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 17 December 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
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 170 223
Rank change year-on-year +34 +53 +28
Contract jobs citing Databricks 782 530 478
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.13% 1.54% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 4.49% 3.37% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 367 357
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £450 £468 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £705 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% -6.96%
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 17,400 15,733 19,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.29% 45.73% 45.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,059 9,393 12,594
10th Percentile £293 £284 £252
25th Percentile £408 £411 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 866 473 663
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.85
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.59 £19.88
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% -35.56% +75.03%
75th Percentile £44.69 £61.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.72% +100.00%

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

Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Databricks over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Databricks in the UK

Databricks
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 17 December 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 +30 652 £545 -0.91% 259
London +52 478 £550 - 147
Work from Home +18 237 £525 -4.55% 226
UK excluding London -35 190 £525 -4.55% 190
North of England -54 44 £506 -12.72% 30
South East -32 43 £555 +0.91% 102
Scotland +37 39 £500 -23.08% 7
Midlands -18 36 £503 -8.64% 27
Yorkshire -47 21 £575 -4.17% 8
East Midlands -11 20 £430 -14.00% 6
South West +10 17 £563 +12.50% 20
West Midlands -33 16 £550 -8.33% 21
North West -32 15 £488 -1.02% 16
East of England - 10 £515 - 3
North East -6 8 £525 -13.93% 6
Wales -14 5 £638 +27.50% 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
1 114 (14.58%) Apache Spark
2 49 (6.27%) Apache
3 38 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.64%) Confluence
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.38%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.26%) SAP R/3
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Endur
5 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 565 (72.25%) Azure
2 218 (27.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 206 (26.34%) AWS
4 159 (20.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 158 (20.20%) Power Platform
6 119 (15.22%) Snowflake
7 115 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
8 80 (10.23%) GCP
9 71 (9.08%) GitHub
10 59 (7.54%) Serverless
11 58 (7.42%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (6.14%) dbt
13 40 (5.12%) Amazon S3
14 36 (4.60%) Azure Machine Learning
15 33 (4.22%) Azure Key Vault
16 31 (3.96%) Azure Functions
17 30 (3.84%) Microsoft Purview
18 27 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
19 26 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
19 26 (3.32%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.41%) Firewall
2 9 (1.15%) Network Security
3 6 (0.77%) VPN
4 2 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.26%) LAN
4 2 (0.26%) MPLS
4 2 (0.26%) WAN
5 1 (0.13%) Intranet
5 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (19.95%) Data Lake
2 150 (19.18%) Power BI
3 145 (18.54%) Data Warehouse
4 102 (13.04%) Delta Lake
5 69 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 60 (7.67%) Metadata
7 44 (5.63%) Big Data
8 43 (5.50%) NoSQL
9 37 (4.73%) SQL Server
10 28 (3.58%) BigQuery
11 27 (3.45%) Tableau
12 25 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
13 19 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (2.43%) Data Vault
13 19 (2.43%) Relational Database
13 19 (2.43%) Snowflake Schema
14 17 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (2.05%) MongoDB
16 14 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 89 (11.38%) Git
2 42 (5.37%) MLflow
3 29 (3.71%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.43%) ERwin
4 19 (2.43%) GitLab
5 16 (2.05%) JIRA
6 10 (1.28%) SpecFlow
7 6 (0.77%) ER Studio
7 6 (0.77%) PowerDesigner
8 5 (0.64%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.51%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.26%) Pylint
11 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) LSMW
11 1 (0.13%) Poetry
11 1 (0.13%) Postman
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) Selenium
11 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 186 (23.79%) Social Skills
2 154 (19.69%) Finance
3 83 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (5.24%) Public Sector
5 29 (3.71%) Banking
6 19 (2.43%) Retail
7 17 (2.17%) Front Office
8 15 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.41%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.28%) Marketing
11 10 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.90%) Legal
