Databricks Job Trends in Scotland

Databricks
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring knowledge or experience of Databricks products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Databricks over the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Databricks.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 115 96
Rank change year-on-year -19 -19 +116
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 17 15 195
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.55% 0.73% 3.81%
As % of the Vendors category 1.55% 2.51% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 8
10th Percentile - £68,750 -
25th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £59,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +12.78% +10.83%
75th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £73,250
90th Percentile £99,000 £85,000 £77,900
UK median annual salary £83,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.74% - +3.33%

All Vendors
Scotland

Databricks falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,094 597 1,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 35.67% 28.95% 34.90%
Number of salaries quoted 335 320 812
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,929 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +3.09% -15.65%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,144 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% -13.04%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in Scotland

Databricks
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Databricks.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Databricks

Databricks
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Databricks in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Databricks in Scotland

Databricks
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Databricks within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
Edinburgh +2 13 £90,000 +20.00% 5
Glasgow -14 4 £92,500 +23.33% 8
Databricks
UK

Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (23.53%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (23.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) Azure Data Factory
2 7 (41.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 7 (41.18%) GitHub
2 7 (41.18%) GitHub Copilot
2 7 (41.18%) Snowflake
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) dbt
4 3 (17.65%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Metadata
2 7 (41.18%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Data Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
3 1 (5.88%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Analytics
2 12 (70.59%) Data Engineering
3 10 (58.82%) AI
3 10 (58.82%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (58.82%) Decision-Making
4 9 (52.94%) Data Governance
5 8 (47.06%) Coaching
5 8 (47.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (47.06%) Data Architecture
5 8 (47.06%) Data Modelling
5 8 (47.06%) Metadata Management
6 7 (41.18%) Agile
6 7 (41.18%) Asset Management
6 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
6 7 (41.18%) Data Integration
6 7 (41.18%) DevOps
6 7 (41.18%) Portfolio Management
6 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
6 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
6 7 (41.18%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 11 (64.71%) SQL
3 7 (41.18%) T-SQL
4 3 (17.65%) Java
5 2 (11.76%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Dataiku