Azure Databricks Job Trends in the City of London

Azure Databricks
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Azure Databricks skills. It covers permanent 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 134 129 157
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 +41
Permanent jobs citing Azure Databricks 6 9 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.18% 0.50% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.58% 1.04% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile - £82,000 £64,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.78% +20.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,750 £155,000 £84,375
90th Percentile £129,300 - £87,750
Central London median annual salary £78,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.65% +6.25% -8.57%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of London

Azure Databricks falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,037 862 1,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.75% 47.97% 50.59%
Number of salaries quoted 771 703 1,063
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,675 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,756
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Databricks relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure Databricks
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Databricks.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Databricks in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Databricks in the City of London

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (16.67%) Azure AI
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (16.67%) dbt
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (16.67%) Prefect
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (66.67%) Delta Lake
2 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (33.33%) Power BI
3 2 (33.33%) Spark SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Big Data
4 1 (16.67%) ClickHouse
4 1 (16.67%) Data Vault
4 1 (16.67%) DuckDB
4 1 (16.67%) Flink
4 1 (16.67%) Metadata
4 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (16.67%) OLAP
4 1 (16.67%) OLTP
4 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Tableau
4 1 (16.67%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) MLflow
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Databricks Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) PySpark
2 3 (50.00%) Kafka
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) LangChain
4 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
4 1 (16.67%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Reference Data
2 1 (16.67%) Reinsurance
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Data Lineage
4 2 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Scala
4 2 (33.33%) Bicep
5 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (16.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Databricks
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
3 1 (16.67%) Confluent
3 1 (16.67%) Foundry
3 1 (16.67%) Refinitiv