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 6 July 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
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 74 202
Rank change year-on-year -112 +128 +77
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 299 757 542
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.42% 4.67% 1.64%
As % of the Vendors category 4.43% 9.82% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 257 125 281
10th Percentile £56,000 £47,700 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +4.90% -4.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £121,000 £107,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% -3.23%

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 6,749 7,705 12,826
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.14% 47.51% 38.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,736 4,072 9,274
10th Percentile £32,375 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -7.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,075 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £88,500
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 6 July 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 23 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 18 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.01%) Apache
4 4 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 246 (82.27%) Azure
2 124 (41.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 85 (28.43%) Snowflake
4 75 (25.08%) Azure Machine Learning
5 65 (21.74%) Power Platform
6 64 (21.40%) Azure AI
6 64 (21.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 40 (13.38%) AWS
8 23 (7.69%) GCP
9 17 (5.69%) SaaS
10 16 (5.35%) Microsoft Purview
11 15 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.01%) Amazon SageMaker
13 8 (2.68%) Serverless
14 7 (2.34%) Amazon Bedrock
14 7 (2.34%) GitHub
14 7 (2.34%) Prefect
15 6 (2.01%) Dagster
15 6 (2.01%) PowerApps
16 5 (1.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.34%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 60 (20.07%) Power BI
3 55 (18.39%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (12.37%) Big Data
5 32 (10.70%) Data Lake
5 32 (10.70%) Delta Lake
6 28 (9.36%) Metadata
7 24 (8.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (4.35%) Spark SQL
8 13 (4.35%) Tableau
9 12 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (3.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (3.01%) BigQuery
11 9 (3.01%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.01%) Star Schema
12 8 (2.68%) Data Vault
13 7 (2.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 6 (2.01%) Looker
15 5 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (8.03%) Git
2 13 (4.35%) MLflow
3 5 (1.67%) JIRA
4 4 (1.34%) GitLab
5 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (36.45%) Finance
2 51 (17.06%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.01%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.68%) Banking
5 11 (3.68%) Retail
6 9 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.01%) Law
9 4 (1.34%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Automotive
11 2 (0.67%) Billing
11 2 (0.67%) Front Office
11 2 (0.67%) Legal
11 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.33%) Marketing
12 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 97 (32.44%) Data Engineer
2 65 (21.74%) Lead
3 51 (17.06%) Senior
4 47 (15.72%) Data Manager
5 44 (14.72%) Architect
6 41 (13.71%) Data Architect
7 37 (12.37%) Engineering Manager
8 33 (11.04%) Finance Manager
9 31 (10.37%) Senior Data Engineer
10 28 (9.36%) Lead Data Engineer
11 25 (8.36%) Big Data Engineer
11 25 (8.36%) DataOps Engineer
11 25 (8.36%) DataOps Leader
11 25 (8.36%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 18 (6.02%) Consultant
13 17 (5.69%) Developer
13 17 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (4.68%) Azure Architect
14 14 (4.68%) Azure Data Architect
15 12 (4.01%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (18.73%) PySpark
2 15 (5.02%) .NET
3 12 (4.01%) PyTorch
3 12 (4.01%) TensorFlow
4 11 (3.68%) Pandas
5 9 (3.01%) XML
6 8 (2.68%) Kafka
7 5 (1.67%) Faiss
7 5 (1.67%) Google JAX
7 5 (1.67%) JAX
7 5 (1.67%) NumPy
7 5 (1.67%) OpenCV
7 5 (1.67%) SciPy
7 5 (1.67%) vLLM
8 4 (1.34%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.34%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.34%) JSON
8 4 (1.34%) LangChain
8 4 (1.34%) RESTful
9 3 (1.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.69%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.68%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.68%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.34%) Data Fabric
7 5 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.34%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.00%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.00%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.67%) Clustering
10 2 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.67%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.33%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (52.17%) Data Engineering
2 139 (46.49%) AI
3 111 (37.12%) Analytics
4 108 (36.12%) Machine Learning
5 107 (35.79%) CI/CD
6 102 (34.11%) Data Architecture
7 100 (33.44%) Data Modelling
8 95 (31.77%) Agile
9 94 (31.44%) Data Governance
10 93 (31.10%) Business Intelligence
11 87 (29.10%) Data Pipeline
12 82 (27.42%) Roadmaps
13 68 (22.74%) Migration
14 61 (20.40%) Line Management
15 55 (18.39%) Data Development
15 55 (18.39%) Regulatory Compliance
16 50 (16.72%) ETL
17 49 (16.39%) Data Science
18 44 (14.72%) Decision-Making
19 38 (12.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 178 (59.53%) SQL
2 122 (40.80%) Python
3 18 (6.02%) Scala
4 11 (3.68%) Bicep
5 8 (2.68%) C#
6 6 (2.01%) Java
7 5 (1.67%) Bash
7 5 (1.67%) Go
7 5 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.67%) VBA
8 3 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.00%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.00%) R
8 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.33%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 32 (10.70%) Degree
2 19 (6.35%) Azure Certification
3 16 (5.35%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.01%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.34%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.34%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.67%) 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 53 (17.73%) Data Quality
2 29 (9.70%) SLA
3 8 (2.68%) GDPR
4 5 (1.67%) QA
5 4 (1.34%) Solvency II
6 3 (1.00%) IFRS
6 3 (1.00%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (18.39%) Virtual Machines
2 18 (6.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (7.69%) Terraform
2 9 (3.01%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) Ansible
3 1 (0.33%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 126 (42.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.68%) SAP
3 7 (2.34%) Foundry
4 6 (2.01%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.67%) Google
5 5 (1.67%) Palantir
6 3 (1.00%) Informatica
7 2 (0.67%) Concur
7 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle
7 2 (0.67%) Sage
8 1 (0.33%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.33%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.33%) Talend