Hybrid/Remote Databricks Engineer Job Trends

Databricks Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Databricks Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £84,500 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 440 411 483
Rank change year-on-year -29 +72 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Databricks Engineer 17 10 25
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.073% 0.061% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.065% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 16 10 25
10th Percentile £55,500 £50,375 -
25th Percentile £67,438 £53,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,500 £58,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +43.83% -9.62% -
75th Percentile £102,250 £77,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £79,750 -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +15.38% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 21,997 15,283 23,324
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 92.60% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 15,676 9,338 16,216
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Databricks Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Databricks Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Databricks Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Databricks Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Databricks Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Databricks Engineer job vacancies

Databricks Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Databricks Engineer over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Databricks Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Databricks Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, Databricks 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Databricks Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Databricks
2 16 (94.12%) Data Engineering
2 16 (94.12%) SQL
3 13 (76.47%) Python
4 12 (70.59%) Azure
4 12 (70.59%) Data Modelling
4 12 (70.59%) Lakehouse
5 11 (64.71%) ETL
6 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
7 9 (52.94%) Analytics
7 9 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (52.94%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (52.94%) PySpark
8 8 (47.06%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (47.06%) DevOps
8 8 (47.06%) Power Platform
9 7 (41.18%) Data Governance
10 6 (35.29%) AI
10 6 (35.29%) Azure Databricks
10 6 (35.29%) Data Lake
10 6 (35.29%) Data Science
10 6 (35.29%) Degree
10 6 (35.29%) Delta Lake
10 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
10 6 (35.29%) Power BI
10 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
10 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
10 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (29.41%) Agile
11 5 (29.41%) Apache Spark

Databricks Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (29.41%) Apache Spark
2 3 (17.65%) Apache
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) Power Platform
3 6 (35.29%) Azure Databricks
4 5 (29.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (11.76%) Serverless
7 1 (5.88%) AWS
7 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (35.29%) Data Lake
2 6 (35.29%) Delta Lake
2 6 (35.29%) Power BI
3 4 (23.53%) Spark SQL
4 3 (17.65%) Star Schema
4 3 (17.65%) Tableau
5 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (11.76%) Metadata
5 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
6 1 (5.88%) Big Data
6 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
6 1 (5.88%) Looker
6 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) PySpark
2 4 (23.53%) Pandas
3 3 (17.65%) Kafka
3 3 (17.65%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.88%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.88%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Data Engineering
2 12 (70.59%) Data Modelling
2 12 (70.59%) Lakehouse
3 11 (64.71%) ETL
4 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
5 9 (52.94%) Analytics
5 9 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (52.94%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (47.06%) DevOps
7 7 (41.18%) Data Governance
8 6 (35.29%) AI
8 6 (35.29%) Data Science
8 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
8 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (29.41%) Agile
9 5 (29.41%) Decision-Making
9 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (23.53%) Data Architecture
10 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) SQL
2 13 (76.47%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) R
3 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
1 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft