Databricks Engineer Job Trends in London

Databricks Engineer
England > London

The median Databricks Engineer salary in London is £85,000 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 405 368 434
Rank change year-on-year -37 +66 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Databricks Engineer 36 26 29
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.15% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.24% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 34 16 29
10th Percentile £60,125 - -
25th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £91,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% +40.38% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £106,038 £99,375 £90,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +20.00% -3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,470 11,032 18,397
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 91.40% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 15,433 7,195 12,238
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Databricks Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 London.

Databricks Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Databricks Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Databricks Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Databricks Engineer job vacancies in London

Databricks Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Databricks Engineer in London

Databricks Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Databricks Engineer 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 - 4 £96,125 -
West London - 1 £70,500 -
Databricks Engineer
England

Databricks Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 London region featuring Databricks Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Databricks
2 29 (80.56%) Azure
3 28 (77.78%) SQL
4 25 (69.44%) Data Engineering
4 25 (69.44%) Python
5 23 (63.89%) Lakehouse
6 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
7 21 (58.33%) Analytics
8 20 (55.56%) Data Modelling
8 20 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
9 19 (52.78%) DevOps
9 19 (52.78%) ETL
10 17 (47.22%) Azure Databricks
11 16 (44.44%) AI
11 16 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (36.11%) Data Lake
15 12 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (33.33%) Delta Lake
15 12 (33.33%) PySpark
16 11 (30.56%) Power Platform
17 10 (27.78%) Change Data Capture
17 10 (27.78%) Data Governance
17 10 (27.78%) Decision-Making
17 10 (27.78%) Mentoring
17 10 (27.78%) Star Schema
17 10 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
18 8 (22.22%) Apache Spark
18 8 (22.22%) Azure Certification

Databricks Engineer Skill Set
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 8 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 5 (13.89%) Apache
3 2 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 29 (80.56%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) Azure Databricks
3 14 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (30.56%) Power Platform
6 5 (13.89%) Azure Functions
6 5 (13.89%) Serverless
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (5.56%) dbt
10 1 (2.78%) AWS
10 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.78%) GCP
10 1 (2.78%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (36.11%) Data Lake
3 12 (33.33%) Delta Lake
4 10 (27.78%) Star Schema
5 7 (19.44%) Power BI
6 6 (16.67%) Spark SQL
7 4 (11.11%) Tableau
8 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (8.33%) Metadata
8 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
8 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
9 2 (5.56%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (2.78%) Apache Hive
10 1 (2.78%) Big Data
10 1 (2.78%) ClickHouse
10 1 (2.78%) Flink
10 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
10 1 (2.78%) Looker
10 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
10 1 (2.78%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) PySpark
2 6 (16.67%) Pandas
3 5 (13.89%) Kafka
4 4 (11.11%) Terraform
5 2 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (11.11%) Reinsurance
2 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.78%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Data Engineering
2 23 (63.89%) Lakehouse
3 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
4 21 (58.33%) Analytics
5 20 (55.56%) Data Modelling
5 20 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
6 19 (52.78%) DevOps
6 19 (52.78%) ETL
7 16 (44.44%) AI
7 16 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (27.78%) Change Data Capture
8 10 (27.78%) Data Governance
8 10 (27.78%) Decision-Making
8 10 (27.78%) Mentoring
8 10 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (22.22%) Data Science
10 7 (19.44%) Agile
11 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 28 (77.78%) SQL
2 25 (69.44%) Python
3 2 (5.56%) Bicep
3 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.56%) R
3 2 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.11%) Solvency II
3 1 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (100.00%) Databricks
2 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.78%) Confluent
3 1 (2.78%) Refinitiv
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce