Databricks Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer - Databricks
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer - Databricks daily rate in West Yorkshire is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 78 67
Rank change year-on-year -14 -11 -
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Data Engineer 8 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.59% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £486 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £538 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,246 804 761
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 95.71% 94.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 512 471
10th Percentile £332 £290 £319
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £567
90th Percentile £650 £656 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.10% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 23 36
10th Percentile £15.39 £21.47 £16.94
25th Percentile £16.62 £22.14 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £27.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% +4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £28.06 £81.25 £39.69
90th Percentile £43.75 - £48.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £25.04 £23.34
% change year-on-year +2.93% +7.27% +9.53%

Databricks Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Databricks Data Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Databricks Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Databricks Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Leeds -9 6 £500 - 3
Huddersfield - 2 £550 -
Databricks Data Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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 Yorkshire region featuring Databricks Data Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 8 (100.00%) Databricks
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) Data Engineering
4 5 (62.50%) Delta Lake
4 5 (62.50%) ETL
4 5 (62.50%) PySpark
4 5 (62.50%) Python
5 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (50.00%) Data Transformation
5 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
6 3 (37.50%) AWS
6 3 (37.50%) Azure
6 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
6 3 (37.50%) Git
6 3 (37.50%) Lakehouse
6 3 (37.50%) Migration
6 3 (37.50%) Spark SQL
6 3 (37.50%) Validation
7 2 (25.00%) AI
7 2 (25.00%) Apache
7 2 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (25.00%) Foundry
7 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (25.00%) Palantir
7 2 (25.00%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (25.00%) People Management

Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
2 2 (25.00%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Delta Lake
2 3 (37.50%) Spark SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) Parquet
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) PySpark
2 2 (25.00%) pytest
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (75.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) ETL
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Data Transformation
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
5 3 (37.50%) Lakehouse
5 3 (37.50%) Migration
5 3 (37.50%) Validation
6 2 (25.00%) AI
6 2 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (25.00%) People Management
6 2 (25.00%) Secrets Management
6 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
6 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Foundry
2 2 (25.00%) Palantir