Senior Databricks Data Engineer Contract Job Trends

Senior Data Engineer - Databricks
UK

The median Senior Data Engineer - Databricks daily rate in the UK is £563, 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 665 554 550
Rank change year-on-year -111 -4 +84
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Databricks Data Engineer 17 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.018% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.020% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 7
10th Percentile £450 £483 £463
25th Percentile £513 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £594
90th Percentile £653 £671 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £513 -
% change year-on-year +14.63% - -

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%

Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Senior Databricks Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Databricks Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Databricks Data 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 -98 16 £556 +1.14% 7
London -68 13 £556 -11.00% 7
Work from Home -52 7 £600 +14.29% 3
UK excluding London -94 2 £588 +14.63% 3
South East -61 1 £525 -4.55%
East Midlands - 1 £650 -
Midlands - 1 £650 -

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

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

1 17 (100.00%) Databricks
2 14 (82.35%) SQL
3 13 (76.47%) Azure
3 13 (76.47%) Data Engineering
3 13 (76.47%) Data Pipeline
3 13 (76.47%) Python
4 11 (64.71%) Data Modelling
5 10 (58.82%) ETL
5 10 (58.82%) PySpark
6 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
6 9 (52.94%) Delta Lake
6 9 (52.94%) Lakehouse
7 8 (47.06%) Data Quality
8 7 (41.18%) Agile
8 7 (41.18%) Apache Spark
8 7 (41.18%) AWS
8 7 (41.18%) DevOps
9 6 (35.29%) Apache
9 6 (35.29%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (35.29%) BigQuery
9 6 (35.29%) Kafka
9 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
10 5 (29.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (29.41%) GCP
10 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
10 5 (29.41%) Snowflake
10 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (29.41%) Validation

Senior Databricks Data 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 7 (41.18%) Apache Spark
2 6 (35.29%) Apache
2 6 (35.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) GCP
3 5 (29.41%) Snowflake
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Databricks
5 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) GitHub
6 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Stack
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.88%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Delta Lake
2 6 (35.29%) BigQuery
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
5 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
5 2 (11.76%) Metadata
5 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (11.76%) Power BI
5 2 (11.76%) Spark SQL
6 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
6 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (5.88%) Big Data
6 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MLflow
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) PySpark
2 6 (35.29%) Kafka
3 4 (23.53%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) pytest
4 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Data Engineering
1 13 (76.47%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (64.71%) Data Modelling
3 10 (58.82%) ETL
4 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
4 9 (52.94%) Lakehouse
5 7 (41.18%) Agile
5 7 (41.18%) DevOps
6 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
7 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
7 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (29.41%) Validation
8 4 (23.53%) AI
8 4 (23.53%) Analytics
8 4 (23.53%) Data Architecture
8 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
8 4 (23.53%) Data Transformation
8 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (17.65%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) SQL
2 13 (76.47%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Talend
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