Databricks Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Databricks
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of Databricks products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Databricks over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Databricks.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 171 196
Rank change year-on-year +30 +25 -5
Contract jobs citing Databricks 182 185 328
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.84% 1.21% 1.27%
As % of the Vendors category 4.01% 2.84% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 144 239
10th Percentile £361 £431 £435
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £644 £675 £659
90th Percentile £705 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -0.43%

All Vendors
Work from Home

Databricks falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Databricks
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Databricks as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Databricks trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Databricks
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Databricks.

Databricks daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Databricks over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Databricks daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Databricks
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Databricks.

Databricks hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Databricks
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (8.24%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.75%) Apache
3 4 (2.20%) Confluence
4 3 (1.65%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.55%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 141 (77.47%) Azure
2 63 (34.62%) AWS
3 54 (29.67%) Power Platform
4 49 (26.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 25 (13.74%) GCP
6 24 (13.19%) Azure Machine Learning
7 18 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (9.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (9.34%) Snowflake
9 16 (8.79%) GitHub
10 8 (4.40%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (3.30%) Serverless
13 5 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (2.75%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.75%) SaaS
14 4 (2.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.75%) DNS
1 5 (2.75%) Firewall
2 4 (2.20%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.20%) VPN
3 2 (1.10%) LAN
3 2 (1.10%) WAN
4 1 (0.55%) Network Security
4 1 (0.55%) SMS
4 1 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (33.52%) Data Lake
2 53 (29.12%) Power BI
3 32 (17.58%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (10.44%) Neo4j
5 16 (8.79%) Big Data
6 15 (8.24%) Metadata
7 13 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (6.59%) SQL Server
9 9 (4.95%) Hadoop
10 7 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (3.85%) Tableau
11 6 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (3.30%) Delta Lake
11 6 (3.30%) Metadata Repository
12 5 (2.75%) Data Mining
13 4 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (1.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 2 (1.10%) Data Vault
15 2 (1.10%) Dremio
15 2 (1.10%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 12 (6.59%) JIRA
2 11 (6.04%) Git
3 7 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.75%) MLflow
5 3 (1.65%) ERwin
5 3 (1.65%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.10%) GitLab
6 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.10%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.55%) RStudio
General
1 40 (21.98%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (18.13%) Finance
4 25 (13.74%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.59%) Banking
6 8 (4.40%) Retail
7 7 (3.85%) Front Office
7 7 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.75%) Marketing
9 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.65%) Games
10 3 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Legal
11 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.55%) Advertising
12 1 (0.55%) Automotive
12 1 (0.55%) Law
12 1 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 68 (37.36%) Data Engineer
2 32 (17.58%) Architect
3 24 (13.19%) Azure Engineer
4 23 (12.64%) Senior
5 22 (12.09%) Data Architect
6 18 (9.89%) Azure Data Engineer
6 18 (9.89%) Lead
7 14 (7.69%) Analyst
8 12 (6.59%) Data Scientist
8 12 (6.59%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (5.49%) Data Analyst
9 10 (5.49%) Developer
10 6 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (3.30%) Azure Architect
10 6 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (3.30%) Technical Architect
11 5 (2.75%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (2.75%) Python Engineer
12 4 (2.20%) Administrator
12 4 (2.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.19%) PySpark
2 21 (11.54%) Plotly
3 20 (10.99%) React
4 7 (3.85%) Pandas
5 6 (3.30%) JSON
5 6 (3.30%) Play Framework
6 5 (2.75%) REST
7 4 (2.20%) Kafka
8 3 (1.65%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.65%) Middleware
8 3 (1.65%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.65%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.65%) TensorFlow
9 2 (1.10%) .NET
9 2 (1.10%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.55%) CSS
10 1 (0.55%) D3.js
10 1 (0.55%) HTML
10 1 (0.55%) SOAP
10 1 (0.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.49%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (4.95%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.10%) Multi-touch
5 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) FMCG
6 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.55%) NHS
6 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.55%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.55%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.85%) Linux
2 6 (3.30%) Windows
3 4 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (45.05%) Analytics
2 57 (31.32%) Data Engineering
2 57 (31.32%) Data Modelling
3 48 (26.37%) Machine Learning
4 47 (25.82%) Business Intelligence
5 44 (24.18%) Data Pipeline
6 43 (23.63%) DevOps
7 42 (23.08%) ETL
8 39 (21.43%) Data Science
9 35 (19.23%) CI/CD
10 34 (18.68%) Data Integration
11 33 (18.13%) Agile
12 30 (16.48%) Visualisation
13 29 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (14.84%) Data Visualisation
15 23 (12.64%) Data Architecture
16 20 (10.99%) Artificial Intelligence
16 20 (10.99%) Data Governance
16 20 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (10.44%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (43.96%) SQL
2 74 (40.66%) Python
3 20 (10.99%) JavaScript
4 15 (8.24%) Scala
5 5 (2.75%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.75%) R
5 5 (2.75%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.65%) Bicep
7 2 (1.10%) C++
7 2 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.10%) Java
8 1 (0.55%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.55%) Bash
8 1 (0.55%) C#
8 1 (0.55%) Go
8 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.55%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 45 (24.73%) Security Cleared
2 43 (23.63%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.49%) Degree
4 7 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.75%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.65%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.10%) PMP
9 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.64%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.85%) QA
3 5 (2.75%) GDPR
4 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.95%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (10.44%) Terraform
2 11 (6.04%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.20%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 33 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.14%) Google
3 5 (2.75%) Cloudera
4 3 (1.65%) Alteryx
4 3 (1.65%) Informatica
4 3 (1.65%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle
5 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.10%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.55%) Apple
6 1 (0.55%) Atempo
6 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.55%) Criteo
6 1 (0.55%) F5
6 1 (0.55%) IBM
6 1 (0.55%) Mellanox
6 1 (0.55%) Pardot
6 1 (0.55%) Remedy
6 1 (0.55%) SAP
6 1 (0.55%) VMware