Senior Databricks Data Engineer Job Trends

Senior Data Engineer - Databricks
UK

The median Senior Data Engineer - Databricks salary in the UK is £70,000 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 766 667 768
Rank change year-on-year -99 +101 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Databricks Data Engineer 16 7 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.014% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.016% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 29
10th Percentile £55,000 £78,250 -
25th Percentile £66,250 £91,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £92,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +42.31% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £96,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,750 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 103,208 44,989 77,310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 89.84% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 70,871 26,760 49,758
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,888 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

Senior Databricks Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Salary Trend

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

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

Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior Databricks Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

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 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
England -83 16 £70,000 -24.32% 7
UK excluding London -96 9 £67,500 - 3
London -46 7 £72,750 -21.35% 7
South East - 5 £67,500 -
Work from Home -33 4 £66,500 -1.48% 3
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

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 featuring Senior Databricks Data Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Databricks
2 14 (87.50%) Data Engineering
3 13 (81.25%) Azure
4 11 (68.75%) Analytics
4 11 (68.75%) SQL
5 10 (62.50%) Python
6 9 (56.25%) AI
6 9 (56.25%) DevOps
7 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
7 8 (50.00%) Data Quality
7 8 (50.00%) ETL
7 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
8 7 (43.75%) Data Governance
8 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (43.75%) Mentoring
9 6 (37.50%) Lakehouse
9 6 (37.50%) Machine Learning
9 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (31.25%) Data Science
10 5 (31.25%) Observability
10 5 (31.25%) PySpark
11 4 (25.00%) Apache Spark
11 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (25.00%) Change Management
11 4 (25.00%) Complex ETL
11 4 (25.00%) Cost Control
11 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (25.00%) Data Security

Senior Databricks Data Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 2 (12.50%) AWS
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Databricks
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (25.00%) Delta Lake
3 3 (18.75%) Metadata
3 3 (18.75%) Power BI
3 3 (18.75%) Tableau
4 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (6.25%) Looker
5 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (6.25%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
5 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (12.50%) Retail
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Law
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) PySpark
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Pandas
3 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Data Engineering
2 11 (68.75%) Analytics
3 9 (56.25%) AI
3 9 (56.25%) DevOps
4 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 8 (50.00%) ETL
4 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 7 (43.75%) Data Governance
5 7 (43.75%) Mentoring
6 6 (37.50%) Lakehouse
6 6 (37.50%) Machine Learning
7 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (31.25%) Data Science
7 5 (31.25%) Observability
8 4 (25.00%) Change Management
8 4 (25.00%) Data Security
8 4 (25.00%) FinOps
8 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
8 4 (25.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) SQL
2 10 (62.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) R
3 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce