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 January 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 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 189 287
Rank change year-on-year +22 +98 +98
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 226 303 215
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.50% 1.79% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 3.60% 4.62% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 178 208 156
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £45,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -3.44% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £94,063 £98,125
90th Percentile £118,750 £103,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

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 6,279 6,559 8,519
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.56% 38.79% 41.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,298 3,883 6,892
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £33,138
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +1.69% -0.67%
75th Percentile £76,163 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -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 January 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 18 (7.96%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.42%) SAS
3 9 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.10%) Apache
5 3 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.44%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 151 (66.81%) Azure
2 61 (26.99%) Azure Data Factory
2 61 (26.99%) Power Platform
3 56 (24.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 33 (14.60%) SaaS
5 32 (14.16%) AWS
6 31 (13.72%) Snowflake
7 26 (11.50%) GCP
8 25 (11.06%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (9.73%) GitHub
10 12 (5.31%) Azure Machine Learning
10 12 (5.31%) dbt
11 10 (4.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (3.98%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (3.10%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (1.77%) Alation
15 4 (1.77%) Fivetran
15 4 (1.77%) Matillion
15 4 (1.77%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (38.50%) Data Lake
2 74 (32.74%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (26.99%) Power BI
4 32 (14.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (8.85%) Metadata
6 18 (7.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 17 (7.52%) Delta Lake
8 13 (5.75%) Tableau
9 12 (5.31%) BigQuery
9 12 (5.31%) SQL Server
10 9 (3.98%) Big Data
10 9 (3.98%) Data Mining
10 9 (3.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (3.54%) Data Vault
12 7 (3.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (2.21%) Apache Iceberg
13 5 (2.21%) Looker
13 5 (2.21%) SAS EBI
13 5 (2.21%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (7.08%) Git
2 11 (4.87%) MLflow
3 6 (2.65%) ERwin
4 4 (1.77%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.77%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.88%) GitLab
7 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 86 (38.05%) Finance
2 51 (22.57%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.73%) Retail
5 15 (6.64%) Banking
6 10 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.98%) Marketing
8 7 (3.10%) Law
9 6 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.77%) Automotive
10 4 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.77%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.33%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Advertising
13 1 (0.44%) Front Office
13 1 (0.44%) Legal
13 1 (0.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 87 (38.50%) Data Engineer
2 65 (28.76%) Senior
3 43 (19.03%) Senior Data Engineer
4 33 (14.60%) Lead
5 30 (13.27%) Architect
6 27 (11.95%) Data Architect
7 19 (8.41%) Data Manager
8 17 (7.52%) Azure Architect
9 15 (6.64%) Azure Data Architect
10 14 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (5.75%) Azure Data Engineer
12 12 (5.31%) Consultant
12 12 (5.31%) Lead Data Engineer
13 10 (4.42%) Senior Architect
14 9 (3.98%) Analyst
14 9 (3.98%) Developer
14 9 (3.98%) Engineering Manager
14 9 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (3.54%) Data Analyst
15 8 (3.54%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.16%) PySpark
2 15 (6.64%) Kafka
3 6 (2.65%) PyTorch
3 6 (2.65%) TensorFlow
4 5 (2.21%) .NET
4 5 (2.21%) Pandas
5 4 (1.77%) Faiss
5 4 (1.77%) Middleware
5 4 (1.77%) vLLM
6 3 (1.33%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.33%) LangChain
7 2 (0.88%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.88%) XML
8 1 (0.44%) Celery
8 1 (0.44%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.44%) gRPC
8 1 (0.44%) NumPy
8 1 (0.44%) React
8 1 (0.44%) REST
8 1 (0.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.31%) Reinsurance
3 11 (4.87%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.21%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.77%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.77%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.33%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.33%) CUDA
6 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.33%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.88%) Derivative
7 2 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.88%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (47.35%) Data Engineering
2 98 (43.36%) Data Modelling
3 90 (39.82%) Analytics
4 84 (37.17%) Agile
5 78 (34.51%) ETL
6 73 (32.30%) Business Intelligence
7 71 (31.42%) CI/CD
7 71 (31.42%) Data Pipeline
8 69 (30.53%) Data Science
9 66 (29.20%) Data Governance
10 56 (24.78%) DevOps
11 50 (22.12%) AI
12 45 (19.91%) Decision-Making
13 39 (17.26%) Mentoring
14 38 (16.81%) Machine Learning
14 38 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (16.37%) Data Architecture
16 36 (15.93%) Coaching
17 35 (15.49%) Data Integration
18 33 (14.60%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 155 (68.58%) SQL
2 115 (50.88%) Python
3 27 (11.95%) Scala
4 13 (5.75%) Java
5 11 (4.87%) R
5 11 (4.87%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.65%) C#
7 5 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.77%) Bash
8 4 (1.77%) Go
8 4 (1.77%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.33%) Bicep
10 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (7.96%) Degree
2 13 (5.75%) Azure Certification
3 7 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.10%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.10%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.65%) DBS Check
4 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.21%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.44%) ISACA
6 1 (0.44%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (24.34%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.54%) GDPR
3 4 (1.77%) SLA
4 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (7.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (9.29%) Terraform
2 9 (3.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 47 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.65%) Google
3 5 (2.21%) Informatica
3 5 (2.21%) Palantir
4 4 (1.77%) IBM
4 4 (1.77%) Talend
5 3 (1.33%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.33%) Oracle
6 2 (0.88%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.44%) Adobe
7 1 (0.44%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.44%) Confluent
7 1 (0.44%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.44%) Dell
7 1 (0.44%) Foundry
7 1 (0.44%) mParticle
7 1 (0.44%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.44%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.44%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.44%) WSO2