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 30 June 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
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 70 206
Rank change year-on-year -106 +136 +75
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 301 759 536
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.46% 4.81% 1.60%
As % of the Vendors category 4.57% 10.04% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 257 126 276
10th Percentile £56,000 £47,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £94,063
90th Percentile £120,000 £107,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £76,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.48% -1.61% -

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 6,590 7,560 13,051
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.86% 47.86% 39.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,605 3,979 9,483
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,542 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -7.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,600 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,239 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.07% +10.00% -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 30 June 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 25 (8.31%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.99%) Apache
4 4 (1.33%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.66%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 247 (82.06%) Azure
2 123 (40.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 84 (27.91%) Snowflake
4 77 (25.58%) Azure Machine Learning
5 65 (21.59%) Azure AI
6 64 (21.26%) Power Platform
7 63 (20.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 42 (13.95%) AWS
9 24 (7.97%) GCP
10 18 (5.98%) SaaS
11 16 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (4.98%) Microsoft Purview
13 13 (4.32%) Amazon SageMaker
14 8 (2.66%) Serverless
15 7 (2.33%) Amazon Bedrock
15 7 (2.33%) Dagster
15 7 (2.33%) GitHub
16 6 (1.99%) PowerApps
16 6 (1.99%) Prefect
16 6 (1.99%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (25.58%) SQL Server
2 59 (19.60%) Power BI
3 54 (17.94%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (12.62%) Big Data
5 32 (10.63%) Delta Lake
6 31 (10.30%) Data Lake
7 27 (8.97%) Metadata
8 24 (7.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (4.65%) Tableau
10 13 (4.32%) Spark SQL
11 12 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (3.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (2.99%) BigQuery
13 9 (2.99%) Relational Database
14 8 (2.66%) Star Schema
15 7 (2.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 7 (2.33%) Looker
16 6 (1.99%) Data Vault
16 6 (1.99%) Pinecone
16 6 (1.99%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (7.97%) Git
2 15 (4.98%) MLflow
3 5 (1.66%) JIRA
4 4 (1.33%) GitLab
5 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (36.88%) Finance
2 51 (16.94%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.65%) Banking
4 11 (3.65%) Public Sector
4 11 (3.65%) Retail
5 9 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.99%) Law
8 4 (1.33%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Automotive
10 2 (0.66%) Billing
10 2 (0.66%) Front Office
10 2 (0.66%) Legal
11 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (32.89%) Data Engineer
2 67 (22.26%) Lead
3 53 (17.61%) Senior
4 46 (15.28%) Data Manager
5 43 (14.29%) Architect
6 40 (13.29%) Data Architect
7 37 (12.29%) Engineering Manager
8 33 (10.96%) Finance Manager
9 32 (10.63%) Senior Data Engineer
10 29 (9.63%) Lead Data Engineer
11 26 (8.64%) Big Data Engineer
11 26 (8.64%) DataOps Engineer
11 26 (8.64%) DataOps Leader
11 26 (8.64%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 19 (6.31%) Consultant
13 18 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
14 16 (5.32%) Developer
15 15 (4.98%) Azure Architect
15 15 (4.98%) Azure Data Architect
16 12 (3.99%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (18.27%) PySpark
2 15 (4.98%) .NET
3 13 (4.32%) PyTorch
3 13 (4.32%) TensorFlow
4 11 (3.65%) Pandas
5 9 (2.99%) Kafka
5 9 (2.99%) XML
6 6 (1.99%) Faiss
6 6 (1.99%) vLLM
7 5 (1.66%) Google JAX
7 5 (1.66%) JAX
7 5 (1.66%) LangChain
7 5 (1.66%) NumPy
7 5 (1.66%) OpenCV
7 5 (1.66%) SciPy
8 4 (1.33%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.33%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.33%) JSON
8 4 (1.33%) RESTful
9 3 (1.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.98%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.98%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.99%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.66%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.33%) Data Fabric
6 7 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.66%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.66%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.00%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.66%) Clustering
10 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.66%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.66%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.33%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (52.82%) Data Engineering
2 137 (45.51%) AI
3 109 (36.21%) Analytics
4 108 (35.88%) Machine Learning
5 107 (35.55%) CI/CD
6 99 (32.89%) Data Modelling
7 98 (32.56%) Data Architecture
8 96 (31.89%) Agile
8 96 (31.89%) Data Governance
9 92 (30.56%) Business Intelligence
10 88 (29.24%) Data Pipeline
11 82 (27.24%) Roadmaps
12 68 (22.59%) Migration
13 61 (20.27%) Line Management
14 55 (18.27%) Data Development
14 55 (18.27%) Regulatory Compliance
15 51 (16.94%) Data Science
15 51 (16.94%) ETL
16 43 (14.29%) Decision-Making
17 38 (12.62%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 178 (59.14%) SQL
2 121 (40.20%) Python
3 20 (6.64%) Scala
4 10 (3.32%) Bicep
5 8 (2.66%) C#
6 7 (2.33%) Java
7 6 (1.99%) Bash
7 6 (1.99%) Go
8 5 (1.66%) VBA
9 4 (1.33%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.00%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.00%) R
10 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.33%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 33 (10.96%) Degree
2 19 (6.31%) Azure Certification
3 16 (5.32%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.99%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.33%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.33%) IIBA
9 1 (0.33%) ISACA
9 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (16.61%) Data Quality
2 29 (9.63%) SLA
3 8 (2.66%) GDPR
4 5 (1.66%) QA
5 4 (1.33%) Solvency II
6 3 (1.00%) IFRS
6 3 (1.00%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (18.27%) Virtual Machines
2 19 (6.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (7.64%) Terraform
2 9 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) Ansible
3 1 (0.33%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 124 (41.20%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.66%) SAP
3 7 (2.33%) Foundry
4 6 (1.99%) Palantir
4 6 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.33%) Google
6 3 (1.00%) Informatica
6 3 (1.00%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.66%) Concur
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle
7 2 (0.66%) Sage
8 1 (0.33%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.33%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.33%) Talend