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 3 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
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 79 172
Rank change year-on-year -106 +93 +93
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 337 742 492
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.44% 4.54% 2.03%
As % of the Vendors category 4.56% 9.33% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 306 135 241
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -6.25%
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 7,386 7,952 9,358
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.61% 48.65% 38.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,262 3,955 5,697
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £37,500 £42,139
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 3 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 24 (7.12%) 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
1 242 (71.81%) Azure
2 121 (35.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 117 (34.72%) Snowflake
4 73 (21.66%) Power Platform
5 66 (19.58%) Azure Machine Learning
6 64 (18.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 63 (18.69%) AWS
8 62 (18.40%) Azure AI
9 46 (13.65%) Azure Databricks
10 34 (10.09%) Amazon Bedrock
11 31 (9.20%) Microsoft Purview
12 28 (8.31%) Anthropic Claude
13 23 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (5.93%) GCP
15 16 (4.75%) GitHub
16 15 (4.45%) SaaS
17 8 (2.37%) Amazon SageMaker
17 8 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (2.37%) Serverless
18 7 (2.08%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.19%) Broadband
2 1 (0.30%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (27.60%) SQL Server
2 68 (20.18%) Power BI
3 67 (19.88%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (17.21%) Data Lake
5 42 (12.46%) Delta Lake
6 38 (11.28%) Metadata
7 30 (8.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (7.12%) 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%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.48%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.19%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (1.19%) MySQL
14 4 (1.19%) SAP HANA
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%) Legal
8 5 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.89%) Billing
10 3 (0.89%) Front Office
10 3 (0.89%) Marketing
10 3 (0.89%) Wearables
11 2 (0.59%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.59%) Law
11 2 (0.59%) Local Government
11 2 (0.59%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
12 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 48 (14.24%) Senior
7 45 (13.35%) Lead
8 37 (10.98%) Engineering Manager
9 27 (8.01%) Enterprise Architect
10 24 (7.12%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (5.34%) Databricks Engineer
12 16 (4.75%) Lead Data Engineer
13 15 (4.45%) Consultant
13 15 (4.45%) Developer
14 13 (3.86%) Azure Architect
14 13 (3.86%) Azure Data Architect
14 13 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (3.86%) Data Scientist
15 11 (3.26%) Head of AI
15 11 (3.26%) Lead Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (21.66%) 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%) Django
11 4 (1.19%) JSON
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%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.59%) Blog
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
2 150 (44.51%) Analytics
3 148 (43.92%) Machine Learning
4 141 (41.84%) Data Engineering
5 135 (40.06%) Data Architecture
6 119 (35.31%) Roadmaps
7 108 (32.05%) Business Intelligence
8 107 (31.75%) CI/CD
9 106 (31.45%) Agile
10 99 (29.38%) Data Pipeline
11 97 (28.78%) Data Modelling
12 96 (28.49%) Data Science
13 92 (27.30%) Data Governance
14 69 (20.47%) Lakehouse
14 69 (20.47%) Migration
15 61 (18.10%) Line Management
16 57 (16.91%) Regulatory Compliance
17 55 (16.32%) Data Development
18 51 (15.13%) ETL
19 49 (14.54%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 200 (59.35%) SQL
2 141 (41.84%) 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 57 (16.91%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.64%) 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 16 (4.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.30%) Ansible
2 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 159 (47.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.08%) Informatica
2 7 (2.08%) SAP
3 6 (1.78%) Foundry
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