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 9 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
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 76 161
Rank change year-on-year -109 +85 +102
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 341 742 490
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 4.58% 2.10%
As % of the Vendors category 4.53% 9.35% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 309 139 237
10th Percentile £54,750 £47,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £118,750 £92,500 £93,250
90th Percentile £143,750 £110,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% +3.45% -6.45%

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 7,522 7,934 8,971
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.63% 49.01% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,350 3,908 5,187
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £92,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.65% -6.36% -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 9 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 25 (7.33%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.93%) Apache
3 8 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 243 (71.26%) Azure
2 121 (35.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 120 (35.19%) Snowflake
4 74 (21.70%) Power Platform
5 67 (19.65%) AWS
6 66 (19.35%) Azure Machine Learning
7 65 (19.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 62 (18.18%) Azure AI
9 46 (13.49%) Azure Databricks
10 37 (10.85%) Amazon Bedrock
11 32 (9.38%) Anthropic Claude
12 31 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
13 23 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (6.16%) GCP
15 18 (5.28%) GitHub
16 15 (4.40%) SaaS
17 8 (2.35%) Amazon SageMaker
17 8 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (2.35%) Serverless
18 7 (2.05%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.17%) Broadband
2 1 (0.29%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 69 (20.23%) Power BI
3 68 (19.94%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (17.01%) Data Lake
5 43 (12.61%) Delta Lake
6 38 (11.14%) Metadata
7 30 (8.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 25 (7.33%) Big Data
9 20 (5.87%) Data Vault
10 16 (4.69%) Tableau
11 15 (4.40%) Relational Database
12 14 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (4.11%) Spark SQL
13 13 (3.81%) Star Schema
14 6 (1.76%) NoSQL
15 5 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (1.17%) BigQuery
16 4 (1.17%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (1.17%) SAP HANA
16 4 (1.17%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 32 (9.38%) Git
2 31 (9.09%) Claude Code
3 12 (3.52%) MLflow
4 5 (1.47%) JIRA
5 4 (1.17%) GitLab
5 4 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 139 (40.76%) Finance
2 53 (15.54%) Social Skills
3 46 (13.49%) Banking
4 22 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.11%) Retail
6 12 (3.52%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.47%) Legal
8 5 (1.47%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.88%) Billing
10 3 (0.88%) Front Office
10 3 (0.88%) Marketing
10 3 (0.88%) Wearables
11 2 (0.59%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.59%) Law
11 2 (0.59%) Local Government
11 2 (0.59%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Advertising
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 92 (26.98%) Architect
2 91 (26.69%) Data Engineer
3 63 (18.48%) Finance Manager
4 59 (17.30%) Data Architect
5 52 (15.25%) Data Manager
6 48 (14.08%) Senior
7 45 (13.20%) Lead
8 37 (10.85%) Engineering Manager
9 30 (8.80%) Enterprise Architect
10 24 (7.04%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (5.28%) Databricks Engineer
12 16 (4.69%) Lead Data Engineer
13 15 (4.40%) Consultant
13 15 (4.40%) Developer
14 13 (3.81%) Azure Architect
14 13 (3.81%) Azure Data Architect
14 13 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (3.81%) Data Scientist
15 11 (3.23%) Head of AI
15 11 (3.23%) Lead Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (21.41%) PySpark
2 30 (8.80%) Terraform
3 25 (7.33%) LangChain
4 24 (7.04%) LangGraph
5 16 (4.69%) Pandas
6 15 (4.40%) .NET
7 9 (2.64%) NumPy
7 9 (2.64%) SciPy
8 8 (2.35%) Kafka
9 7 (2.05%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.05%) React
9 7 (2.05%) XML
10 6 (1.76%) FastAPI
10 6 (1.76%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.47%) Google JAX
11 5 (1.47%) JAX
11 5 (1.47%) Node.js
11 5 (1.47%) OpenCV
12 4 (1.17%) Django
12 4 (1.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.14%) AI Agents
2 31 (9.09%) Hedge funds
3 29 (8.50%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.81%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.35%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.76%) Data Fabric
7 6 (1.76%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.47%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.88%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.88%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.59%) Clustering
11 2 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.59%) NHS
11 2 (0.59%) PMI
11 2 (0.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.64%) Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (54.84%) AI
2 151 (44.28%) Machine Learning
3 150 (43.99%) Analytics
4 142 (41.64%) Data Engineering
5 134 (39.30%) Data Architecture
6 122 (35.78%) Roadmaps
7 108 (31.67%) Business Intelligence
7 108 (31.67%) CI/CD
8 107 (31.38%) Agile
9 100 (29.33%) Data Pipeline
10 99 (29.03%) Data Science
11 98 (28.74%) Data Modelling
12 92 (26.98%) Data Governance
13 69 (20.23%) Lakehouse
13 69 (20.23%) Migration
14 61 (17.89%) Line Management
15 57 (16.72%) Regulatory Compliance
16 55 (16.13%) Data Development
17 52 (15.25%) ETL
18 50 (14.66%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 201 (58.94%) SQL
2 142 (41.64%) Python
3 23 (6.74%) Scala
4 19 (5.57%) Bicep
5 10 (2.93%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.35%) C#
6 8 (2.35%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (1.47%) VBA
8 4 (1.17%) R
9 3 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.59%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (7.33%) Azure Certification
2 23 (6.74%) Degree
3 20 (5.87%) Security Cleared
4 17 (4.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (4.69%) SnowPro
6 14 (4.11%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.88%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
9 1 (0.29%) IIBA
9 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (17.01%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.57%) SLA
3 12 (3.52%) GDPR
4 5 (1.47%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.17%) IFRS
5 4 (1.17%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.88%) QA
7 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 55 (16.13%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (4.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.59%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 158 (46.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.35%) Informatica
3 7 (2.05%) SAP
4 6 (1.76%) Foundry
4 6 (1.76%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.17%) Google
6 2 (0.59%) Concur
6 2 (0.59%) Sage
6 2 (0.59%) Talend
7 1 (0.29%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.29%) Braze
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle
7 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds