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 8 April 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
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 151 287
Rank change year-on-year -30 +136 +16
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 108 104 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.80% 1.55% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 3.08% 3.96% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 95 75 78
10th Percentile £66,250 £43,750 £48,550
25th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £100,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +2.89%

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 3,510 2,625 6,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.88% 39.17% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,051 1,681 4,548
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £39,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +16.40% -5.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +12.00% -12.40%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +23 54 £90,000 - 1
Thames Valley -8 23 £73,750 +55.26% 17
Oxfordshire -4 11 £75,000 +57.89% 5
Kent -33 11 £112,500 +25.00% 1
Berkshire +2 8 £75,000 - 9
Hampshire -26 7 £67,500 -32.50% 4
Surrey -61 6 £80,000 +14.29% 2
Buckinghamshire -19 4 £50,000 -44.44% 3
Middlesex +23 3 - -
West Sussex - 1 £75,000 - 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 6 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.63%) IIS
3 2 (1.85%) SAS
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 93 (86.11%) Azure
2 71 (65.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 29 (26.85%) Snowflake
4 22 (20.37%) Azure AI
4 22 (20.37%) Azure Machine Learning
5 15 (13.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (12.04%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.56%) AWS
8 4 (3.70%) Azure Storage
8 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.85%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.85%) Prefect
11 1 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.93%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (24.07%) Data Warehouse
1 26 (24.07%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.26%) Power BI
3 7 (6.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.56%) Big Data
4 6 (5.56%) Hadoop
5 5 (4.63%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.63%) Data Mining
5 5 (4.63%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.63%) Tableau
6 4 (3.70%) Spark SQL
7 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.93%) Metadata
8 1 (0.93%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.93%) SAS EBI
8 1 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Git
General
1 38 (35.19%) Finance
2 29 (26.85%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.56%) Banking
4 6 (5.56%) Law
5 5 (4.63%) Marketing
5 5 (4.63%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (37.96%) Architect
1 41 (37.96%) Data Architect
2 40 (37.04%) Azure Architect
2 40 (37.04%) Azure Data Architect
3 24 (22.22%) Senior
4 20 (18.52%) Data Manager
5 19 (17.59%) Data Engineer
5 19 (17.59%) Engineering Manager
6 18 (16.67%) Finance Manager
7 11 (10.19%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Data Science Manager
8 5 (4.63%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Consultant
9 4 (3.70%) Head of AI
9 4 (3.70%) Head of Finance
10 3 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Lead
10 3 (2.78%) Lead Data Engineer
11 2 (1.85%) Developer
11 2 (1.85%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.63%) Play Framework
1 5 (4.63%) PySpark
2 2 (1.85%) Google JAX
2 2 (1.85%) JAX
2 2 (1.85%) Kafka
2 2 (1.85%) NumPy
2 2 (1.85%) OpenCV
2 2 (1.85%) Pandas
2 2 (1.85%) PyTorch
2 2 (1.85%) SciPy
2 2 (1.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.48%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.93%) Life Science
4 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (49.07%) Data Governance
2 44 (40.74%) Agile
3 42 (38.89%) AI
3 42 (38.89%) Data Engineering
3 42 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 35 (32.41%) Data Modelling
6 34 (31.48%) ETL
7 33 (30.56%) Data Architecture
8 28 (25.93%) Roadmaps
9 26 (24.07%) Regulatory Compliance
10 24 (22.22%) Line Management
10 24 (22.22%) Migration
10 24 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
11 23 (21.30%) Data Security
12 22 (20.37%) Data Development
12 22 (20.37%) Performance Tuning
12 22 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (18.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 71 (65.74%) SQL
2 49 (45.37%) Python
3 7 (6.48%) R
4 6 (5.56%) Scala
5 5 (4.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (6.48%) Degree
2 5 (4.63%) Master's Degree
2 5 (4.63%) MBA
3 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (27.78%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.63%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 22 (20.37%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.63%) BT