Azure Databricks Job Trends in London

Azure Databricks
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in 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 365 335 411
Rank change year-on-year -30 +76 +63
Permanent jobs citing Azure Databricks 76 59 52
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.31% 0.49% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 1.06% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 46 37 45
10th Percentile £69,000 - -
25th Percentile £82,313 £82,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +17.24% -15.94%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £90,000
90th Percentile - £114,750 £97,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +21.43% +1.82%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,492 5,576 8,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.12% 46.20% 43.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,722 3,849 6,035
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £44,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,502 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -2.44% -5.38%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in London

Azure Databricks
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Databricks.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Azure Databricks in London

Azure Databricks
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Databricks within the London region over the 6 months to 30 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -13 6 £78,500 -7.65% 1
Azure Databricks
England

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 17 (22.37%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.26%) Apache
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 76 (100.00%) Azure
2 45 (59.21%) Azure Data Factory
3 31 (40.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 31 (40.79%) Microsoft Purview
4 23 (30.26%) Power Platform
5 16 (21.05%) Snowflake
6 12 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (11.84%) Azure AI
7 9 (11.84%) Serverless
8 8 (10.53%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (6.58%) Azure Functions
10 4 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (3.95%) AWS
11 3 (3.95%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.95%) GCP
12 2 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (2.63%) SaaS
13 1 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (1.32%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (47.37%) Delta Lake
2 29 (38.16%) Metadata
3 22 (28.95%) Data Lake
4 19 (25.00%) Power BI
5 17 (22.37%) Data Vault
6 16 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (14.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (9.21%) NoSQL
8 7 (9.21%) Relational Database
8 7 (9.21%) Spark SQL
8 7 (9.21%) Tableau
9 6 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
11 4 (5.26%) Big Data
12 3 (3.95%) Star Schema
13 2 (2.63%) Ataccama
13 2 (2.63%) MySQL
13 2 (2.63%) Semantic Layer
14 1 (1.32%) ClickHouse
14 1 (1.32%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Git
2 7 (9.21%) MLflow
3 6 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.95%) GitLab
5 1 (1.32%) kappa
General
1 23 (30.26%) Finance
2 21 (27.63%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.58%) Legal
5 3 (3.95%) Marketing
6 2 (2.63%) Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (43.42%) Architect
2 25 (32.89%) Data Architect
3 21 (27.63%) Data Engineer
4 18 (23.68%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (22.37%) Databricks Engineer
6 16 (21.05%) Lead
6 16 (21.05%) Senior
7 8 (10.53%) Azure Architect
7 8 (10.53%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Senior Architect
8 6 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Data Modeller
10 4 (5.26%) Senior Data Modeller
10 4 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.95%) Azure Consultant
11 3 (3.95%) Consultant
11 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Architect
11 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 3 (3.95%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (48.68%) PySpark
2 26 (34.21%) Terraform
3 16 (21.05%) Kafka
4 2 (2.63%) FastAPI
4 2 (2.63%) LangChain
4 2 (2.63%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.63%) YAML
5 1 (1.32%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (1.32%) Pandas
5 1 (1.32%) pydantic
5 1 (1.32%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.26%) Data Fabric
2 4 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (5.26%) Reinsurance
3 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.63%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.32%) NHS
5 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.32%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.32%) Replication
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (61.84%) Data Modelling
2 45 (59.21%) Analytics
3 39 (51.32%) AI
4 36 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
4 36 (47.37%) CI/CD
5 35 (46.05%) Lakehouse
6 32 (42.11%) Data Engineering
7 30 (39.47%) Machine Learning
8 28 (36.84%) Data Science
9 27 (35.53%) Data Architecture
9 27 (35.53%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (34.21%) Roadmaps
11 24 (31.58%) Data Governance
12 22 (28.95%) Data Pipeline
12 22 (28.95%) Strategic Roadmap
12 22 (28.95%) Technical Leadership
13 21 (27.63%) Data Strategy
14 20 (26.32%) DevOps
15 18 (23.68%) Architecture Roadmap
16 16 (21.05%) Inmon Methodology
Programming Languages
1 48 (63.16%) Python
2 46 (60.53%) SQL
3 30 (39.47%) Scala
4 21 (27.63%) Bicep
5 2 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.63%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (40.79%) Azure Certification
2 21 (27.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (21.05%) SnowPro
4 13 (17.11%) SC Cleared
4 13 (17.11%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.58%) Degree
6 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.89%) GDPR
3 4 (5.26%) Solvency II
4 1 (1.32%) QA
4 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (17.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (17.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.95%) Ansible
Vendors
1 76 (100.00%) Databricks
2 50 (65.79%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.89%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.63%) Foundry
5 1 (1.32%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.32%) Confluent
5 1 (1.32%) Informatica
5 1 (1.32%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.32%) Workday