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 7 August 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
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 70 316
Rank change year-on-year -152 +246 -90
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 99 315 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.59% 3.62% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 2.33% 9.02% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 94 43 14
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £43,225
25th Percentile £65,313 £62,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £70,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% +24.44% -25.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £104,500 £83,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% - -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 4,257 3,493 5,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.31% 40.10% 36.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,824 1,904 2,999
10th Percentile £27,825 £27,765 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £49,139
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -3.34% -1.72%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.57% - -8.70%

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 7 August 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 7 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
East Sussex -31 24 £90,000 +5.88% 2
Thames Valley -104 22 £82,500 +13.79% 18
Surrey -28 18 £75,000 +15.38% 7
Berkshire +15 17 £90,000 +12.50% 11
Hampshire -36 17 £67,500 - 13
Kent -19 10 £112,500 +25.00% 5
West Sussex -10 8 £85,000 +61.90% 5
Buckinghamshire -76 4 £50,000 - 6
Oxfordshire -19 1 £57,500 -11.54% 1
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 (8.08%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.05%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.03%) Apache
4 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 73 (73.74%) Azure
2 44 (44.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 28 (28.28%) Snowflake
4 25 (25.25%) Azure Machine Learning
5 23 (23.23%) Azure AI
6 9 (9.09%) Collibra
6 9 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 7 (7.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (6.06%) AWS
9 5 (5.05%) Alation
9 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (4.04%) GitHub
10 4 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.03%) Azure Storage
11 3 (3.03%) Power Automate
12 2 (2.02%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (2.02%) Prefect
12 2 (2.02%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.28%) SQL Server
2 17 (17.17%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (12.12%) Metadata
4 9 (9.09%) Power BI
5 8 (8.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (8.08%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.03%) Delta Lake
6 3 (3.03%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.02%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.01%) Big Data
8 1 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.01%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.01%) PowerPivot
8 1 (1.01%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (10.10%) Git
2 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.01%) MLflow
General
1 36 (36.36%) Finance
2 14 (14.14%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.04%) Banking
5 3 (3.03%) Retail
5 3 (3.03%) Wearables
6 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Legal
6 2 (2.02%) Legal Technology
7 1 (1.01%) Law
7 1 (1.01%) Marketing
7 1 (1.01%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (26.26%) Architect
2 25 (25.25%) Data Engineer
3 24 (24.24%) Data Architect
4 21 (21.21%) Data Manager
4 21 (21.21%) Engineering Manager
5 18 (18.18%) Finance Manager
6 17 (17.17%) Azure Architect
7 16 (16.16%) Azure Data Architect
8 15 (15.15%) Senior
9 10 (10.10%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (9.09%) Lead
11 6 (6.06%) Analyst
11 6 (6.06%) Data Analyst
12 5 (5.05%) Governance Analyst
13 4 (4.04%) Head of AI
13 4 (4.04%) Head of Finance
14 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Engineer
15 2 (2.02%) Automation Engineer
15 2 (2.02%) Azure Data Engineer
15 2 (2.02%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.14%) PySpark
2 4 (4.04%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.03%) Pandas
3 3 (3.03%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.02%) Google JAX
4 2 (2.02%) JAX
4 2 (2.02%) Kafka
4 2 (2.02%) NumPy
4 2 (2.02%) OpenCV
4 2 (2.02%) SciPy
5 1 (1.01%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (1.01%) Django
5 1 (1.01%) Flask
5 1 (1.01%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.01%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.01%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.04%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.01%) Clustering
4 1 (1.01%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (53.54%) Data Governance
2 46 (46.46%) AI
3 44 (44.44%) Data Engineering
4 39 (39.39%) Machine Learning
5 37 (37.37%) Data Architecture
6 34 (34.34%) Agile
7 32 (32.32%) Roadmaps
8 31 (31.31%) ETL
9 30 (30.30%) Analytics
10 27 (27.27%) Data Modelling
11 26 (26.26%) Regulatory Compliance
12 24 (24.24%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (22.22%) Data Development
13 22 (22.22%) Line Management
13 22 (22.22%) Migration
14 20 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (14.14%) CI/CD
15 14 (14.14%) Data Security
15 14 (14.14%) DevOps
15 14 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (61.62%) SQL
2 35 (35.35%) Python
3 2 (2.02%) Bicep
4 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.01%) R
4 1 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (3.03%) Degree
2 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.01%) ICAEW
3 1 (1.01%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.01%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (23.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.01%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (7.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.07%) Terraform
2 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.05%) Informatica
3 1 (1.01%) Foundry
3 1 (1.01%) OpenAI