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 16 April 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
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 189 266
Rank change year-on-year +41 +77 +68
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 311 232 381
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.77% 1.76% 1.18%
As % of the Vendors category 5.64% 4.16% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 248 137 267
10th Percentile £58,800 £48,000 £48,100
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £95,625
90th Percentile £135,375 £102,600 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +7.94% -1.56% +5.26%

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 5,515 5,579 13,364
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.42% 42.29% 41.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,511 3,837 10,219
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%

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 16 April 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 24 (7.72%) Apache Spark
2 23 (7.40%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.89%) Apache
4 6 (1.93%) SAS
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.32%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 246 (79.10%) Azure
2 134 (43.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 82 (26.37%) Azure Data Factory
3 82 (26.37%) Snowflake
4 80 (25.72%) Azure Machine Learning
5 69 (22.19%) Power Platform
6 61 (19.61%) Azure AI
7 28 (9.00%) AWS
8 25 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (7.72%) GCP
10 20 (6.43%) GitHub
11 17 (5.47%) SaaS
12 11 (3.54%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (3.22%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.22%) Dagster
14 9 (2.89%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (2.89%) dbt
14 9 (2.89%) Vertex AI
15 8 (2.57%) Serverless
16 7 (2.25%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (22.19%) SQL Server
2 67 (21.54%) Power BI
3 62 (19.94%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (18.65%) Data Lake
5 41 (13.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (11.90%) Big Data
7 27 (8.68%) Delta Lake
8 26 (8.36%) Metadata
9 18 (5.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 15 (4.82%) Tableau
11 12 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (3.86%) BigQuery
12 10 (3.22%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (3.22%) Relational Database
13 9 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (2.89%) Looker
13 9 (2.89%) Pinecone
13 9 (2.89%) Weaviate
14 7 (2.25%) Spark SQL
15 4 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (6.75%) Git
2 18 (5.79%) MLflow
3 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.64%) ERwin
5 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 137 (44.05%) Finance
2 43 (13.83%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.75%) Banking
5 10 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (3.22%) Retail
6 9 (2.89%) Law
7 8 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.61%) Automotive
8 5 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.96%) General Ledger
9 3 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.96%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.64%) Legal
10 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Front Office
11 1 (0.32%) Marketing
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (38.26%) Data Engineer
2 71 (22.83%) Lead
3 68 (21.86%) Senior
4 48 (15.43%) Senior Data Engineer
5 40 (12.86%) Data Manager
6 34 (10.93%) Engineering Manager
7 33 (10.61%) Finance Manager
8 32 (10.29%) Architect
8 32 (10.29%) Lead Data Engineer
9 29 (9.32%) Big Data Engineer
9 29 (9.32%) DataOps Engineer
9 29 (9.32%) DataOps Leader
9 29 (9.32%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 27 (8.68%) Data Architect
11 21 (6.75%) Azure Architect
12 20 (6.43%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (6.11%) Azure Data Architect
13 19 (6.11%) Consultant
14 14 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (4.18%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (16.40%) PySpark
2 17 (5.47%) PyTorch
2 17 (5.47%) TensorFlow
3 13 (4.18%) Kafka
4 9 (2.89%) Faiss
4 9 (2.89%) vLLM
5 7 (2.25%) LangChain
5 7 (2.25%) Pandas
6 6 (1.93%) NumPy
6 6 (1.93%) XML
7 5 (1.61%) Google JAX
7 5 (1.61%) JAX
7 5 (1.61%) OpenCV
7 5 (1.61%) SciPy
8 4 (1.29%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.29%) JSON
9 2 (0.64%) .NET
9 2 (0.64%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.64%) Middleware
9 2 (0.64%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.18%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.57%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.61%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.29%) Taxonomies
7 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.64%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.64%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.64%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.32%) Clustering
9 1 (0.32%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.32%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (55.63%) Data Engineering
2 123 (39.55%) AI
3 118 (37.94%) Agile
4 113 (36.33%) Data Governance
5 105 (33.76%) Data Modelling
6 103 (33.12%) Analytics
7 102 (32.80%) CI/CD
8 98 (31.51%) Machine Learning
9 97 (31.19%) Data Pipeline
10 95 (30.55%) Business Intelligence
10 95 (30.55%) Data Architecture
11 74 (23.79%) Roadmaps
12 64 (20.58%) Migration
13 63 (20.26%) ETL
14 58 (18.65%) Regulatory Compliance
15 57 (18.33%) Line Management
16 55 (17.68%) Data Development
17 52 (16.72%) Data Science
18 49 (15.76%) Decision-Making
19 48 (15.43%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 207 (66.56%) SQL
2 117 (37.62%) Python
3 27 (8.68%) Scala
4 14 (4.50%) Java
5 12 (3.86%) T-SQL
6 9 (2.89%) Bash
6 9 (2.89%) Go
7 4 (1.29%) Bicep
7 4 (1.29%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.96%) C#
8 3 (0.96%) R
9 2 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.32%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 28 (9.00%) Degree
2 12 (3.86%) Azure Certification
2 12 (3.86%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.25%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.64%) ISACA
5 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.32%) IIBA
6 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (19.29%) Data Quality
2 29 (9.32%) SLA
3 8 (2.57%) GDPR
4 3 (0.96%) QA
4 3 (0.96%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.64%) IFRS
5 2 (0.64%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (17.68%) Virtual Machines
2 22 (7.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (6.75%) Terraform
2 8 (2.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.32%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 114 (36.66%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.89%) Palantir
3 6 (1.93%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.29%) Oracle
5 3 (0.96%) Google
5 3 (0.96%) Informatica
6 2 (0.64%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.64%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.64%) SAP
7 1 (0.32%) Braze
7 1 (0.32%) Confluent
7 1 (0.32%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.32%) Foundry
7 1 (0.32%) mParticle
7 1 (0.32%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.32%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.32%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.32%) Talend
7 1 (0.32%) Tealium
7 1 (0.32%) WSO2