Databricks Engineer Job Trends in the City of London

Databricks Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Databricks Engineer salary in the City of London is £96,125 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 136 - 158
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Databricks Engineer 4 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.12% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £74,550 - -
25th Percentile £79,500 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,125 - £60,000
75th Percentile £120,219 - £67,500
90th Percentile £141,088 - £78,750
Central London median annual salary £96,125 - £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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Databricks Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Databricks Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

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

Databricks Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

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

Salary histogram for Databricks Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, Databricks 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Databricks
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Delta Lake
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Lineage
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Kafka
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Lakehouse
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Power BI

Databricks 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Databricks
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) dbt
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) Prefect
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (75.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (50.00%) Spark SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (25.00%) ClickHouse
3 1 (25.00%) Data Vault
3 1 (25.00%) DuckDB
3 1 (25.00%) Flink
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (25.00%) OLAP
3 1 (25.00%) OLTP
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Tableau
3 1 (25.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (25.00%) Reinsurance
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Lakehouse
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) R
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (25.00%) Confluent
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Refinitiv