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 25 June 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
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 71 206
Rank change year-on-year -102 +135 +84
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 302 763 540
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.48% 4.88% 1.58%
As % of the Vendors category 4.72% 10.09% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 256 126 279
10th Percentile £56,000 £47,500 £49,800
25th Percentile £72,188 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £115,000 £95,313 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £107,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +9.68% - -

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 6,405 7,562 13,348
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.43% 48.36% 39.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,442 3,960 9,734
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,239 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.07% +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 25 June 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 25 (8.28%) Apache Spark
2 21 (6.95%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.98%) Apache
4 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.66%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.99%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 248 (82.12%) Azure
2 125 (41.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 84 (27.81%) Snowflake
4 77 (25.50%) Azure Machine Learning
5 64 (21.19%) Azure AI
5 64 (21.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 64 (21.19%) Power Platform
6 40 (13.25%) AWS
7 25 (8.28%) GCP
8 18 (5.96%) SaaS
9 16 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (4.97%) Microsoft Purview
11 12 (3.97%) Amazon SageMaker
12 8 (2.65%) Dagster
12 8 (2.65%) Serverless
13 7 (2.32%) GitHub
13 7 (2.32%) Vertex AI
14 6 (1.99%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.99%) Prefect
15 5 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (25.50%) SQL Server
2 59 (19.54%) Power BI
3 55 (18.21%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (12.91%) Big Data
5 33 (10.93%) Delta Lake
6 31 (10.26%) Data Lake
7 27 (8.94%) Metadata
8 25 (8.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (4.97%) Tableau
10 13 (4.30%) Spark SQL
11 11 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (3.31%) BigQuery
13 9 (2.98%) Relational Database
14 8 (2.65%) Looker
14 8 (2.65%) Star Schema
15 7 (2.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 7 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (2.32%) Pinecone
15 7 (2.32%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (7.95%) Git
2 16 (5.30%) MLflow
3 5 (1.66%) JIRA
4 4 (1.32%) GitLab
5 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 112 (37.09%) Finance
2 51 (16.89%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.64%) Banking
4 11 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.31%) Retail
6 9 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.99%) Law
9 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Automotive
11 2 (0.66%) Billing
11 2 (0.66%) Front Office
11 2 (0.66%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.33%) Marketing
12 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 100 (33.11%) Data Engineer
2 68 (22.52%) Lead
3 55 (18.21%) Senior
4 47 (15.56%) Data Manager
5 43 (14.24%) Architect
6 40 (13.25%) Data Architect
7 37 (12.25%) Engineering Manager
8 33 (10.93%) Finance Manager
8 33 (10.93%) Senior Data Engineer
9 30 (9.93%) Lead Data Engineer
10 27 (8.94%) Big Data Engineer
10 27 (8.94%) DataOps Engineer
10 27 (8.94%) DataOps Leader
10 27 (8.94%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 19 (6.29%) Consultant
11 19 (6.29%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.97%) Azure Architect
12 15 (4.97%) Azure Data Architect
12 15 (4.97%) Developer
13 12 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (17.88%) PySpark
2 15 (4.97%) .NET
3 14 (4.64%) PyTorch
3 14 (4.64%) TensorFlow
4 11 (3.64%) Pandas
5 9 (2.98%) XML
6 8 (2.65%) Kafka
7 7 (2.32%) Faiss
7 7 (2.32%) vLLM
8 6 (1.99%) LangChain
9 5 (1.66%) Google JAX
9 5 (1.66%) JAX
9 5 (1.66%) NumPy
9 5 (1.66%) OpenCV
9 5 (1.66%) SciPy
10 4 (1.32%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.32%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.32%) JSON
10 4 (1.32%) RESTful
11 3 (0.99%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.96%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.30%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.64%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.32%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.99%) Data Fabric
6 6 (1.99%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.66%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.99%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.66%) Clustering
10 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.66%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.66%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.33%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (53.64%) Data Engineering
2 137 (45.36%) AI
3 111 (36.75%) Analytics
4 109 (36.09%) CI/CD
5 107 (35.43%) Machine Learning
6 100 (33.11%) Data Modelling
7 98 (32.45%) Data Architecture
7 98 (32.45%) Data Governance
8 96 (31.79%) Agile
9 93 (30.79%) Business Intelligence
10 90 (29.80%) Data Pipeline
11 83 (27.48%) Roadmaps
12 68 (22.52%) Migration
13 61 (20.20%) Line Management
14 55 (18.21%) Data Development
14 55 (18.21%) Regulatory Compliance
15 52 (17.22%) Data Science
16 51 (16.89%) ETL
17 43 (14.24%) Decision-Making
18 38 (12.58%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 181 (59.93%) SQL
2 120 (39.74%) Python
3 21 (6.95%) Scala
4 10 (3.31%) Bicep
5 8 (2.65%) C#
5 8 (2.65%) Java
6 7 (2.32%) Bash
6 7 (2.32%) Go
7 5 (1.66%) VBA
8 4 (1.32%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.99%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.99%) R
9 3 (0.99%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.33%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 34 (11.26%) Degree
2 20 (6.62%) Azure Certification
3 16 (5.30%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.98%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.99%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.33%) IIBA
9 1 (0.33%) ISACA
9 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (17.22%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.93%) SLA
3 9 (2.98%) GDPR
4 5 (1.66%) QA
5 4 (1.32%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.99%) IFRS
6 3 (0.99%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (18.21%) Virtual Machines
2 20 (6.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (7.62%) Terraform
2 9 (2.98%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) Ansible
3 1 (0.33%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 123 (40.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.65%) SAP
3 7 (2.32%) Palantir
4 6 (1.99%) Foundry
4 6 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.32%) Google
5 4 (1.32%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.99%) Informatica
7 2 (0.66%) Concur
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle
7 2 (0.66%) Sage
8 1 (0.33%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.33%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.33%) Talend