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 21 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
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 196 241
Rank change year-on-year +49 +45 +101
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 308 230 412
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.72% 1.72% 1.27%
As % of the Vendors category 5.56% 4.04% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 250 135 268
10th Percentile £58,475 £48,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £55,625 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £98,750 £95,313
90th Percentile £135,125 £102,650 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +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 5,542 5,694 13,391
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.03% 42.67% 41.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,540 3,872 10,064
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,280 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 21 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 24 (7.79%) Apache Spark
2 23 (7.47%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.92%) Apache
4 3 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) SAS
5 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.32%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 248 (80.52%) Azure
2 134 (43.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 82 (26.62%) Azure Data Factory
3 82 (26.62%) Snowflake
4 80 (25.97%) Azure Machine Learning
5 69 (22.40%) Power Platform
6 61 (19.81%) Azure AI
7 28 (9.09%) AWS
8 25 (8.12%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (7.79%) GCP
10 20 (6.49%) GitHub
11 15 (4.87%) SaaS
12 10 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (3.25%) Dagster
12 10 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (2.92%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (2.92%) dbt
13 9 (2.92%) Serverless
13 9 (2.92%) Vertex AI
14 7 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (22.40%) SQL Server
2 67 (21.75%) Power BI
3 61 (19.81%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (18.83%) Data Lake
5 40 (12.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (12.01%) Big Data
7 27 (8.77%) Delta Lake
8 25 (8.12%) Metadata
9 17 (5.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 15 (4.87%) Tableau
11 12 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (3.90%) BigQuery
12 11 (3.57%) Relational Database
13 10 (3.25%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (2.92%) Looker
14 9 (2.92%) Pinecone
14 9 (2.92%) Weaviate
15 8 (2.60%) Spark SQL
16 4 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (6.82%) Git
2 18 (5.84%) MLflow
3 3 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.65%) ERwin
5 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 136 (44.16%) Finance
2 38 (12.34%) Social Skills
3 18 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.19%) Banking
5 10 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.60%) Law
7 5 (1.62%) Automotive
7 5 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.97%) General Ledger
8 3 (0.97%) Public Sector
8 3 (0.97%) Retail
9 2 (0.65%) Legal
9 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Front Office
10 1 (0.32%) Marketing
10 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (38.96%) Data Engineer
2 75 (24.35%) Lead
3 66 (21.43%) Senior
4 47 (15.26%) Senior Data Engineer
5 40 (12.99%) Data Manager
6 34 (11.04%) Engineering Manager
7 33 (10.71%) Finance Manager
7 33 (10.71%) Lead Data Engineer
8 31 (10.06%) Architect
9 29 (9.42%) Big Data Engineer
9 29 (9.42%) DataOps Engineer
9 29 (9.42%) DataOps Leader
9 29 (9.42%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 26 (8.44%) Data Architect
11 21 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (6.17%) Azure Architect
12 19 (6.17%) Consultant
13 17 (5.52%) Azure Data Architect
14 14 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (4.22%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (17.21%) PySpark
2 17 (5.52%) PyTorch
2 17 (5.52%) TensorFlow
3 13 (4.22%) Kafka
4 9 (2.92%) Faiss
4 9 (2.92%) Pandas
4 9 (2.92%) vLLM
5 7 (2.27%) LangChain
6 6 (1.95%) NumPy
6 6 (1.95%) XML
7 5 (1.62%) Google JAX
7 5 (1.62%) JAX
7 5 (1.62%) OpenCV
7 5 (1.62%) SciPy
8 4 (1.30%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.30%) JSON
9 2 (0.65%) .NET
9 2 (0.65%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.65%) Middleware
9 2 (0.65%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.22%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.60%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.62%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.30%) Taxonomies
7 3 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.65%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.32%) Clustering
9 1 (0.32%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.32%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.32%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.32%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (56.82%) Data Engineering
2 124 (40.26%) AI
3 118 (38.31%) Agile
4 113 (36.69%) Data Governance
5 107 (34.74%) Data Modelling
6 105 (34.09%) CI/CD
7 102 (33.12%) Analytics
7 102 (33.12%) Data Pipeline
8 98 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
9 97 (31.49%) Machine Learning
10 95 (30.84%) Data Architecture
11 73 (23.70%) Roadmaps
12 66 (21.43%) ETL
13 64 (20.78%) Migration
14 58 (18.83%) Regulatory Compliance
15 57 (18.51%) Line Management
16 55 (17.86%) Data Development
17 54 (17.53%) Data Science
18 51 (16.56%) DevOps
19 45 (14.61%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 204 (66.23%) SQL
2 119 (38.64%) Python
3 27 (8.77%) Scala
4 14 (4.55%) Java
5 12 (3.90%) T-SQL
6 9 (2.92%) Bash
6 9 (2.92%) Go
7 4 (1.30%) Bicep
7 4 (1.30%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.97%) C#
8 3 (0.97%) R
9 2 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.32%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 29 (9.42%) Degree
2 14 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 13 (4.22%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.65%) ISACA
7 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.32%) IIBA
8 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (19.16%) Data Quality
2 29 (9.42%) SLA
3 8 (2.60%) GDPR
4 3 (0.97%) QA
4 3 (0.97%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.65%) IFRS
5 2 (0.65%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (17.86%) Virtual Machines
2 22 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (6.82%) Terraform
2 8 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.32%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 117 (37.99%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.92%) Palantir
3 6 (1.95%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.30%) Oracle
5 3 (0.97%) Google
5 3 (0.97%) Informatica
6 2 (0.65%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.65%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.65%) SAP
7 1 (0.32%) Adobe
7 1 (0.32%) Confluent
7 1 (0.32%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.32%) Dell
7 1 (0.32%) Foundry
7 1 (0.32%) mParticle
7 1 (0.32%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.32%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.32%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.32%) Talend
7 1 (0.32%) Tealium