Hybrid/Remote Databricks Contract Job Trends

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 13 December 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 138 201
Rank change year-on-year +10 +63 +47
Contract jobs citing Databricks 220 201 200
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.16% 1.66% 1.12%
As % of the Vendors category 4.45% 3.69% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 142 152
10th Percentile £400 £403 £407
25th Percentile £463 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% -2.61%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £657
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 -

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 4,946 5,452 8,024
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 48.57% 44.94% 45.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,090 3,270 5,106
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% - -3.58%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £723 £721
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 100 188
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.36 £17.10
25th Percentile £19.66 £24.01 £26.19
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.00 £56.68
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -27.66% -1.43%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.14 £73.13
90th Percentile £67.50 £86.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Databricks job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Databricks
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Databricks
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Databricks over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

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

Databricks
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

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 34 (15.45%) Apache Spark
2 15 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.55%) Apache
4 7 (3.18%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (1.36%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.91%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) SAP R/3
3 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 169 (76.82%) Azure
2 67 (30.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 55 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 51 (23.18%) AWS
5 40 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 40 (18.18%) Snowflake
6 27 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (10.00%) GCP
8 19 (8.64%) GitHub
9 17 (7.73%) Serverless
10 15 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (5.91%) dbt
12 12 (5.45%) Entra ID
13 11 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
13 11 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (4.09%) Amazon S3
14 9 (4.09%) Azure Functions
14 9 (4.09%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (2.73%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.18%) Firewall
2 3 (1.36%) VPN
3 2 (0.91%) Intranet
4 1 (0.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (23.18%) Data Lake
2 50 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (16.36%) Power BI
4 31 (14.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 24 (10.91%) Delta Lake
6 17 (7.73%) NoSQL
7 15 (6.82%) Big Data
8 12 (5.45%) Metadata
9 10 (4.55%) SQL Server
10 8 (3.64%) Tableau
11 6 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (2.73%) BigQuery
11 6 (2.73%) Parquet
11 6 (2.73%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (2.27%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.27%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.82%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.36%) MySQL
14 3 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (15.45%) Git
2 11 (5.00%) MLflow
3 6 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.91%) ERwin
4 2 (0.91%) GitLab
4 2 (0.91%) JIRA
5 1 (0.45%) Pylint
5 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.45%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 60 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.55%) Finance
3 19 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.09%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.27%) Banking
6 5 (2.27%) Billing
6 5 (2.27%) Front Office
7 4 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.82%) Retail
8 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.91%) German Language
9 2 (0.91%) Law
9 2 (0.91%) Legal
9 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.45%) Automotive
10 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (40.45%) Data Engineer
2 41 (18.64%) Azure Engineer
3 34 (15.45%) Architect
4 31 (14.09%) Azure Data Engineer
5 26 (11.82%) Senior
6 17 (7.73%) Azure Architect
7 15 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 15 (6.82%) Developer
8 14 (6.36%) Lead
9 13 (5.91%) Data Architect
10 12 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
12 10 (4.55%) Analyst
13 9 (4.09%) Gen AI Engineer
14 8 (3.64%) Data Analyst
14 8 (3.64%) Python Engineer
15 7 (3.18%) AWS Data Engineer
15 7 (3.18%) Lead Data Engineer
15 7 (3.18%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (20.00%) PySpark
2 17 (7.73%) Kafka
3 13 (5.91%) PyTorch
4 11 (5.00%) TensorFlow
5 8 (3.64%) REST
6 7 (3.18%) RESTful
7 6 (2.73%) JSON
7 6 (2.73%) LangChain
7 6 (2.73%) React
8 5 (2.27%) FastAPI
8 5 (2.27%) Pandas
8 5 (2.27%) YAML
9 4 (1.82%) .NET
9 4 (1.82%) Great Expectations
9 4 (1.82%) Spark Streaming
10 3 (1.36%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.36%) LangGraph
10 3 (1.36%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (1.36%) pydantic
10 3 (1.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.91%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.09%) Reinsurance
3 8 (3.64%) Algorithms
3 8 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.82%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.82%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.91%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.91%) NHS
8 2 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.09%) Linux
2 3 (1.36%) Unix
2 3 (1.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (37.27%) CI/CD
2 81 (36.82%) Data Pipeline
3 77 (35.00%) Data Engineering
4 70 (31.82%) Analytics
5 67 (30.45%) Data Modelling
6 65 (29.55%) ETL
7 56 (25.45%) Machine Learning
8 54 (24.55%) DevOps
9 51 (23.18%) AI
10 50 (22.73%) Data Governance
11 46 (20.91%) Agile
12 44 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
13 41 (18.64%) Data Architecture
14 32 (14.55%) Data Integration
14 32 (14.55%) Data Science
15 30 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
17 24 (10.91%) Containerisation
18 21 (9.55%) Data Transformation
18 21 (9.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 116 (52.73%) SQL
2 106 (48.18%) Python
3 16 (7.27%) Scala
4 14 (6.36%) PowerShell
5 9 (4.09%) Bicep
5 9 (4.09%) R
6 6 (2.73%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.82%) MATLAB
7 4 (1.82%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.36%) Bash
8 3 (1.36%) C#
8 3 (1.36%) Java
8 3 (1.36%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.45%) Go
10 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.64%) Degree
4 15 (6.82%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.27%) CTC Cleared
5 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.45%) PhD
8 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (21.82%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.27%) GDPR
3 5 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.82%) NIST
5 3 (1.36%) COBIT
5 3 (1.36%) QA
6 2 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.91%) PMO
7 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.45%) NCSC
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (9.55%) Docker
2 8 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (3.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (14.55%) Terraform
2 11 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.91%) Knative
4 1 (0.45%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 36 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.64%) OpenAI
2 8 (3.64%) Oracle
2 8 (3.64%) ServiceNow
3 6 (2.73%) SAP
4 4 (1.82%) Google
4 4 (1.82%) Informatica
4 4 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.82%) Workday
5 2 (0.91%) Bloomberg
5 2 (0.91%) Qualtrics
5 2 (0.91%) Refinitiv
5 2 (0.91%) Talend
5 2 (0.91%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.45%) Foundry
6 1 (0.45%) Palantir