Databricks Contracts

Databricks
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Databricks products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Databricks over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 224 219
Rank change year-on-year +64 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing Databricks 523 465 729
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 1.07% 1.22%
As % of the Vendors category 3.77% 2.51% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 354 517
10th Percentile £394 £425 £438
25th Percentile £450 £471 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £723 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +8.45% -9.05% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 -
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £55.38
90th Percentile - - £67.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year - -4.98% +57.86%

All Vendors
UK

Databricks falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

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 30 April 2025.

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

Databricks
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 30 April 2025. 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 +72 439 £548 -4.78% 1,258
London +27 266 £550 -4.35% 321
Work from Home +39 184 £523 -9.04% 885
UK excluding London +93 166 £543 +8.45% 951
North of England +59 63 £525 +3.96% 299
South East +69 48 £550 - 272
North West +20 32 £500 -1.96% 125
Midlands +25 23 £525 -12.50% 339
Yorkshire +27 19 £575 +15.00% 142
West Midlands +21 16 £550 -15.38% 147
Scotland -7 14 £643 +40.74% 19
North East +11 12 £550 - 32
South West +42 11 £500 +11.11% 19
Wales +11 10 £375 -31.82% 2
East Midlands +6 7 £444 -1.39% 192
East of England +32 1 £775 +61.46% 9

