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 11 October 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
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 114 249
Rank change year-on-year -131 +135 +62
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 924 1,329 780
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 2.69% 1.08%
As % of the Vendors category 3.26% 6.22% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 692 348 456
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,500 £59,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £94,063 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £114,125 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -

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 28,326 21,361 24,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.97% 43.27% 33.34%
Number of salaries quoted 17,910 11,075 12,194
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,076 £50,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -11.50% -1.74%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -125 841 £80,000 +6.67% 1,314
London -1 456 £87,500 - 900
UK excluding London -233 404 £75,000 +15.38% 498
Work from Home -132 290 £85,000 +3.03% 600
North of England -99 172 £80,000 +18.52% 168
North West -25 82 £75,000 +30.43% 85
South East -183 78 £70,000 +7.69% 91
Midlands -183 69 £70,000 +16.67% 65
Yorkshire -103 56 £80,000 +17.65% 54
West Midlands -119 48 £82,500 +37.50% 48
North East -48 40 £85,000 +78.95% 29
South West -58 40 £78,750 +12.50% 33
East Midlands -137 21 £65,000 +33.33% 17
Scotland +16 19 £80,000 - 86
Wales -60 19 £55,000 -4.35% 6
East of England -37 12 £81,250 - 28
Northern Ireland -71 1 - - 25

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 99 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 58 (6.28%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (5.63%) Apache
4 8 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.32%) Appian
7 2 (0.22%) Confluence
7 2 (0.22%) Luigi
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.32%) NetSuite
1 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.22%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.11%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 1 (0.11%) FastStats
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 584 (63.20%) Azure
2 243 (26.30%) AWS
3 209 (22.62%) Power Platform
4 176 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 175 (18.94%) Snowflake
6 136 (14.72%) Azure Databricks
7 131 (14.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 103 (11.15%) GCP
9 100 (10.82%) Azure DevOps
10 75 (8.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 62 (6.71%) GitHub
12 55 (5.95%) dbt
13 51 (5.52%) Azure Machine Learning
14 49 (5.30%) Amazon Bedrock
15 45 (4.87%) Anthropic Claude
16 44 (4.76%) Amazon S3
17 43 (4.65%) SaaS
18 41 (4.44%) Serverless
19 31 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
19 31 (3.35%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.43%) Broadband
2 3 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.11%) ATM
3 1 (0.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) LTE
3 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (21.21%) Power BI
2 178 (19.26%) Data Lake
3 170 (18.40%) Data Warehouse
4 109 (11.80%) Metadata
5 95 (10.28%) Delta Lake
6 64 (6.93%) SQL Server
7 60 (6.49%) Tableau
8 55 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (5.41%) Big Data
10 42 (4.55%) Star Schema
11 39 (4.22%) Relational Database
12 36 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 32 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
14 28 (3.03%) Data Vault
15 27 (2.92%) Semantic Layer
16 23 (2.49%) NoSQL
16 23 (2.49%) Spark SQL
17 20 (2.16%) BigQuery
17 20 (2.16%) DynamoDB
18 12 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 97 (10.50%) Git
2 39 (4.22%) Claude Code
3 34 (3.68%) MLflow
4 18 (1.95%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.73%) GitLab
6 10 (1.08%) JIRA
7 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.22%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.22%) NUnit
8 2 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.11%) ERwin
9 1 (0.11%) kappa
9 1 (0.11%) RStudio
9 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.11%) Yeoman
General
1 253 (27.38%) Finance
2 239 (25.87%) Social Skills
3 130 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (7.14%) Banking
5 47 (5.09%) Public Sector
6 46 (4.98%) Retail
7 39 (4.22%) Legal
8 38 (4.11%) Law
9 33 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 31 (3.35%) Marketing
11 17 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.73%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.19%) Billing
14 10 (1.08%) Advertising
15 7 (0.76%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.65%) Front Office
16 6 (0.65%) Local Government
16 6 (0.65%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 292 (31.60%) Data Engineer
2 215 (23.27%) Architect
3 193 (20.89%) Senior
4 153 (16.56%) Lead
5 140 (15.15%) Data Architect
6 86 (9.31%) Databricks Engineer
7 75 (8.12%) Senior Data Engineer
8 62 (6.71%) Consultant
9 61 (6.60%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 52 (5.63%) Data Manager
11 45 (4.87%) Enterprise Architect
12 44 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
12 44 (4.76%) Data Consultant
13 43 (4.65%) Developer
14 40 (4.33%) Data Scientist
15 38 (4.11%) Lead Data Engineer
16 36 (3.90%) Finance Manager
17 29 (3.14%) Software Engineer
18 28 (3.03%) Analyst
18 28 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (18.07%) PySpark
2 118 (12.77%) Terraform
3 58 (6.28%) Kafka
4 33 (3.57%) LangChain
5 27 (2.92%) LangGraph
6 23 (2.49%) Pandas
7 19 (2.06%) .NET
8 18 (1.95%) React
9 14 (1.52%) FastAPI
9 14 (1.52%) REST
10 11 (1.19%) PyTorch
11 9 (0.97%) TensorFlow
12 7 (0.76%) ARM Templates
12 7 (0.76%) Django
12 7 (0.76%) Flask
12 7 (0.76%) Middleware
12 7 (0.76%) RESTful
12 7 (0.76%) XML
13 6 (0.65%) NumPy
13 6 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (8.44%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.60%) AI Agents
3 41 (4.44%) Hedge funds
4 35 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 22 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
7 14 (1.52%) Reference Data
7 14 (1.52%) Reinsurance
8 12 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.08%) NHS
10 9 (0.97%) Public Cloud
11 8 (0.87%) Data Fabric
11 8 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.76%) Taxonomies
12 7 (0.76%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.65%) IoT
13 6 (0.65%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.43%) Linux
2 3 (0.32%) Windows
3 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (51.41%) Analytics
2 375 (40.58%) AI
3 338 (36.58%) Data Engineering
4 331 (35.82%) Data Modelling
5 317 (34.31%) Data Pipeline
6 305 (33.01%) CI/CD
7 291 (31.49%) Business Intelligence
8 261 (28.25%) Machine Learning
9 231 (25.00%) ETL
10 227 (24.57%) Data Architecture
10 227 (24.57%) Lakehouse
11 225 (24.35%) Data Science
12 221 (23.92%) Data Governance
13 181 (19.59%) DevOps
14 176 (19.05%) Roadmaps
15 163 (17.64%) Decision-Making
16 162 (17.53%) Agile
17 161 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
18 121 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
19 118 (12.77%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 490 (53.03%) SQL
2 487 (52.71%) Python
3 60 (6.49%) Scala
4 33 (3.57%) Bicep
5 24 (2.60%) R
6 22 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (2.38%) Java
6 22 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 19 (2.06%) C#
8 17 (1.84%) JavaScript
9 16 (1.73%) TypeScript
10 9 (0.97%) Bash
11 7 (0.76%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.65%) VBA
13 2 (0.22%) C++
13 2 (0.22%) Go
13 2 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.22%) Ruby
14 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 93 (10.06%) Security Cleared
2 82 (8.87%) Degree
3 67 (7.25%) SC Cleared
4 62 (6.71%) Azure Certification
5 34 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.73%) SnowPro
9 14 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.43%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.22%) PhD
14 2 (0.22%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.11%) CISM
15 1 (0.11%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (29.11%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.33%) GDPR
3 22 (2.38%) QA
4 19 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.30%) SLA
6 7 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.54%) PSD2
8 4 (0.43%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.43%) NIST
9 3 (0.32%) IFRS
9 3 (0.32%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.32%) PERC
9 3 (0.32%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.11%) IASME
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 46 (4.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (6.28%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.87%) Grafana
3 6 (0.65%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.54%) Ansible
5 3 (0.32%) SQL Sentry
6 2 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.22%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 250 (27.06%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.25%) Salesforce
3 26 (2.81%) Informatica
4 19 (2.06%) OpenAI
5 14 (1.52%) Foundry
5 14 (1.52%) Google
6 13 (1.41%) SAP
7 9 (0.97%) Sage
8 6 (0.65%) Alteryx
8 6 (0.65%) Oracle
9 5 (0.54%) Concur
9 5 (0.54%) Workday
10 4 (0.43%) ESRI
11 3 (0.32%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.32%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.32%) eFront
11 3 (0.32%) LexisNexis
11 3 (0.32%) Palantir
11 3 (0.32%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (0.32%) RedGate