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 30 May 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
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 63 196
Rank change year-on-year -93 +133 +116
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 304 761 528
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.58% 5.14% 1.59%
As % of the Vendors category 5.13% 10.76% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 254 123 272
10th Percentile £55,300 £51,250 £49,100
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £127,000 £108,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

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 5,930 7,072 13,284
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.90% 47.78% 40.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,955 3,784 9,810
10th Percentile £31,560 £30,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £71,062
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +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 30 May 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 (7.89%) Apache Spark
2 21 (6.91%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.63%) Apache
4 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.66%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 248 (81.58%) Azure
2 129 (42.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 79 (25.99%) Snowflake
4 77 (25.33%) Azure Machine Learning
5 74 (24.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 67 (22.04%) Power Platform
7 61 (20.07%) Azure AI
8 32 (10.53%) AWS
9 24 (7.89%) GCP
10 22 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (4.93%) GitHub
12 12 (3.95%) SaaS
13 10 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.29%) Dagster
13 10 (3.29%) Serverless
14 9 (2.96%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (2.96%) Vertex AI
15 8 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (1.97%) dbt
16 6 (1.97%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (24.34%) SQL Server
2 62 (20.39%) Power BI
3 54 (17.76%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (14.14%) Data Lake
5 41 (13.49%) Big Data
6 32 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 30 (9.87%) Delta Lake
8 24 (7.89%) Metadata
9 13 (4.28%) Tableau
10 12 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (3.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 11 (3.62%) BigQuery
11 11 (3.62%) Relational Database
11 11 (3.62%) Spark SQL
12 10 (3.29%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (2.96%) Looker
13 9 (2.96%) Pinecone
13 9 (2.96%) Weaviate
14 7 (2.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (7.57%) Git
2 19 (6.25%) MLflow
3 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 125 (41.12%) Finance
2 39 (12.83%) Social Skills
3 15 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.29%) Banking
5 9 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (2.96%) Retail
6 7 (2.30%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.97%) Law
8 4 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.99%) Automotive
10 2 (0.66%) Billing
10 2 (0.66%) Front Office
10 2 (0.66%) Legal
10 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 113 (37.17%) Data Engineer
2 74 (24.34%) Lead
3 58 (19.08%) Senior
4 44 (14.47%) Data Manager
5 38 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 37 (12.17%) Engineering Manager
7 36 (11.84%) Architect
8 33 (10.86%) Data Architect
8 33 (10.86%) Finance Manager
9 32 (10.53%) Lead Data Engineer
10 30 (9.87%) Big Data Engineer
10 30 (9.87%) DataOps Engineer
10 30 (9.87%) DataOps Leader
10 30 (9.87%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 22 (7.24%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (6.58%) Consultant
13 17 (5.59%) Azure Architect
13 17 (5.59%) Azure Data Architect
14 13 (4.28%) Data Consultant
14 13 (4.28%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (17.76%) PySpark
2 17 (5.59%) PyTorch
2 17 (5.59%) TensorFlow
3 11 (3.62%) Pandas
4 9 (2.96%) Faiss
4 9 (2.96%) vLLM
5 8 (2.63%) .NET
5 8 (2.63%) Kafka
5 8 (2.63%) XML
6 7 (2.30%) LangChain
7 6 (1.97%) NumPy
8 5 (1.64%) Google JAX
8 5 (1.64%) JAX
8 5 (1.64%) OpenCV
8 5 (1.64%) SciPy
9 4 (1.32%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.32%) JSON
10 3 (0.99%) ARM Templates
11 2 (0.66%) Middleware
11 2 (0.66%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.59%) Cloud Native
1 17 (5.59%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 7 (2.30%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (1.64%) Data Fabric
7 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.66%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.33%) Clustering
10 1 (0.33%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.33%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.33%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.33%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.33%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (56.58%) Data Engineering
2 123 (40.46%) AI
3 114 (37.50%) Analytics
4 109 (35.86%) Data Governance
5 107 (35.20%) CI/CD
5 107 (35.20%) Data Modelling
6 104 (34.21%) Data Pipeline
7 100 (32.89%) Agile
8 98 (32.24%) Data Architecture
8 98 (32.24%) Machine Learning
9 92 (30.26%) Business Intelligence
10 74 (24.34%) Roadmaps
11 69 (22.70%) Migration
12 65 (21.38%) ETL
13 61 (20.07%) Line Management
14 56 (18.42%) Regulatory Compliance
15 55 (18.09%) Data Development
15 55 (18.09%) Data Science
16 42 (13.82%) Decision-Making
16 42 (13.82%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 185 (60.86%) SQL
2 119 (39.14%) Python
3 24 (7.89%) Scala
4 12 (3.95%) Java
5 9 (2.96%) Bash
5 9 (2.96%) Go
6 8 (2.63%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.64%) C#
8 4 (1.32%) Bicep
8 4 (1.32%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.32%) R
8 4 (1.32%) VBA
9 3 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.33%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 33 (10.86%) Degree
2 14 (4.61%) Azure Certification
3 13 (4.28%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.30%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.33%) IIBA
7 1 (0.33%) ISACA
7 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (18.42%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.87%) SLA
3 10 (3.29%) GDPR
4 4 (1.32%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.99%) IFRS
5 3 (0.99%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.99%) QA
6 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (18.09%) Virtual Machines
2 20 (6.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (6.25%) Terraform
2 6 (1.97%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 122 (40.13%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.96%) Palantir
3 8 (2.63%) SAP
4 6 (1.97%) OpenAI
4 6 (1.97%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.99%) Google
6 2 (0.66%) Concur
6 2 (0.66%) Informatica
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle
6 2 (0.66%) Sage
7 1 (0.33%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.33%) Confluent
7 1 (0.33%) Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds