Senior Databricks Data Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer - Databricks
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Engineer - Databricks salary in the UK excluding London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 547 654
Rank change year-on-year -96 +107 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Databricks Data Engineer 9 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.003% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £62,500 - -
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £83,125
90th Percentile £80,000 - £93,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £92,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -24.32% +42.31% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,692 31,231 55,277
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 89.47% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 52,536 18,051 34,989
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Databricks Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Senior Databricks Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Databricks Data Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Databricks Data Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Senior Databricks Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Databricks Data Engineer
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 Senior Databricks Data Engineer 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 - 5 £67,500 -
North of England -51 3 £80,000 +18.52%
North West - 2 £80,000 -
Yorkshire -37 1 £75,000 +11.11%
East Midlands - 1 £50,000 -
Midlands - 1 £50,000 -
Senior Databricks Data Engineer
UK

Senior Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, Senior Databricks Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Databricks Data Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Analytics
1 9 (100.00%) Databricks
2 8 (88.89%) AI
2 8 (88.89%) Azure
3 7 (77.78%) Data Engineering
4 6 (66.67%) Data Quality
4 6 (66.67%) Machine Learning
5 5 (55.56%) Data Governance
5 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
5 5 (55.56%) DevOps
5 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
5 5 (55.56%) Observability
5 5 (55.56%) SQL
6 4 (44.44%) Change Management
6 4 (44.44%) Complex ETL
6 4 (44.44%) Cost Control
6 4 (44.44%) Data Security
6 4 (44.44%) ETL
6 4 (44.44%) FinOps
6 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
6 4 (44.44%) ITIL
6 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (44.44%) Python
6 4 (44.44%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
8 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 2 (22.22%) Lakehouse

Senior Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) dbt
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Metadata
3 1 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (11.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) Law
4 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) Pandas
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Analytics
2 8 (88.89%) AI
3 7 (77.78%) Data Engineering
4 6 (66.67%) Machine Learning
5 5 (55.56%) Data Governance
5 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
5 5 (55.56%) DevOps
5 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
5 5 (55.56%) Observability
6 4 (44.44%) Change Management
6 4 (44.44%) Complex ETL
6 4 (44.44%) Cost Control
6 4 (44.44%) Data Security
6 4 (44.44%) ETL
6 4 (44.44%) FinOps
6 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
6 4 (44.44%) ITIL
6 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (44.44%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft