 (11.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 90 (45.92%) SQL
2 88 (44.90%) Python
3 21 (10.71%) Bicep
4 19 (9.69%) PowerShell
5 12 (6.12%) Bash
6 11 (5.61%) Scala
7 6 (3.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (2.55%) Java
8 5 (2.55%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.04%) C#
9 4 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.04%) R
10 3 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.02%) Korn
11 2 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.51%) Ada
12 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.10%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.06%) Degree
5 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.02%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (21.94%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.59%) GDPR
3 6 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.04%) QA
4 4 (2.04%) SLA
5 3 (1.53%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (7.65%) Docker
2 6 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.06%) Puppet
3 5 (2.55%) Ansible
3 5 (2.55%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.04%) Grafana
5 3 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.02%) Control-M
7 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 196 (100.00%) Databricks
2 61 (31.12%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.61%) Informatica
4 8 (4.08%) Oracle
5 5 (2.55%) SAP
6 4 (2.04%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.04%) Hortonworks
6 4 (2.04%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.53%) Foundry
8 2 (1.02%) IBM
8 2 (1.02%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.02%) Sparx
8 2 (1.02%) Talend
9 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.51%) Red Hat