Databricks Engineer Contract Job Trends

Databricks Engineer
UK

The median Databricks Engineer daily rate in the UK is £505, 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 534 514 515
Rank change year-on-year -20 +1 +94
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Engineer 148 46 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 32 35
10th Percentile £409 £429 £453
25th Percentile £444 £494 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% -2.22% +15.38%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £663
90th Percentile £658 £700 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £550 £485
% change year-on-year -7.27% +13.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 - -

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Databricks Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Databricks Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Databricks Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Databricks Engineer in the UK

Databricks Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Databricks Engineer
Top 14 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 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 -20 128 £513 -6.82% 41
London -7 100 £513 -9.29% 33
Work from Home -1 74 £503 -4.29% 20
UK excluding London -71 32 £510 -7.27% 17
South East -54 9 £525 -16.00% 1
Yorkshire -42 5 £513 -
Midlands -46 5 £580 -10.77% 1
North of England -71 5 £513 +2.50% 2
Scotland -18 4 - - 10
West Midlands -42 3 £461 -29.04% 1
South West - 3 £450 - 3
Wales - 3 £450 -
East of England - 3 £565 -
East Midlands - 1 £650 -

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

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

1 148 (100.00%) Databricks
2 96 (64.86%) Azure
3 76 (51.35%) Data Pipeline
3 76 (51.35%) Python
4 65 (43.92%) Data Engineering
5 62 (41.89%) SQL
6 52 (35.14%) CI/CD
7 50 (33.78%) ETL
8 42 (28.38%) Analytics
9 40 (27.03%) Data Modelling
9 40 (27.03%) DevOps
10 37 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 37 (25.00%) Azure Databricks
10 37 (25.00%) PySpark
11 35 (23.65%) Data Quality
12 34 (22.97%) Delta Lake
13 33 (22.30%) Data Governance
14 30 (20.27%) AWS
14 30 (20.27%) Platform Engineering
15 29 (19.59%) Azure DevOps
15 29 (19.59%) Terraform
16 28 (18.92%) Lakehouse
17 27 (18.24%) AI
18 25 (16.89%) Git
19 24 (16.22%) Agile
19 24 (16.22%) Security Cleared
20 23 (15.54%) Data Lake
20 23 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
21 22 (14.86%) SC Cleared
22 21 (14.19%) Power Platform

Databricks 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 19 (12.84%) Apache Spark
2 18 (12.16%) Apache
3 15 (10.14%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.38%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 96 (64.86%) Azure
2 37 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 37 (25.00%) Azure Databricks
3 30 (20.27%) AWS
4 29 (19.59%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (14.19%) Power Platform
6 12 (8.11%) GitHub
6 12 (8.11%) Snowflake
7 9 (6.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (4.73%) GCP
8 7 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.38%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.38%) dbt
9 5 (3.38%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.38%) Fivetran
10 4 (2.70%) Prefect
11 3 (2.03%) Azure Batch
11 3 (2.03%) Serverless
12 2 (1.35%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.35%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (22.97%) Delta Lake
2 23 (15.54%) Data Lake
3 19 (12.84%) Power BI
4 14 (9.46%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (8.11%) SQL Server
6 10 (6.76%) Spark SQL
7 9 (6.08%) Metadata
8 7 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (4.73%) Big Data
9 6 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.05%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.38%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (2.03%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.35%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.35%) Parquet
12 2 (1.35%) Tableau
13 1 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 25 (16.89%) Git
2 4 (2.70%) GitLab
2 4 (2.70%) MLflow
3 2 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.35%) RStudio
3 2 (1.35%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.68%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.68%) ERwin
4 1 (0.68%) Newman
4 1 (0.68%) Postman
General
1 28 (18.92%) Finance
2 17 (11.49%) Public Sector
3 16 (10.81%) Social Skills
4 12 (8.11%) Banking
5 9 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.35%) Back Office
9 1 (0.68%) Billing
9 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Front Office
9 1 (0.68%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Military
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (25.00%) PySpark
2 29 (19.59%) Terraform
3 17 (11.49%) Kafka
4 4 (2.70%) REST
5 3 (2.03%) pytest
5 3 (2.03%) YAML
6 2 (1.35%) JSON
6 2 (1.35%) Pandas
7 1 (0.68%) .NET
7 1 (0.68%) CSS
7 1 (0.68%) HTML
7 1 (0.68%) HTML5
7 1 (0.68%) Node.js
7 1 (0.68%) NumPy
7 1 (0.68%) OAuth
7 1 (0.68%) React
7 1 (0.68%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.68%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.68%) XML
7 1 (0.68%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.05%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.05%) Reinsurance
3 5 (3.38%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.70%) Educational Technology
5 3 (2.03%) Clustering
5 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.68%) Life Science
7 1 (0.68%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.68%) Replication
7 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.68%) Tandem
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.70%) Linux
2 2 (1.35%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (51.35%) Data Pipeline
2 65 (43.92%) Data Engineering
3 52 (35.14%) CI/CD
4 50 (33.78%) ETL
5 42 (28.38%) Analytics
6 40 (27.03%) Data Modelling
6 40 (27.03%) DevOps
7 33 (22.30%) Data Governance
8 30 (20.27%) Platform Engineering
9 28 (18.92%) Lakehouse
10 27 (18.24%) AI
11 24 (16.22%) Agile
12 23 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (12.16%) Validation
15 17 (11.49%) Migration
16 16 (10.81%) Data Transformation
16 16 (10.81%) Machine Learning
17 14 (9.46%) Performance Optimisation
18 13 (8.78%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 76 (51.35%) Python
2 62 (41.89%) SQL
3 10 (6.76%) Scala
4 5 (3.38%) Bash
5 4 (2.70%) Bicep
5 4 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.03%) Korn
7 2 (1.35%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.68%) Ada
8 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.68%) Java
8 1 (0.68%) R
8 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.76%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.70%) Degree
5 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.35%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (23.65%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.70%) QA
3 3 (2.03%) GDPR
4 2 (1.35%) COPPA
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (10.14%) Docker
2 2 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.38%) Grafana
3 1 (0.68%) Ansible
3 1 (0.68%) Control-M
3 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 148 (100.00%) Databricks
2 9 (6.08%) Foundry
3 7 (4.73%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.38%) Palantir
5 3 (2.03%) Oracle
6 2 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.35%) Talend
7 1 (0.68%) IBM
7 1 (0.68%) Informatica
7 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.68%) SAP
7 1 (0.68%) VMware