Databricks Contract Job Trends

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 12 November 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
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 173 249
Rank change year-on-year +14 +76 +1
Contract jobs citing Databricks 652 516 461
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.85% 1.42% 0.99%
As % of the Vendors category 3.90% 3.17% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 361 343
10th Percentile £400 £425 £408
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £676
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 16,731 16,288 21,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.55% 44.94% 45.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,491 9,583 13,551
10th Percentile £285 £300 £259
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 512 675
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.49 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.96 £17.91 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.21 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -31.13% +75.44%
75th Percentile £39.63 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £28.00 £43.38
% change year-on-year -20.30% -35.45% +99.15%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Databricks relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Databricks job vacancy trend in the UK

Databricks
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Databricks

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Databricks.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Databricks

Databricks
Top 16 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 12 November 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 +16 553 £550 - 563
London +34 399 £550 - 357
Work from Home +12 201 £549 +3.49% 334
UK excluding London -12 169 £550 - 266
North of England -35 47 £500 -15.61% 59
South East -12 36 £560 -2.61% 97
Scotland +31 32 £500 -23.08% 25
Midlands -16 31 £525 +5.00% 50
Yorkshire -28 27 £599 -0.17% 21
West Midlands -22 17 £563 +9.76% 38
North West -17 15 £475 -5.00% 36
East Midlands -5 14 £450 -2.70% 11
East of England - 14 £510 - 10
South West +6 8 £575 +6.98% 19
North East -7 5 £550 -10.88% 2
Wales -16 5 £638 +21.43% 2

