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 8 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
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 182 259
Rank change year-on-year +36 +77 +80
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 313 236 368
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.82% 1.84% 1.17%
As % of the Vendors category 5.69% 4.45% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 253 145 261
10th Percentile £58,000 £48,300 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £57,500
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 £95,000
90th Percentile £133,500 £102,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +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 5,499 5,308 12,771
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.94% 41.32% 40.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,526 3,798 10,137
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £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 £75,360 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,375 £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 8 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 (7.67%) Apache Airflow
1 24 (7.67%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.88%) Apache
3 7 (2.24%) SAS
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
5 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
1 247 (78.91%) Azure
2 133 (42.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 85 (27.16%) Snowflake
4 84 (26.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 80 (25.56%) Azure Machine Learning
6 71 (22.68%) Power Platform
7 61 (19.49%) Azure AI
8 31 (9.90%) AWS
9 27 (8.63%) GCP
10 26 (8.31%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (6.71%) GitHub
12 19 (6.07%) SaaS
13 10 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.19%) Dagster
13 10 (3.19%) dbt
14 9 (2.88%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (2.88%) Vertex AI
15 8 (2.56%) Serverless
16 7 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (22.68%) SQL Server
2 69 (22.04%) Power BI
3 67 (21.41%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (20.45%) Data Lake
5 42 (13.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (10.86%) Big Data
7 27 (8.63%) Delta Lake
8 26 (8.31%) Metadata
9 19 (6.07%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 17 (5.43%) Tableau
11 14 (4.47%) BigQuery
12 12 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (3.19%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (2.88%) Looker
14 9 (2.88%) Pinecone
14 9 (2.88%) Relational Database
14 9 (2.88%) Weaviate
15 7 (2.24%) Spark SQL
16 6 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (6.39%) Git
2 17 (5.43%) MLflow
3 4 (1.28%) ERwin
4 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.64%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.64%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.32%) GitLab
6 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 138 (44.09%) Finance
2 45 (14.38%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (7.35%) Banking
4 13 (4.15%) Retail
5 10 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.88%) Law
7 7 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.92%) Automotive
8 6 (1.92%) 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
10 2 (0.64%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Front Office
11 1 (0.32%) Marketing
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (38.34%) Data Engineer
2 72 (23.00%) Senior
3 68 (21.73%) Lead
4 50 (15.97%) Senior Data Engineer
5 41 (13.10%) Data Manager
6 34 (10.86%) Engineering Manager
7 33 (10.54%) Finance Manager
8 32 (10.22%) Architect
9 31 (9.90%) Lead Data Engineer
10 28 (8.95%) Data Architect
11 27 (8.63%) Big Data Engineer
11 27 (8.63%) DataOps Engineer
11 27 (8.63%) DataOps Leader
11 27 (8.63%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 22 (7.03%) Azure Architect
13 20 (6.39%) Azure Data Architect
13 20 (6.39%) Consultant
13 20 (6.39%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (4.47%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (16.29%) PySpark
2 17 (5.43%) PyTorch
2 17 (5.43%) TensorFlow
3 14 (4.47%) Kafka
4 9 (2.88%) Faiss
4 9 (2.88%) vLLM
5 7 (2.24%) LangChain
5 7 (2.24%) Pandas
6 6 (1.92%) NumPy
7 5 (1.60%) Google JAX
7 5 (1.60%) JAX
7 5 (1.60%) OpenCV
7 5 (1.60%) SciPy
7 5 (1.60%) XML
8 4 (1.28%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.28%) JSON
9 2 (0.64%) .NET
9 2 (0.64%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.64%) Middleware
10 1 (0.32%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.71%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.15%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.56%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.60%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.60%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.28%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.28%) Taxonomies
7 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.96%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.64%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.64%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.32%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (56.87%) Data Engineering
2 124 (39.62%) AI
3 121 (38.66%) Agile
4 116 (37.06%) Data Governance
5 107 (34.19%) Data Modelling
6 103 (32.91%) Analytics
7 102 (32.59%) CI/CD
8 97 (30.99%) Data Pipeline
9 96 (30.67%) Business Intelligence
9 96 (30.67%) Machine Learning
10 95 (30.35%) Data Architecture
11 75 (23.96%) Roadmaps
12 67 (21.41%) ETL
12 67 (21.41%) Migration
13 58 (18.53%) Regulatory Compliance
14 57 (18.21%) Line Management
15 55 (17.57%) Data Development
15 55 (17.57%) Data Science
16 52 (16.61%) Decision-Making
17 48 (15.34%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 211 (67.41%) SQL
2 119 (38.02%) Python
3 27 (8.63%) Scala
4 14 (4.47%) Java
5 12 (3.83%) T-SQL
6 9 (2.88%) Bash
6 9 (2.88%) Go
7 4 (1.28%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.96%) Bicep
8 3 (0.96%) C#
8 3 (0.96%) R
9 2 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.32%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 30 (9.58%) Degree
2 14 (4.47%) Azure Certification
3 11 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.92%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.28%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.64%) ISACA
7 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.32%) IIBA
8 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (20.13%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.63%) SLA
3 6 (1.92%) GDPR
4 3 (0.96%) QA
5 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.64%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.32%) IFRS
6 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 55 (17.57%) Virtual Machines
2 23 (7.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (7.03%) Terraform
2 8 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.32%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 113 (36.10%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.88%) Palantir
3 6 (1.92%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.60%) Google
4 5 (1.60%) Informatica
5 4 (1.28%) Oracle
6 2 (0.64%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.64%) IBM
6 2 (0.64%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.64%) SAP
6 2 (0.64%) Talend
7 1 (0.32%) Braze
7 1 (0.32%) Confluent
7 1 (0.32%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.32%) mParticle
7 1 (0.32%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.32%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.32%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.32%) Tealium
7 1 (0.32%) WSO2