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 April 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 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 188 259
Rank change year-on-year +41 +71 +95
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 290 232 365
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.72% 1.81% 1.17%
As % of the Vendors category 5.36% 4.42% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 231 144 262
10th Percentile £60,000 £48,225 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,188 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +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 5,413 5,254 12,570
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.12% 40.90% 40.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,452 3,765 10,131
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,300 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,750 £75,360 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,121 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% +12.24% -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 2 April 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 (7.93%) Apache Airflow
1 23 (7.93%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.76%) Apache
3 7 (2.41%) SAS
4 3 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.34%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 228 (78.62%) Azure
2 114 (39.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 84 (28.97%) Azure Data Factory
4 70 (24.14%) Snowflake
5 69 (23.79%) Power Platform
6 60 (20.69%) Azure Machine Learning
7 42 (14.48%) Azure AI
8 33 (11.38%) AWS
9 30 (10.34%) GCP
10 28 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (7.93%) GitHub
12 21 (7.24%) SaaS
13 12 (4.14%) dbt
14 10 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (3.45%) Dagster
15 9 (3.10%) Amazon SageMaker
15 9 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (3.10%) Vertex AI
16 8 (2.76%) Serverless
17 7 (2.41%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (24.48%) Data Warehouse
2 68 (23.45%) Data Lake
2 68 (23.45%) Power BI
3 52 (17.93%) SQL Server
4 39 (13.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 31 (10.69%) Big Data
6 28 (9.66%) Metadata
7 27 (9.31%) Delta Lake
8 20 (6.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 19 (6.55%) Tableau
10 15 (5.17%) BigQuery
11 12 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (3.45%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (3.10%) Looker
13 9 (3.10%) Pinecone
13 9 (3.10%) Weaviate
14 7 (2.41%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.41%) Spark SQL
15 6 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (6.55%) Git
2 17 (5.86%) MLflow
3 6 (2.07%) ERwin
4 4 (1.38%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.38%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.03%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.34%) GitLab
6 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 121 (41.72%) Finance
2 47 (16.21%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.24%) Banking
5 16 (5.52%) Retail
6 9 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.10%) Law
7 7 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.07%) Automotive
8 6 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.38%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.03%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.03%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.69%) Legal
11 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Front Office
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (41.03%) Data Engineer
2 75 (25.86%) Senior
3 66 (22.76%) Lead
4 53 (18.28%) Senior Data Engineer
5 31 (10.69%) Architect
6 30 (10.34%) Data Manager
6 30 (10.34%) Lead Data Engineer
7 27 (9.31%) Data Architect
8 25 (8.62%) Big Data Engineer
8 25 (8.62%) DataOps Engineer
8 25 (8.62%) DataOps Leader
8 25 (8.62%) Lead Big Data Engineer
9 23 (7.93%) Engineering Manager
10 22 (7.59%) Finance Manager
11 20 (6.90%) Consultant
11 20 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (6.55%) Azure Architect
13 17 (5.86%) Azure Data Architect
14 14 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (4.83%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.21%) PySpark
2 16 (5.52%) PyTorch
2 16 (5.52%) TensorFlow
3 13 (4.48%) Kafka
4 9 (3.10%) Faiss
4 9 (3.10%) vLLM
5 7 (2.41%) LangChain
6 5 (1.72%) NumPy
6 5 (1.72%) Pandas
6 5 (1.72%) XML
7 4 (1.38%) Google JAX
7 4 (1.38%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.38%) JAX
7 4 (1.38%) JSON
7 4 (1.38%) OpenCV
7 4 (1.38%) SciPy
8 2 (0.69%) .NET
8 2 (0.69%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.69%) Middleware
9 1 (0.34%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.24%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.14%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.76%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.72%) Reference Data
5 5 (1.72%) Reinsurance
6 4 (1.38%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.38%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.69%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.34%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (54.14%) Data Engineering
2 107 (36.90%) Data Modelling
3 106 (36.55%) AI
4 102 (35.17%) Agile
4 102 (35.17%) Analytics
5 101 (34.83%) CI/CD
5 101 (34.83%) Data Governance
6 95 (32.76%) Data Pipeline
7 92 (31.72%) Business Intelligence
8 76 (26.21%) Data Architecture
8 76 (26.21%) Machine Learning
9 68 (23.45%) ETL
10 58 (20.00%) Data Science
10 58 (20.00%) Roadmaps
11 54 (18.62%) Decision-Making
12 49 (16.90%) DevOps
12 49 (16.90%) Migration
13 39 (13.45%) Regulatory Compliance
14 38 (13.10%) Line Management
15 36 (12.41%) Data Development
Programming Languages
1 191 (65.86%) SQL
2 116 (40.00%) Python
3 27 (9.31%) Scala
4 14 (4.83%) Java
5 12 (4.14%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.10%) Bash
6 9 (3.10%) Go
7 4 (1.38%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.03%) Bicep
8 3 (1.03%) C#
8 3 (1.03%) R
9 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.34%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 29 (10.00%) Degree
2 15 (5.17%) Azure Certification
3 11 (3.79%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.07%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.07%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.07%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.69%) ISACA
6 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.34%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.34%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (22.07%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.62%) SLA
3 6 (2.07%) GDPR
4 3 (1.03%) QA
5 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.69%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 36 (12.41%) Virtual Machines
2 22 (7.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (8.28%) Terraform
2 8 (2.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.34%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 93 (32.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.10%) Palantir
3 7 (2.41%) Google
3 7 (2.41%) Informatica
4 6 (2.07%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.38%) IBM
5 4 (1.38%) Oracle
5 4 (1.38%) Talend
6 2 (0.69%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.69%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.69%) SAP
7 1 (0.34%) Adobe
7 1 (0.34%) Confluent
7 1 (0.34%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.34%) Dell
7 1 (0.34%) mParticle
7 1 (0.34%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.34%) Tealium
7 1 (0.34%) WSO2