Databricks
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 83 (12.73%) Apache Spark
2 42 (6.44%) Apache
3 31 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.61%) Confluence
5 4 (0.61%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.77%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.46%) Endur
3 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.15%) Aligne
5 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 477 (73.16%) Azure
2 176 (26.99%) AWS
3 175 (26.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 132 (20.25%) Power Platform
5 127 (19.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 97 (14.88%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (14.57%) Snowflake
8 76 (11.66%) GCP
9 61 (9.36%) GitHub
10 50 (7.67%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (6.13%) dbt
12 39 (5.98%) Serverless
13 27 (4.14%) Amazon S3
13 27 (4.14%) Azure Machine Learning
14 24 (3.68%) Azure Key Vault
15 23 (3.53%) Entra ID
16 21 (3.22%) Azure Functions
17 20 (3.07%) Azure Monitor
18 19 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
18 19 (2.91%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.38%) Firewall
2 8 (1.23%) Network Security
3 5 (0.77%) VPN
4 2 (0.31%) Intranet
4 2 (0.31%) LAN
4 2 (0.31%) WAN
5 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.15%) MPLS
5 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (20.71%) Data Lake
2 125 (19.17%) Power BI
3 105 (16.10%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (11.66%) Delta Lake
5 49 (7.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 43 (6.60%) Metadata
7 40 (6.13%) Big Data
8 30 (4.60%) NoSQL
8 30 (4.60%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.68%) BigQuery
10 23 (3.53%) Tableau
11 22 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (2.76%) Relational Database
13 17 (2.61%) MongoDB
14 15 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (2.30%) Data Vault
15 12 (1.84%) Hadoop
16 10 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
16 10 (1.53%) Star Schema
17 9 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 69 (10.58%) Git
2 19 (2.91%) MLflow
3 18 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.61%) ERwin
5 15 (2.30%) GitLab
6 14 (2.15%) JIRA
7 6 (0.92%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (0.92%) SpecFlow
8 5 (0.77%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.61%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.61%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.46%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.31%) FitNesse
11 2 (0.31%) Pylint
12 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.15%) Poetry
12 1 (0.15%) Postman
12 1 (0.15%) Selenium
General
1 156 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 137 (21.01%) Finance
3 66 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (4.45%) Banking
5 27 (4.14%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.76%) Front Office
7 15 (2.30%) Retail
8 13 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.84%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.84%) Marketing
9 12 (1.84%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.92%) Billing
12 6 (0.92%) Legal
13 5 (0.77%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.46%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 247 (37.88%) Data Engineer
2 91 (13.96%) Azure Engineer
3 88 (13.50%) Senior
4 86 (13.19%) Architect
5 67 (10.28%) Azure Data Engineer
6 60 (9.20%) Developer
6 60 (9.20%) Lead
7 43 (6.60%) Analyst
8 42 (6.44%) Senior Data Engineer
9 41 (6.29%) Data Architect
10 35 (5.37%) Azure Architect
11 30 (4.60%) Python Engineer
12 27 (4.14%) Data Analyst
12 27 (4.14%) Python Data Engineer
13 24 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
14 23 (3.53%) Data Modeller
14 23 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (3.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 21 (3.22%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.22%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (19.33%) PySpark
2 33 (5.06%) Kafka
3 18 (2.76%) .NET
3 18 (2.76%) Pandas
3 18 (2.76%) TensorFlow
4 17 (2.61%) PyTorch
5 14 (2.15%) RESTful
6 13 (1.99%) ARM Templates
6 13 (1.99%) React
6 13 (1.99%) REST
7 11 (1.69%) NumPy
7 11 (1.69%) YAML
8 10 (1.53%) JSON
9 9 (1.38%) AngularJS
10 8 (1.23%) FastAPI
10 8 (1.23%) Great Expectations
11 7 (1.07%) Node.js
12 6 (0.92%) .NET Core
12 6 (0.92%) LangChain
12 6 (0.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 21 (3.22%) Reinsurance
3 20 (3.07%) Data Structures
4 19 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 18 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.84%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.53%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.23%) IoT
11 7 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.07%) NHS
12 6 (0.92%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.92%) Derivative
12 6 (0.92%) Equities
12 6 (0.92%) Fixed Income
13 5 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.68%) Linux
2 7 (1.07%) Unix
3 6 (0.92%) VMS
4 5 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (34.97%) Analytics
2 219 (33.59%) CI/CD
3 211 (32.36%) Data Pipeline
4 185 (28.37%) Data Engineering
5 183 (28.07%) Data Modelling
6 174 (26.69%) DevOps
7 164 (25.15%) ETL
8 143 (21.93%) Data Governance
9 137 (21.01%) Agile
10 135 (20.71%) Business Intelligence
11 130 (19.94%) Machine Learning
12 128 (19.63%) AI
13 92 (14.11%) Data Architecture
14 90 (13.80%) Data Science
15 88 (13.50%) Infrastructure as Code
16 84 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
17 61 (9.36%) Data Integration
18 57 (8.74%) Migration
19 53 (8.13%) Visualisation
20 52 (7.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 337 (51.69%) SQL
2 327 (50.15%) Python
3 46 (7.06%) Scala
4 26 (3.99%) Bicep
5 24 (3.68%) C#
5 24 (3.68%) PowerShell
6 22 (3.37%) Java
7 19 (2.91%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.76%) Bash
9 16 (2.45%) R
10 14 (2.15%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (1.23%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.07%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.92%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.61%) C++
15 4 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.31%) Korn
17 1 (0.15%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 52 (7.98%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.29%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.21%) Degree
4 29 (4.45%) Azure Certification
5 13 (1.99%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.92%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.61%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.31%) PMP
12 1 (0.15%) CBAP
12 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.15%) MCP
12 1 (0.15%) PhD
12 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.15%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (18.10%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.21%) GDPR
3 21 (3.22%) QA
4 7 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.61%) NIST
7 3 (0.46%) COBIT
7 3 (0.46%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.46%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.31%) MiFID
8 2 (0.31%) PMO
8 2 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.15%) Basel III
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 49 (7.52%) Docker
2 14 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.53%) zsh
Systems Management
1 97 (14.88%) Terraform
2 43 (6.60%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.07%) Grafana
4 6 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.61%) Ansible
6 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 105 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.91%) SAP
3 18 (2.76%) OpenAI
4 16 (2.45%) Google
4 16 (2.45%) Salesforce
5 13 (1.99%) Virgin Media
6 12 (1.84%) Informatica
6 12 (1.84%) Oracle
6 12 (1.84%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.07%) Cloudera
7 7 (1.07%) Foundry
8 6 (0.92%) Palantir
9 5 (0.77%) Guidewire
9 5 (0.77%) Talend
9 5 (0.77%) Workday
10 4 (0.61%) Dataiku
11 3 (0.46%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.31%) Brio
12 2 (0.31%) Charles River
12 2 (0.31%) Qualtrics