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 63 (12.05%) Apache Spark
2 26 (4.97%) Apache
3 11 (2.10%) Jupyter
4 8 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.34%) Confluence
6 6 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Endur
1 2 (0.38%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 389 (74.38%) Azure
2 153 (29.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 133 (25.43%) AWS
4 130 (24.86%) Power Platform
5 64 (12.24%) GCP
6 63 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (9.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 40 (7.65%) Snowflake
9 38 (7.27%) Azure Machine Learning
10 31 (5.93%) GitHub
11 23 (4.40%) Amazon S3
12 21 (4.02%) Serverless
13 20 (3.82%) PaaS
14 16 (3.06%) Azure AKS
15 15 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (2.49%) dbt
16 13 (2.49%) Microsoft Purview
17 12 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 10 (1.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.53%) DNS
1 8 (1.53%) Firewall
2 6 (1.15%) SSH
3 5 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.96%) VPN
4 3 (0.57%) LAN
4 3 (0.57%) Network Security
4 3 (0.57%) SMS
4 3 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (23.52%) Power BI
2 115 (21.99%) Data Lake
3 74 (14.15%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (9.94%) Big Data
5 48 (9.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 46 (8.80%) SQL Server
7 34 (6.50%) Delta Lake
8 33 (6.31%) Metadata
9 22 (4.21%) Tableau
10 21 (4.02%) Neo4j
11 20 (3.82%) BigQuery
12 17 (3.25%) Hadoop
13 16 (3.06%) NoSQL
14 15 (2.87%) Apache Hive
15 14 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
17 11 (2.10%) Metadata Repository
17 11 (2.10%) Relational Database
17 11 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 8 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 40 (7.65%) Git
2 24 (4.59%) JIRA
3 22 (4.21%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.06%) GitLab
5 14 (2.68%) ERwin
6 8 (1.53%) MLflow
7 6 (1.15%) RStudio
8 5 (0.96%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.96%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.76%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.76%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.76%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.38%) Postman
11 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.38%) Selenium
12 1 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
12 1 (0.19%) Locust
12 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 116 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 114 (21.80%) Finance
3 72 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 47 (8.99%) Banking
6 25 (4.78%) Investment Banking
7 17 (3.25%) Front Office
8 16 (3.06%) Retail
9 15 (2.87%) Marketing
10 14 (2.68%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.72%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.53%) Games
14 7 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.96%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.76%) Back Office
17 4 (0.76%) Electronics
18 3 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 185 (35.37%) Data Engineer
2 88 (16.83%) Architect
3 75 (14.34%) Azure Engineer
4 60 (11.47%) Senior
5 53 (10.13%) Data Architect
6 45 (8.60%) Azure Data Engineer
7 41 (7.84%) Analyst
8 36 (6.88%) Lead
9 33 (6.31%) Developer
10 31 (5.93%) Senior Data Engineer
11 26 (4.97%) Data Scientist
12 25 (4.78%) Data Analyst
13 19 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (2.87%) Azure Architect
16 14 (2.68%) Data Modeller
16 14 (2.68%) Lead Data Engineer
17 13 (2.49%) Python Engineer
18 12 (2.29%) AWS Engineer
19 11 (2.10%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (13.38%) PySpark
2 29 (5.54%) React
3 24 (4.59%) Plotly
4 23 (4.40%) Kafka
5 19 (3.63%) .NET
6 16 (3.06%) JSON
7 12 (2.29%) Pandas
8 11 (2.10%) YAML
9 8 (1.53%) pydantic
9 8 (1.53%) REST
10 7 (1.34%) Gherkin
11 6 (1.15%) Middleware
11 6 (1.15%) Play Framework
11 6 (1.15%) scikit-learn
12 5 (0.96%) FastAPI
12 5 (0.96%) pytest
12 5 (0.96%) PyTorch
13 4 (0.76%) ARM Templates
13 4 (0.76%) Shiny
13 4 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (2.68%) Data Structures
1 14 (2.68%) Product Ownership
2 13 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (2.29%) Algorithms
3 12 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (1.91%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.53%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.34%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.96%) Data Fabric
8 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.96%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (0.76%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.76%) FMCG
10 3 (0.57%) Clustering
10 3 (0.57%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.63%) Linux
2 14 (2.68%) Windows
3 10 (1.91%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.34%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (35.37%) Analytics
2 144 (27.53%) Data Modelling
3 141 (26.96%) Data Engineering
4 137 (26.20%) Data Pipeline
5 127 (24.28%) DevOps
6 124 (23.71%) ETL
7 117 (22.37%) CI/CD
8 109 (20.84%) Business Intelligence
9 106 (20.27%) Agile
10 96 (18.36%) Machine Learning
11 95 (18.16%) Data Science
12 94 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
13 71 (13.58%) Visualisation
14 68 (13.00%) Data Governance
15 66 (12.62%) Data Integration
16 62 (11.85%) Artificial Intelligence
17 54 (10.33%) Data Visualisation
18 48 (9.18%) Data Transformation
19 43 (8.22%) Data Ingestion
20 40 (7.65%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 245 (46.85%) SQL
2 224 (42.83%) Python
3 38 (7.27%) JavaScript
4 36 (6.88%) Scala
5 27 (5.16%) PowerShell
6 26 (4.97%) C#
6 26 (4.97%) Java
7 12 (2.29%) R
8 10 (1.91%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.53%) Bash
11 4 (0.76%) Bicep
12 3 (0.57%) ANSI SQL
13 2 (0.38%) ABAP
13 2 (0.38%) C++
13 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.38%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
14 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 107 (20.46%) Security Cleared
2 94 (17.97%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.31%) Degree
4 20 (3.82%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.15%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.96%) PMP
11 4 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.38%) MBA
12 2 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.38%) VCAP
12 2 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.19%) PhD
13 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (13.58%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.35%) QA
3 14 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.49%) GDPR
5 3 (0.57%) WCAG
6 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.19%) GxP
6 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 30 (5.74%) Docker
2 4 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (13.38%) Terraform
2 39 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.91%) Ansible
4 3 (0.57%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 85 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.35%) Google
3 17 (3.25%) Cloudera
4 16 (3.06%) SAP
5 15 (2.87%) Virgin Media
6 12 (2.29%) Informatica
7 11 (2.10%) Oracle
8 8 (1.53%) Talend
9 5 (0.96%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.76%) IDERA
10 4 (0.76%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.76%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.57%) Atempo
11 3 (0.57%) F5
11 3 (0.57%) Foundry
11 3 (0.57%) Mellanox
11 3 (0.57%) VMware
12 2 (0.38%) Brio
12 2 (0.38%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.38%) IBM