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 2 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
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 75 168
Rank change year-on-year -107 +93 +97
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 337 741 495
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.44% 4.52% 2.04%
As % of the Vendors category 4.56% 9.31% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 307 135 243
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,700 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £118,750 £90,000 £93,250
90th Percentile £143,750 £109,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% +1.35% -4.82%

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 7,388 7,960 9,423
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.63% 48.57% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,267 3,961 5,757
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £37,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £91,991
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 2 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 23 (6.82%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.97%) Apache
3 8 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 244 (72.40%) Azure
2 122 (36.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 117 (34.72%) Snowflake
4 75 (22.26%) Power Platform
5 66 (19.58%) Azure Machine Learning
6 64 (18.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 62 (18.40%) AWS
7 62 (18.40%) Azure AI
8 45 (13.35%) Azure Databricks
9 34 (10.09%) Amazon Bedrock
10 30 (8.90%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (8.31%) Anthropic Claude
12 22 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (5.93%) GCP
14 16 (4.75%) GitHub
15 15 (4.45%) SaaS
16 8 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.37%) Serverless
17 7 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
17 7 (2.08%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.19%) Broadband
2 1 (0.30%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (27.60%) SQL Server
2 70 (20.77%) Power BI
3 67 (19.88%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (16.62%) Data Lake
5 41 (12.17%) Delta Lake
6 38 (11.28%) Metadata
7 30 (8.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 26 (7.72%) Big Data
9 20 (5.93%) Data Vault
10 16 (4.75%) Relational Database
11 15 (4.45%) Tableau
12 13 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (3.86%) Spark SQL
12 13 (3.86%) Star Schema
13 5 (1.48%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (1.19%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.19%) MySQL
14 4 (1.19%) SAP HANA
14 4 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 31 (9.20%) Git
2 27 (8.01%) Claude Code
3 12 (3.56%) MLflow
4 5 (1.48%) JIRA
5 4 (1.19%) GitLab
6 3 (0.89%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 135 (40.06%) Finance
2 52 (15.43%) Social Skills
3 43 (12.76%) Banking
4 21 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.15%) Retail
6 12 (3.56%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.48%) Legal
8 5 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.89%) Billing
9 3 (0.89%) Front Office
9 3 (0.89%) Marketing
9 3 (0.89%) Wearables
10 2 (0.59%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.59%) Law
10 2 (0.59%) Local Government
10 2 (0.59%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Advertising
11 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 90 (26.71%) Data Engineer
2 89 (26.41%) Architect
3 60 (17.80%) Finance Manager
4 59 (17.51%) Data Architect
5 52 (15.43%) Data Manager
6 47 (13.95%) Lead
6 47 (13.95%) Senior
7 37 (10.98%) Engineering Manager
8 27 (8.01%) Enterprise Architect
9 23 (6.82%) Senior Data Engineer
10 17 (5.04%) Databricks Engineer
10 17 (5.04%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (4.45%) Consultant
11 15 (4.45%) Developer
12 13 (3.86%) Azure Data Architect
12 13 (3.86%) Big Data Engineer
12 13 (3.86%) Data Scientist
12 13 (3.86%) DataOps Engineer
12 13 (3.86%) DataOps Leader
12 13 (3.86%) Lead Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (21.36%) PySpark
2 29 (8.61%) Terraform
3 25 (7.42%) LangChain
4 24 (7.12%) LangGraph
5 16 (4.75%) Pandas
6 15 (4.45%) .NET
7 9 (2.67%) NumPy
7 9 (2.67%) SciPy
8 7 (2.08%) Kafka
8 7 (2.08%) PyTorch
8 7 (2.08%) React
8 7 (2.08%) XML
9 6 (1.78%) FastAPI
9 6 (1.78%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.48%) Google JAX
10 5 (1.48%) JAX
10 5 (1.48%) Node.js
10 5 (1.48%) OpenCV
11 4 (1.19%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.19%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.09%) AI Agents
2 29 (8.61%) Cloud Native
3 28 (8.31%) Hedge funds
4 13 (3.86%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.37%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.78%) Data Fabric
7 6 (1.78%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.48%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.19%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.89%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.89%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.59%) Clustering
11 2 (0.59%) NHS
11 2 (0.59%) PMI
11 2 (0.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.67%) Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (54.30%) AI
2 148 (43.92%) Analytics
3 147 (43.62%) Machine Learning
4 140 (41.54%) Data Engineering
5 135 (40.06%) Data Architecture
6 118 (35.01%) Roadmaps
7 108 (32.05%) Business Intelligence
7 108 (32.05%) CI/CD
8 104 (30.86%) Agile
9 97 (28.78%) Data Modelling
9 97 (28.78%) Data Pipeline
10 95 (28.19%) Data Science
11 91 (27.00%) Data Governance
12 69 (20.47%) Migration
13 68 (20.18%) Lakehouse
14 61 (18.10%) Line Management
15 57 (16.91%) Regulatory Compliance
16 55 (16.32%) Data Development
17 50 (14.84%) ETL
18 49 (14.54%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 197 (58.46%) SQL
2 139 (41.25%) Python
3 22 (6.53%) Scala
4 19 (5.64%) Bicep
5 9 (2.67%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.37%) C#
6 8 (2.37%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (1.48%) VBA
8 4 (1.19%) R
9 2 (0.59%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.59%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.30%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (7.42%) Azure Certification
2 22 (6.53%) Degree
3 19 (5.64%) Security Cleared
4 17 (5.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (4.75%) SnowPro
6 14 (4.15%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.89%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.30%) ICAEW
9 1 (0.30%) IIBA
9 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (16.62%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.23%) SLA
3 12 (3.56%) GDPR
4 5 (1.48%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.19%) IFRS
5 4 (1.19%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.89%) QA
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 55 (16.32%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (4.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.30%) Ansible
2 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 158 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.08%) SAP
3 6 (1.78%) Foundry
3 6 (1.78%) Informatica
3 6 (1.78%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.19%) Google
5 2 (0.59%) Concur
5 2 (0.59%) Sage
6 1 (0.30%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.30%) Braze
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle
6 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.30%) Talend