13 6 (0.77%) Billing
13 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.64%) Law
14 5 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 308 (39.39%) Data Engineer
2 109 (13.94%) Azure Engineer
3 106 (13.55%) Senior
4 100 (12.79%) Architect
5 77 (9.85%) Azure Data Engineer
6 63 (8.06%) Lead
7 61 (7.80%) Developer
8 50 (6.39%) Senior Data Engineer
9 49 (6.27%) Data Architect
10 40 (5.12%) Analyst
11 34 (4.35%) Azure Architect
12 33 (4.22%) Data Scientist
13 32 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
13 32 (4.09%) Python Engineer
14 30 (3.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 27 (3.45%) Data Analyst
16 24 (3.07%) Data Modeller
16 24 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
17 23 (2.94%) Python Data Engineer
18 21 (2.69%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (23.91%) PySpark
2 45 (5.75%) Kafka
3 34 (4.35%) PyTorch
4 32 (4.09%) Pandas
4 32 (4.09%) TensorFlow
5 20 (2.56%) .NET
6 19 (2.43%) YAML
7 18 (2.30%) NumPy
8 16 (2.05%) REST
8 16 (2.05%) scikit-learn
9 14 (1.79%) LangChain
9 14 (1.79%) React
10 13 (1.66%) ARM Templates
10 13 (1.66%) Node.js
10 13 (1.66%) RESTful
11 12 (1.53%) Great Expectations
11 12 (1.53%) JSON
12 10 (1.28%) .NET Core
12 10 (1.28%) AngularJS
12 10 (1.28%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 27 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 20 (2.56%) Reinsurance
4 19 (2.43%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.43%) Product Ownership
5 18 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.05%) Algorithms
8 15 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.28%) Reference Data
11 9 (1.15%) IoT
12 8 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.90%) Data Fabric
13 7 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.90%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.81%) Linux
2 6 (0.77%) Unix
3 5 (0.64%) VMS
4 4 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (37.34%) Analytics
2 281 (35.93%) CI/CD
3 271 (34.65%) Data Pipeline
4 252 (32.23%) Data Engineering
5 238 (30.43%) Data Modelling
6 214 (27.37%) ETL
7 211 (26.98%) DevOps
8 195 (24.94%) Data Governance
9 171 (21.87%) Agile
10 168 (21.48%) Machine Learning
11 165 (21.10%) Business Intelligence
12 161 (20.59%) AI
13 127 (16.24%) Data Architecture
14 125 (15.98%) Data Science
15 114 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
16 98 (12.53%) Infrastructure as Code
17 84 (10.74%) Data Integration
18 75 (9.59%) Migration
19 65 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
20 64 (8.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 400 (51.15%) Python
2 398 (50.90%) SQL
3 62 (7.93%) Scala
4 35 (4.48%) C#
5 31 (3.96%) Bicep
6 29 (3.71%) JavaScript
7 27 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 26 (3.32%) Java
9 21 (2.69%) R
10 18 (2.30%) Bash
10 18 (2.30%) TypeScript
11 16 (2.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (2.05%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.02%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.77%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.38%) C++
17 2 (0.26%) Go
17 2 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 96 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 78 (9.97%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.14%) Degree
4 39 (4.99%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.20%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.90%) PhD
10 5 (0.64%) CTC Cleared
10 5 (0.64%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.64%) MCP
10 5 (0.64%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.38%) PMP
13 2 (0.26%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.13%) CBAP
14 1 (0.13%) CSPO
14 1 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (21.48%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.50%) GDPR
3 19 (2.43%) QA
4 10 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.51%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.51%) NIST
7 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.38%) COBIT
7 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.26%) Basel III
8 2 (0.26%) MiFID
8 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) Basel II
9 1 (0.13%) NCSC
9 1 (0.13%) PMO
9 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (7.67%) Docker
2 16 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.02%) zsh
Systems Management
1 115 (14.71%) Terraform
2 56 (7.16%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.90%) Grafana
4 6 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.26%) Knative
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 128 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.45%) OpenAI
3 25 (3.20%) SAP
4 22 (2.81%) Google
5 19 (2.43%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.05%) Oracle
7 14 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.66%) Informatica
9 11 (1.41%) Virgin Media
10 8 (1.02%) Guidewire
11 7 (0.90%) Cloudera
11 7 (0.90%) Talend
12 5 (0.64%) Foundry
12 5 (0.64%) Workday
13 4 (0.51%) Palantir
14 3 (0.38%) Bloomberg
14 3 (0.38%) Charles River
15 2 (0.26%) Alteryx
15 2 (0.26%) Dataiku
15 2 (0.26%) Qualtrics