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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 122 166
Rank change year-on-year -8 +44 +12
Permanent jobs citing Azure Databricks 6 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.19% 0.64% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 1.35% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 2
10th Percentile £69,375 £84,000 £64,250
25th Percentile £71,250 - £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +13.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £88,125 £137,500 £84,375
90th Percentile £122,875 £155,000 £87,750
Central London median annual salary £75,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.18% +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 963 815 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.17% 47.41% 50.47%
Number of salaries quoted 721 674 1,024
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,159 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,375 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% +0.69%

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 16 September 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 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
2 2 (33.33%) 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%) dbt
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%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (16.67%) Prefect
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (33.33%) Metadata
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) Spark SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (16.67%) ClickHouse
3 1 (16.67%) Data Vault
3 1 (16.67%) DuckDB
3 1 (16.67%) Flink
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) OLAP
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
3 1 (16.67%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) MLflow
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
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 3 (50.00%) PySpark
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) LangChain
3 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
3 1 (16.67%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) 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 Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Data Lineage
4 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 2 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (16.67%) Batch Processing
5 1 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Scala
4 1 (16.67%) Bicep
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
3 1 (16.67%) Confluent
3 1 (16.67%) Foundry
3 1 (16.67%) Refinitiv