Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Azure Databricks
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Azure Databricks skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 116 109
Rank change year-on-year -43 -7 +18
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 8 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.45% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.76% 1.45% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £430 £360 £389
25th Percentile £475 £375 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.79% -
75th Percentile £519 £469 £513
90th Percentile £553 £510 £535
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

Azure Databricks falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,046 552 521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.20% 31.27% 27.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 705 358 366
10th Percentile £307 £300 £228
25th Percentile £404 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +7.32% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £687 £664 £688
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 6 7
10th Percentile £20.31 £31.94 £15.30
25th Percentile £21.25 £34.16 £18.63
Median hourly rate £33.99 £35.49 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +14.95% +62.50%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.69 £34.47
90th Percentile £75.00 £59.44 £43.00
England median hourly rate £34.18 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.95% -12.33% -9.09%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Databricks in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Databricks in the West Midlands

Azure Databricks
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Databricks within the West Midlands region 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
Coventry -20 7 £500 -
Birmingham - 1 - -
Azure Databricks
England

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (62.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (62.50%) GitHub
4 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (62.50%) Serverless
5 4 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (75.00%) Delta Lake
2 5 (62.50%) NoSQL
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle Database
3 4 (50.00%) Power BI
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Military
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
1 5 (62.50%) Data Architect
1 5 (62.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Kafka
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
1 5 (62.50%) IoT
1 5 (62.50%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Analytics
1 7 (87.50%) Data Modelling
1 7 (87.50%) ETL
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) AI
3 5 (62.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (62.50%) Batch Processing
3 5 (62.50%) Data Mapping
3 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
3 5 (62.50%) RBAC
4 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (50.00%) High Availability
4 4 (50.00%) Observability
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Management
4 4 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Bicep
3 3 (37.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Ada
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (62.50%) GDPR
2 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Databricks
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) Informatica
3 5 (62.50%) Oracle
3 5 (62.50%) SAP