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 19 January 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
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 194 240
Rank change year-on-year -7 +46 +56
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 66 104 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.63% 1.16% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 2.04% 3.14% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 52 87 61
10th Percentile £66,375 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,188 £56,250 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -4.41% -2.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile - £97,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +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 3,242 3,307 3,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.90% 36.88% 38.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,799 1,744 2,864
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,303 £81,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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

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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

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Databricks in the South East over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Databricks in the South East

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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 19 January 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
East Sussex - 25 £90,000 - 9
Thames Valley +18 20 £75,000 +36.36% 46
Oxfordshire +22 12 £75,000 +57.89% 14
Berkshire +1 8 £78,750 +26.00% 22
Surrey -43 7 £42,500 -34.62% 8
Middlesex +2 6 - -
Hampshire +25 3 £75,000 -21.05% 14
Kent -21 2 £102,500 +13.89% 7
West Sussex +4 1 £75,000 -16.67% 6
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 5 (7.58%) IIS
2 3 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.03%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 54 (81.82%) Azure
2 33 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 14 (21.21%) Power Platform
4 13 (19.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (10.61%) Snowflake
6 5 (7.58%) AWS
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Storage
8 2 (3.03%) GitHub
8 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.03%) SaaS
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.52%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (1.52%) iPaaS
9 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.52%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (13.64%) Power BI
3 6 (9.09%) Big Data
4 5 (7.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (7.58%) Data Lake
4 5 (7.58%) Data Mining
4 5 (7.58%) Hadoop
4 5 (7.58%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.58%) Tableau
5 3 (4.55%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.03%) Data Hub
6 2 (3.03%) Metadata
7 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.52%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.52%) SAS EBI
7 1 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Git
General
1 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Finance
3 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.58%) Law
4 5 (7.58%) Marketing
4 5 (7.58%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.03%) Banking
5 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (37.88%) Architect
1 25 (37.88%) Data Architect
2 24 (36.36%) Azure Architect
2 24 (36.36%) Azure Data Architect
3 18 (27.27%) Senior
4 9 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Lead
6 6 (9.09%) Senior Manager
7 5 (7.58%) Data Science Manager
7 5 (7.58%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Consultant
9 3 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Analyst
10 2 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Data Analyst
10 2 (3.03%) Data Manager
10 2 (3.03%) Software Engineer
11 1 (1.52%) Governance Analyst
11 1 (1.52%) Head of Engineering
11 1 (1.52%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) Play Framework
2 3 (4.55%) PySpark
3 2 (3.03%) .NET
4 1 (1.52%) Kafka
4 1 (1.52%) Keras
4 1 (1.52%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Algorithms
1 5 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (34.85%) Agile
3 22 (33.33%) ETL
4 20 (30.30%) Data Modelling
5 19 (28.79%) Data Governance
6 18 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
7 17 (25.76%) Analytics
8 16 (24.24%) AI
8 16 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (22.73%) Data Architecture
9 15 (22.73%) Decision-Making
10 14 (21.21%) Data Engineering
11 13 (19.70%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (18.18%) Data Security
13 11 (16.67%) Mentoring
13 11 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (15.15%) Coaching
15 9 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
15 9 (13.64%) CI/CD
16 8 (12.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (59.09%) SQL
2 37 (56.06%) Python
3 5 (7.58%) Java
3 5 (7.58%) R
3 5 (7.58%) Scala
4 2 (3.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) Degree
2 6 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 5 (7.58%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.58%) MBA
4 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.52%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (25.76%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.58%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.58%) BT
3 1 (1.52%) Dell
3 1 (1.52%) NVIDIA