Databricks Job Trends in the West Midlands

Databricks
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 6 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
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 158 145
Rank change year-on-year +47 -13 +102
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 62 40 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.17% 0.95% 1.12%
As % of the Vendors category 4.87% 2.37% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 48 34 33
10th Percentile £54,250 £38,625 £48,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -20.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,650 £89,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,274 1,687 1,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.12% 39.86% 44.13%
Number of salaries quoted 780 824 1,324
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £31,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,063
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,850 £76,250
England median annual salary £51,625 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.22% +4.55% -4.35%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Databricks job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Databricks
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Databricks.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Databricks

Databricks
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Databricks in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Databricks in the West Midlands

Databricks
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Databricks within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
Birmingham +42 40 £70,000 +12.00% 8
Solihull +10 14 £60,000 -4.00% 2
Staffordshire -11 4 £65,000 +52.94% 1
Walsall - 4 £42,500 -
Coventry -1 3 £60,000 -7.69%
Warwickshire +22 2 £63,096 -18.59% 3
Shropshire -17 2 - - 2
Wolverhampton -6 1 £125,000 +47.06% 1
Databricks
England

Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (1.61%) CMS
1 1 (1.61%) SAS
1 1 (1.61%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (1.61%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 41 (66.13%) Azure
2 22 (35.48%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (20.97%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (6.45%) SaaS
4 4 (6.45%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.61%) Apigee
6 1 (1.61%) AWS
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.61%) Bloomreach
6 1 (1.61%) Boomi
6 1 (1.61%) Contentful
6 1 (1.61%) Contentstack
6 1 (1.61%) GCP
6 1 (1.61%) Kong
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (38.71%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (22.58%) SQL Server
3 13 (20.97%) Data Lake
3 13 (20.97%) Power BI
4 12 (19.35%) Delta Lake
5 6 (9.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.84%) Data Mining
6 3 (4.84%) Parquet
7 2 (3.23%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 2 (3.23%) Metadata
7 2 (3.23%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
General
1 15 (24.19%) Finance
2 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Automotive
4 8 (12.90%) Retail
5 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Banking
8 1 (1.61%) Marketing
8 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.61%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 34 (54.84%) Data Engineer
2 21 (33.87%) Senior
3 20 (32.26%) Senior Data Engineer
4 14 (22.58%) Azure Data Engineer
4 14 (22.58%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Analyst
6 8 (12.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Business Intelligence Manager
8 3 (4.84%) Head of Business Intelligence
8 3 (4.84%) Lead
8 3 (4.84%) Python Data Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Python Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Analyst Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Business Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 2 (3.23%) Data Architect
9 2 (3.23%) Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) PySpark
2 2 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (48.39%) Agile
2 29 (46.77%) Data Engineering
3 28 (45.16%) ETL
4 19 (30.65%) Analytics
5 17 (27.42%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (24.19%) Mentoring
7 14 (22.58%) AI
7 14 (22.58%) Data Modelling
8 13 (20.97%) Coaching
9 12 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (16.13%) Data Architecture
10 10 (16.13%) Visualisation
11 9 (14.52%) Creative Thinking
11 9 (14.52%) Digital Strategy
12 7 (11.29%) CI/CD
12 7 (11.29%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (11.29%) Data Science
12 7 (11.29%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (11.29%) Machine Learning
13 6 (9.68%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 52 (83.87%) SQL
2 32 (51.61%) Python
3 6 (9.68%) T-SQL
4 4 (6.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.23%) Bicep
5 2 (3.23%) C#
5 2 (3.23%) R
5 2 (3.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.84%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (45.16%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (1.61%) Adobe
3 1 (1.61%) Dell
3 1 (1.61%) mParticle
3 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.61%) Optimizely
3 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.61%) Sitecore
3 1 (1.61%) Tealium
3 1 (1.61%) WSO2