Databricks Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Databricks
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 March 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 268 311
Rank change year-on-year -10 +43 +150
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 284 280 488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 1.00% 0.83%
As % of the Vendors category 2.05% 2.62% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 206 211 262
10th Percentile £47,000 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,938 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £83,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.74% - +3.33%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,828 10,683 21,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.08% 38.17% 37.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,352 6,166 16,744
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,750 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,512
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +11.96% -8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,211 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,725 £78,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -13.04%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Databricks
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Databricks
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Databricks in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Databricks in the UK excluding London

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 Databricks within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Midlands -6 88 £65,500 +9.17% 31
South East -34 76 £85,000 +21.43% 76
West Midlands +25 68 £70,000 +16.67% 16
North of England -33 65 £70,000 +4.48% 55
North West -2 34 £70,000 +3.70% 24
Yorkshire -29 30 £79,000 +21.54% 25
East Midlands -38 20 £65,000 +23.81% 14
East of England +19 18 £75,000 -6.25% 10
Scotland -8 17 £90,000 +20.00% 16
South West -41 15 £60,000 -20.00% 23
Wales -5 3 £120,000 +54.84% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £63,750 - 1
North East -31 1 - - 6
Databricks
UK

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 19 (6.69%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (5.99%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.46%) SAS
4 5 (1.76%) IIS
5 3 (1.06%) Apache
5 3 (1.06%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.35%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 197 (69.37%) Azure
2 69 (24.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 66 (23.24%) Azure Data Factory
4 42 (14.79%) Power Platform
5 35 (12.32%) AWS
6 33 (11.62%) Snowflake
7 21 (7.39%) SaaS
8 16 (5.63%) GCP
9 14 (4.93%) dbt
10 12 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.87%) GitHub
11 11 (3.87%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (2.46%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.41%) Azure Storage
14 3 (1.06%) Azure App Service
14 3 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.06%) Prefect
15 2 (0.70%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 57 (20.07%) Data Lake
3 38 (13.38%) Power BI
4 27 (9.51%) Metadata
5 20 (7.04%) SQL Server
6 19 (6.69%) Delta Lake
7 15 (5.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (4.23%) Big Data
9 10 (3.52%) Spark SQL
9 10 (3.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (3.17%) Tableau
11 8 (2.82%) BigQuery
12 7 (2.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 7 (2.46%) MongoDB
13 6 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (2.11%) Data Mining
13 6 (2.11%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.76%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.76%) MySQL
15 4 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Git
2 4 (1.41%) MLflow
3 3 (1.06%) JIRA
4 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
General
1 68 (23.94%) Finance
2 60 (21.13%) Social Skills
3 35 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.23%) Retail
5 11 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (3.87%) Law
6 9 (3.17%) Banking
7 8 (2.82%) Automotive
7 8 (2.82%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.11%) Marketing
10 5 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.06%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.70%) Billing
12 2 (0.70%) Legal
12 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.35%) Advertising
13 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (44.72%) Data Engineer
2 85 (29.93%) Senior
3 60 (21.13%) Senior Data Engineer
4 53 (18.66%) Architect
5 51 (17.96%) Data Architect
6 38 (13.38%) Azure Architect
7 37 (13.03%) Azure Data Architect
8 24 (8.45%) Lead
9 19 (6.69%) Analyst
9 19 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (5.63%) Azure Data Engineer
11 15 (5.28%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (4.58%) Data Analyst
13 10 (3.52%) Consultant
14 7 (2.46%) Data Consultant
14 7 (2.46%) Data Manager
14 7 (2.46%) Principal Data Engineer
14 7 (2.46%) Principal Engineer
15 6 (2.11%) Senior Manager
16 5 (1.76%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.49%) PySpark
2 11 (3.87%) Kafka
3 9 (3.17%) PyTorch
3 9 (3.17%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.76%) .NET
4 5 (1.76%) Play Framework
5 4 (1.41%) Pandas
6 3 (1.06%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.06%) Google JAX
6 3 (1.06%) JAX
6 3 (1.06%) JSON
6 3 (1.06%) LangChain
6 3 (1.06%) LlamaIndex
6 3 (1.06%) NumPy
6 3 (1.06%) OpenCV
6 3 (1.06%) pgvector
6 3 (1.06%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.06%) SciPy
7 2 (0.70%) Keras
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.52%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.41%) Clustering
4 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.41%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.06%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.06%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.70%) Credit Risk
6 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.70%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.35%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.35%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.35%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.35%) Life Science
7 1 (0.35%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.35%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (44.72%) Data Engineering
2 107 (37.68%) Analytics
3 96 (33.80%) Data Modelling
4 88 (30.99%) Agile
5 84 (29.58%) ETL
6 81 (28.52%) Data Pipeline
7 70 (24.65%) AI
8 68 (23.94%) Data Governance
9 65 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (20.42%) Mentoring
11 54 (19.01%) Decision-Making
12 53 (18.66%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (16.55%) Data Architecture
13 47 (16.55%) Machine Learning
14 46 (16.20%) Coaching
15 45 (15.85%) CI/CD
16 40 (14.08%) Data Science
17 38 (13.38%) Technical Leadership
18 37 (13.03%) DevOps
19 32 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 192 (67.61%) SQL
2 144 (50.70%) Python
3 19 (6.69%) T-SQL
4 13 (4.58%) Scala
5 9 (3.17%) Java
6 8 (2.82%) R
7 5 (1.76%) C#
8 4 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.70%) Bicep
9 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.35%) PHP
10 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (8.10%) Degree
2 9 (3.17%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.76%) DBS Check
3 5 (1.76%) MBA
4 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.06%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (20.77%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.52%) GDPR
3 5 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (5.28%) Terraform
2 7 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 58 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.17%) Dell
3 6 (2.11%) Oracle
4 5 (1.76%) BT
5 4 (1.41%) Informatica
5 4 (1.41%) Palantir
5 4 (1.41%) SAP
6 3 (1.06%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.06%) Denodo
6 3 (1.06%) Teradata
7 2 (0.70%) Adobe
7 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.70%) NVIDIA
7 2 (0.70%) Vertica
8 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.35%) RedGate
8 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.35%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.35%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.35%) WSO2