Hybrid/Remote Azure Databricks Contract Job Trends

Azure Databricks
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 279 259 299
Rank change year-on-year -20 +40 +67
Contract jobs citing Azure Databricks 85 47 37
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 0.48% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 1.14% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 39 26
10th Percentile £388 £423 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.48% -9.32%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £695 £810 £663
UK median daily rate £503 £548 £525
% change year-on-year -8.17% +4.29% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £37.24 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,482 4,126 4,835
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 40.60% 41.82% 37.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,667 2,841 3,379
10th Percentile £358 £340 £340
25th Percentile £429 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 55 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.78 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.94 £27.51 £18.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% +7.14% -24.32%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.00 £60.60
90th Percentile £88.59 £79.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £33.75 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.37% -4.17% -14.29%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Databricks and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Databricks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Databricks over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Azure Databricks daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 4 (4.71%) Apache
1 4 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.35%) ArcGIS
2 2 (2.35%) nginx
3 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.18%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) Azure
2 32 (37.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 29 (34.12%) Power Platform
4 24 (28.24%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (14.12%) GitHub
6 11 (12.94%) Entra ID
7 8 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (9.41%) PowerApps
7 8 (9.41%) Workato
8 7 (8.24%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (8.24%) Serverless
9 6 (7.06%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (4.71%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.71%) dbt
11 3 (3.53%) Azure AI
11 3 (3.53%) Azure Batch
11 3 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (3.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.41%) HTTP
2 2 (2.35%) Firewall
2 2 (2.35%) Network Security
3 1 (1.18%) DNS
3 1 (1.18%) IPsec
3 1 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (34.12%) Data Lake
2 17 (20.00%) Power BI
3 13 (15.29%) Delta Lake
4 10 (11.76%) Metadata
5 9 (10.59%) SQL Server
6 8 (9.41%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (8.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.35%) Big Data
10 2 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.35%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.35%) MySQL
10 2 (2.35%) Neo4j
10 2 (2.35%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.35%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (2.35%) Power Query
10 2 (2.35%) QGIS
10 2 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) ERwin
1 6 (7.06%) Git
2 3 (3.53%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.18%) GitLab
4 1 (1.18%) MLflow
4 1 (1.18%) RStudio
4 1 (1.18%) Toad
General
1 25 (29.41%) Finance
2 19 (22.35%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.71%) Banking
6 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.53%) Legal
7 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.35%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.35%) Military
8 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.18%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.18%) Billing
8 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Front Office
8 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (42.35%) Data Engineer
2 33 (38.82%) Azure Engineer
3 22 (25.88%) Databricks Engineer
4 20 (23.53%) Azure Data Engineer
5 15 (17.65%) Architect
6 13 (15.29%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 11 (12.94%) Developer
8 8 (9.41%) Data Architect
8 8 (9.41%) Python Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Integration Developer
9 7 (8.24%) Lead
9 7 (8.24%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Python Data Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Senior
11 5 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (3.53%) Azure Architect
12 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.18%) PySpark
2 14 (16.47%) Terraform
3 10 (11.76%) REST
4 5 (5.88%) YAML
5 4 (4.71%) Kafka
6 3 (3.53%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.53%) React
7 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.35%) Node.js
7 2 (2.35%) Vue
8 1 (1.18%) CSS3
8 1 (1.18%) Express.js
8 1 (1.18%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.18%) HTML
8 1 (1.18%) HTML5
8 1 (1.18%) OAuth
8 1 (1.18%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.18%) pytest
8 1 (1.18%) RESTful
8 1 (1.18%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.41%) Cloud Native
1 8 (9.41%) Low-Code
2 6 (7.06%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.71%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.53%) Pricing Data
5 2 (2.35%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.35%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.18%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.18%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (43.53%) Data Engineering
2 34 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 32 (37.65%) DevOps
4 30 (35.29%) Data Pipeline
5 25 (29.41%) Analytics
6 23 (27.06%) Data Governance
7 21 (24.71%) Data Modelling
8 17 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (20.00%) Migration
9 16 (18.82%) AI
9 16 (18.82%) ETL
9 16 (18.82%) Lakehouse
10 15 (17.65%) Agile
10 15 (17.65%) Data Architecture
10 15 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (12.94%) API Integration
12 11 (12.94%) Data Integration
13 10 (11.76%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.53%) Python
1 37 (43.53%) SQL
2 12 (14.12%) PowerShell
3 9 (10.59%) Bicep
4 7 (8.24%) Bash
4 7 (8.24%) Scala
5 2 (2.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.35%) Korn
5 2 (2.35%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.18%) Ada
6 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.18%) C#
6 1 (1.18%) Java
6 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.18%) R
6 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.53%) Degree
5 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.53%) NIST
3 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (7.06%) Docker
2 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.35%) Ansible
2 2 (2.35%) Grafana
2 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.18%) Puppet
3 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (100.00%) Databricks
2 29 (34.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.53%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.53%) Oracle
4 2 (2.35%) Foundry
4 2 (2.35%) Sparx
5 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.18%) IBM
5 1 (1.18%) Informatica
5 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.18%) Salesforce