Hybrid/Remote Databricks Engineer Contract Job Trends

Databricks Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Databricks Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £503, 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 290 289 320
Rank change year-on-year -1 +31 +95
Contract jobs requiring a Databricks Engineer 74 17 16
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.18% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 14 12
10th Percentile £400 £404 £450
25th Percentile £450 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +6.60% +23.13%
75th Percentile £638 £593 £598
90th Percentile £674 £660 £669
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -8.18% -2.22% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £37.24 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 12,565 9,256 11,986
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 93.82% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,906 6,117 7,896
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £429 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 656 296 325
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.13 £17.90
25th Percentile £27.10 £18.94 £30.12
Median hourly rate £60.00 £36.64 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.76% -18.58% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

Databricks Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Databricks Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Databricks Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Databricks Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Databricks Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Databricks Engineer job vacancies

Databricks Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Databricks Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Databricks Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Databricks Engineer job vacancies

Databricks Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, Databricks 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Databricks Engineer in the job title.

1 74 (100.00%) Databricks
2 55 (74.32%) Azure
3 45 (60.81%) Python
4 37 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 37 (50.00%) SQL
5 35 (47.30%) Data Engineering
6 31 (41.89%) ETL
7 28 (37.84%) CI/CD
8 23 (31.08%) Delta Lake
9 22 (29.73%) Azure Databricks
9 22 (29.73%) DevOps
10 20 (27.03%) AI
10 20 (27.03%) Analytics
10 20 (27.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (27.03%) PySpark
11 19 (25.68%) Data Governance
11 19 (25.68%) Terraform
12 18 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (24.32%) Git
13 17 (22.97%) Data Lake
13 17 (22.97%) Security Cleared
14 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
15 14 (18.92%) Data Modelling
15 14 (18.92%) Data Quality
15 14 (18.92%) Platform Engineering
16 13 (17.57%) Agile
17 12 (16.22%) AWS
17 12 (16.22%) Lakehouse
18 10 (13.51%) Kafka

Databricks Engineer Skill Set
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 9 (12.16%) Apache Spark
2 8 (10.81%) Apache
3 3 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.70%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 55 (74.32%) Azure
2 22 (29.73%) Azure Databricks
3 20 (27.03%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (16.22%) AWS
6 9 (12.16%) Power Platform
7 7 (9.46%) Snowflake
8 6 (8.11%) GitHub
9 5 (6.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (6.76%) Entra ID
10 4 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.05%) Amazon S3
11 3 (4.05%) Azure Batch
11 3 (4.05%) GCP
12 2 (2.70%) Amazon Bedrock
12 2 (2.70%) AWS KMS
12 2 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.70%) dbt
13 1 (1.35%) AWS Step Functions
13 1 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (31.08%) Delta Lake
2 17 (22.97%) Data Lake
3 8 (10.81%) Power BI
4 7 (9.46%) Metadata
4 7 (9.46%) SQL Server
5 6 (8.11%) Big Data
5 6 (8.11%) Spark SQL
6 4 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.70%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.70%) Parquet
8 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.35%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.35%) MySQL
9 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (24.32%) Git
2 4 (5.41%) MLflow
3 2 (2.70%) GitLab
3 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.35%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.35%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.35%) ERwin
General
1 17 (22.97%) Public Sector
2 12 (16.22%) Finance
3 11 (14.86%) Social Skills
4 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.81%) Banking
5 4 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.70%) Back Office
6 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.03%) PySpark
2 19 (25.68%) Terraform
3 10 (13.51%) Kafka
4 2 (2.70%) JSON
4 2 (2.70%) REST
4 2 (2.70%) YAML
5 1 (1.35%) .NET
5 1 (1.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.35%) CSS
5 1 (1.35%) CSS3
5 1 (1.35%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.35%) HTML
5 1 (1.35%) HTML5
5 1 (1.35%) Node.js
5 1 (1.35%) NumPy
5 1 (1.35%) OAuth
5 1 (1.35%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.35%) Pandas
5 1 (1.35%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.76%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.05%) Educational Technology
3 2 (2.70%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.70%) Clustering
3 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.35%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.35%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.35%) Replication
4 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
2 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 35 (47.30%) Data Engineering
3 31 (41.89%) ETL
4 28 (37.84%) CI/CD
5 22 (29.73%) DevOps
6 20 (27.03%) AI
6 20 (27.03%) Analytics
6 20 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (25.68%) Data Governance
8 14 (18.92%) Data Modelling
8 14 (18.92%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (17.57%) Agile
10 12 (16.22%) Lakehouse
11 8 (10.81%) Data Architecture
11 8 (10.81%) Validation
12 7 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (9.46%) Data Integration
12 7 (9.46%) Machine Learning
12 7 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (9.46%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 45 (60.81%) Python
2 37 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (8.11%) Scala
4 5 (6.76%) Bash
5 4 (5.41%) Bicep
6 3 (4.05%) Korn
6 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.35%) Ada
7 1 (1.35%) Java
7 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.70%) COPPA
2 2 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (10.81%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (5.41%) Grafana
2 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 74 (100.00%) Databricks
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.70%) Foundry
3 2 (2.70%) Palantir
4 1 (1.35%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle
4 1 (1.35%) Talend
4 1 (1.35%) VMware