Hybrid/Remote Databricks Job Trends

Databricks
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 12 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
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 178 289
Rank change year-on-year +9 +111 +88
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 224 305 212
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.50% 1.86% 0.97%
As % of the Vendors category 3.70% 4.83% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 175 199 155
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £94,375 £100,000
90th Percentile £119,500 £103,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,053 6,321 9,021
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.49% 38.47% 41.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,188 3,657 7,348
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -4.35%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Databricks job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Databricks
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Databricks.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Databricks

Databricks
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Databricks over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Databricks salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Databricks
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 19 (8.48%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.46%) SAS
3 7 (3.13%) Apache
4 3 (1.34%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
5 1 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.45%) Strapi
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 152 (67.86%) Azure
2 63 (28.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 60 (26.79%) Power Platform
4 56 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 34 (15.18%) SaaS
6 32 (14.29%) AWS
7 31 (13.84%) Snowflake
8 27 (12.05%) GCP
9 25 (11.16%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (9.82%) GitHub
11 15 (6.70%) Azure Machine Learning
12 12 (5.36%) dbt
13 10 (4.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
16 5 (2.23%) Amazon SageMaker
16 5 (2.23%) Azure AI
16 5 (2.23%) Dagster
16 5 (2.23%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (37.95%) Data Lake
2 75 (33.48%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (26.79%) Power BI
4 32 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (8.93%) Delta Lake
5 20 (8.93%) Metadata
6 18 (8.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 14 (6.25%) Tableau
8 13 (5.80%) BigQuery
8 13 (5.80%) SQL Server
9 10 (4.46%) Big Data
10 9 (4.02%) Data Mining
10 9 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (3.57%) Data Vault
12 7 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (2.68%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (2.68%) Looker
14 5 (2.23%) Pinecone
14 5 (2.23%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 17 (7.59%) Git
2 14 (6.25%) MLflow
3 6 (2.68%) ERwin
4 4 (1.79%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.79%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.34%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.89%) GitLab
7 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 85 (37.95%) Finance
2 50 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (9.82%) Retail
4 15 (6.70%) Banking
5 10 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.13%) Law
6 7 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.68%) Marketing
8 4 (1.79%) Automotive
8 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.79%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.34%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Advertising
10 1 (0.45%) Front Office
10 1 (0.45%) Legal
10 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 89 (39.73%) Data Engineer
2 68 (30.36%) Senior
3 45 (20.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 34 (15.18%) Lead
5 30 (13.39%) Architect
6 27 (12.05%) Data Architect
7 17 (7.59%) Azure Architect
8 16 (7.14%) Data Manager
9 15 (6.70%) Azure Data Architect
10 14 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (5.80%) Azure Data Engineer
11 13 (5.80%) Consultant
12 12 (5.36%) Lead Data Engineer
13 10 (4.46%) Senior Architect
14 9 (4.02%) Data Consultant
14 9 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (3.57%) Analyst
15 8 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
15 8 (3.57%) Senior Data Architect
16 7 (3.13%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.73%) PySpark
2 15 (6.70%) Kafka
3 7 (3.13%) PyTorch
3 7 (3.13%) TensorFlow
4 5 (2.23%) Faiss
4 5 (2.23%) LangChain
4 5 (2.23%) Pandas
4 5 (2.23%) vLLM
5 4 (1.79%) .NET
5 4 (1.79%) Middleware
6 3 (1.34%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.89%) XML
8 1 (0.45%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.45%) Celery
8 1 (0.45%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.45%) gRPC
8 1 (0.45%) NumPy
8 1 (0.45%) React
8 1 (0.45%) REST
8 1 (0.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.04%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.91%) Reinsurance
3 9 (4.02%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.23%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.23%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.79%) Reference Data
5 4 (1.79%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.34%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.89%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.89%) CUDA
7 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.89%) Derivative
7 2 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.89%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.45%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (49.11%) Data Engineering
2 96 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 88 (39.29%) Analytics
4 80 (35.71%) Agile
5 77 (34.38%) ETL
6 74 (33.04%) CI/CD
7 73 (32.59%) Data Science
8 71 (31.70%) Business Intelligence
8 71 (31.70%) Data Pipeline
9 67 (29.91%) Data Governance
10 55 (24.55%) DevOps
11 52 (23.21%) AI
12 46 (20.54%) Decision-Making
13 39 (17.41%) Machine Learning
13 39 (17.41%) Mentoring
14 38 (16.96%) Coaching
15 37 (16.52%) Clean Code
15 37 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (16.07%) Data Architecture
16 36 (16.07%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 152 (67.86%) SQL
2 110 (49.11%) Python
3 28 (12.50%) Scala
4 14 (6.25%) Java
5 12 (5.36%) R
6 10 (4.46%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.23%) Bash
7 5 (2.23%) C#
7 5 (2.23%) Go
8 4 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.79%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.89%) Bicep
9 2 (0.89%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (8.48%) Degree
2 15 (6.70%) Azure Certification
3 8 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.68%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.23%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.45%) ISACA
7 1 (0.45%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.13%) GDPR
3 5 (2.23%) SLA
4 3 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (7.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (8.93%) Terraform
2 9 (4.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.68%) Google
2 6 (2.68%) Palantir
3 5 (2.23%) Informatica
3 5 (2.23%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.79%) IBM
4 4 (1.79%) Talend
5 3 (1.34%) Oracle
6 2 (0.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.45%) Adobe
7 1 (0.45%) Confluent
7 1 (0.45%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.45%) Dell
7 1 (0.45%) Foundry
7 1 (0.45%) mParticle
7 1 (0.45%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.45%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.45%) Tealium
7 1 (0.45%) WSO2