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 18 February 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
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 189 266
Rank change year-on-year +20 +77 +96
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 245 291 297
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.50% 1.87% 1.08%
As % of the Vendors category 3.98% 4.74% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 187 184 224
10th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £66,794 £59,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £83,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.33% -6.25% +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 6,150 6,144 11,305
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.58% 39.44% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,330 3,618 9,357
10th Percentile £30,613 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,444 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £76,163 £76,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £88,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -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 18 February 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 (9.80%) Apache Spark
2 16 (6.53%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.08%) SAS
4 8 (3.27%) Apache
5 3 (1.22%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.41%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 180 (73.47%) Azure
2 79 (32.24%) Azure Data Factory
3 68 (27.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 60 (24.49%) Power Platform
5 36 (14.69%) AWS
6 33 (13.47%) SaaS
6 33 (13.47%) Snowflake
7 31 (12.65%) GCP
8 28 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (9.39%) GitHub
10 22 (8.98%) Azure Machine Learning
11 13 (5.31%) dbt
12 10 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (3.67%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (3.67%) Dagster
13 9 (3.67%) Vertex AI
14 8 (3.27%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (2.45%) Azure AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (33.47%) Data Lake
2 79 (32.24%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (24.49%) Power BI
4 37 (15.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 26 (10.61%) Delta Lake
6 23 (9.39%) Metadata
7 22 (8.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 19 (7.76%) Tableau
9 18 (7.35%) Big Data
10 17 (6.94%) SQL Server
11 16 (6.53%) BigQuery
12 11 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (4.08%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (4.08%) Looker
14 9 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (3.67%) Pinecone
14 9 (3.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (3.67%) Weaviate
15 8 (3.27%) Data Mining
15 8 (3.27%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 20 (8.16%) MLflow
2 15 (6.12%) Git
3 6 (2.45%) ERwin
4 4 (1.63%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.63%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.82%) GitLab
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 89 (36.33%) Finance
2 50 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (8.57%) Retail
4 15 (6.12%) Banking
5 10 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.67%) Law
7 6 (2.45%) Automotive
7 6 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.63%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.22%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.22%) Marketing
10 2 (0.82%) Legal
10 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Front Office
11 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 109 (44.49%) Data Engineer
2 82 (33.47%) Senior
3 54 (22.04%) Senior Data Engineer
4 46 (18.78%) Lead
5 28 (11.43%) Architect
6 25 (10.20%) Data Architect
7 19 (7.76%) Lead Data Engineer
8 18 (7.35%) Consultant
9 17 (6.94%) Azure Architect
10 16 (6.53%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (6.12%) Azure Data Architect
12 14 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
12 14 (5.71%) Data Manager
13 13 (5.31%) Azure Data Engineer
13 13 (5.31%) Big Data Engineer
13 13 (5.31%) Data Consultant
13 13 (5.31%) DataOps Engineer
13 13 (5.31%) DataOps Leader
13 13 (5.31%) Lead Big Data Engineer
14 11 (4.49%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.10%) PySpark
2 14 (5.71%) Kafka
3 12 (4.90%) PyTorch
3 12 (4.90%) TensorFlow
4 9 (3.67%) Faiss
4 9 (3.67%) vLLM
5 7 (2.86%) LangChain
6 4 (1.63%) .NET
6 4 (1.63%) XML
7 3 (1.22%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.22%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.22%) JSON
7 3 (1.22%) Middleware
8 2 (0.82%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.41%) NumPy
9 1 (0.41%) Pandas
9 1 (0.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.27%) AI Agents
4 7 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.63%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.63%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.22%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.82%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.82%) Derivative
8 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.82%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (49.80%) Data Engineering
2 109 (44.49%) Data Modelling
3 94 (38.37%) Analytics
4 93 (37.96%) CI/CD
5 79 (32.24%) Data Pipeline
6 78 (31.84%) Agile
6 78 (31.84%) Business Intelligence
7 74 (30.20%) ETL
8 68 (27.76%) Data Governance
8 68 (27.76%) Data Science
9 63 (25.71%) AI
10 53 (21.63%) Decision-Making
10 53 (21.63%) DevOps
11 44 (17.96%) Clean Code
12 41 (16.73%) Coaching
13 39 (15.92%) Machine Learning
14 38 (15.51%) Mentoring
15 37 (15.10%) Data Architecture
16 34 (13.88%) Data Integration
17 30 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 158 (64.49%) SQL
2 114 (46.53%) Python
3 30 (12.24%) Scala
4 17 (6.94%) Java
5 10 (4.08%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.67%) Bash
6 9 (3.67%) Go
7 8 (3.27%) R
8 5 (2.04%) C#
9 3 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.22%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.22%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.82%) Bicep
11 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (8.98%) Degree
2 16 (6.53%) Azure Certification
3 10 (4.08%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.45%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.45%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.82%) ISACA
9 1 (0.41%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (25.31%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.31%) SLA
3 6 (2.45%) GDPR
4 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 19 (7.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (8.98%) Terraform
2 8 (3.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.08%) Palantir
3 7 (2.86%) Google
4 6 (2.45%) Informatica
4 6 (2.45%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.63%) IBM
5 4 (1.63%) Oracle
5 4 (1.63%) Talend
6 2 (0.82%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.82%) Foundry
6 2 (0.82%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.41%) Adobe
7 1 (0.41%) Confluent
7 1 (0.41%) Dell
7 1 (0.41%) mParticle
7 1 (0.41%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.41%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.41%) Tealium
7 1 (0.41%) WSO2