Databricks Data Engineer Contract Job Trends

Data Engineer - Databricks
UK

The median Data Engineer - Databricks daily rate in the UK is £500, 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 593 528 534
Rank change year-on-year -65 +6 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Data Engineer 89 32 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.097% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.11% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 27 18
10th Percentile £394 £443 £452
25th Percentile £425 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +13.16%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £608
90th Percentile £650 £705 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £550 £457
% change year-on-year -7.27% +20.48% -

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 Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Databricks Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Databricks Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Databricks Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks Data Engineer in the UK

Databricks Data Engineer
Top 13 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 Data Engineer 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 -59 76 £505 -9.42% 18
London -35 63 £506 -10.40% 14
Work from Home -23 49 £500 -4.76% 11
UK excluding London -86 15 £510 -7.27% 10
Scotland -18 4 - - 7
Midlands -47 3 £510 -21.54%
East of England - 3 £565 -
West Midlands -42 2 £461 -29.04%
Yorkshire -45 2 £475 -
North of England -73 2 £475 -7.32% 1
South West - 2 £450 - 1
South East -62 1 £525 -16.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 £650 -

Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

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

1 89 (100.00%) Databricks
2 64 (71.91%) Azure
3 55 (61.80%) Data Pipeline
3 55 (61.80%) Python
4 51 (57.30%) Data Engineering
5 47 (52.81%) SQL
6 43 (48.31%) ETL
7 33 (37.08%) Analytics
8 31 (34.83%) Data Modelling
9 30 (33.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 30 (33.71%) CI/CD
10 28 (31.46%) PySpark
11 27 (30.34%) Data Quality
12 26 (29.21%) Data Governance
13 25 (28.09%) Azure Databricks
14 24 (26.97%) DevOps
15 23 (25.84%) Delta Lake
16 22 (24.72%) Lakehouse
17 19 (21.35%) Data Lake
18 18 (20.22%) AI
19 16 (17.98%) Agile
19 16 (17.98%) AWS
19 16 (17.98%) Azure DevOps
19 16 (17.98%) Git
19 16 (17.98%) Kafka
19 16 (17.98%) Validation
20 15 (16.85%) Apache Airflow
21 14 (15.73%) Apache Spark
21 14 (15.73%) Data Transformation
21 14 (15.73%) Power Platform

Databricks Data Engineer 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 15 (16.85%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (15.73%) Apache Spark
3 12 (13.48%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 64 (71.91%) Azure
2 30 (33.71%) Azure Data Factory
3 25 (28.09%) Azure Databricks
4 16 (17.98%) AWS
4 16 (17.98%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (15.73%) Power Platform
6 10 (11.24%) Snowflake
7 7 (7.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (7.87%) GitHub
8 6 (6.74%) GCP
9 5 (5.62%) Fivetran
10 4 (4.49%) dbt
10 4 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.49%) Prefect
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.25%) Azure Stack
12 1 (1.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (1.12%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.84%) Delta Lake
2 19 (21.35%) Data Lake
3 13 (14.61%) Power BI
4 12 (13.48%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (10.11%) Spark SQL
6 7 (7.87%) Big Data
7 6 (6.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (6.74%) BigQuery
7 6 (6.74%) Metadata
7 6 (6.74%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (4.49%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.25%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.25%) Tableau
11 1 (1.12%) Apache Hive
11 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Git
2 2 (2.25%) MLflow
2 2 (2.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.12%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.12%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.12%) ERwin
3 1 (1.12%) GitLab
3 1 (1.12%) Newman
3 1 (1.12%) Postman
General
1 23 (25.84%) Finance
2 13 (14.61%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.87%) Banking
3 7 (7.87%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Law
7 1 (1.12%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (31.46%) PySpark
2 16 (17.98%) Kafka
3 10 (11.24%) Terraform
4 3 (3.37%) pytest
4 3 (3.37%) YAML
5 2 (2.25%) REST
6 1 (1.12%) Great Expectations
6 1 (1.12%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (1.12%) Pandas
6 1 (1.12%) XML
6 1 (1.12%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.74%) Reinsurance
2 5 (5.62%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Life Science
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.12%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.12%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.12%) Replication
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.12%) Tandem
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (61.80%) Data Pipeline
2 51 (57.30%) Data Engineering
3 43 (48.31%) ETL
4 33 (37.08%) Analytics
5 31 (34.83%) Data Modelling
6 30 (33.71%) CI/CD
7 26 (29.21%) Data Governance
8 24 (26.97%) DevOps
9 22 (24.72%) Lakehouse
10 18 (20.22%) AI
11 16 (17.98%) Agile
11 16 (17.98%) Validation
12 14 (15.73%) Data Transformation
13 13 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (13.48%) Data Architecture
14 12 (13.48%) Machine Learning
14 12 (13.48%) Migration
15 11 (12.36%) Performance Optimisation
16 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
17 9 (10.11%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 55 (61.80%) Python
2 47 (52.81%) SQL
3 6 (6.74%) Scala
4 3 (3.37%) Korn
5 1 (1.12%) Bicep
5 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (14.61%) SC Cleared
1 13 (14.61%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.74%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.25%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.12%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (30.34%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.37%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.49%) Grafana
3 1 (1.12%) Control-M
3 1 (1.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 89 (100.00%) Databricks
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.37%) Oracle
4 2 (2.25%) Talend
5 1 (1.12%) Informatica
5 1 (1.12%) SAP