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 1 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 203 212
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 +99
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 63 99 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.61% 1.07% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 1.91% 2.91% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43 83 51
10th Percentile £63,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £70,625 £53,750 £56,500
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 £93,000 £96,000 £103,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

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 3,302 3,397 3,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.87% 36.74% 40.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,819 1,832 2,430
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,000 £38,000
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 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,303 £81,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.43% +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 1 January 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 1 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
Thames Valley +19 23 £75,000 +20.00% 36
East Sussex - 20 £87,500 - 3
Oxfordshire +28 9 £75,000 +57.89% 9
Berkshire +5 8 £78,750 +26.00% 24
Surrey -39 7 £42,500 -34.62% 5
Buckinghamshire +5 6 - - 3
Middlesex -1 6 - -
Hampshire +23 2 £71,250 -25.00% 3
Kent -15 2 £102,500 +20.59% 1
West Sussex +2 1 £75,000 -16.67% 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 5 (7.94%) IIS
2 3 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.17%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 48 (76.19%) Azure
2 27 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 14 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 12 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (12.70%) Snowflake
6 7 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.94%) AWS
8 3 (4.76%) SaaS
9 2 (3.17%) Azure Storage
9 2 (3.17%) GitHub
9 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.59%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (1.59%) H2O.ai
10 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.59%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.63%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (14.29%) Power BI
3 6 (9.52%) Big Data
3 6 (9.52%) Data Lake
4 5 (7.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (7.94%) Data Mining
4 5 (7.94%) Hadoop
4 5 (7.94%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.94%) Tableau
5 2 (3.17%) Data Hub
5 2 (3.17%) Metadata
5 2 (3.17%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.59%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.59%) SAS EBI
6 1 (1.59%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 22 (34.92%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.46%) Finance
3 10 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Marketing
4 5 (7.94%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (6.35%) Law
6 2 (3.17%) Banking
6 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (30.16%) Architect
1 19 (30.16%) Data Architect
2 18 (28.57%) Azure Architect
2 18 (28.57%) Azure Data Architect
3 16 (25.40%) Senior
4 8 (12.70%) Data Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Analyst
5 7 (11.11%) Data Analyst
6 6 (9.52%) Senior Manager
7 5 (7.94%) Data Quality Analyst
7 5 (7.94%) Data Science Manager
7 5 (7.94%) Lead
7 5 (7.94%) Quality Analyst
7 5 (7.94%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Consultant
9 3 (4.76%) Data Manager
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Software Engineer
11 1 (1.59%) Governance Analyst
11 1 (1.59%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) Play Framework
2 3 (4.76%) PySpark
3 2 (3.17%) .NET
4 1 (1.59%) Kafka
4 1 (1.59%) Keras
4 1 (1.59%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Algorithms
1 5 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (38.10%) Agile
3 20 (31.75%) Decision-Making
3 20 (31.75%) ETL
4 18 (28.57%) Analytics
5 17 (26.98%) Data Modelling
6 16 (25.40%) AI
6 16 (25.40%) Data Governance
7 15 (23.81%) Data Engineering
7 15 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (22.22%) Data Architecture
8 14 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
9 13 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (17.46%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
11 10 (15.87%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (15.87%) Coaching
11 10 (15.87%) Data Security
12 9 (14.29%) Machine Learning
13 8 (12.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (66.67%) SQL
2 35 (55.56%) Python
3 5 (7.94%) Java
3 5 (7.94%) R
3 5 (7.94%) Scala
4 2 (3.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) Degree
2 6 (9.52%) Master's Degree
3 5 (7.94%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.94%) MBA
4 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (31.75%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.94%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) BT
3 1 (1.59%) Dell
3 1 (1.59%) NVIDIA