Azure Databricks Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Azure Databricks
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Databricks skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 521 626
Rank change year-on-year -71 +105 -67
Permanent jobs citing Azure Databricks 60 27 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.075% 0.077% 0.055%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.29% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 51 24 24
10th Percentile £46,250 - £38,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +12.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £89,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £99,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +21.43% +5.66%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Azure Databricks falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 17,757 9,434 16,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.09% 27.03% 27.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,996 6,476 10,744
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.37%

Azure Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Databricks relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Azure Databricks job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Databricks
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Databricks.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Databricks in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Databricks in the UK excluding London

Azure Databricks
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Databricks within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South East -30 23 £87,500 +1.45% 4
North of England -35 21 £75,000 -25.00% 9
Yorkshire -29 11 £80,000 -20.00% 4
South West -68 6 £85,000 +95.40% 3
North East - 6 £45,000 - 2
Wales -63 5 £52,500 -12.50% 3
Scotland +5 4 £85,000 - 1
North West - 4 £75,000 - 3
Midlands -48 1 £28,000 -53.33% 5
East Midlands - 1 £28,000 - 2
Azure Databricks
UK

Azure Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (31.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 16 (26.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 11 (18.33%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (6.67%) Azure AI
7 3 (5.00%) dbt
7 3 (5.00%) Prefect
8 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.67%) Dagster
9 1 (1.67%) GCP
9 1 (1.67%) GitHub
9 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (18.33%) Power BI
3 10 (16.67%) Delta Lake
4 9 (15.00%) Data Lake
5 8 (13.33%) Star Schema
6 6 (10.00%) Spark SQL
7 5 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (8.33%) Metadata
7 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
8 4 (6.67%) Tableau
9 3 (5.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.67%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) MLflow
3 2 (3.33%) GitLab
4 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 16 (26.67%) Finance
2 14 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.33%) Advertising
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Legal
4 2 (3.33%) Retail
5 1 (1.67%) Local Government
5 1 (1.67%) Marketing
5 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (58.33%) Architect
2 26 (43.33%) Data Architect
3 16 (26.67%) Azure Architect
4 15 (25.00%) Data Engineer
5 11 (18.33%) Azure Data Architect
6 9 (15.00%) Lead
7 7 (11.67%) Senior
8 6 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (8.33%) Databricks Engineer
9 5 (8.33%) Developer
10 4 (6.67%) Azure Consultant
10 4 (6.67%) Business Developer
10 4 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (6.67%) Consultant
10 4 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (5.00%) Data Analytics Architect
11 3 (5.00%) Lead Architect
11 3 (5.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 3 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.00%) PySpark
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) Kafka
3 1 (1.67%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.67%) Clustering
3 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (43.33%) Analytics
2 24 (40.00%) ETL
2 24 (40.00%) Lakehouse
3 22 (36.67%) Data Architecture
3 22 (36.67%) Data Governance
4 20 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 18 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 16 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
6 16 (26.67%) DevOps
7 15 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (21.67%) AI
9 12 (20.00%) Data Engineering
9 12 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (18.33%) Data Security
11 10 (16.67%) Machine Learning
12 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (48.33%) SQL
2 24 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (6.67%) Degree
1 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
1 4 (6.67%) Tableau Certification
2 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 60 (100.00%) Databricks
2 17 (28.33%) Microsoft