Databricks Consultant Contract Job Trends

Databricks Consultant
UK

The median Databricks Consultant daily rate in the UK is £675, 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 670 558 553
Rank change year-on-year -112 -5 -
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Consultant 12 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.006% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.007% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile £528 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £550
75th Percentile £750 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 - £550

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,919 30,067 35,868
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.25% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,803 18,996 22,698
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,576 1,567 1,847
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.04 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £44.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.84% +10.00%

Databricks Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Databricks Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Databricks Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Databricks Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Databricks Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Databricks Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks Consultant in the UK

Databricks Consultant
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Databricks Consultant 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 -97 12 £675 -
UK excluding London - 8 £750 -
Midlands - 7 £750 -
West Midlands - 4 £525 -
London -75 3 £675 -
Work from Home -58 1 - -
South West - 1 - -

Databricks Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

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

1 12 (100.00%) Databricks
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Informatica
3 6 (50.00%) AWS
4 5 (41.67%) Analytics
4 5 (41.67%) Data Governance
4 5 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (41.67%) Delta Lake
4 5 (41.67%) Lakehouse
4 5 (41.67%) Python
5 4 (33.33%) Azure Databricks
5 4 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 4 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 4 (33.33%) Data Transformation
5 4 (33.33%) Migration
5 4 (33.33%) PySpark
5 4 (33.33%) SQL
5 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (25.00%) AI
6 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (25.00%) Technical Debt
7 2 (16.67%) Azure AI
7 2 (16.67%) Data Matching

Databricks Consultant Skill Set
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 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Databricks
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Azure AI
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Delta Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Neo4j
3 1 (8.33%) Spark SQL
3 1 (8.33%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) Hugging Face
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (16.67%) Reference Data
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Analytics
1 5 (41.67%) Data Governance
1 5 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (41.67%) Lakehouse
2 4 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 4 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 4 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (25.00%) AI
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Debt
4 2 (16.67%) Data Matching
4 2 (16.67%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) SPARQL
4 1 (8.33%) Scala
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Databricks
2 7 (58.33%) Informatica
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Bloomberg
4 1 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (8.33%) Reuters
4 1 (8.33%) Trayport