Databricks Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Engineer - Databricks
England > West Midlands

The median Data Engineer - Databricks daily rate in the West Midlands is £461, 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 165 123 -
Rank change year-on-year -42 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Data Engineer 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.058% 0.057% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.063% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £431 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.04% - -
75th Percentile £491 £675 -
90th Percentile £505 - -
England median daily rate £505 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -9.42% +1.36% +15.79%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,178 1,588 1,748
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.74% 89.97% 92.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 1,027 1,158
10th Percentile £330 £235 £246
25th Percentile £413 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £581 £613
90th Percentile £675 £649 £713
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 109 71
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.25 £14.00 £14.96
Median hourly rate £30.27 £25.15 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +20.36% +28.38% -8.88%
75th Percentile £53.75 £40.02 £34.47
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £52.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%

Databricks Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Databricks Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Databricks Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Databricks Data Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Databricks Data Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Databricks Data Engineer
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 Databricks Data Engineer 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
Birmingham -14 1 £510 -21.54%
Staffordshire - 1 £413 -
Databricks Data Engineer
England

Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Databricks Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Lakehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Lakehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft