Databricks Contracts

Databricks
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Databricks products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Databricks over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Databricks.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 219 222
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +34
Contract jobs citing Databricks 454 738 1,187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 1.23% 1.34%
As % of the Vendors category 2.46% 2.88% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 524 778
10th Percentile £425 £438 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £768 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -12.50% +4.58%
75th Percentile £53.75 £45.19 £57.23
90th Percentile - £63.53 £77.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% - +34.62%

All Vendors
UK

Databricks is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Databricks as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Databricks in the UK

Databricks
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Databricks.

Daily rate trend for Databricks in the UK

Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in the UK

Databricks
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Databricks.

Hourly rate trend for Databricks in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -16 380 £575 -0.86% 210
London +2 272 £588 -2.08% 99
Work from Home +18 183 £575 +4.55% 131
UK excluding London -1 120 £501 -9.00% 118
North of England +22 31 £505 -15.83% 32
Scotland +50 30 £457 -11.36% 11
North West +16 23 £510 -13.19% 16
South East -17 22 £550 +2.33% 24
Midlands +12 21 £613 +36.11% 23
South West +14 14 £450 -18.18% 11
West Midlands +26 11 £650 +13.04% 7
East Midlands +12 10 £538 +19.44% 16
Yorkshire +10 7 £500 -23.08% 13
Wales +18 4 £550 -6.38% 5
East of England -5 2 £480 -20.00% 13
North East +17 1 - - 3

Databricks
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 50 (11.01%) Apache Spark
2 23 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (4.19%) Apache
4 10 (2.20%) Confluence
5 6 (1.32%) Tornado
6 5 (1.10%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.66%) SAS
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 364 (80.18%) Azure
2 138 (30.40%) Azure Data Factory
3 133 (29.30%) Power Platform
4 79 (17.40%) AWS
5 76 (16.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 43 (9.47%) Snowflake
7 35 (7.71%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (4.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 21 (4.63%) GCP
9 21 (4.63%) PowerApps
10 20 (4.41%) Serverless
11 18 (3.96%) Azure Key Vault
12 17 (3.74%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (2.64%) Azure Functions
14 12 (2.64%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (2.42%) Azure Stack
16 10 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
17 9 (1.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.10%) LAN
1 5 (1.10%) WAN
2 4 (0.88%) Firewall
2 4 (0.88%) VPN
3 1 (0.22%) DNS
3 1 (0.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (30.40%) Data Lake
2 132 (29.07%) Power BI
3 95 (20.93%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (14.54%) Big Data
5 54 (11.89%) SQL Server
6 35 (7.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 34 (7.49%) Delta Lake
8 23 (5.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 16 (3.52%) Relational Database
10 14 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (3.08%) Spark SQL
11 13 (2.86%) Hadoop
11 13 (2.86%) Metadata
11 13 (2.86%) Power Query
11 13 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (2.86%) Star Schema
12 12 (2.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 10 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (2.20%) NoSQL
14 9 (1.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (4.19%) Git
2 13 (2.86%) JIRA
3 8 (1.76%) MLflow
4 5 (1.10%) GitLab
4 5 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.66%) Deequ
5 3 (0.66%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.44%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.22%) Maven
7 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 112 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 100 (22.03%) Finance
3 55 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.27%) Banking
5 18 (3.96%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.74%) Marketing
7 12 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.64%) Retail
8 11 (2.42%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.54%) Front Office
11 6 (1.32%) Police
12 4 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.88%) Legal
12 4 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.44%) Games
14 2 (0.44%) Law
14 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 182 (40.09%) Data Engineer
2 106 (23.35%) Azure Engineer
3 87 (19.16%) Architect
4 84 (18.50%) Azure Data Engineer
5 56 (12.33%) Data Architect
6 47 (10.35%) Developer
7 42 (9.25%) Lead
8 33 (7.27%) Senior
9 30 (6.61%) Azure Architect
10 28 (6.17%) Analyst
11 25 (5.51%) Data Analyst
12 23 (5.07%) Lead Data Engineer
13 21 (4.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 19 (4.19%) Power BI Developer
15 17 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
15 17 (3.74%) Azure Data Architect
16 16 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
16 16 (3.52%) Python Engineer
17 15 (3.30%) Senior Data Engineer
18 13 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (21.59%) PySpark
2 28 (6.17%) Kafka
3 13 (2.86%) .NET
4 9 (1.98%) Django
4 9 (1.98%) Flask
4 9 (1.98%) Middleware
5 7 (1.54%) ARM Templates
5 7 (1.54%) FastAPI
5 7 (1.54%) Pandas
5 7 (1.54%) pytest
5 7 (1.54%) React
6 6 (1.32%) Apache Avro
6 6 (1.32%) Bokeh
6 6 (1.32%) Node.js
6 6 (1.32%) OAuth
6 6 (1.32%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.10%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.10%) WebSockets
8 4 (0.88%) JSON
8 4 (0.88%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 12 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (1.76%) Algorithms
3 8 (1.76%) Data Structures
3 8 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.32%) Data Fabric
5 6 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.32%) Derivative
5 6 (1.32%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.10%) Market Risk
6 5 (1.10%) Product Ownership
7 4 (0.88%) Cloud Native
7 4 (0.88%) IoT
7 4 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.66%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.76%) Linux
2 7 (1.54%) Windows
3 4 (0.88%) Unix
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) VMS
4 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (36.56%) Analytics
2 144 (31.72%) Data Modelling
3 131 (28.85%) Business Intelligence
4 126 (27.75%) ETL
5 117 (25.77%) Agile
5 117 (25.77%) DevOps
6 114 (25.11%) Data Engineering
7 109 (24.01%) Data Pipeline
8 68 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (13.66%) CI/CD
10 60 (13.22%) Data Science
11 57 (12.56%) Data Integration
12 46 (10.13%) Migration
13 45 (9.91%) Data Architecture
13 45 (9.91%) Visualisation
14 43 (9.47%) Data Governance
15 38 (8.37%) Computer Science
15 38 (8.37%) Machine Learning
16 33 (7.27%) Software Engineering
17 32 (7.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 233 (51.32%) SQL
2 226 (49.78%) Python
3 55 (12.11%) Scala
4 31 (6.83%) Java
5 20 (4.41%) T-SQL
6 14 (3.08%) C#
6 14 (3.08%) R
7 13 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (1.76%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.54%) Bicep
9 7 (1.54%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.54%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.10%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.44%) Bash
11 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.44%) U-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.22%) Julia
Qualifications
1 32 (7.05%) Degree
2 31 (6.83%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.63%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.64%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.64%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.44%) PhD
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (13.22%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.42%) QA
3 5 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.88%) GDPR
5 3 (0.66%) NCSC
5 3 (0.66%) NIST
6 2 (0.44%) GxP
6 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) CDISC
System Software
1 30 (6.61%) Docker
2 7 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (9.03%) Kubernetes
2 39 (8.59%) Terraform
3 3 (0.66%) Ansible
4 2 (0.44%) Ambari
4 2 (0.44%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.44%) Oozie
5 1 (0.22%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.22%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) Kibana
5 1 (0.22%) Podman
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 88 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.29%) Oracle
3 16 (3.52%) Informatica
4 14 (3.08%) Google
5 11 (2.42%) SAP
6 6 (1.32%) Confluent
7 5 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.88%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.88%) Foundry
8 4 (0.88%) Palantir
9 3 (0.66%) IDERA
9 3 (0.66%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.66%) Talend
9 3 (0.66%) Teradata
10 2 (0.44%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.44%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.44%) Sybase
11 1 (0.22%) F5
11 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.22%) Splunk