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 20 September 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
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 73 164
Rank change year-on-year -117 +91 +117
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 325 737 495
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.33% 4.53% 2.12%
As % of the Vendors category 4.23% 9.19% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 287 136 245
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £59,688 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £118,750 £92,500 £93,250
90th Percentile £143,750 £110,125 £110,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +7.14% -6.67%

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 7,691 8,020 9,023
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.43% 49.29% 38.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,444 3,835 5,061
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,119
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.37% -3.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% -7.27% -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 20 September 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 28 (8.62%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.38%) Apache
3 4 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.62%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.92%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.31%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 223 (68.62%) Azure
2 111 (34.15%) Snowflake
3 102 (31.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 71 (21.85%) AWS
4 71 (21.85%) Power Platform
5 58 (17.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 52 (16.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 47 (14.46%) Azure AI
8 44 (13.54%) Azure Databricks
9 40 (12.31%) Amazon Bedrock
10 35 (10.77%) Anthropic Claude
11 31 (9.54%) Microsoft Purview
12 24 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
13 21 (6.46%) GCP
14 20 (6.15%) GitHub
15 17 (5.23%) SaaS
16 9 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (2.77%) Serverless
17 8 (2.46%) Amazon SageMaker
18 7 (2.15%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.23%) Broadband
2 1 (0.31%) ATM
2 1 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (23.38%) SQL Server
2 68 (20.92%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (20.31%) Power BI
4 56 (17.23%) Data Lake
5 43 (13.23%) Delta Lake
6 39 (12.00%) Metadata
7 29 (8.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (7.38%) Big Data
9 20 (6.15%) Data Vault
10 18 (5.54%) Tableau
11 16 (4.92%) Relational Database
12 13 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (4.00%) Star Schema
13 12 (3.69%) Spark SQL
14 7 (2.15%) NoSQL
15 5 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (1.23%) BigQuery
16 4 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (1.23%) SAP HANA
16 4 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 34 (10.46%) Claude Code
2 31 (9.54%) Git
3 13 (4.00%) MLflow
4 5 (1.54%) JIRA
5 4 (1.23%) GitLab
5 4 (1.23%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.31%) RStudio
7 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 127 (39.08%) Finance
2 54 (16.62%) Social Skills
3 49 (15.08%) Banking
4 25 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.31%) Retail
6 13 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.85%) Legal
9 5 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.23%) Marketing
11 3 (0.92%) Billing
11 3 (0.92%) Front Office
11 3 (0.92%) Wearables
12 2 (0.62%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.62%) Local Government
12 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (28.00%) Architect
2 90 (27.69%) Data Engineer
3 55 (16.92%) Data Architect
3 55 (16.92%) Finance Manager
4 49 (15.08%) Senior
5 41 (12.62%) Data Manager
6 39 (12.00%) Lead
7 33 (10.15%) Enterprise Architect
8 26 (8.00%) Engineering Manager
9 24 (7.38%) Senior Data Engineer
10 19 (5.85%) Databricks Engineer
11 15 (4.62%) Consultant
12 13 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
12 13 (4.00%) Data Scientist
12 13 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
13 11 (3.38%) Developer
13 11 (3.38%) Head of AI
14 10 (3.08%) Azure Data Engineer
14 10 (3.08%) Head of Finance
15 9 (2.77%) DataOps Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (21.54%) PySpark
2 32 (9.85%) Terraform
3 25 (7.69%) LangChain
4 24 (7.38%) LangGraph
5 15 (4.62%) .NET
6 12 (3.69%) Pandas
7 8 (2.46%) Kafka
8 7 (2.15%) React
8 7 (2.15%) XML
9 6 (1.85%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.54%) Node.js
10 5 (1.54%) NumPy
10 5 (1.54%) SciPy
11 4 (1.23%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.23%) Django
11 4 (1.23%) Flask
11 4 (1.23%) JSON
11 4 (1.23%) RESTful
12 3 (0.92%) ADO
12 3 (0.92%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.62%) AI Agents
2 34 (10.46%) Hedge funds
3 30 (9.23%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.85%) Data Fabric
6 6 (1.85%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.54%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.92%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.62%) Blog
10 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.62%) NHS
10 2 (0.62%) PMI
10 2 (0.62%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.54%) Linux
2 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (53.85%) AI
2 151 (46.46%) Analytics
3 141 (43.38%) Machine Learning
4 124 (38.15%) Data Engineering
5 119 (36.62%) Data Architecture
6 110 (33.85%) Roadmaps
7 107 (32.92%) CI/CD
8 104 (32.00%) Data Science
9 103 (31.69%) Business Intelligence
10 97 (29.85%) Data Modelling
11 95 (29.23%) Agile
11 95 (29.23%) Data Pipeline
12 78 (24.00%) Data Governance
13 65 (20.00%) Lakehouse
14 56 (17.23%) ETL
15 54 (16.62%) Migration
16 51 (15.69%) Decision-Making
17 47 (14.46%) DevOps
18 46 (14.15%) Line Management
19 43 (13.23%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 184 (56.62%) SQL
2 140 (43.08%) Python
3 24 (7.38%) Scala
4 19 (5.85%) Bicep
5 10 (3.08%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.46%) C#
6 8 (2.46%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.85%) R
8 5 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.54%) VBA
9 2 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.31%) Java
10 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (7.38%) Azure Certification
2 21 (6.46%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.85%) Degree
4 17 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (5.23%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.92%) SnowPro
6 3 (0.92%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.62%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.31%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.31%) IIBA
8 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (18.77%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.23%) SLA
3 13 (4.00%) GDPR
4 5 (1.54%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.23%) IFRS
5 4 (1.23%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.62%) QA
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (12.31%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (3.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.62%) Ansible
Vendors
1 141 (43.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.77%) Informatica
3 7 (2.15%) SAP
4 6 (1.85%) Foundry
4 6 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.23%) Google
6 2 (0.62%) Concur
6 2 (0.62%) Sage
6 2 (0.62%) Talend
7 1 (0.31%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.31%) Braze
7 1 (0.31%) ESRI
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle
7 1 (0.31%) YouTube