Azure Databricks Job Trends in the South East

Azure Databricks
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East 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 317 287 326
Rank change year-on-year -30 +39 -28
Permanent jobs citing Azure Databricks 23 8 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.13% 0.088% 0.066%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 0.33% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 22 8 5
10th Percentile £79,125 £71,250 -
25th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £86,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £108,438 £97,500
90th Percentile - £115,000 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +21.43% +1.82%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,835 2,398 3,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 21.71% 26.47% 27.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,814 1,454 2,460
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -2.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £83,750 £83,750
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 the South East

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

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Databricks
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Databricks.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Azure Databricks in the South East

Azure Databricks
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Databricks within the South East 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
Berkshire +30 11 £90,000 -7.69%
Thames Valley +19 11 £90,000 -4.00%
East Sussex - 6 £85,000 -
West Sussex - 5 £85,000 -
Hampshire - 1 £65,000 -
Azure Databricks
England

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.70%) Metadata
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) MLflow
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (86.96%) Architect
2 18 (78.26%) Data Architect
3 12 (52.17%) Azure Architect
4 11 (47.83%) Azure Data Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Data Scientist
5 2 (8.70%) Databricks Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (4.35%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) ETL
2 11 (47.83%) Data Modelling
3 10 (43.48%) Data Governance
3 10 (43.48%) Lakehouse
3 10 (43.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (34.78%) Data Architecture
4 8 (34.78%) Data Security
4 8 (34.78%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (34.78%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (17.39%) Data Science
6 3 (13.04%) Agile
6 3 (13.04%) Analytics
6 3 (13.04%) Data Management
6 3 (13.04%) DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
7 2 (8.70%) AI
7 2 (8.70%) Predictive Analytics
7 2 (8.70%) Statistics
7 2 (8.70%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
1 12 (52.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft