Databricks Data Engineer Job Trends in the City of London

Data Engineer - Databricks
Central London > City of London

The median Data Engineer - Databricks salary in the City of London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 - 158
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Databricks Data Engineer 1 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.030% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% - 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £60,000
75th Percentile £73,750 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - £78,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 - £60,000

All Permanent IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 3,219 1,703 2,650
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.46% 94.77% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 1,346 1,967
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% -4.11%

Databricks Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Databricks Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Databricks Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Databricks Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for Databricks Data Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Salary distribution trend for Databricks Data Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, Databricks Data Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Databricks Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns

Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft