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 5 October 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
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 76 161
Rank change year-on-year -133 +85 +118
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 301 735 468
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.21% 4.37% 2.11%
As % of the Vendors category 3.90% 8.50% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 264 139 239
10th Percentile £55,105 £48,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £117,500 £96,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £143,750 £110,450 £110,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +7.14% -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 7,727 8,643 8,556
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.11% 51.42% 38.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,437 3,702 4,689
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,250 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -3.51%

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 5 October 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 28 (9.30%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.32%) Apache
3 6 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.66%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.33%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 195 (64.78%) Azure
2 94 (31.23%) Snowflake
3 80 (26.58%) AWS
4 77 (25.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 68 (22.59%) Power Platform
6 56 (18.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 45 (14.95%) Azure Databricks
8 43 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
9 38 (12.62%) Anthropic Claude
10 31 (10.30%) Azure Machine Learning
10 31 (10.30%) Microsoft Purview
11 26 (8.64%) Azure AI
12 23 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (7.31%) SaaS
14 20 (6.64%) GCP
14 20 (6.64%) GitHub
15 9 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.66%) Amazon SageMaker
16 8 (2.66%) dbt
16 8 (2.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.33%) Broadband
2 1 (0.33%) ATM
2 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (23.59%) Data Warehouse
2 65 (21.59%) Power BI
3 60 (19.93%) SQL Server
4 55 (18.27%) Data Lake
5 42 (13.95%) Delta Lake
6 38 (12.62%) Metadata
7 23 (7.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (6.98%) Data Vault
9 19 (6.31%) Big Data
9 19 (6.31%) Tableau
10 15 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (4.65%) Relational Database
11 14 (4.65%) Star Schema
12 8 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.66%) Spark SQL
13 7 (2.33%) NoSQL
13 7 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (1.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (12.29%) Claude Code
1 37 (12.29%) Git
2 15 (4.98%) MLflow
3 8 (2.66%) JIRA
4 4 (1.33%) GitLab
4 4 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.33%) ERwin
6 1 (0.33%) RStudio
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (36.21%) Finance
2 57 (18.94%) Social Skills
3 46 (15.28%) Banking
4 30 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.98%) Retail
6 14 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.99%) Legal
9 5 (1.66%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.33%) Marketing
11 3 (1.00%) Billing
11 3 (1.00%) Front Office
11 3 (1.00%) Wearables
12 2 (0.66%) Advertising
12 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.66%) Local Government
12 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (29.90%) Architect
2 86 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 52 (17.28%) Data Architect
4 50 (16.61%) Senior
5 47 (15.61%) Finance Manager
6 36 (11.96%) Enterprise Architect
7 35 (11.63%) Lead
8 30 (9.97%) Data Manager
9 23 (7.64%) Senior Data Engineer
10 16 (5.32%) Databricks Engineer
11 15 (4.98%) Consultant
11 15 (4.98%) Engineering Manager
12 13 (4.32%) Data Scientist
12 13 (4.32%) Developer
13 12 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (3.65%) Azure Data Engineer
14 11 (3.65%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (3.32%) Python Engineer
15 10 (3.32%) Software Engineer
16 9 (2.99%) Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (21.59%) PySpark
2 33 (10.96%) Terraform
3 25 (8.31%) LangChain
4 24 (7.97%) LangGraph
5 15 (4.98%) .NET
6 11 (3.65%) Pandas
7 9 (2.99%) FastAPI
8 8 (2.66%) Kafka
9 7 (2.33%) React
10 6 (1.99%) XML
11 5 (1.66%) Node.js
12 4 (1.33%) ASP.NET
12 4 (1.33%) Django
12 4 (1.33%) Flask
12 4 (1.33%) JSON
12 4 (1.33%) NumPy
12 4 (1.33%) RESTful
12 4 (1.33%) SciPy
13 3 (1.00%) ADO
13 3 (1.00%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.62%) AI Agents
2 37 (12.29%) Hedge funds
3 29 (9.63%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.99%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.33%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.66%) Data Fabric
7 5 (1.66%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.66%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.00%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.66%) Blog
10 2 (0.66%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.66%) NHS
10 2 (0.66%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.33%) Linux
2 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (52.49%) AI
2 146 (48.50%) Analytics
3 124 (41.20%) Machine Learning
4 108 (35.88%) Data Science
5 105 (34.88%) CI/CD
6 100 (33.22%) Data Engineering
7 97 (32.23%) Data Architecture
7 97 (32.23%) Data Modelling
8 96 (31.89%) Business Intelligence
9 92 (30.56%) Data Pipeline
10 90 (29.90%) Roadmaps
11 75 (24.92%) Agile
12 62 (20.60%) Lakehouse
13 56 (18.60%) Data Governance
14 55 (18.27%) ETL
15 52 (17.28%) Decision-Making
16 46 (15.28%) DevOps
17 41 (13.62%) Data Strategy
18 40 (13.29%) Asset Management
18 40 (13.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 162 (53.82%) SQL
2 143 (47.51%) Python
3 23 (7.64%) Scala
4 19 (6.31%) Bicep
5 11 (3.65%) C#
6 10 (3.32%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.66%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (1.99%) R
9 5 (1.66%) VBA
10 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.33%) Java
12 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (7.97%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.64%) Azure Certification
3 20 (6.64%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (5.65%) Degree
6 16 (5.32%) SnowPro
7 4 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.66%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.33%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.33%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.33%) IIBA
10 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (21.26%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.65%) GDPR
3 13 (4.32%) SLA
4 4 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.00%) IFRS
5 3 (1.00%) IFRS 17
5 3 (1.00%) QA
5 3 (1.00%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.66%) NIST
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.33%) IASME
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 19 (6.31%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (3.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.00%) SQL Sentry
3 2 (0.66%) Ansible
Vendors
1 116 (38.54%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.66%) Informatica
3 6 (1.99%) Foundry
3 6 (1.99%) Salesforce
3 6 (1.99%) SAP
4 4 (1.33%) Google
5 3 (1.00%) RedGate
6 2 (0.66%) Concur
6 2 (0.66%) Sage
6 2 (0.66%) Talend
7 1 (0.33%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.33%) Braze
7 1 (0.33%) ESRI
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle
7 1 (0.33%) YouTube