Databricks Job Trends

Databricks
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 17 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
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 245 281
Rank change year-on-year -3 +36 +118
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 544 650 622
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.22% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 2.85% 3.28% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 368 461 395
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £48,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £91,563 £96,250 £92,875
90th Percentile £118,750 £118,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,060 19,826 23,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.27% 37.17% 39.19%
Number of salaries quoted 10,710 10,065 17,807
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.00% +5.26% -5.00%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in the UK

Databricks
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Databricks.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Databricks

Databricks
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Databricks over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Databricks in the UK

Databricks
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Databricks within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England +5 495 £80,000 +6.67% 391
London +18 257 £90,000 +5.88% 134
UK excluding London -1 251 £70,000 +7.69% 333
Work from Home +20 234 £80,000 +3.23% 170
Midlands +45 86 £65,000 +4.00% 48
West Midlands +56 67 £65,000 +4.00% 18
South East -6 65 £85,000 +30.77% 128
North of England +9 62 £65,000 -3.70% 58
Yorkshire +8 40 £68,000 +4.62% 24
North West +4 21 £62,500 -7.41% 23
East Midlands -6 19 £65,000 - 29
South West -17 17 £60,000 -12.73% 33
Scotland -2 14 £95,000 +26.67% 19
East of England +15 5 - - 34
Wales +5 3 £120,000 +180.70% 13
Northern Ireland - 3 £63,750 - 4
North East -10 1 - - 12

Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 59 (10.85%) Apache Spark
2 25 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.39%) Apache
3 13 (2.39%) SAS
4 5 (0.92%) Confluence
4 5 (0.92%) IIS
5 3 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.18%) CMS
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.18%) Strapi
Applications
1 15 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.18%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 389 (71.51%) Azure
2 139 (25.55%) Azure Data Factory
3 127 (23.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 124 (22.79%) Power Platform
5 114 (20.96%) AWS
6 73 (13.42%) Snowflake
7 57 (10.48%) GCP
8 51 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (7.54%) SaaS
10 33 (6.07%) GitHub
11 32 (5.88%) dbt
12 29 (5.33%) Azure Machine Learning
13 28 (5.15%) Microsoft Purview
14 25 (4.60%) Serverless
15 18 (3.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 16 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (2.21%) Amazon SageMaker
17 12 (2.21%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (2.21%) OpenShift
18 11 (2.02%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) DAB
1 1 (0.18%) DNS
1 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (29.04%) Data Warehouse
2 142 (26.10%) Data Lake
3 116 (21.32%) Power BI
4 57 (10.48%) Metadata
5 50 (9.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 49 (9.01%) Delta Lake
7 46 (8.46%) SQL Server
8 43 (7.90%) Big Data
9 29 (5.33%) Tableau
10 26 (4.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 26 (4.78%) Hadoop
11 19 (3.49%) NoSQL
12 18 (3.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 18 (3.31%) BigQuery
13 17 (3.13%) Data Mining
14 16 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (2.76%) Data Vault
16 13 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 11 (2.02%) MySQL
18 10 (1.84%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 33 (6.07%) MLflow
2 30 (5.51%) Git
3 6 (1.10%) ERwin
4 5 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.74%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.74%) JIRA
5 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.37%) GitLab
7 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 182 (33.46%) Finance
2 147 (27.02%) Social Skills
3 76 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (6.99%) Retail
5 32 (5.88%) Law
6 22 (4.04%) Banking
7 20 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 16 (2.94%) Marketing
10 15 (2.76%) Public Sector
11 12 (2.21%) Automotive
12 11 (2.02%) Front Office
12 11 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.65%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.65%) Legal
14 7 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.92%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.74%) Games
Job Titles
1 203 (37.32%) Data Engineer
2 138 (25.37%) Senior
3 92 (16.91%) Architect
4 83 (15.26%) Senior Data Engineer
5 79 (14.52%) Data Architect
6 72 (13.24%) Lead
7 43 (7.90%) Azure Architect
8 41 (7.54%) Azure Data Architect
9 39 (7.17%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (6.25%) Analyst
11 32 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
12 24 (4.41%) Consultant
13 22 (4.04%) Data Analyst
14 21 (3.86%) Data Manager
15 18 (3.31%) Lead Data Engineer
16 17 (3.13%) Data Consultant
17 16 (2.94%) Developer
18 15 (2.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 13 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
19 13 (2.39%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (15.26%) PySpark
2 41 (7.54%) Kafka
3 29 (5.33%) TensorFlow
4 28 (5.15%) PyTorch
5 24 (4.41%) LangChain
6 12 (2.21%) Pandas
7 11 (2.02%) .NET
8 10 (1.84%) Keras
9 8 (1.47%) boto
9 8 (1.47%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (1.10%) Faiss
10 6 (1.10%) Middleware
10 6 (1.10%) React
10 6 (1.10%) scikit-learn
10 6 (1.10%) vLLM
10 6 (1.10%) XGBoost
11 5 (0.92%) CSS
11 5 (0.92%) Play Framework
12 4 (0.74%) AWS CDK
12 4 (0.74%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.51%) Cloud Native
2 21 (3.86%) Management Information System
3 19 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.02%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.02%) Reinsurance
7 10 (1.84%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.65%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.65%) FMCG
9 8 (1.47%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.92%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.92%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.74%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.74%) NHS
11 4 (0.74%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.55%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.55%) Unix
2 2 (0.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (45.77%) Analytics
2 242 (44.49%) Data Engineering
3 212 (38.97%) Data Modelling
4 193 (35.48%) Data Pipeline
5 174 (31.99%) ETL
6 165 (30.33%) Data Governance
7 163 (29.96%) AI
8 153 (28.13%) CI/CD
9 149 (27.39%) Agile
10 145 (26.65%) Business Intelligence
11 133 (24.45%) Decision-Making
12 125 (22.98%) Machine Learning
13 121 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
14 118 (21.69%) Data Science
15 111 (20.40%) DevOps
16 97 (17.83%) Mentoring
17 96 (17.65%) Data Architecture
18 83 (15.26%) Coaching
19 78 (14.34%) Stakeholder Management
20 61 (11.21%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 339 (62.32%) SQL
2 296 (54.41%) Python
3 52 (9.56%) Scala
4 34 (6.25%) Java
5 32 (5.88%) T-SQL
6 25 (4.60%) R
7 16 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.57%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.02%) C#
10 9 (1.65%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.10%) Bash
11 6 (1.10%) Go
12 4 (0.74%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.74%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.55%) Bicep
14 1 (0.18%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.18%) C++
14 1 (0.18%) Korn
14 1 (0.18%) PHP
14 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 65 (11.95%) Degree
2 30 (5.51%) Master's Degree
3 24 (4.41%) Azure Certification
4 21 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.31%) Security Cleared
6 10 (1.84%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.65%) DBS Check
7 9 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.92%) MBA
10 5 (0.92%) MCP
11 4 (0.74%) PhD
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.18%) ISACA
13 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.18%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (22.61%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.07%) GDPR
3 8 (1.47%) QA
4 6 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.10%) SLA
5 5 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.18%) GAAP
6 1 (0.18%) IFRS
6 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (6.43%) Docker
2 9 (1.65%) HDFS
3 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (8.27%) Terraform
2 33 (6.07%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.92%) Grafana
3 5 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.37%) Ansible
4 2 (0.37%) Control-M
Vendors
1 130 (23.90%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.76%) OpenAI
2 15 (2.76%) Palantir
3 13 (2.39%) Dell
4 12 (2.21%) Oracle
5 11 (2.02%) SAP
6 10 (1.84%) NVIDIA
7 8 (1.47%) Informatica
8 7 (1.29%) Google
9 6 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (1.10%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.10%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.92%) BT
10 5 (0.92%) Foundry
10 5 (0.92%) Talend
11 4 (0.74%) IBM
12 3 (0.55%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.55%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.18%) WSO2