Databricks Job Trends in the South East

Databricks
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 6 October 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
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 84 271
Rank change year-on-year -169 +187 -46
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 85 289 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.45% 3.22% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 1.93% 7.82% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 76 31 44
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £84,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £84,250
England median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +3.45% -3.33%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,398 3,697 4,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.17% 41.17% 35.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,088 1,852 2,067
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -17.48% -1.90%
75th Percentile £69,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,200 £76,250 £80,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £51,500 £55,860
% change year-on-year +11.65% -7.81% -2.85%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in the South East

Databricks
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Databricks

Databricks
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Databricks in the South East

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 Databricks within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Thames Valley -108 24 £90,000 -2.70% 41
Hampshire -31 23 £70,000 -9.68% 17
Surrey -24 21 £72,500 +11.54% 16
Berkshire +20 18 £90,000 -7.69% 30
West Sussex -17 9 £85,000 +61.90% 6
Oxfordshire -25 5 £60,000 -34.25% 2
East Sussex -43 5 £112,500 +32.35%
Kent -16 4 £101,250 +22.73% 2
Buckinghamshire -77 1 £50,500 - 9
Databricks
England

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 7 (8.24%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.06%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.71%) Apache
4 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.35%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 49 (57.65%) Azure
2 20 (23.53%) Azure Databricks
3 18 (21.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (20.00%) Collibra
5 15 (17.65%) Snowflake
6 14 (16.47%) Azure Machine Learning
7 12 (14.12%) Power Platform
8 10 (11.76%) Azure AI
9 8 (9.41%) AWS
10 5 (5.88%) Alation
10 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (4.71%) GitHub
11 4 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.35%) Azure Storage
12 2 (2.35%) Figma
12 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (2.35%) Power Automate
13 1 (1.18%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.35%) Metadata
2 13 (15.29%) SQL Server
3 12 (14.12%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (14.12%) Power BI
4 8 (9.41%) Data Lake
5 6 (7.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.71%) Star Schema
7 3 (3.53%) Delta Lake
7 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.53%) Tableau
8 2 (2.35%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.18%) Big Data
9 1 (1.18%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.18%) Parquet
9 1 (1.18%) Power Query
9 1 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (1.18%) Spark SQL
9 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (15.29%) Git
2 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.35%) MLflow
4 1 (1.18%) ERwin
4 1 (1.18%) JIRA
General
1 20 (23.53%) Finance
2 10 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.71%) Retail
4 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.53%) Wearables
5 2 (2.35%) Banking
5 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Legal
5 2 (2.35%) Legal Technology
5 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.18%) Law
6 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.18%) Marketing
6 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (25.88%) Data Engineer
2 18 (21.18%) Lead
3 17 (20.00%) Architect
4 15 (17.65%) Data Architect
5 13 (15.29%) Senior
6 8 (9.41%) Data Manager
6 8 (9.41%) Engineering Manager
7 7 (8.24%) Analyst
8 6 (7.06%) Azure Architect
8 6 (7.06%) Data Analyst
8 6 (7.06%) Finance Manager
9 5 (5.88%) Azure Data Architect
9 5 (5.88%) Governance Analyst
10 4 (4.71%) Data Scientist
10 4 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Senior Data Scientist
11 3 (3.53%) Head of AI
11 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Engineer
12 2 (2.35%) Azure Data Engineer
12 2 (2.35%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.18%) PySpark
2 6 (7.06%) Terraform
3 3 (3.53%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.35%) Django
4 2 (2.35%) Flask
4 2 (2.35%) Kafka
4 2 (2.35%) Pulumi
4 2 (2.35%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.35%) Streamlit
4 2 (2.35%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.18%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (1.18%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.18%) Middleware
5 1 (1.18%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.18%) Clustering
3 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (45.88%) Data Governance
2 36 (42.35%) Analytics
3 34 (40.00%) AI
4 31 (36.47%) Data Engineering
5 27 (31.76%) Roadmaps
6 26 (30.59%) ETL
7 25 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
8 24 (28.24%) Data Architecture
8 24 (28.24%) Data Modelling
8 24 (28.24%) Machine Learning
9 18 (21.18%) Agile
10 16 (18.82%) CI/CD
11 15 (17.65%) Decision-Making
12 14 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (16.47%) Data Science
13 13 (15.29%) Lakehouse
14 12 (14.12%) DevOps
14 12 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
16 10 (11.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 43 (50.59%) SQL
2 32 (37.65%) Python
3 2 (2.35%) Bicep
3 2 (2.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
1 3 (3.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.35%) Degree
3 1 (1.18%) CREST Certified
3 1 (1.18%) ICAEW
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (27.06%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.35%) QA
3 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) IASME
3 1 (1.18%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (9.41%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (30.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.06%) Informatica
3 2 (2.35%) Foundry
3 2 (2.35%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.18%) Axway