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 28 January 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
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 186 276
Rank change year-on-year +16 +90 +90
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 235 298 271
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.50% 1.83% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 3.80% 4.71% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 180 200 197
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £58,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £105,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 6,185 6,323 10,567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.38% 38.80% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,246 3,656 8,690
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £32,417
25th Percentile £39,392 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,934
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.70%

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 28 January 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 21 (8.94%) Apache Spark
2 12 (5.11%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.26%) SAS
4 7 (2.98%) Apache
5 3 (1.28%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 167 (71.06%) Azure
2 72 (30.64%) Azure Data Factory
3 62 (26.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 61 (25.96%) Power Platform
5 35 (14.89%) AWS
6 34 (14.47%) SaaS
7 32 (13.62%) Snowflake
8 31 (13.19%) GCP
9 29 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (9.79%) GitHub
11 18 (7.66%) Azure Machine Learning
12 13 (5.53%) dbt
13 10 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (3.40%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (2.98%) Amazon SageMaker
16 7 (2.98%) Dagster
16 7 (2.98%) GitHub Copilot
16 7 (2.98%) Vertex AI
17 6 (2.55%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (36.17%) Data Lake
2 77 (32.77%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (25.96%) Power BI
4 35 (14.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 24 (10.21%) Delta Lake
6 21 (8.94%) Metadata
7 18 (7.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 17 (7.23%) SQL Server
9 16 (6.81%) Tableau
10 15 (6.38%) BigQuery
11 12 (5.11%) Big Data
12 10 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (3.83%) Data Mining
14 8 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (3.40%) Apache Iceberg
14 8 (3.40%) Data Vault
14 8 (3.40%) Looker
15 7 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (2.98%) Pinecone
15 7 (2.98%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 18 (7.66%) Git
2 17 (7.23%) MLflow
3 6 (2.55%) ERwin
4 4 (1.70%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.70%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.28%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.85%) GitLab
7 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 86 (36.60%) Finance
2 51 (21.70%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.94%) Retail
5 15 (6.38%) Banking
6 11 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.98%) Law
8 6 (2.55%) Automotive
8 6 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.13%) Marketing
10 4 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.70%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.28%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.85%) Legal
13 1 (0.43%) Advertising
13 1 (0.43%) Front Office
13 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 101 (42.98%) Data Engineer
2 76 (32.34%) Senior
3 51 (21.70%) Senior Data Engineer
4 36 (15.32%) Lead
5 30 (12.77%) Architect
6 27 (11.49%) Data Architect
7 16 (6.81%) Azure Architect
7 16 (6.81%) Consultant
8 15 (6.38%) Data Manager
9 14 (5.96%) Azure Data Architect
9 14 (5.96%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (5.53%) Azure Data Engineer
10 13 (5.53%) Lead Data Engineer
11 12 (5.11%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.68%) Data Consultant
13 10 (4.26%) Senior Architect
14 9 (3.83%) Analyst
14 9 (3.83%) Senior Consultant
14 9 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (3.40%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.74%) PySpark
2 15 (6.38%) Kafka
3 10 (4.26%) PyTorch
3 10 (4.26%) TensorFlow
4 7 (2.98%) Faiss
4 7 (2.98%) vLLM
5 6 (2.55%) LangChain
6 4 (1.70%) .NET
7 3 (1.28%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.28%) Middleware
7 3 (1.28%) Pandas
8 2 (0.85%) XML
9 1 (0.43%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.43%) Celery
9 1 (0.43%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.43%) gRPC
9 1 (0.43%) NumPy
9 1 (0.43%) React
9 1 (0.43%) REST
9 1 (0.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.09%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.40%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.98%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.98%) Reinsurance
4 6 (2.55%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.70%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.28%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.85%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.85%) Derivative
7 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.85%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.43%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (49.79%) Data Engineering
2 104 (44.26%) Data Modelling
3 92 (39.15%) Analytics
4 85 (36.17%) CI/CD
5 81 (34.47%) ETL
6 80 (34.04%) Agile
7 78 (33.19%) Data Pipeline
8 77 (32.77%) Business Intelligence
9 73 (31.06%) Data Science
10 70 (29.79%) Data Governance
11 57 (24.26%) AI
11 57 (24.26%) DevOps
12 50 (21.28%) Decision-Making
13 40 (17.02%) Clean Code
13 40 (17.02%) Coaching
14 39 (16.60%) Data Architecture
14 39 (16.60%) Mentoring
15 38 (16.17%) Machine Learning
16 36 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
17 35 (14.89%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 158 (67.23%) SQL
2 115 (48.94%) Python
3 31 (13.19%) Scala
4 16 (6.81%) Java
5 12 (5.11%) R
6 11 (4.68%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.98%) Bash
7 7 (2.98%) Go
8 5 (2.13%) C#
8 5 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.70%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.85%) Bicep
12 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (8.51%) Degree
2 16 (6.81%) Azure Certification
3 9 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.40%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.98%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.55%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) ISACA
8 1 (0.43%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (25.53%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.98%) GDPR
2 7 (2.98%) SLA
3 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 19 (8.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (9.36%) Terraform
2 10 (4.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.40%) Palantir
3 7 (2.98%) Google
4 5 (2.13%) Informatica
4 5 (2.13%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.70%) IBM
5 4 (1.70%) Oracle
5 4 (1.70%) Talend
6 2 (0.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.43%) Adobe
7 1 (0.43%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.43%) Confluent
7 1 (0.43%) Dell
7 1 (0.43%) Foundry
7 1 (0.43%) mParticle
7 1 (0.43%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.43%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.43%) Tealium
7 1 (0.43%) WSO2