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 September 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 80 293
Rank change year-on-year -148 +213 -60
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 100 300 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.56% 3.33% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 2.35% 8.17% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 94 34 28
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,250 £46,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £84,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £113,875 £86,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £73,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.25% -1.67% -6.25%

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 4,253 3,674 4,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.74% 40.79% 35.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,943 1,904 2,476
10th Percentile £28,150 £27,276 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,200 £77,500 £79,093
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%

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 September 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 September 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
Hampshire -32 24 £70,000 +75.00% 17
Thames Valley -105 22 £90,000 +12.50% 21
Surrey -25 18 £75,000 +15.38% 10
Berkshire +19 17 £90,000 +1.41% 13
East Sussex -36 17 £112,500 +32.35%
Kent -16 10 £112,500 +36.36% 1
West Sussex -7 9 £85,000 +61.90%
Buckinghamshire -77 3 £50,250 - 4
Oxfordshire -33 2 £82,500 +26.92% 4
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 8 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.00%) Apache
4 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 71 (71.00%) Azure
2 37 (37.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 29 (29.00%) Snowflake
4 27 (27.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 24 (24.00%) Azure AI
6 22 (22.00%) Azure Databricks
7 15 (15.00%) Collibra
8 10 (10.00%) Power Platform
9 7 (7.00%) AWS
10 6 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (5.00%) Alation
11 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (4.00%) GitHub
12 4 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (3.00%) Azure Storage
13 3 (3.00%) Power Automate
14 2 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
14 2 (2.00%) Figma
14 2 (2.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.00%) SQL Server
2 16 (16.00%) Metadata
3 13 (13.00%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (10.00%) Power BI
5 8 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (8.00%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.00%) Delta Lake
6 3 (3.00%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (2.00%) Spark SQL
7 2 (2.00%) Tableau
8 1 (1.00%) Big Data
8 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.00%) PowerPivot
8 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (3.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.00%) MLflow
General
1 37 (37.00%) Finance
2 11 (11.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.00%) Banking
5 3 (3.00%) Retail
5 3 (3.00%) Wearables
6 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.00%) Legal
6 2 (2.00%) Legal Technology
6 2 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.00%) Law
7 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.00%) Marketing
7 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (24.00%) Data Engineer
2 21 (21.00%) Data Manager
2 21 (21.00%) Engineering Manager
3 20 (20.00%) Architect
4 18 (18.00%) Data Architect
4 18 (18.00%) Finance Manager
5 16 (16.00%) Senior
6 15 (15.00%) Lead
7 10 (10.00%) Azure Architect
7 10 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (9.00%) Azure Data Architect
9 7 (7.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Databricks Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Analyst
10 6 (6.00%) Data Analyst
11 5 (5.00%) Governance Analyst
11 5 (5.00%) Head of AI
11 5 (5.00%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
12 4 (4.00%) Head of Finance
13 3 (3.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.00%) PySpark
2 6 (6.00%) Terraform
3 5 (5.00%) PyTorch
4 4 (4.00%) TensorFlow
5 3 (3.00%) Pandas
6 2 (2.00%) Django
6 2 (2.00%) Flask
6 2 (2.00%) Google JAX
6 2 (2.00%) JAX
6 2 (2.00%) Kafka
6 2 (2.00%) NumPy
6 2 (2.00%) OpenCV
6 2 (2.00%) Pulumi
6 2 (2.00%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.00%) SciPy
6 2 (2.00%) Streamlit
7 1 (1.00%) Apollo GraphQL
7 1 (1.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.00%) Clustering
3 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (58.00%) Data Governance
2 49 (49.00%) AI
3 45 (45.00%) Data Engineering
4 40 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 39 (39.00%) Roadmaps
6 38 (38.00%) Data Architecture
7 33 (33.00%) Agile
7 33 (33.00%) Analytics
8 28 (28.00%) ETL
9 26 (26.00%) Regulatory Compliance
10 24 (24.00%) Data Modelling
10 24 (24.00%) Data Pipeline
11 23 (23.00%) Migration
12 22 (22.00%) Data Development
12 22 (22.00%) Line Management
13 16 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (13.00%) DevOps
15 13 (13.00%) Mentoring
15 13 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (58.00%) SQL
2 33 (33.00%) Python
3 2 (2.00%) Bicep
4 1 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (4.00%) Degree
2 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.00%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (26.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (22.00%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (37.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.00%) Informatica
3 2 (2.00%) Foundry
3 2 (2.00%) OpenAI